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product_id: 7049778
title: "Skilled Photographer"
brand: "the skilled photographer"
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# Skilled Photographer

**Brand:** the skilled photographer
**Price:** VT9065
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- **What is this?** Skilled Photographer by the skilled photographer
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## Description

Your guide and host professional photographer Emanuele "Manny" Pontoriero once again pushes you to take your technical skills beyond the creative horizon you currently have. Whether you are a serious amateur or a budding professional, you may now realize that it's not the camera but the person behind it that creates stunning images we see in museums, galleries and ads. Learn the technical secrets that make great images possible. If you have a passion for photography and a desire to learn, The Skilled Photographer 3 DVD set will push you into a new frontier of creativity. Best of all, Manny makes the learning process fun and entertaining. This set of DVD's is your opportunity to experience that "eureka moment" where you not only understand how, but finally why the technique works. Learn from someone who makes it look easy, a master teacher and motivator and satisfy that hunger to become The Skilled Photographer. This 3 DVD set covers 3 areas of photography. In the "Composition" DVD you will learn about repeating lines, 3 types of framing, the s-curve, the diagonal line and the rule of thirds. The "Lighting" DVD explains the 5 types of lighting including Flat, Rembrandt, split, back 45 and back lighting. The Golden Hour and angle of light are also explained. In "Camera Functions" you will finally understand depth of field, master the art of using reflective and incident light meters and how to work with on camera flash lighting techniques as well as off camera flash. Each DVD is almost 2 hours of instruction and photographic examples. Manny has been a professional photographer for over 30 years. He spent 2 decades in the New York City area where he attended every seminar and read every book he could get his hands on. The Skilled Photographer DVD represents years of study and tens of thousands of dollars in learning photographic technique. This instructional video is the winner of a 2011 Silver Telly Award.

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## Customer Reviews

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    A must-have if you want to learn amazing and powerful techniques/principles to improve your photography...with joy.
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2010*

First...Emanuele "Manny" Pontoriero is the most gifted Photography teacher I've ever encountered...in the way he not only explains the principles of photography in the clearest possible terms...but shows a true genius for providing easy-to-follow AND master demonstrations.As the Amazon product description of this DVD  promised...I experienced a ton of EUREKA moments...regarding everything from composition to lighting to the use of the gray card (among others).  Time and again, he adds that clue that really makes the principles/technique easy to understand and use.And he makes learning fun!How amazing is he...as a teacher?I truly believe that if he decided to create a DVD teaching QUANTUM PHYSICS, he'd explain it a way that would provide ANYONE with an understanding of not only the principles...but also easy-to-apply tips on practical applications (that benefited humankind).Yes, I've bought other books/DVDs...with the hope that they would automatically improve my understanding/skill/confidence.  And many of them are very good.  But all of them seem to lack the special ingredient that Manny provides."What is it?" I've asked myself.For one,, what is so appreciated...is that he makes every single concept so clear that it's possible to apply...immediately.  AND...he provides background/examples that demonstrate why these principles and techniques are so powerful...rather than assuming we should just take it for granted because these ideas are so often repeated...even if not fully explained.Take for example...the rule of thirds.  It's described in most photography books.  But, he goes the extra distance.  He shows how it's used so effectively in the Mona Lisa to draw our attention to her smile.And he shows how applying the rule of thirds transforms a blah sunset scene into a dramatic, exciting picture.The lighting tips are also priceless.  He not only demonstrates the mystical beauty of Rembrandt lighting...but how to achieve it with natural light.  He also shares a secret he learned from another photographer about how to find different types of desired lighting...outdoors...by evaluating the light which falls on trees, columns, or other areas you're considering for your portrait.You've probably heard about the importance of framing.  But, he explains it in ways I've never seen before.  Manny shows...with great examples...how the choice of framing  can affect our feelings or impressions regarding the subjects in the picture...such as intimacy, shelter, or an emphasis on the relationship between the subject and background.As an example of a BEFORE and AFTER.  Before...I felt like...okay...I know I should be sure and frame...like the other books said.....that it's  suppose to help create a feeling of depth. But it almost felt like flossing...something I SHOULD do.  But when Manny describes it...I suddenly feel inspired...like  I have this almost magical power of communication...at my finger tips....by how I choose to frame...or apply other techniques..In other cases, I'd think I understood a technique...from other books...but it was like there was often a missing ingredient...to truly master it.  Or maybe, they just didn't demonstrate it in a way that got my attention...or resulted in a lasting impression.  But, when Manny reveals. a tip like being sure to use a telephoto lens for the gray card to avoid shadows....I get it...and incorporate it into my photography.All of the above may sound simple/obvious...but that is what is SO transforming. The clarity/simplicity of his descriptions/examples is what helps to make them such powerful photographic tools.I am not exaggerating when I say that Manny's DVDs have been a life-transforming experience...It's because of his gift for teaching me photographic techniques...I've longed to master...that help me in my dream of creating pictures that convey the story, emotions, vision I hope to share with others through photography.I would strongly recommend purchasing his other DVDJump Start Your Photographyto accompany this one...if you haven't already.I will go so far as to say.....Everyone who cares about improving  not only their photographic skill  but confidence  AND JOY  in picture-taking.  ...in my humble opinion should buy BOTH of Manny Pontoriero's DVDs.******************************************************************************************************************P.S.  My one frustration is that Manny primarily uses models (or non-models in portrait settings) to demonstrate photographic techniques (understandably!!!!!! since he's a portrait photographer.)And he does show how the principles apply to landscapes and city scapes...plus pets.  (He achieves some amazing! photos of dogs..to die for.)But I'd appreciate some demonstration of how the principles apply to spontaneous events with people...since I find his examples are so great in making his principles clear.  Like maybe a wedding scene or other event (party, fair, etc.)  Though I realize it could create some challenges in terms of model releases...it would still be helpful).But overall...if there was an Oscar for HOW-TO PHOTOGRAPHY DVDs...Manny and his crew/staff would deserve Oscars in EVERY category.  The DVD is beautifully crafted in every way!  I especially appreciated his wife Dora's contributions...such as getting the horse to raise its ears at just the right moment.  (No small feat).  (You'll have to buy the DVD to find out how she did it.) And what an exquisite portrait of a horse and owner/rider!

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    Eehh....
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2017*

Mr. Pontoriero is very knowledgeable and provides a lot of good information but, oh my goodness, it's so slow and boring.  Similar to sitting in a classroom, it's over an hour of him in front of a camera talking about photography.  Nothing to keep you truly engaged except for your will to learn more about photography.I'm going to keep the DVD because, like I said, he does provide a lot of good information, but I'm going to have to watch it a little at a time.

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    Learn to be a photographer not a picture taker
  

*by D***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2011*

I have watched a lot of videos on my camera, on taking better pictures and youtube freebies and these DVD's are the best money I have spent. You can tell he loves photography and is doing this so that we will love it too. He simply talks to you and does not rush through anything while reenforcing the importance of the techniques.This is one of a series of DVD's in which Emanuele Pontoriero is sharing his life time of training and experience with us so that we can be photographers and not just picture takers. He has taken the time to explain "why" not just "how" you take a photograph. You are going to learn all the concepts of photography so that you can take photographs not just pictures with just the camera you have now. No need to go out and buy a bunch of fancy epuipment to be able to use what you learn here right away.His style of teaching is clear and easy to apply immediately. Each time he goes over a subject he adds a little more so you build on what he has talked about earlier in the series. He teaches so much more than just what setting to use. You will learn in the easiest fashion how pictures translate into emotion and to apply the feeling you want to capture with the proper technique. The same photograph can say different things depending on how you capture the image. He explains all of this in such a way that it just becomes a natural way to think and I have found that I look at everythng differently now.

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