Enjoy Part 2 On Location With William Neill – Shooting With The Masters
William Neill and I continue our photo tour in Yosemite National Park. In this video we visit three different locations, Siesta Lake, Lily Field and Glacier Point. During the time we get to discuss composition, exposure and some different ways to see a scene. This is the second of three location segments.
Part 2 On Location Timeline
1:10 Scoping it out
1:40 Lilies, trees and reflections – reaching out and finding the shot
3:02 Moving the camera during the exposure
4:05 Impressionist Images
5:00 Dogwoods in Yosemite
5:30 What shutter speed?
6:30 Hold and move
7:10 Communicate emotion
7:50 Willing to make mistakes
9:30 Lily field, Glacier Point Rd.
10:20 Waiting for the wind
10:44 Broad patterns
11:00 Minor White – Quote
11:42 Patterns in trees
12:19 Magnify live view
13:25 The earth is round
13:30 Glacier Point
14:00 Grand landscape in difficult light
14:30 Extracting part of a scene
15:00 Abstracted Landscape
16:30 Use trees and sky
17:45 Stretching exercise
William Neill, an American photographer and resident of Yosemite National Park area since 1977, is a renowned nature and landscape photographer. Neill’s award-winning photography has been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters, and his limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Vernon Collection, and The Polaroid Collection. Neill has received the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography and is an emeritus member of Canon USA’s elite Explorers of Light. Neill’s assignment and published credits include National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History, National Wildlife, Conde Nast Traveler, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Travel and Leisure, Wilderness, Sunset, Sierra and Outside magazines. Also, he writes a regular column, On Landscape, for Outdoor Photographer magazine. Feature articles about his work have appeared in Life, Camera and Darkroom, Outdoor Photographer and Communication Arts, from whom he has also received five Awards of Excellence. His corporate clients have included Sony Japan, Bayer Corporation, Canon USA, Nike, Nikon, The Nature Company, Hewlett Packard, 3M, Freidrick Grohe, Neutrogena, Sony Music/Classical, University of Cincinnati, Mirabaud, Bear Sterns and UBS Global Asset Management. He is the photographic author of many books including The Sense of Wonder,The Tree, By Nature’s Design, The Color of Nature and Traces of Time. A portfolio of his Yosemite photographs has been published Yosemite: The Promise of Wildness and a retrospective monograph of his landscape photography entitled Landscapes Of The Spirit.
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Kevin Raber
January 2016
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