I have got something very interesting to share with you guys today I filmed and
posted the very first video for the Art of Photography on October 8th 2008 this
is October and I just realized that I've been making videos now for nine years
which blows my mind I feel like I'm just getting started sometimes but yeah
it's been nine years I've made over 600 videos I'm not really sure what the
count right now is for the total but it's over 600 videos in those nine years
in fact this video that you're watching right now is video number 103 for this
year I number of my files that's how I know that but yes it's been nine years
now and I will say that the last nine years have changed my life in a more
profound way than any job that I have ever had and there are two components to
this one I get to make videos which I love to do and I get to talk about
photography which is the subject that I am the most passionate about I enjoy
making photographs myself I enjoy the history and work and the people that
have come before us I enjoy what's going on in the art world right now I enjoy
what's going on online it's amazing it is my favorite subject to talk about but
more importantly is the second component and that is you I try to tell you guys
this every now and then but having an audience is well one its essential to the show
if I didn't have an audience I wouldn't be able to make these videos but two that
relationship is something that I cherish more than anything else that I do around
here and over the last nine years I've gotten to meet many of you online we've
had discussions back and forth whether that's in the comments or whether that's
on Twitter or Facebook or something like that and I've met many of you in person
and it's always a really special thing to get to do that and when I say I've
done this show nine years I know some of you have been watching all nine years
which blows me away we're not talking nine weeks we're talking nine years this
job has enabled me to do some things that I didn't think I would ever be able
to do like for instance the artist series I got the opportunity through
doing these videos to do a short series of documentaries on
my heroes I've become friends with some of them in real life in fact David
Brookover who I did one of the artists series videos on he is coming to Fort
Worth tomorrow and he's going to spend a couple days with me we're gonna do some
video stuff and it's amazing I never thought any of that would be possible
nine years ago when I made my first video but back to the topic at hand it
is a strange way to make a living and essentially what I do
is I produce content to be made to you guys available completely free of charge
it is not paid content you can watch it and because I have an audience around
that it affords me the luxury of being able to support that with ads and that's
actually how I pay my bills not the perfect model I get it ads are intrusive
they're the party crasher but it keeps these lights on and it keeps the roof
over my head now I do have something new and very cool to share with you guys
today if you're watching this video on a desktop computer if you look underneath
the video next to the subscribe button you're going to see a second button that
says sponsor now what this is is a new feature that YouTube has rolled out to
only a handful of creators but it's called sponsorships and this enables you guys
to contribute to the channel and in return you're gonna get some rewards and
a few cool perks now this in no way changes the regular content that I do on
this channel it does give you some additional things that you might find
interesting for example
I review cameras and lenses from time to time and one of
the things that I'm going to start doing is offering downloads of the RAW image
files so if it's something that you're interested in you can download the RAW
files stick those in the Lightroom or Photoshop and play with them until your
heart's content another thing I've been doing a lot of lately are Lightroom
tutorials and we're gonna start getting into color processing and I'm going to
have some image presets that I will make available to download as well and then
also when I do DaVinci Resolve tutorials I'd love to be able to offer LUTs as
downloads so there's gonna be a lot of extra stuff that you guys can get in
addition to the standard videos that I produce
so photo assignments are a very big part of what we do here on this show and it's
something that I would like to continue to find ways to create more discussion
around now one thing you're gonna notice is on this channels homepage we now
have the community tab and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to offer
sponsor only posts in there so you'll only be able to see them if you're
sponsoring the channel but it'll be a way for us to do a little more with
photo assignments and I can make posts in there that are specific to an
assignment that we are working on and answer questions and it gives us a
little bit of a community aspect into that as well
and finally once a month
I'm going to be doing a live stream that will only be available to sponsors now
this can be a variety of topics we can continue to talk about photo assignments
we can do Q&A we can really vary that up what I like about this idea because it
is sponsor only it allows us to scale down to a smaller group so it has a
little bit more of an intimate discussion type of feel and particularly
with Q&A types of things if you guys have something you want to talk about
it's a great way to be able to directly ask me what that is so really quick a
few frequently asked questions
wait wait wait how does this affect me can I no longer see your content I want
to make it very clear that this does not impact the regular videos that I produce
for this channel this is simply a way for you guys to contribute to the
channel and for me to give you something back in return so yeah you'll be able to
get a couple perks and rewards out of that but it will not directly impact the
content that you already have access to
man I can't afford this missing out
content you sold out well I am not selling out I
just have bills to pay like everyone else now listen I can't stress this
enough this will in no way shape or form impact the regular content that I make
on this channel nothing that's going behind a paywall you'll still have
access to all the videos that I produce I will not change that at all and I
realize that sponsorships really aren't for everyone not everybody has the means
to participate with that but for those that do it will enable the channel to do
more and you'll get some cool rewards as part of the process one thing I do want
to stress about this is sponsorships are in beta and what that means is every now
and then there could be a little bug in the system and so for instance right now
you can't sign up for sponsorships on mobile you can only do it from a desktop
now you can get access to all your perks and rewards from mobile you just won't
have access to do that until you go to the desktop to sign up so there's a
little things like that but YouTube are committed with working with me on this
and we're going to get it all sorted out you have my word
so there you have it sponsorships are something that I am very excited about
it's been an incredible nine years so far and I'm looking forward to many more
with you guys and things like this open up more opportunities and more doors and
they make more possible and so I want to thank you guys for supporting me over
the years if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment I hope you will
consider sponsoring this channel I will see you guys in the next video until
then later
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