He doesn’t take photographs, he paints with light

Such a brilliant and thought-provoking video with such a generous insight into the photography process. Love that it’s so much more than taking a shot; it’s about waiting for the right moment and really seeing how the micro elements of the composition work together so as to create or build your picture!

Impressive insights into Nancy's motivation, thoughts. There is so much to learn from her, eg that good photography has a lot to do with the personality of the photographer.

Thank You Very Much for this terrific conversation ,, very useful ...

Now this guy is a teacher! So many great photographers trying to teach on youtube, but failing. This guy was great. I can't say I agree with all his opinions and views on photography though. It's taken 3 days to finished this video because I've just been so inspired to get out and start shooting. That's rare that a video does that these days. Watching Sam describe his process and things he looks out for basically forced me to go out and just look at things differently.

Fantastic video. Thank you so much to Sam, APA and SVA for this thoughtful, insightful and educational resource.

Wow !! How lucky we are to have this as a free resource, excellent thank you to APA and Sam.

Great job everyone! Karen as always you are magic!

Amazingly good lecture! One of the best I’ve ever seen. Thanks APA and thank you Sam Abell.

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I have been photographing for 40+ years, and although I spend a lot of time on composition… but I’ve never spent 12 hours on nailing one image. Sam Abell has impressed me enormously… to invest that amount of time on a potential image demonstrates his artistic confidence, and self belief. I thoroughly enjoyed his lecture. Compose and wait has never occurred to me; well, maybe to a small degree. Thank you very much Sam, you are a good teacher. “A photograph is thought”… wow, you’re right. You have given me fresh insight. Excellent… I’ve subscribed. ❤

One of the best and longest videos ever! The 4 portrait cover, irritating. The young girl kept bouncing! I'd like to see Sam's face! A great photographer! When I was a pro, film was a big cost! I seldom could do a few images, of anything! TG for digital. Need to watch again, again! Bravo!

Here are the names of the artists Chad mentioned: Salman Toor, Ian Lewandowski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anthony Cudahy, Christine Sun Kim, Louis Fratino, Jay Stern, Mark McKnight & Paul Sepuya

Welcome Everyone! We're Excited to have you join us for this showing of Chad Unger's work!

It's been 34 minutes and it's already the best lecture on photography I have ever heard...

Extremely informative! I'll have to watch it again. Micro comp is SO important, yet know one talks about it. Thanks for posting

WOW! Thank you APA for putting this together for us and Thank YOU! Sam Abell for taking the time and preparation it takes to put together a lecture like this for us all. And many Thanks to your Papa for sparking the light in his son and being a great father and investing the time to his child! For him to share these pearls of wisdom you have shared with us, Thank you sir.

Such *wonderful* insights on the Copyright Claims Board from Stephen Doniger, Jeff Sedlik, and Dana Hursey. Let’s bring them all back SOON for another CCB update! Thank You APA + Juliette Wolf-Robin!

BRILLIANT THANK YOU

A magnificent and insightful talk and presentation. Thank you Harvey and APA NY for sharing.

Great work Harvey!

Harvey Stein is a LEGEND and this is a terrific talk!

Damn this was very educational.

Great job on this interview. Love listening to Jason speak. Very inspiring pictures.

Amazing! Thanks for making this lecture available!

Pooneh is the best!

Can’t get enough of Duane Michals. He is unique among photographers. Accept no substitutes! :-)

This was excellent and very inspiring. Thank you 🙏🏽

I have tried several times to get into a class by Sam Abell. I'm always too late. Thank you so much for the 'meat' in this video. I was enthralled for the entire time. I hope Sam doesn't retire before I can take one of his classes. Even though he and I are the same age, I didn't start photography until I was 67. I have so much to do and so little time.....but what a way to spend my retirement. Thanks, Sam.

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Great info, Ty.

Thank you for sharing this talk.

Chris, you are an amazing photographer! I watched all the videos with pleasure and great attention, remembering all your tips! I was especially surprised that you have studied everything yourself, and here it is very clear how you have grown in a short time. You have a great sense of color, and I think this is one of the secrets that makes your photos stand out from all the others. And you also have a wonderful wife and a model with whom you are very lucky! Such mutual understanding is very rare. Thank you for this conversation. It was very timely, as I am now thinking about my own projects.

Thank you for hosting these discussions. As a professional photographer for 15 yrs, I find them quite insightful.

Wendy's audio really should have been more professional.

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This is AMAZING. (I'm only halfway through). Thanks Sam Abell and everyone involved!!

Very interesting conversation I consider the iPhone for just snap shooters professional photographers deal directly with quality of image in their creation, we R also not snapping images !

Great video, Thanks

Wow, this was good. I too miss film in some ways. Mostly miss my medium format (C330 & such) stuff from back in the day. Some of his photos are just fantastic. They just reach out & grab me. Would love to find his book. Moving from digital to film sounds so backwards to this old guy, LOL. I rem ever so slowly moving from film to digital.

Thanks! Liz, you've voiced the thoughts I'm thinking about right now. Those who are close to you are very lucky to have such a mentor !

Great line-up!

This was so very enjoyable! Thank you all for sharing your knowledge, humbleness, creativity and sincere nature. Hope to see a part two in 2023.

Thanks. A very interesting example of how you evaluate photos, because the first thing I looked at when you appeared was what books you have behind your back and what is in the room :)

Thank you for sharing his work! Instantly I became a big fan! Rewatching this video over and over again

It’s a great insight into Dan’s way of thinking and work but I just think the 3 screen split doesn’t work well. Also we really want to see Dan looking into the lens more and he didn’t for the first 3/4 hour. Maybe answering more of these questions being put to him - IMHO

You sound like a film snob though

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Thank You All! ; o )

Watching this at 3am......just riveting. Your work is inspiring.