How To Read A Photograph

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Understanding what you're seeing in a photograph is the key to improving your own skills and learning from the masters. Oddly very few people actually understand what they are looking at and worse - spend almost no time actually looking!
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Ted Forbes
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[@evandouglas9310]

More of these please! Or even deeper dives into individual photos

[@julianleshay3459]

Absolutely. A deep dive into individual photos would so cool to hear!

[@PhilKnall]

Ted did a bunch of those in the early days of AoP! So good.

[@emilyslittlebooknook-8043]

Yes please

[@NatyMidnight]

I always feel like I’m in a hall with one of the top Photography professors when you do these more theoretical/ history based videos. It takes me outside of the KZbin photography/ videography bubble (which I do love as well) but so heavily based on landscape/travel/ big adventures rather than developing ones eye/creativity even in the most mundane situations.

[@parsias5381]

I really enjoy these types of videos!!! Theory, history and inspiration to practice.

[@arndtbc]

The Art of Photography, YES!!! I love this type of content! Thank you for making such a great video. This type of content inspires me to get excited about photography all over again.

[@jh5401]

My Grandad was not a photographer and was not classically an artist, but the way you do things really reminds me of him. Thanks for your videos, I really appreciate being able to feel closer to my dead grandfather!

[@Muscaaria]

I missed these kind of videos! More of them, please 🤗

[@heilandgunner]

This was a great video, Ted. I started watching your iTunes videos years ago and was enthralled with your knowledge and ability to communicate about photography and its greatest exponents. This was a refreshing return to those days about the true art of photography, the heart of photography. More of these and fewer equipment reviews would be gratefully appreciated. It's not the camera, it's the photographer that makes the image.

[@radugheorghe2596]

The Henri Cartier-Bresson photograph at 7:23 was taken on an overnight train in Romania. I used to ride one of those trains about once a year, visiting family across the country.

[@James-tt7vg]

Pollock has the most perplexing composition of them all....And the most Beautiful !

[@Grievas85]

The experience that you put in your videos - I'm talking about experience with photography - and the informations that you can give to your audience is always... amazing. Thanks for your videos, Ted!

[@LuisGGomezPhoto]

Ted, thanks for your teachings. I found this video very interesting.

[@martinesquives6152]

Loved this video. I didn’t think it was too long at all. I really love when you dive into the art of photography it’s one of the main reason I always look forward to your videos. We are standing on the shoulders of giants and most of us aren’t even aware of it. Keep enlighten us please and stay safe

[@PatrickDodds1]

Thanks for producing this Ted.

[@DavidBrookover]

Excellent clip Ted. Inspirational indeed.

[@jackdalgleish3239]

Amazing video. So much covered, really inspiring... Thank you, Ted.

[@gavinmcguire1746]

Excellent wrap Ted during difficult times. Thanks.

[@ghanshyamsingh3653]

The education and intention here...best quality stuff...wish I was so learned in photography and the intention of it. But I'm not giving up. Love the content.

[@ShaneBaker]

Terrific video, Ted. I'm sure many would appreciate more of these sorts of pieces. BTW, I love your story about the B&W photograph that drew you in! :-)

[@jirisiroky9463]

Many thanks. Nice video, as always. Love it.

[@edgardomanuel7524]

Great stuff! I’m so glad I checked your vlog/video. One of your very best. Thank you for sharing.

[@SantiagoBilly]

Please make more of these videos! I really enjoy it!

[@JacobMedler]

Loved this

[@gregorysargeant6305]

Back to basics, thank you

[@minaspap1862]

Very nice video! Thank you!

[@NPJensen]

Thank you for this. Reviews of lenses, cameras and phones are fine, but it's your videos like this one, that keeps me coming back. Composition is the difference maker in my book. You can master every other aspect of photography, but if your composition is (in lack of a better word) weak, the image probably won't capture interest - unless you caught something or someone sensational with your camera.

[@jenethompsonart]

I love it when you make videos like this! Keep em coming!

[@Awytoo]

Thank you for this video! I needed it!

[@MaliDaviesPhotography]

Wonderful Ted, thank you 🙏

[@Micah-Woods]

I definitely appreciate this video and message so to speak. This really has me thinking about my own perception and how to better convey visual communication!

[@DirtDigglerDetecting]

This Blew me away. Thank YOU

[@suresureYT]

Great video as always. Love your knowledge of photography and the way you deliver it. Hugely inspiring. Thank you so much

[@davidbrighten2572]

This is great Ted. More of this (and less of the gear reviews) please. I really miss your educational videos.

[@jimwlouavl]

Thanks for these insights. It’s clear that you think deeply about your art and it’s great that you share that.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Great, great, great! Love these deeper videos :D

[@stigmatedbrain]

Indeeeeeeeed

[@jtr200747]

May I recommend “Understanding a Photograph” by John Berger? It gives you an other view on photos.

[@theodorkierdorf7378]

Very interesting episode. Love it!

[@codytheodore5699]

This is a really insightful video! Thanks for making this video.

[@jamesurzykowski4918]

As most people I enjoy a good photograph. I recently saw an interview with Rachael Talibart. She is a very smart woman who used to teach law at the university level. Because of her love for photography she made it her new career. I bought, what I guess, is her latest book called “Tides and Tempests”. A photograph is a slice of time and I find hers amazing. She lives near the ocean thus her interests. Rachael doesn’t shoot time exposures she shoots violent storms. Thanks for another great Art of Photography!

[@augustogazzera9067]

Great analysis and splendid words as always Ted. Thank you

[@phatcrayonz]

Great video! I love this!

[@sholombrummel3732]

Thank you so much for always providing what's behind an image!

[@OwenEdwards97]

Love these art videos, love being introduced to new photographers

[@mtcrun]

I'm really enjoying these videos Ted.

[@ericmeter8269]

Love this, Ted. No one covers the art of camera work like you do. Thank you.

[@knightphox]

I loved the pace of this. I was captured through and through. Adding my like midway through

[@mplabs23]

This is the content I originally subscribed for. Awesome! Please make more of these.

[@suprantahazarika2105]

Looking forward to more stuffs like these Ted. Great video.

[@PhobsPr]

I am happy to watch your art video again!

[@giselesmith7795]

I love your videos that keep me thinking about the subject after the video has ended.

[@PeaLoop]

Excellent episode.

Excellent video Ted. Hopefully you keep bringing us your knowledge, which is so much more valuable than another camera review. All the best

[@DanielM1224]

This is possibly the channel/person I've learned most about photography. Thank you.

[@FilmCameraObsession]

Great episode. Before the pandemic, I would carve out time to go to the library to leaf through photo books. Everything you mentioned I would get out of those sessions. Thank you for bringing that exercise back to me.

[@georgyb.6866]

Great content, thank you for sharing

[@hckwon721]

Great episode!!! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@RickMentore]

Engaging, entertaining as usual. I appreciate your efforts bring these fantastic clips!

[@charleshacker765]

Thanks for not altering despite the medium of KZbin. There are some who appreciate your depth. I for one, was always the one getting lost from my group in the museum because they took so little time to take in the art.

[@cmdrspockncc1701]

Happy to see you're still doing videos. :) Be safe

[@Biker_Gremling]

YESSSS!!!! AN ACTUAL VIDEO ABOUT ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!

[@antant06]

Ooh, the Art of Photography is back! Yay!!!!!!

[@taniadina32]

Great stuff, as always my dear!

[@pederkristensen4691]

Great video and that offers stimulating thoughts. Can watch this episode over and over again and take time to contemplating each of your points, and more than 3 sec..

[@phillipmurray8848]

Great Ted. Definitely more like this, please.

[@annamoreira2457]

I love this!! Would love to see more

[@artbybaz7060]

I like how you not only talked about composition and being intentional with the framing but you practice it. The way you set up your desk and framed your background with a view through to the double French doors. How that splits the left and right side of your background with negative space and blank wall on the left. Nice 😊

[@pmcbMadeInIreland]

Absolutely great to hear this, thank you and, as others have said, more please. Lots of takeaways here (just like COVID eating habits!) but my main one was that a good/great photo should move you in some way. As well as being moved by photos of other photographers, I guess we should aim to achieve that with our own photos in any way possible. Thank you Ted. Really enjoyed your take on all the images you showed too. Keep it up.

[@gnuhapi]

Excellent video, Ted. It brought back memories of a photography class assignment back in '69 or '70. We were to sit somewhere nondescript and bring back at least one frame which pleased the instructor. We were limited to a normal lens, black and white, a 36 shot roll and a 12-foot radius. This current situation has given me a lot of time to think creatively in limited circumstance and I am eager to practice it when "normal" returns.

[@scoobysnaks94]

I love these kinds of videos

[@douggottlieb]

Great video Ted.

[@ashutoshrajbirsingh2897]

we need more of these 🙏🏾

[@benitobb7205]

great music choice's!

[@MegaBriarpatch]

I think you're the only photographer I've NEVER met, who continues to give me a such fresh perspective with your insights. Thanks for always generously and passionately communicating your knowledge! It's inspiring!

[@Goalieswede]

This is my favorite type of content that you make, and it's unique among other photography channels.

[@hiker1658]

I think this is the best video you have made to date. I really enjoyed it 👍

[@Adam-pm1cy]

It is this kind of content that made me subscribe to your channel years ago - please continue!

[@ivondavid]

thank you Mr. Forbes for that great Video.

[@bazzathegreat3517]

I really didn't get the photo at first but Joe Louis' fist makes all the difference. Stravinsky's arm is so key to that Newman picture. He turned Stravinsky into a shape. Jackson Pollock is a genius but you have to experience his art in person. I didn't get Pollock until I actually saw one up close.

[@abrahamgebru8919]

Thank you!

[@antfirmin]

The Arnold Newman photograph is interesting for a number of reasons - it was shot on large format and there is a contact sheet which shows the whole set of images. It also shows the pre crop of this image, but the crop works so well with lines, triangles and rule of thirds. I would truly love a print of that image.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

This video was really interesting. Thank you

[@LeReVid]

Man these are my favorite episodes!

[@Dr.GeoDave]

Well done. Thinking about photographs seems more and more to be key to improving one’s own photography.

[@mikerupertus2326]

great video, thank you !

[@makasii]

I just found your account 2 days ago and I'd like to thank you for your very hard work and amazing content. I've been taking pictures for a little more than 3 decades, started with a Pentax P30N. My dad, grandfather, uncle were all in photography, all from prestigious school in Paris, but somehow, I never learned from them. with digital photography, my passion for this art became an obsession, so far that I've now been traveling exclusively for it, 6-7 months per year, one country after the other (mainly in Asia for the last 6 years) and am now based in Thailand, where I'm sorting and editing 158'000 pictures of my archives. Cartier Bresson, Avedon, Kertész, Georges Eastman or painter like Toulouse Lautrec, have always inspired me, and finding your channel rejuvenate the desire to get deeper into it, get back to the ART and away to the destroying influence of social medias, especially considering the collapse of Instagram and Co. again, thx a lot for lighting the flame again :-)

[@jrlakin370]

Excellent video

[@TheGazmondo]

We Love our TED TALKS on the Art Of Photography. Nice one Ted !!

[@paulfarland4855]

Love your videos nice job 👏

[@dadyjoe9721]

I did notice all in your video the lighting setting is amazing

[@filipposalvalaggio87]

I reality liked this video! Your conclusion about force ourselves to creativity it find me 100% agree

[@stuartbaines2843]

Immaculate timing a little reflective motivation from Ted 👌😀 Resetting what is important to Us as Creators . Thanks Ted

[@PhilKnall]

This is the kind of video that makes me excited about the art of photography!

[@philipshucet9481]

Ted, thanks for this. Wonderful issues for consideration. As a photographer, I find myself often starting with the fourth point, “what moves you (me).” As you mentioned, sometimes there’s an anticipation of something happening that will move us. Those moments require great patience to sit and wait. I also appreciate what you said about the woodshed. The first few times I went into our back courtyard, I didn’t see a damn thing. But I kept going out and suddenly there were moments all around. And they moved me! Since beginning my journey in photography, I’ve become a much better viewer of art. It’s a reciprocal relationship I find very rewarding.

[@milesmatic2872]

You have awesome videos on photography, keep up the good work!

[@bigshooter461]

Great video, I feel like some of the most increadible times I ever spent shooting was in highschool when we would get assignments and had to go out and capture images that explored a specific design ellement or use a specific type of composition we would have to shoot 1 roll of film and each frame had to be a carefully composed and exposed image. We went on to creative projects shooting slide presentations that we would put to music. I think the assignments were such a valuable part of my education both in part because it influenced how I looked through the lens to compose and how I saw others work.

[@lawrencehorowitz9291]

Inspirational repackaging of what I've heard from Ted and others. Reminded me of the many ways to stay engaged and grow creatively.

[@johnandrewmunroe]

Brilliant and informative. Please take a breath. xo

[@TarotTrismagistus]

No, please expand! That’s why I love watching your channel! Give us the in depth info & outlook! The longer, the better😉

[@JefferyAHoward]

Great video!

[@dimitriostsiganis]

This is an interesting video. I'd love it if you were to do a series about the subject.

[@pranjitmedhi6764]

Great video

[@perhaldariana9485]

Dear Ted, thank You for the help in these years and lately. Many of your advices helped me. Actually I started To take care of the way I want To photograph, observing, following the process; thank You, Ted, for your help, Ariana