"Tales by Light" Series
Apr 28, 2017 21:54:23 #
Apr 28, 2017 23:48:27 #
Just finished watching the first episode. It was very nice. Although I liked it and the brief parts about photo methods used, it didn't give me any desire to do anything under water nor go to any 3rd world countries. It'll give Nat Geo a run for the money.
Apr 29, 2017 01:44:22 #
Silke
Loc: Germany
I've finished watching series 1 now, and watched half of the first episode of series 2.
My take-away is: while it is a good series, it doesn't give enough info. Or rather, not the info I'd like to have had.
Quite frankly... Most people can take a stunning shot of a landscape, if the landscape itself is stunning.
I don't see myself going to Antarctica any time soon, nor climbing a volcano, or traipsing through jungle in Papua New Guinea. (One photographer, Peter Eastway, I think, actually kind of remarked that it's hard to take a bad shot, when you have millions of penguins available in an extraordinary landscape...) It takes a lot of dedication to get the extreme shots, as demonstrated in the series, but it also takes a lot of MONEY to do this.
I loved seeing the lion cubs and how they reacted, that was neat. Loved seeing the way the water shot was lit.
But in all... It's not really a photography series. It's a nature series where the presenter is a photographer. I'd have liked a lot more info about why certain gear was chosen for certain shots, and some insider tricks. I'd have liked a show about photography in your back yard, what these top photographers can produce there, with "ordinary" objects and "ordinary" animals and people, and what kind of setup they'd use.
I did chuckle about Peter Eastway explaining about the "5 meter rule" (the distance to stay away from wildlife) and that it's all very well to know how far to stay away, but that the wildlife isn't bound by that rule...
Still, interesting to watch some of this stuff.
The second series started out at a wildlife reserve in Africa... I turned off half way through, because if I want to see a program about conservation, then I'll watch Nat Geo -- who tend to do a better job of it.
My take-away is: while it is a good series, it doesn't give enough info. Or rather, not the info I'd like to have had.
Quite frankly... Most people can take a stunning shot of a landscape, if the landscape itself is stunning.
I don't see myself going to Antarctica any time soon, nor climbing a volcano, or traipsing through jungle in Papua New Guinea. (One photographer, Peter Eastway, I think, actually kind of remarked that it's hard to take a bad shot, when you have millions of penguins available in an extraordinary landscape...) It takes a lot of dedication to get the extreme shots, as demonstrated in the series, but it also takes a lot of MONEY to do this.
I loved seeing the lion cubs and how they reacted, that was neat. Loved seeing the way the water shot was lit.
But in all... It's not really a photography series. It's a nature series where the presenter is a photographer. I'd have liked a lot more info about why certain gear was chosen for certain shots, and some insider tricks. I'd have liked a show about photography in your back yard, what these top photographers can produce there, with "ordinary" objects and "ordinary" animals and people, and what kind of setup they'd use.
I did chuckle about Peter Eastway explaining about the "5 meter rule" (the distance to stay away from wildlife) and that it's all very well to know how far to stay away, but that the wildlife isn't bound by that rule...
Still, interesting to watch some of this stuff.
The second series started out at a wildlife reserve in Africa... I turned off half way through, because if I want to see a program about conservation, then I'll watch Nat Geo -- who tend to do a better job of it.
Apr 29, 2017 06:11:24 #
Great series and I enjoyed it.
If you like it then you also want to watch the Platon episode of Abstract: The art of design. It's a very good documentary of the portrait photographer.
If you like it then you also want to watch the Platon episode of Abstract: The art of design. It's a very good documentary of the portrait photographer.
Apr 29, 2017 06:17:46 #
photocat
Loc: Atlanta, Ga
I also really enjoyed the "abstract art of design" and really only started it to view the platon epsoide but really enjoyed all the others as well but them I also recommend to my serious students that they pay attention and view all forms of art
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