Hopefully you all have enjoyed the workshop so far. And there's one bit of advice that I want to give you all, which is actually a word of advice that I got from a mutual friend of ours. And Matt, at one point, it was actually while he was teaching some of our employees, and he said something that really stuck to me. He said, If something's not working with your composition, it's working against it. And it was a very black and white approach to basically what should be in a photograph and what should not be and that there was no gray area. And when I first heard it, I was like, I don't know if I agree with that.
But then as I got to thinking about it is like, Yeah, that makes sense, just because and you can tell me if you agree or not, but it made sense, because in a photograph, if I'm shooting, say, a couple, and there's some trees behind them, and there's one tree that I don't really like, but I don't really mind it either. Well, if it's not helping my composition, then it probably is detracting from it and my confidence won't be that much better if it didn't have it in there. And it could really apply to anything in the image. If it's not helping. It most likely, is becoming something that's detracting from the image. I mean, I kind of like That idea it simplifies everything.
I don't know that I would chop down that tree that was in your way, I might shift over to be a little more environment, right. Let's be green, please. But I do like that. If I could just think about it as do be intentional. Do I like it? Is it there for a reason?
Otherwise, why have it at all? Yeah. And we kind of thought about the same thing in choosing our background behind this. I mean, when we were planning it, it was like, Well, if if one of these objects really isn't helping out, we probably should remove it from the scene. Otherwise, what is it doing there? Right, what's the point?
Same with all this stuff right here, which these didn't even do anything didn't help us. I know, but they look good. They did look good. And there's three of them. So I'm going to touch them right now. So I've done something right.
They've been used. bottom third. Alright guys, we'll see you guys at the next one.