Perspective: Photography tools that make your pictures POP (Udemy.com)

The quality of the instruction is outstanding, however, there are things that are left hanging. Like something is missing. Still very worth taking.

I really appreciate this class! I am going to re-watch it because I'm struggling a bit. I would appreciate more examples, perhaps with arrows pointing to the specific area you are refering to, especially in the very last segment. Thank you!

I've taken the four short courses that make up this series, and I'm very glad I did. It doesn't matter what type of camera you use. The principles taught are fundamental to making great pictures, and Adam makes them easy to understand. He starts with basics in "The Art of Seeing," then shows us how to use contrast in "The Art of Figure to Ground." Then he explains how to find and use light effectively in "The Art of Finding Light." Finally, he shows us different types of perspectives in "Perspective: Photography Tools that Make Your Pictures POP."

Great lectures. Clear and informative. Video feed was marred by several occassions when it froze and when I recovered it, the lecture had skipped several seconds past the point where it got stuck. In one case, it took me some time to figure out the parts that were lost.

To an extent this was a good course but not what i had expected it to be. thanks Adam for the brief introduction to the types of perspective one can capture.

Would be better with a higher ratio of examples to verbal description.

Yes, it does give you an idea of different perspectives to see objects in focus. It helped me identify which perspectives I've been great with and additionally, the others I'm missing and what lacking experience with today. In further detail, I wasn't an art student. So taking this course, for me, helped me have a better understanding on different artistic perspectives; how previous artist used these perspectives before the invention of the camera; and how we could use those perspectives with a camera to create appealing photographs.

Again even as a photographer and teacher of photography I found valuable learning here. Looking over my photos I found it hard to find any examples of multiple perspective. Leading lines to my subject yes. Some single point perspective of course. But seeing two and three point perspective opens up new possibilities. Again I would like to see more examples of what Adam is talking about. One of each isn't enough

This course by Adam Marelli on creating perspective in photography is great. I learned more about creating perspective in photography in the 90 minutes I spent in this course than I did from countless hours I spent reading photography books. Really. The course focusses on learning time-proven principles of creating perspective in art. These principles were discovered and developed by master artists long ago yet most photographers (and photography book authors) don't seem to know them. What this course does not focus on is gear. I appreciate this approach because the photographer can apply the principles learned to create better photos regardless of the gear they have. Adam's explanations of the principles are straightforward, they are easy to understand, and they make sense. (I am enrolled in Adam's other 3 course and they also take this refreshing no-meaningless-artsy-fluff-here approach.) Adam discusses each principle in turn and then demonstrates how it applies to photography using appropriate example photos and explanations of each. I do think the course could use a few additional example photos. More examples with varying subject matter would help the photographer more easily learn the principles and how to apply each in different scenarios. Overall, this is a great course. I recommend it to photographers who feel that their photos are flat and lifeless. If you learn the principles that Adam teaches in this course and then apply those principles to your photos I am sure you will take better photos.

This is the first review after section 2 or 3 ( I forget ). I appreciate the art history learning points, balanced by the modern photography that supports the points. It helps drive things home, when I start to realize that perspective is something that artists, and photographers have to develop within the two dimensional frame, and to see how it is done and has been done. However, at this point I am not quite understanding on a visceral level, all of the lines of perspective that you are illustrating. For example, in Poussin's Holy Family of the Stairs, I only can see the center single vanishing point of perspective. The red lines that go across the picture don't make sense to me. Another example is in Lecture 3 of Sect. 1 , at 11:17. The buildings at a corner perspective. I am not seeing the lines you are trying to illustrate on the left side. I actually do see a different linear vanishing point that goes from the front of the picture back towards the star shaped light. But not the horizontal one you illustrated. One thing of interest to me, that I noted, but don't understand why, is in Raphael's School of Athens. In it, I can see the center linear perspective that has a vanishing point. The lines are created by the buiding. But it seems that the two people conversing towards the middle of the scene, should be correspondingly smaller than the line of people in the front, to support it. In the lantern also, I can see the single point of vertical perspective, but not the horizontal ones you are illustrating. So, at this point, I seem to easily understand single point linear perspective, but not really seeing the horizontal lines. Thank you, floyd This is the part at the end of the course. Overall an excellent course for me. Your teaching/talking style is easy and straight forward. If anything, you may assume sometimes that I know more than I do. Right. What level do you assume the average viewer is at. I may be at a lower level. :-) I have taken all the courses you offer to date, and I find that I need to go back and review the other ones. My memory isn't that great. I would like to see a new course maybe, that actually combines all of the courses together. For that course, not so much art history and teaching about the theories. We've already done that. But rather, just putting them together in lots of scenes, lots of pictures. Sure, I know, I should be doing that myself with practice, and I am. But I still would like to see it done by you in a course that I can get some takeaways from. Here are just some notes I jotted down during the second half of the course to add to the review. Atmospheric perspective. Very cool ! It helps to know the bit about scenes blending together to create atmosphere. I feel that will be a useable point. I am also very glad to learn about the small room, single small window way of creating atmosphere. I have heard it many times before, even from you, but not in this context ( atmospheric perspective ). It seems to hit home. Can't wait to try it. I usually avoid these types of dark situations. I think I'm afraid of missing the exposure, or having a noisy picture due to using too much ISO. I will attempt to practice exposing in these situations more. What's very cool is that I made the above comment like a minute before you expressed that some photographers are afraid of the dark shots etc... It shows that you are in touch with my reality as far as photography goes. Kudos ! Planar perspective" Good to know that foreground, middlegroud,backround etc.. is all a function of Planar perspective. I feel sure that will help bring some stuff together for me in the future. I think I will be able to make great use of this lecture. The idea of planes that need to be more discreet and separate from each other, yet overlapping, ( I have heard this called layers ) to create depth ! The idea of using people , or really any subjects at different distances to create planar depth or perspective is very useful. Again I will reiterate. I always enjoy your courses, and look forward to whatever you have to share or teach. Thanks for another great one Adam. Best Regards, Floyd