Gold David DuChemin - The Compelling Frame

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    "IF YOU WANT SHARPER PHOTOGRAPHS, BUY A NEW LENS. IF YOU WANT MORE COMPELLING PHOTOGRAPHS, START HERE."

    Source: https://www.thecompellingframe.com/

    • Your Photographs Are About to Become So Much More Captivating.



      The Compelling Frame is an online course created to help photographers like you understand and use the visual language of composition to make photographs that are more intentional, more creative, and more powerful. Here's what The Compelling Frame promises:




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      19 Great Video Lessons

      Powerful video-based lessons to teach you the strongest visual language skills, each lesson is accompanied by summaries, key takeaways, creative exercises, and Study the Masters sections.



      Lessons include:The Intentional Perspective: POV; The Illusion of Depth; The Impact of Contrast; Isolation: The Art of Exclusion; Moments: Gesture and Geometry; Story: Relationships of Elements; Visual Mass: Pulling The Eye; Balance and Tension; Visual Echoes: Repetition and Pattern; and much more.



    • 31 Creative Exercises



      We can learn a lot by reading or watching videos, but if words alone could make us better photographers, we'd all be Henri-Friggin'-Cartier-Bresson by now.



      Every lesson is accompanied by challenging creative exercises—each of them a chance for you to flex your muscles and apply what you're learning. If you were learning a language, you wouldn't get fluent by just learning the grammar and the vocabulary, would you? We all need to make this stuff our own, and these 31 assignments do exactly that.



    • Study the Masters



      One of the best ways to learn to make more captivating and compelling photographs is to study more photographs with those qualities; not just look at them and nod our heads, but to really experience them, and then to learn from them.



      Study the Masters is part of all 19 lessons of The Compelling Frame, a chance for you to be introduced to photographers who have made some of the most powerful photographs of our time.


      About The Image



      Three of the 19 lessons in The Compelling Frame are image studies called About The Image—a chance to discuss all the elements and decisions that have been taught in the course, but in context of other elements and decisions. It's easy to talk about one abstract idea like Contrast or Tension, but how we apply those in the photographs themselves—and how those elements interact with others—is often much more difficult to pin down. About The Image is a chance to look at three images in that light.



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      In addition to 19 self-paced lessons designed to get you fluent in the visual language of photography, there are 4 additional About The Image videos, and 2 Craft & Creativity videos, unavailable anywhere else.



      From the moment you enroll, all the material is available to you on a private site that works beautifully on all platforms. It's super simple to navigate and work through the lessons, and because the course itself is self-paced, you can do it on your own time and never feel either rushed or held back. So start now, or start in a month. Or do the course three times in one caffeine-fueled week. Totally up to you.



      The videos are available to stream or you can download them to watch later. And every lesson now comes with downloadable PDF worksheets so the complete course is downloadable and accessible offline. The content is always yours.



      If you're even relatively comfortable with focusing and exposing your camera, you've already got all you need to get the most from this course; it's designed to be as free from the technical and as focused on the visual and the creative as possible.



      If you want to truly become the best photographer you are capable of being and want to make the best photographs you can make (without spending a fortune on new gear and gadgets), and you're tired of the tips and tricks and so-called shortcuts that get you nowhere, The Compelling Frame will help you create the change you've been wanting in your craft and your art.


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    thank u
     
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    you are on fire. photo and video clubs Santa Claus
     
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    Thank you so much
     
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    Is this on Mac? in a parallel thread the recommendation was: Use keka.
    Redownload? So far no one else mentioned a problem. But happy to re-upload.
    Try this for part 2
    < no longer needed - post #1 contains single rar >
     
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    Original post link archives all work on mac with Keka. Thank you for the share.
     
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    Thanks so much for the Duchemin material. He is an excellent writer as well as teacher - a little more cerebral than the average educator out there but really does move the peg forward with regard to the profession. All his material as well as various Craft & Vision items should resonate well with those on this site - - - an excellent share - - - most appreciated! Should you be in need of a re-subscription for a month or so (of Gold) - just drop me a PM and it's yours . . . ;):cool:


    . . . I believe that he has recently lost his leg; amputee. His resiliency is noteworthy (if one is familiar with his blog) - the cat has faced some crazy (and unfortunate) moments that he's openly shared on his site . . .
     
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    Thank you very much @mr.c - I have been looking forward to this for a long time.
     
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    Oh darn. I did not know of his amputation. He has been a great resource in much of my photography journey. I've bough almost all of his books and many of his ebooks from his old Craft&Vision store.
     
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    Thank you for the very kind offer! Much appreciated, really.
    I also find his weekly newsletter/blog entries very inspiring/thougtful/make you think.... Should be able to provide two more courses from the last years. Yes he lost his leg and I think it was chasing after a super photography position and then fell. Couldn't believe when I read it and it has been really touching as he radiates a lot of kindness and thoughtfulness.
     
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    Agree - I've also bought the bulk of his material and monographs as well - no problem paying cash for quality material - - - very much appreciate all the outliers being filled by @mr.c ;)
     
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    Totally in agreement. Pay for Quality Material and absolute Thanks to @mr.c for all his wonderful contributions.

    I'll try post my thoughts on The Compelling Frame once I've gone through all the material in detail hopefully by next month.
     
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    You've been sharing some good stuff here, man!
     
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    I caught up with his blog posts after a long time and noticed that the Amputation was a long postponed issue from his Accident in Italy a decade ago. That accident if I remember correctly, is from trying to find a good position on a wall, ending up in a life threatening fall. Talk about dedication to Photography!

    @mr.c - Has the course changed over time? The free video he has on the website for example wasn't on your list of videos. And the numbering appears different. Could you double check? I'm just curious to know if perhaps newer videos have been added to the course more recently.
     
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    What is the password to unzip it? It says you need a password..
     
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    Hello! It seems the link is no longer working. Could someone kindly update it ? Thank you !
     
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    I will provide a new link later today
     
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