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Why is it that so many otherwise great photographers who take and display countless great photos insist on producing totally awful videos purporting to teach us how to take great photos?
 
Because you can't learn to be a great photographer by watching a youtube video, and looking at flickr photos until your eyeballs fall out will not you anyone into Ansel Adams?

Would you want to be operated on by a brain surgeon who learned surgery techniques from a youtube video? Great photographers are out taking photos right now, not making videos. They're probably not posting things to an online photography forum while there's film in a camera and a beautiful day outside right now either, but we'll ignore that :]
 
dmr said:
Why is it that so many otherwise great photographers who take and display countless great photos insist on producing totally awful videos purporting to teach us how to take great photos?
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I do how-to videos and written tutorials. Why? Because I enjoy sharing my knowledge and I make money from them. The donations people send me have made a big impact on my income.


My videos


My written tutorials
 
Chris, have you looked into Patreon? Another great way to share and bring a little money home for your efforts. I see a lot of the channels I watch do some sort of patreon subscriptions.

You cant take photos all the time so I enjoy videos about cameras and photography in my down time.
 
B-9 said:
Chris, have you looked into Patreon? Another great way to share and bring a little money home for your efforts. I see a lot of the channels I watch do some sort of patreon subscriptions.

You cant take photos all the time so I enjoy videos about cameras and photography in my down time.
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I have a Patreon account and have had for several years, but no one has ever donated so much as a penny through it! Strange, given the amount of money I take in from Paypal
 
videography and photography are different skills. good photographer does not become automatically good videographer.

that said, it seems quite a few Tubers clearly focus (time, effort, money) on video, while their photography is relegated a mere subject matter, something to talk about :D
 
Just because someone is good at what they do it does not follow that they are also a good teacher. They might be but not always. I like Joe Van Cleave’s videos about pinhole cameras. They are clear and understandable. I find some normally informative videos ruined by bad audio, especially loud obnoxious background music. So loud you cannot even hear the voiceover commentary.
 
"Them what can, do. Them what can't teach". It's pretty hard to make a good living just from photographs for most.
 
Steve M. said:
Because you can't learn to be a great photographer by watching a youtube video, and looking at flickr photos until your eyeballs fall out will not you anyone into Ansel Adams?

Would you want to be operated on by a brain surgeon who learned surgery techniques from a youtube video? Great photographers are out taking photos right now, not making videos. They're probably not posting things to an online photography forum while there's film in a camera and a beautiful day outside right now either, but we'll ignore that :]
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On the other hand, I enjoy looking at other people's work, and I think about what it is about particular subjects and compositional elements that draw me in. But maybe I don't have your high level of mastery, since I can still learn from other people.

As for training brain surgeons - they do watch in the OR, and they practice on cadavers, prior to being turned loose on their own. Seems better than just telling them to go cut.
 
I think the only one I've seen that I actually enjoyed was a Joel Meyerowitz video that popped up here in a thread some time ago. Initially I didn't like it or him much and to be honest I knew little about the guy. Once I had looked at his work it gelled with me in a way it didn't at first for some reason ... probably caused by a lack of perceived credibility?
 
Why is it that some rant and rave about these tutorials when they have the free choice to click on the link or just move on?
 
Photography and videography are two entirely different skills, though they might use similar equipment; that’s where the similarities end. So it’s no mystery that good photographers might not make good videos.
 
I learned from videos of GW, HCB, BG and so on... videos, interviews.
If it is in you, something what they telling will resonate.
It is impossible to teach if here is something missing. Just something which will make you diffrent. Here is no teaching in art, but helping to find your special.

But maybe OP talks about weddings photographers. :)
This one I would never learn....
 
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