Hands-On Photography Episode 117 Transcript
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Ant Pruitt (00:00):
Today on Hands-On Photography you sent in a bunch of images for our sunrise photography challenge. I'm going to go through a few of, 'em not gonna go through all of them, but I'm gonna go through a few of 'em. There's some pretty good stuff in there. I really do appreciate folks sending those in. So y'all stay tuned. Hey, it's time for the annual TWiT audience survey. Daniel survey helps us understand our audience so we can make your listening experience even better. It'll only take a few minutes, just head on over to TWiT TV slash survey 22 and take it today. Thanks.
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Ant Pruitt (01:14):
Hey, what's going on everybody. This is Hands-On Photography here on TWiT TV. I am aunt Pruitt, your host, y'all hopping in and joining me each and every week here on the network to get the latest, the greatest on tips and tricks to be a better photographer, as well as a better post processor. Now, today we're not necessarily getting into a lot of the different post process and stuff, but I may discuss a couple tips and tricks because cuz I want to focus on you. The Hands-On Photography listener that I challenged several weeks ago with a bit of a photography challenge, but yeah, I'm looking forward to this show and, and I've been getting a lot of different feedback from you all and now is the time to share those images with your consent, of course, with all of the other Hands-On Photography listeners.
Ant Pruitt (02:05):
But before we get into that, please gimme a few seconds to say hello and welcome to all of our brand new listeners and viewers of Hands-On Photography. Appreciate y'all hopping in and joining me for the very first time. Go ahead and subscribe in whatever podcast application you enjoying us on. All right. Particularly if you're part of the apple podcast group, go ahead and leave me a star rating. Leave me in a nice little comment. You know, something that's gonna help push your song up in the search results for people trying to find photography podcasts. So, you know, that way we can help grow the Hands-On Photography community or just, you know, we're app using whether it's Spotify or Googles or YouTube, just describe there and do the same if you're able to do so. All of our subscription options are available on the website, TWiT.tv/hop as TWiT.tv/h O P for Hands-On Photography.
Ant Pruitt (03:03):
All right, got all of that out of the way. Let's go ahead and get started with this week's episode and take a look at some of these images and, and a bit of the feedback that you all sent in. Okay. So back at the end of the year, back at the end of 2021, I chat you all with the photography challenge. Basically. I said, you know what? I hadn't done those things because just, I look at the, the listener or view of patterns, cuz yes, I do look at my analytics and I'm finding that, you know, I will have the a show come out on Thursday and it, and you feel may not watch it until the following Thursday when I'm recording the next episode. So everybody seems to be a bit behind in their podcast consumption that's okay. No judgment. So I said, if I do a contest or not contest, if I do a challenge, I want to have it to where it allows more people to be able to participate.
Ant Pruitt (03:58):
So I said, I would mention it and we'll stretch this out over a couple weeks and allow folks to get caught up. And I think that worked this time. So I'll continue to do this from time to time, just give you a bit of a photography challenge. And at the end of this, at the end of this episode, I am going to give you yet another challenge to to work on. So, all right, got that outta the way. Let's go ahead and take a look at the emails and some of the images that came to me. So stay tuned.
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Ant Pruitt (04:59):
All right, our first email and submission for the challenge comes from James den and the message reads as such Hey an so this image is one I like the most here are all the rests from this morning and he gives us a link there on waiting on Ragner rock.spot.com. Oh right. Mr. Jim. Interesting. But he says, and you'll see a lot of them posted on social media with the hashtag sunrise photography challenge. Oh yeah. Feel free to view post and edit. As you see fit. I recommend that you not use my stuff though. Except in passing, I got quite the ego boost on the, why be a photographer show. I remember shooting that and now it's signed for someone else deserving of attention, which makes the show's audience grow James den. Hey dude, I, I really appreciate that, but I gotta tell you, Hmm, I'm gonna show your image today, today.
Ant Pruitt (06:07):
Folks, if you don't know Mr. Jim, who I, what I like to call him he's been a listener for the show. I wanna say pretty much from the very beginning and he's, he's followed me on the social medias. Like you should follow me on Instagram, an underscore Pruitt. And he follows me on on TWiTter as well. And we, we have some funny conversations here and there and he's been sharing this photos and sharing this experience with post-procesing and stuff like that. And it's been really, really great. And what I enjoy the most about it is, you know, I've been doing this show for however many hundred episodes. Now this is what 116 episodes behind us been doing that many episodes. And I've been able to watch Mr. Gin and his progress just go straight up from a photography stand one.
Ant Pruitt (06:57):
He has just gotten so much better with his composition and gotten better with his post-procesing if post-procesing is necessary. So it's, it's been a joy for me and it's, it's, it's a bit humbling at times when I see see his progress, but check him out on TWiTter. It's me, Jim. Yeah, it spelled just as it sounds merely Jim, on TWiTter, as well as on Instagram and check out his sight check out his images. They're, they're pretty cool stuff on there and I'm so proud of his progress and I appreciate him being a big part of the Hands-On Photography community. Now back to his image here. So lemme switch back. Mr. Screen will go here. Okay. So he sends this image in again, the, the challenge is sunrise photography and you can take that, that phrase and, and work it however you see fit.
Ant Pruitt (07:55):
My challenge to you was to not send me some picture that was ridiculously old. I wanted you to actively get up and go out and shoot a sunrise photograph. And I didn't say what camera you needed to use. I didn't say what settings I, I, I didn't give you any of that. I just said, let's just shoot sunrise photography and just capture it and submit it to the show. And this is one great shot from the Mr. Jan. He uses an, a Android phone most of the time. And according to this in Lightroom, he's using some sort of me phone and I love the composition on this. If you think back to a couple episodes ago where I talked about landscape photography tips and how a lot of times you can really make the most of those landscape shot. It's just by changing your point of view by getting lower and putting something in the, the, the foreground in the mid ground and off to the distance.
Ant Pruitt (08:49):
And he did just that this is literally laying right on the, the surface of whatever this is, and he's getting beautiful texture. He's getting a little bit of sun kiss popping into the, the, the, the water droplets there and the Dew, and it looks great. And it just sort of leads you through his shot there all the way up into the sunrise back there in the distance looks like he took this somewhere in Texas. Doesn't matter. I love the color. I love the composition. Just a classic sunrise shot, and it's done beautifully with this smartphone. So Mr. Jim, kudos to you for that one, and thank you so much for sending that one in. Okay. So now let's switch on over to the next email here. Okay. This one says high, an my photography skills are still pretty mediocre. I was intrigued by your sunrise photo challenge. What fun? The two shots attached were taken from the sunrise above central part one week apart, as you can probably tell, I'm not big on post processing, but I did crop one specifically. So the Kim trails, oops, oops, con trails were visible. Wink permission is given to use the email and photos on the show though. I'm certainly not expecting it all the best of you as always Tanya PS, although my brain glitched and entitled the files, sunset ice swear. I swear there are sunrise photos.
Ant Pruitt (10:21):
So funny. So funny. Yeah. Miss, miss Tanya. I probably appreciate you being a part of the community as well. I've met Tonya through another podcast that I enjoy called airline poll guy. She's a fan of that and actually met her in person a handful of years ago in Charlotte. It was a great time to be able to hang out and say hello and meet her face to face and just have a good time just hanging out in Charlotte. It was an honor and a pleasure, and I really do appreciate you supporting all of my work here. So let's go ahead and hop on into Lightroom and take a look at your images because yes, I did laugh when your files came in. They were named sunset. I did notice that, but in this instance, I did go ahead and just rename the files and save you that embarrassment. So let's hop on in the light room real quick and take a look at these. So she sent two. All right, so this one here, this is the one with the Kim trails up con else in it. See, I wasn't supposed to say that with the contrare showing up in the sky here and
Ant Pruitt (11:26):
This one is okay, Tanya, I, it, this, this doesn't really, it doesn't do too much for me. I do appreciate the fact that you got the horizon line squared away. Thank you for doing that is as simple as just lining it up. Y'all that just start with that. I've, I've always preached about that, but yeah, that's, that's a good one there. Now, the next image though, that one got my attention. I love the color on this. And you said these were taking a week apart. I love the color on this one. And this reminds me of a previous episode where I talked about when you take in landscape photography, some of the best times to take landscape photography is not just dealing with the golden hour or the blue hour, you know, in the morning or lay it in the evening. But if you can handle, if, if those particular times of day happen to be just before or right after some sort of storm, the sky just really, really presents some amazing colors.
Ant Pruitt (12:27):
And that's what's going on here. Now, this image, it, it, all of this orange, red and stuff, it, it doesn't necessarily say only say sunrise. It just says brilliance and vibrance. And then depending on the point of view, some people may look at that and think, Ooh, boy, is the city on fire back there? You know, it's, it's really, really nice in the colors. I'm not so sure out the details in this image. It looks like it's a little small on the resolution. Cuz it looks a little crunchy if you will. As I look at these trees and stuff, it just seems like there's a little bit of artifacting going on right around the different limbs and stuff, but zoomed out, you know, if this was put a up on a wall somewhere, it would still look pretty good. I'm, I'm totally fine with that.
Ant Pruitt (13:18):
If anything, I would give in a little bit more blue hue to the sky, just, just something to give it a little more contrast to help make that, that color of, of, of warm tones there, the, the orange and the reds and the yellows help, help make that pop just a little bit more. But I dig this, I appreciate you taking the time and, and saying, Hey, I'm gonna take a shot again at the exact same spot, but at a different time. And of course you're gonna get two different views, two different perspectives, two different experiences. And that's the joy of going back to a spot that you're familiar with and shoot it over and over and over again, because not one shot will come out identical to a previous shot. It's an awesome experience. And I encourage you to do that as well as you're practicing your photography.
Ant Pruitt (14:08):
Good stuff, miss Tanya. And I really do appreciate you sending that on over to us. Okay. I got two more messages that I'd like to go through, but we're gonna take half a second to pause because this show is running just a little bit longer than normal. So we're just gonna pause just for a few seconds for break and we're back. And we have a nice new message here from rich Larson. This one reads an a of the show. Keep up the great work attached is my photo for the sunrise photography challenge. You have my permission to use the photo regards rich Larson. Okay. Rich. You're a man at my own heart straight to the point with your message. I love it. Thank you so much. So let's go ahead and pull up your image here inside of light room. All right. So this is an image from the beach somewhere.
Ant Pruitt (15:02):
Not sure where, but it's a nice, pretty little beach and boy, look at these clouds and look at that sun just, just burst through with the, the extra cool sunrises coming through on these clouds. This is, this is very, very nice, very nice. The cool, cool tones on it. The cool color temperature on it is, is, is interesting. It's gives you a whole different feel. So yes, this is the sunrise, but at the same time it looks like it might be just a little bit cold outside there too. So I, I really, I really like this, the details again on this shot, it seems like the file is another low resolution file. And so when I look at it here in my little inspector or info field, it looks like there's a shot with an iPhone six and it's Ooh boy at 800 pixels by 500 pixels.
Ant Pruitt (15:54):
That's yeah, that's pretty tiny. So the resolution isn't necessarily the best. So it's not gonna be as detailed, but I get the gist of this. I dig it. Nice work. Nice capture way to get that dagum horizon line. Beautiful. Yes, that's just, ah, well thank you for that fine detail, sir. Yeah, I enjoyed this shot. Thank you for sending this over. Please get out there and continue to shoot and thank you for watching the show. Okey dokey. So now we got one more email here to look at. All right. This one comes from Jim Herbert. Now I don't know if it's Herbert or a bear because I'm a football fan. And I remember there used to be a quarterback for the new Orleans saints with this last name spelled that way. And it was a bear, but sorry, that's neither here nor dare. I'm gonna move on the email reads an just came across your show a while ago, been listening to TWiT TV for some time and I'm glad I found your show.
Ant Pruitt (16:56):
Well, here are a few from my neighborhood here in Manheim, Pennsylvania. I hope I pronounce that correctly. Just retired and getting back into photography and always enjoy learning. That's awesome was told by my grandson yet did an email came and later he says, was told by my grandson who watched it and says that I did not add the quote. Yes, you can discuss on the show again. Sorry for the, the duplicate. Keep up the good work, Mr. Jim. That is quite all right. Thank you for sending the message and thank you for, Hey, giving me your consent to you say photo and Ashley folks. He sent a couple photos. It was like a group of four or five, but there were two that really got my attention that I thought would be pretty great to discuss here on the show. So let's go ahead and pull those up in light room.
Ant Pruitt (17:47):
All right. So first image. This is image one. This is image two. Okay. Image one image two looks pretty similar, right? So let's break down the image one here. Okay. So we have a landscape of looks like a little local pond there in Pennsylvania. The colors of it are ma and warm with a little bit of blue haze going off in the background with the trees. There's a little bit of grass and trees around the edge of this pond. But right now the, the pond is definitely the focal points of this image. It's such a smooth, clear surface, and it's given a pretty cool reflection of the trees there along the shoreline. And it's reflecting the color of the sky. Very nice, very nice color. Looks like a painting almost. And I can't see what he's shot this with, but it doesn't matter who cares.
Ant Pruitt (18:44):
The details on it are pretty good. It's the, you know, over 2000 he had 2,600 of pixels by 1700 pixels. So there's a lot more detail in this one. Even when you zoom in, you don't get too many artifacts showing up, but well, no, I'll take that back. These trees look like the smart AI trying to process it just a little too much. So it's a little crunchy here in these leaves on these trees here, but that's okay. That's nothing you can control. That's just, our smartphone is trying to do a little too much, but overall I think this is okay. Not bad, but let's look at this other image image. Number two, we're clearly at the same spot. Okay. Clearly at the same spot looks like it's the same time of the a, but we have a whole different perspective. Right? Okay. So let's take a look at the color scheme on this when the color scheme is pretty much the same.
Ant Pruitt (19:41):
Okay. But it's a little more muted. It's not as it's in your face. It's a little more natural. And I think for number one, I, I think this is, is a much better image than the, than the first shot there. I like the colors that are, it's just enough there to get my attention. It says, yes, this is morning sunrise with the sun over here and the upper left, third of the, of the frame, beautiful little gradient, the color and the sky and the clouds are there. It's not too contrasty, not too sharp. Everything just, it just blends in perfectly. It gives you a nice little gradient there. And then when you get back over here to the reflection of the pond, I think this is just, I think it just looks better. I think it gives you a much better competition composition because it gives you an element of every layer being hit here in this image, you got a good foreground, you got a good middle ground and you got the distance just, oh, it, it just perfectly balanced.
Ant Pruitt (20:43):
If I flip back to this other one I mean the foreground and the middle ground sort of blends together because it's all the same thing. You know, it's all the reflection of the water. And maybe this would've looked different if it was shot at a lower angle, I'm not sure, but what I saw these two images image, number two, just really stood out to him, said, yep. I would put this on my wall. I love just how still and calm the waters are. I love the, the, the crop on it. And there's not anything terribly distracting about it. Even if you look back in the distance, I I'm serious. I, I looked through this image and just sort of bounced around looking at all of the different elements there. It was that captivating. It was the little bench way back here in the in the, in the, in the, the upper right or the middle right frame, little bench back there.
Ant Pruitt (21:35):
There's this little, I don't know what this is a shed of some sort right there to the left, but it's not distracting. It just sort of fits in the scene. Then there's a bench in the foreground. There's the little a bridge right here on this, this little pond there. And then the reflection of the bridge is just so, oh, well not bridge, just a pier. Sorry, bridges go all the way across like a little pier. The, the reflection right up under that is so smooth. And it just, just, Hm, just so well done. I really, really dig this photograph. And I think you, you got a lot that you can work with far as getting this printed out and hung up on a wall somewhere, you know, might even be a gift for someone. Think about that, sir. Very, very nice. But yeah, I appreciate you sending that in and I hope my 2 cents and commentary about those two images are helpful for you, but yeah.
Ant Pruitt (22:28):
Keep shooting those things. Those are very, very nice. And if you shoot some more of, 'em feel free to send them in and, and share 'em with me. I'd love to see what you capture. All right. Okay. Folks, dad is gonna do it for this week's episode. Thank you all so much. I got a bunch more images from, from you in the community, and I really do appreciate it, but most of you did not give me your consent. So I didn't want to bring them up on the air. You know, again, if you ever want me to show your images on, on the show or even, or okay. With me showing images on the show, please mention that in your email. I don't want to just do it willynilly without your consent. I don't think that's cool. And I don't think it's fair to you, but yeah, I got a bunch of them and I enjoy looking through all of those messages.
Ant Pruitt (23:15):
It was, it was a lot of fun, but I said, I'm going to give you yet another challenge, so, Hmm. What could our next photography challenge be? Hmm, Hmm. Let's see. So we just done sunrise, you know, the, the next obvious thing could be sunset, right? That's way too easy. I'm not gonna give you a sunset challenge because they almost look the same, but I will get close to that. Let's make our next challenge be moon photography. Hm. Moon photography. So that's, that's a good idea for you to go back and look at my previous episode. Let me see what episode that was. I think it was episode one, 12 or something like that, or maybe it was more than that. Mr. Victor though 1 10, 1 11, 1 12, where we talked about moon photography. No was actually 1 0 6. I just found it on the screen episode 1 0 6, where we talked about moon photography and the different tips and tricks around getting optimal moon photography, regardless of whatever camera you're using.
Ant Pruitt (24:22):
So that's our next challenge. Moon photography, shoot an email with your image to hop TWiT.tv, and then the subject line, put moon photography challenge or something along those lines. That way it'll help me be able to filter through all of the other gazillion emails I get each and every day. So yeah, send them on over and I'll be more than happy at him. And if you'd like, or have, or if you are fine with me showing him on the show to the other listeners, just say that in the email and I will consider it. Okay. All right. That's it for this week's show. Thank you all so much for hanging out in just being supportive of the show. Thank you to my man, Mr. Victor, making me look and sound good each and every week. And again, folks keep sharing the show out with other folks, keep helping this, this show continue to grow in the photography community.
Ant Pruitt (25:16):
It really does mean a lot. I have a lot more on my plate that I want to share with you all. And I have a couple of guests in mind that I'm trying to lock down a, a, a natural will date with, because you know, schedules are always interesting between them and myself. So keep, keep hanging in there with us, and we're gonna keep putting some great content out here each and every week for you. All right, with all of that said, thank you again for the continued support. I will see you all next time here on the network. Now safely create it. Dominate. Y'all take care.
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