@SummersSnaps
After a wedding I leave it one week before even LOOKING at the images. I edit another month later. I try and tell the clients to be as patient as possible, it's about editing, leaving it, coming back, having a look again, retouch the edits, continue on, so on so forth. These images they will have forever, for me they leave the nest relatively quickly. The longer they leave it with me the more gold I find and I steer the images better. It's just hard to explain that. Maybe I bookmark this video and copy the url into every post wedding email, heh.
@FTrovatten
This is why I watch every video you upload Jamie! So interesting! I’m currently dealing with structuring my book from Mexico City and I actually though about splitting the photographs up based on where they were shot. But now, I’m certain that I’m going to structure the photographs based on what they show and what they convey. Thanks for this!
@zacharyreimer5113
This makes me wonder what other books have I not yet read but probably should. Perhaps there could be a list of book recommendations in the future? This concept of a book summary was executed very well, and incredibly enjoyable.
@plasmadlite8661
I feel like each video essay you put out surpasses the one before and that is ASTOUNDING, since they are all so good, consistently good and rich in substance! Everything is distilled to pure quality, visually and thematically too! 💯
@dtay345
Jamie, your videos are so clever, so thought provoking and so beautifully produced. Thank you.
@StefanMilo
Such a great video as always. After watching your videos I set out with my camera for a day just to take pictures. I’d never done it before but it was great fun.
@buyaport
What I like about French philosophers: They inspire you, they don't seem so much wanting to "prove their point" (as esp. American and German philosophers do). Similar with photographs. When they scream "Look, I made it to the mountain top!" or "Look, how great this holiday evening was!", we simply cannot share this emotion. Ironically a wedding photographer pictures not his own emotions but those of the people on the wedding. That is why they are a grateful audience.
@gradypicinich2404
Notification Squad, UNITE!! I always get stoked for a new video from Jamie!!
@kenigface2120
This is not a Youtube video, this is a piece of art, a documentary. very impressive editing and pace, and all these little things like fonts reflecting the mood of the narrative. wow!
@MagdaReyman
There are some random photos that spark very intense feelings in me, while could be nothing to someone else. Sometimes it’s about to time in my life that I’ve been and it just reminds me of it. As photography saved me many times, mentally.
@andrewdoeshair
Your presets are the only ones I've ever bought. Very happy with them. I feel like they're the closest thing I can get to answering "what might Jamie try to do with this photo I've taken?" and I'll throw some of them on as a wild card curve ball new starting point which throws the edit out of the box whenever I'm stuck in a box or otherwise out of ideas. I used to see presets as "here, copy what I do" or "if you don't know how to edit, I'll do it for you" but now I appreciate them as being able to bring in a new perspective on how a photo might be able to feel and it's actually expanded my understanding of editing, not diminished it or made me lazy as I'd previously assumed presets were intended to do.
@Composit.Design
This puts into words something I have always wondered when visiting galleries; there's the moment you see a work for the first time and start to wonder how it makes you feel, and then you read the artist's exhibit statement and find yourself wondering (often subconsciously), 'did I interpret that work correctly?'
@my.penny.wagers
My master's is in poetry, so I first learned about Barthes through literary theory. (1) I think you did a great job summarizing his work here, Jamie, and as always, great video. :) (2) I find just about everything Barthes suggests to be full of air. Sometimes, I think his explanation fits my reaction to others' work. But, I can honestly find no punctum in several iconic photographs that resonate deeply with me and indeed, the context of their message was revealed to me by the image alone; I had no prior knowledge of the subject matter prior to viewing the photos. His theory can't be applied to all photos everywhere. (3) I'm an old-school structuralist so maybe I'm just biased too much against post-modern french philosophers. Because biased I most certainly am. :) For my money, Propp, Levi-Strauss and Joseph Campbell constructed much more compelling arguments than anything in Barthes' "Mythologies." If literature was his wheelhouse, just how on-the-mark could he be with photography? But yes, I'm a crank like that. (4) I fully agree with your conclusion that portfolio photos should stand on their own. I've no special or significant insight here, but I think one gets better at being self-objective over time, even though it never becomes easy. (That's at least been true with my own writing.)
@therealnotanerd_account2
Garry Winogrand would take a whole year to develop his pictures. He said that he needed to be emotionally detached from the pictures.
@wanderindove
Jamie, you have helped me a lot in my photography career, you and books like "Photographic Seeing" by Andreas Feininger and "Complete Photography" by National Geographic, with all this I have developed into an award winning photographer from the US gov and I just wanted to thank you. I took photography all four years of highschool and this was my last, my teacher told me before I left I'd be used as an example for the other students that are coming after me. Your work helped me start thinking less like a photographer and more like an artist. I need to be an artist to be a photographer, so thank you for helping me unlock that.
@timwoodphoto
What a video. Bravo. 👏 As a wedding photographer, this is something I’ve been suspicious of when editing, and when choosing images on my portfolio. I am very emotionally attached to a ‘day’ and find I have to almost leave the images after the shoot for a week, just to remove my emotional attachment and enable me to start the edit process. Thank you for this, and for having a channel that focusses on photography. It’s so needed and very welcome. If our paths cross one day, drinks are on me. 👍
@joanribas
Hi Jamie, I read Camera Lucida a few years ago, and at the time I found it a bit confusing, because while the studium seemed easy to understand, the punctum seemed capricious, fickle, difficult to define in an objective way. Personally I thought the book would give me the keys to understanding why some photographs have an immediate universal connection and others do not; the answer is still a secret today and it may be because of this that photography is so attractive. I really like your videos, I think you do a great job. Congratulations. Joan
@frankdiluzio8690
I don't know what's better. The presentation or the content. I revisited my work from the 80's a year ago. It made me regret not having every single image I ever made. I try to be honest and post only images I can stand by. Sometimes I remove images from Instagram because editing is equally important as creating. Learning about 'punctum' is like getting dealt a new set of cards. Let's see how I play my next hand. You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em ...
@mortimersnerd8044
A year is a long enough time to feel differently about your shots, but that process doesn't end there, it continues to change throughout ones life. I delete obvious failures and lesser alternate shots, but keep everything else. Thanks for such a thoughtful video.
@swashy8933