Model Photography: Taking Pictures, Portrait Editing & Retouching

1. Welcome to Class: Hello, my name is showing. In this class we're gonna be learning about photo editing. For photographers. This class is all about not taking pictures, but how to edit and present the pictures to your client. There is nothing more important than having the ability and knowing how to take not only amazing pictures, but I also had to go ahead edit the entire things and of course, get the client's wanting more. All of this stuff can be done by editing the pictures and making them work professional. If you haven't, and you're not editing the pictures, you're missing out on the biggest selling point of your photography career. You got to make amazing pictures and you gotta learn how to edit them. In this class, I'm going to be teaching you all the trucks of the tree that I use to get those amazing pictures, not using Photoshop, you can use any editing tools to do exactly what I'm gonna be teaching you in this class. So those are simple things that you can do in order to not only enhance your portfolio for photography, you can also get those amazing pictures you always wanted to take and how to edit and make them look with z interval and awesome as well. So what are you waiting for? Enrolling discuss today and learn how to improve your picture taking skills by editing them and making them look like a true professional walk by name so you can solve. And I do photography on the side. I do a lot of photo editing. So you're gonna be seeing all the tricks and tips on how I walk with models. And specifically how to make those amazing pictures come true and come to life. 2. Your Skillshare Project: Welcome to the skill show about, well, we're gonna be posting your own project. Your project is simply to take amazing pictures over model or someone that you can go ahead and edit the pictures. It can be a relative, it could be a friend, it could be a family member, or even a pet. When you're done taking the pictures, edit the image and the best one that you have just posted right down below in the Skillshare section. So we can all go ahead and view them and do a constructive criticism, which is a good vector. What should you actually add to it? How can you improve it and make it so much better? I can't wait to see what kind of things you're going to be posting down over there. 3. Finding A model: To get started, taking pictures of a model, you have to find a model to take pictures of. To do so, you have to create a model Mayhem profile. After you create the profile, all you have to do is to press on browse Over here, select the model, select the gentle you desire. Then you're going to go into your specific state if you are located in United States and next thing, you're going to find a major city that is close by or next to you. After this, you're going to be entering the zip code. And we're going to go into 25 mile radius. Now, there is a few other things for you to pick over here. You can search for VIP members. You can see which kind of experience you actually are looking for. Usually, I like to do any and it is all about what area you live in. If there is a lot of people who you can select from if it is a major metro area, you can definitely pick a lot more details over here. For me, the more details I pick, the less people I'm going to be prospectively finding. Next thing over here is what kind of age range you're looking for, what kind of shots they're doing, height range, ethnicity, col and everything else. The more you go ahead and pick something very selective, the less likely you're going to be finding anybody suitable for the job. In my case, I have to go for almost the least selective possible because there's just not too many of them that are available in my area. There's only tot the seven right now, and this is without even being selective. The next thing you want to do is to go ahead and browse through them, and then we are going to be starting sending messages. I see this one over here, this one seems like one that I want to take pictures with. You want a friend request, then you want to go ahead and person message. Do messages, you have to upgrade the plan, and the plans are pretty simple and they're not that expensive. So the basic, you don't have to pay anything. The perimium you only have to pay premium, by the way, just once for one month, and you get to message just about anybody you want. This is going to be more than enough to get enough of them talking to you. In fact, if you go through the message history over here, you can see if I have talked to them before. Once you do talk to them before and you do pay that small amount of money, you can just continue talking to them much more and you don't have to pay them once again. Here is the weights that this one is actually talking about how much it is expensive to work with this specific model, and this one is quite expensive. So some of them are more expensive than nozzles, and some of them might not be at the range that you are comfortable walking with them. What you have to do is to message a bunch of them. And the more you message them, the more likely somebody is going to respond and more likely they're going to start working with you. Let's go ahead and add this one friend request. And another way for you to go ahead and talk to them is to tag them. Tag is not as efficient. It doesn't always work. The best thing I suggest for you is just to pay up and upgrade so you can message them. Let's take a look at the message history of this one and this one doesn't exist as well. So those a few models that are brand new. What I'm going to be doing next is upgrading, paying six bucks, and then I'm going to go ahead and start messaging the extra ones that I haven't talked yet. The pay is only six for one month. You put into your credit card information over here, and with that, you're getting the premium membership. You get 100 pictures, 100 out of network messages, five castings per week, and a 10% discount. In fact, if you go to castings, you can go ahead and start a casting call. Starting a casting coal will give everybody around you the ability to find out what are you looking for. And when you start casting coal, you can do the basic one, which is usually what I do here. You're talking about what kind of model I'm looking for, putting all the details that you want for this, and then you're going to be putting the start and the end date, the title, and the description. Also how much money you're going to be paying them, or if it is trade, which is pictures for print trade, which is T F. That's what it stands for. After you do this, you're going to be putting this in, and then you're going to be looking whoever is going to go ahead and decide to respond to you. Here's an example of a message that I sent to a model. The biggest thing you have to actually do is to send a bunch of them to every model that you're interested in working with them. The more messages that you send to more of those who you're interested in working with, the more likely you'll get some response back. More than likely, even if you send 20 to 50 messages, the amount of responses, you're going to be getting about five or six of them, and out of those only maybe one or two of them will be interested in shooting with you. It also depends on the rates. If your rates are pretty high and reasonable, you're going to get much more responses. The cheaper you are, the less likely any of those women are going to be interested in working with you. So keep your rates competitive and experiment, see which one works for you. I think about $50 an hour is pretty decent, but some of them want so much more than that. You have to figure out what is the budget, how much you're going to be making from this project, and is it really worth it for you to spend this much money on this specific model and project? Once you find the model that you're interested in walking, the next thing you want to actually do here before you go ahead and send the message is to take a look at the pictures. Sometimes the style that they have might not actually align with what you're going to be shooting. In this case, I really like what she's doing. The best way for you to get notice is, of course, to find the picture you actually like. You're going to be clicking on this, and then you're going to go all the way to the bottom and posting a comment right under here. So you're going to go into the image tag and take a look and see if you can post a comment right there, post a comment and say, definitely want to complement Ho before you start working with Ho. It makes her more interested in working with you as well. So if you keep on complementing and I do suggest at least two complements fold the model you're interested in working with, and this will get more likely to go ahead and respond positively to your project. So make sure you write something really great, complement whole and complement the style and the picture, and then go ahead and post it up. By doing so, you're actually putting a lot of emphasis into why she should work with you and why this is such a good collaboration opportunity for both of us. So I went down and I wrote down the whole entire proposal. The next thing I want you to do is to run this whole entire thing by chat GPT. And after that, let's go ahead and see what kind of new proposal they're going to come up with and how they're going to fix it. So I ran it all together and here it is. This one looks so much better, so much more profession, and it has the concept, the objective, the location, and every single detail, making it so much more interesting. And of course, it even includes the hash tags together. The next thing you want to do is to go and run down the entire proposal, fix it up, and make sure it sounds pretty good. And then you're ready to go and start sending it to every single model who might be interested in this project. I went in and I fixed the whole entire lineup and everything that was written. A few things that I didn't like and I changed the wording around. I made it much more simple, much more better, and now it is ready to be sent to every single model that I'm interested in working with. Note, I have not put the pay over here and sometimes you don't want to put the pay. You want to read them read this, think about, and then if they like this whole entire idea, they're going to be asking you for the rates. If you put the rates up front, it puts them off and they're not interested in working with you. Go ahead, fine tune everything and start sending this around. 4. Signing Model Release: When you're going to get started doing model photography, you should actually have a model Louise form. The model Louise form has all the information that you need in order to make it a legal contract, including grant of rights, compensation, exactly how much they're going to be getting the release and who is going to own the pictures all the videos when it is done. Now, both parties have to sign with it. It can be an actual physical piece of paper, and you should have one copy for yourself. Another thing you can actually do is to use your phone, those mods that is on the phone itself, which is also depending which one is preferable for you to use, you can use it. The most important thing is that it protects you from getting sued. It also gives the copyright to you and the compensation, so the model cannot come back later on and say, Hey, my work demands much more money for this specific picture because now I'm famous and so on, and you should give me that money. Then you have the actual proof and you can show, well, you signed this and here is how much we agreed upon, and in a legal contract, this is the final word per se. So definitely protect yourself with a legal contract, and make sure to give it to Hall to sign or him, whoever is going to be signing it, and then Make sure everything is dated and done, and I highly recommend and suggest for you to do so. 5. Photo & DSLR Tips Part I: Tips about camera, gill, and get started with photography. So the first step for you is to get a DSL that you're comfortable in using. First of all, it's going to make you look so much more professional. Second, DSL is the premiere and the best way to take pictures. So you can take multiple pictures at the same exact time, and you can just press the shuttle button and it will start taking those pictures right away. So over here, one of the functions which is really cool is the drive function. In the actual drive function, what you're going to be doing is set the setting. And in this specific setting, you'll be doing multiple shoots all together. When you do that specific setting, you can take a lot of pictures instead of just taking one single image all by itself. Then the drive itself, let me go ahead and set this to the model release one, and this is the high frequency one that I highly suggest for you to get started when you're doing model shoots. Like this, and it all depends on how fast your camera can actually go. But the great thing about this instead of taking one single picture every time you go ahead and put you're doing multiple boost of pictures. You're doing many of them at the same exact time. Then you can go ahead and re edit them. And of course, if she moves just a little bit or blinks her eye, you will actually have multiples of the same shoot, very close, similar to each other, and then you can edit and pick whichever one is best for you. Next thing about the gear. Now, I'm comfortable and I have been using cannon for a very long time and I totally recommend and suggest for you to get cannon. That being said, some of you guys like Sony, or you might be starting off with a different pair of equipment. Whatever pair of equipment, just get used to it and start using it. That is the key. Some people get started with a different brand and I know one guy who went from Cannon to Nikon and then back to Cannon and so on. It's very expensive to jump from different platforms. Now, cannon itself in body stabilization is not in the actual body. It's in the actual ends. So every ens that has image stabilization is good, but it's more expensive. With Nikon, you get image stabilization right in actual body. The same thing with sunny as well. But the amount of money that you'll be spending on some of this equipment could be justified or could not be. It all depends how much you want to spend on the equipment. More money means better equipment, better image, and so on. That being said, you don't have to have the greatest and the best equipment. In fact, right now, they're phasing out the mirror cameras and they're going mirrors, which means that you can get a huge awesome deal on all the cameras, which can take amazing pictures. If you're just doing pictures, not videos, you can get one of the most amazing pictures, camera and lens equipment for fraction of the cost it would have cost you previously. Now the next thing I do suggest for you to do is to invest in a very good and I mean, very good lens. Now, you can get a fixed lens, which is the same thing all around. There is no Zoom factor. And if you get that kind of lens, it is totally okay, but it means you have to really limit yourself. You have to walk really far away or close in order to get the action picture. With a Zoom lens, you don't have to do this anymore. The drawback of the Zoom s, which seems in some ways so much perfect because you go ahead and you zoom in and out is that it is a lot of times more expensive. Also, it doesn't read in as much as the fixed ones. The more you read in, the better the picture quality that's going to be. That's also for you to keep in mind. Lastly, you should definitely invest in some kind of a filter. I always get a filter for my cameras. Now, there's twofold reason for filters. One is that it reduces the UV. And two, is that if somebody actually hits it or if it falls down and accidentally hits the floor, it will just break the inexpensive filter versus breaking the entire expensive ones. So keep this also in mind. Oh, yeah, one more thing. This is the actual grip. Some people like to hold it like this. It is much more dangerous when you hold it like this because if you drop it, that's it, it's done. Now, also people like to put this like this. Now, this is the way that a lot of amateurs actually go about and do this. Do professionals, what they do hold this with one hand. This is my thing, by the way. I like to hold it like this. What happens is if this thing does fall, you're still grabbing it. And another thing, it's much easier for me to walk a lot like this as well, because a lot of times I needed quick access everywhere around my body and different kind of locations, and I cannot actually do that when it's tied up to my neck. So a lot of people actually buy this one special accessory where you can put your hand right here. It is rattle and goes around, and a lot of times I used to upgrade my cameras to it. But I got lazy and I just decided, Hey, I just as well just going to do the old fashioned way, go ahead and do this. And now I can do the same exact thing. So those are some tips for you to get started, and of course, heavy shooting, the most important thing out of all the tips out there, is just to keep shooting, practicing and getting better at this. The more you do this, the more better you get, and the more awesome pictures you're going to be getting as well. So practice makes perfect. Get at it and start shooting. What are you waiting for? 6. Photo & DSLR Tips Part II: So you're probably all excited about getting started, working with a model, and start taking her pictures. A few tips. First one, always remove the RNs cap. That is the false one. The second one is how you hold the camera. Now, there's two ways for you to hold the camera the professional way and my way. So pretty much everybody, most people put the camera this and they start taking pictures. Well, the way I actually do it, which is a little different, I like to go ahead and grab this with one hand. Now, you have to have some pow in your hand for you to be able to do this. But at the same exact time, it actually makes it so much better for you. You get the grip. You hold it. Now, the good thing about this in case you actually drop it, you still can grab it with one hand. So this way, it's much easier for me to focus on everything and not have to put this over me and then of course, mess my hair up, which is one thing. Second thing about this, which is really good. Sometimes this being on you is just harder for you to concentrate and take pictures. Now, some people get the grip that goes right here instead. There was a grip here, but the grip is missing this, which I really need to take pictures. Now, there is two different cameras that you can get. There is the new mirrors camera, and this is not it. And this is the one that actually doing the video. And this one over here, which is the old fashioned one, which is before the Mirrors once. Now, there is a big difference between those two. For videos, the new version is much better. But for still photos, the old one is still the best. And because of that, I recommend you to get some kind of ns for you to use. This one is a Zumranz which is 16 35 millimeter. I recommend 24 to 70 for model photography, but you can also use 16 ty five if you want more wide angle in here. Now, the price of those older lenses are really good. Everybody is trying to get rid of them because they want to get the latest and best, but this one is fine. If you just want to do pictures, don't really care about videos. This is the way for you to go. Now, some people like to do the fixed lenses. The fixed lenses are awesome. You can get them at much cheaper price if you're not going for the best and most powerful lens, which actually gives you much more light transmission. Now, light transmission is big when it comes to lenses. You want lens that gives you the most light transmission into it. So 2.8 is the minimum I recommend you to get, but sometimes you can get 4.0, which is good, too, but you have to have a lot of white coming in. If there is a lot of white coming in, the picture is going to come out awesome. But if there is not enough white, 2.8 is the way for you to go or even less than that. If you want to really save money, go for the use market on Ebay and get something like on Ebay itself, it's going to be better. It's going to be much cheaper, but you might have issues with the lenses and so on. You're taking a chance when it comes to that. Now, this one, which is 2.8 is one of my favorites, and you can go ahead and use it. Now the next thing when you're taking pictures is you need probably a tripod for a lot of the pictures. You want something to stabilize the camera so it doesn't actually shake as you take pictures. Sometimes, if you don't want to go ahead and do it this way, you can go ahead and put the ISO to much higher speed or of course, you can get a lens that has the image stabilization built into it. Cannon doesn't come with the image stabilation in the body. Nikon does. With Nikon, it's a one time porches, you get the image stabilization in the body in cannon. You're getting a little bit more superior technology and because of that, because the lenses are so superior in my opinion, you will have to go either image stabilization, which is more expensive or no image stabilization. So it's up to you to decide. You just go ahead and crank the area so much higher and the picture is going to be much more stable. Now, some of the auto cameras, you can either when you take a picture, you can either use the screen here, which I sometimes prefer to use, and you can view it directly with your eye right here or you can use it right here and you can see everything in this little image finder over here. So those are some tips for you to get started and go ahead, start shooting, enjoy yourself and have an awesome day. 7. Equipment Overview: So the funniest part of the job is the came equipment that you have with you. And I have this bag over here, which is a came bag, and you need to definitely choose a very good came bag that is great for your sunshas. Now, yes, you might have a backpack, but a backpack is not going to protect your equipment. You need a padded bag, such as this one over here that has a lot of padding to it, and it has an organizer with the compartments and everything that you can put it exactly where you needed the most. So when you're doing this for a few hours, you need to find the most best backpack that you can find for yourself. And also, it has to be able to fit all your equipment. It is going to be easy for you to carry. And let's put it this way. If you're doing wedding photography, this is a four to maybe six to even one go hours event, it has to be great together. So the first thing at the top, I'm putting my actual camera and I don't even need a lens cap on this one because if I'm going to be accessing this a lot of times, might as well put the lens cap right on the side. Now the next thing about everything else that is organized over here on the side, you can put your memory cards, you can put your memory. You can also put in extra batteries and everything else that you need to be able easy access from the side. On the other side, you can put your water bottle over here, but there is those bags that don't have the extra location for a water bottle. So keep this in mind. You want to have one that does have it because you probably are going to be toasty when you're going to be walking for so many hours. Now the next thing about this is when I'm getting a came I want to make sure the ns is correct for the right job. Usually two ances is more than enough for whatever job I'm actually taking. The next thing is the kind of ones. This one is 16 to 35 and then I will have either 24 to 70 or something with much higher Zoom if I'm doing some professional model photography. Another thing about this, you want to find another thing that you have here such as ns filter that is essential in case this thing gets hit. It's not going to actually go ahead and damage the more expensive ones. Make sure you go ahead and shout this and you have plenty of memory that is also included over here, too, just in case you run out of space or you run out of battery juice. And therefore, you should have a spell battery, such as I have it right here. A few other things that I have, I have a lens hood, which is also protecting you from the camera getting hit by anything, but also another reason for ns hood is for the sun, which is preventing sun flails for getting right into your image, which will totally ruin it if it does happen. This one over here is organized with different compartments, and I put everything that I need neatly in different locations. So we have A batteries, and those are rechargeable. And the reason why I have them over here is that I also have an external flash with the more expensive cameras. You don't have an actual flash building into the system. So you need to buy one of those external flashes that you can use. External flashes are so much better because they are much more powerful, you can go ahead and switch this around and move this in every direction as well, which gives you a lot more freedom. It makes it much more mobile, and it is also way more professional. It can light up the womb for a very long distance. And this is something that regal flash system cannot actually do. I also like to go ahead and put in an extra set of batteries. And depending on how many hours I'm going to be doing it, another one is essential. In fact, one of my assignments, I ran out of juice and I needed an extra pair. Thankfully, my assistant did have a charger and we were able to charge it up and, of course, have extra set of batteries. And those are the most essential, by the way, the one that goes into your camera. At another time, I didn't have enough flash batteries too, so you have to have at least a few sets of those as well. So another thing I have here, which is very essential is another lens that I carry with me. So this one is 70 to 300 miometer but you can get 7,204. F four means less light coming in. But with those lenses which are much bigger with Zoom, usually you don't need them to be the most best for white. And the one I suggest for you to go 24 to 70 is the one you want to go ahead and spend the most money into because that one should be 2.8 if it is all possible. And of course, investing in the best lenses is something that is very essential for your photo. So the more light that comes into the camera, the better the picture is going to be. So putting all your money into the lenses is way more important, more essential than getting the latest and the best camera body because over time, the camera body might be cheaper, but the lenses themselves are well the most of your money should be spent on. Now the next thing about a bag like this is that you organize it to the best of what kind of assignment you're going to be doing. And there was a few things you want to consider when you're buying an actual bag, and that's one of the most essential things that you're going to be doing is picking the correct bag for the job. So this is an example of another bag that I have, and I like this one a lot. And I wanted to show you this what you're doing when you're selecting a bag. So post the bag should be very nice and light and great for your back. Next thing, it should have a spot over here right at the top, where you can put your lunch or any other things that you can have easy access to. This one does have it. Right over here, there's a row and there is a spot you can put your lunch. You can put a few things that you're going to be eating because if you're doing photography for a long time, that's what you need. You need something to feel yourself, and this is definitely work awesome for you. The next thing that you're going to be having such as this one over here, you can see that you can put a lot of cameo filters, you can put batteries, you can put your phone, you can put everything right in the front of her. And this one also has a very interesting working design. So for example, all the most essential stuff, you're not going to be putting in here. No you're going to be putting right there. You're going to be putting it into the back of it. So in the back, this is where the most essential things go in because this one is right on you at the back is your wearing this. So anybody who is trying to grab and try to grab anything out a bag will not be able to get it. It's right over here in this compartment. So in this compartment is where you put your camera, you put your ses, you put all the essentials and most important thing. That is the ideal way for you to organize everything, and this one is one of those bags that I really suggest for you to get because it is the way and has everything organized exactly correct for a photo expedition, for taking pictures and for enjoying yourself out in the sun and in the fun taking amazing pictures and having the fun that you want to have when you're doing model photography. 8. Organizing & Pre-Editing: So the best photographers take a lot of images. They take many pictures. But then again, if you ask them which are good, you never get thousands of images in a photo session, you only get hundreds. There is a y that photographer was, they'd go for a bunch of those pictures and they added them and they take out, although they're really imperfections. So when you go into and you take lots of pictures, you want to make sure that you go into the police or action process while you add it, all the images are a little bit. You delete all the really bad ones, and you just keep the excellent pictures that you are going to go and super edit them. Later on. In this section, we're going to go into and doing exactly that. The police are action section. Well, I pick on your day good pictures. So we have here a specific part of session that I have made. And one thing that I want you to show you when we have a bunch of pictures for the session, you have to go for and take as many as you can. The most important thing is you want to take it in different kinds of wardrobes as well. So let's go over here. You can see one is all been cargo outfit over here. She is actually right here in a different outfit. And lastly, we have a ninja. What wasn't. And CE is working a little different as well. So having a few different photo sessions all in one is going to give you a really good pictures. And it's gonna give you a lot of different images for you to use. Next thing is to modify the pictures. So some of it is going to come up very well. And some of it needs a lot of modification. So this one over here, you can see though as one of darkness at the top. The rest of it is pretty good. So what we have to do is to Poisson adjust and add more exposure to this. And it's going to give this picture or what my wife and look much better. The next thing you wanna do here is talk for the next images. Now some images don't come out very well right here. This one didn't come out good. You can see her face is a little bit boy. Now, you want to make sure that it actually is the case. You zoom all the way in and you check and you can see that the face is not coming out very well and whole expression is not that good. So when you have images that don't come out as good as you want them to come out. You have two choices. One, you can modify and salvage the picture, make it the best you can do. All, you can skip it. So in this case, I want to actually fix this up because it's not this bad issue, but they might overwork this specific issue. So zooming at most n, The bigger issue I find is this right here, the spectacles. So I'm going to take it out and now blended more into the actual glass. So you can't actually tell the difference. And now it looks so much better. So after this, keep on working. And one thing I can suggest against is overexposure. In this specific case, we have exactly that. This picture is a little bit overexposed. Now underexposed is not as bad as overexposed. From some unknown reason, the field dose, a little bit harder to fix when it comes to too much exposure, too much wine. So we'll actually making it a bit darker for this to come and work much better. So this is a little bit to fix this issue, but it didn't make it the best. So keep in mind, you want to go ahead and make the pictures come out naturally. Very good as is. So you don't have to go ahead and keep on fixing them. Here's another one over here. You can see how feed is a little bit out of focus. Her face. She's barely smiling. This one doesn't count it, it's not as good. And yet, there was a few other issues with this picture as well, such as there was a bunch of extras over here that don't belong in the picture. So let's go ahead and just crop the image up. So it looks a little bit better. So we get rid of all this axis, stuff that doesn't even belong in the picture, but you can do nothing about the smile. So here's another one. This one is good, but not good enough. You can see her hand. She's just holding it, but it looks actually is moving from one pose to another. We can also see an object right here in the background. So taking this out is a central because it was distracting, definitely messing with the image. And now you don't see it anymore. So we blend this in right into the background altogether, just like this. And now it looks a little bit better, but you still have a little bit of blurriness in here. To fix this up, I'm going to add more blurriness into it as well by introducing and Bolinas to the whole thing. So the edge blows everything out. So now this picture looks better. Now this is actually pretty good picture right here. There's not much for us to do when the picture is already good. I would add a little bit of situation call to it in just a little bit here. But overall, this is a decent and a good image. 9. Session 1: Testing Equipment: The specific shoot, we're trying to go for just a regular look and then trying to fix it up and testing out a different camera lens. Now, as you test a new camera lens and a new camera, keep in mind the settings themselves are just not going to look as good as you want them to be. Therefore, you might actually mess up the shot. That's totally fine. You don't want to go ahead and go into a very good photo session that you need to get everything amazing and then mess everything up. You want to go and experiment with the gear forced to get better and what you're doing. So this specific one, we are working on this pause outside, and that is the that I was going for. To get this look, we had to get a bunch of different shots going all together, and that's the pause that I want her to pause eventually. Now, the stuff she put on was totally casual. I told her to go of casual because we are not going to go ahead and do anything more than experiment with this photo shot, which is experiment with the hair, experiment with the nail polish, and just experiment with the different pauses, and the camera ends that I've been using. Now, that's one thing that you want to consider doing as well. As you can see that we went for a bunch of those photo shots over here, and we have been trying to see which one works the most appealing when it came down to this. She's trying to do different kind of pauses. As you can see this is when she just sat over there, and then she posed herself on this platform, and then she starts to warm up into the picture itself. And this is essential. As you start working and getting familiar with the model. She's going to get more into the mood of the shot itself, and she's going to warm up. So initially, pictures are not going to be that good. But over time as you get more familiar with the model, as you keep on shooting with her, you break the ice and she's going to start to smile more, get more relaxed, and the pictures are going to come up much better. As you can see they get better and better as the photo session keeps on progressing. Of course, we go ahead and change some of those variables around to make the session work even better. Here we go. I'm just changing a few variables and you can see the whole difference by making everything more vivid. It looks so much better by adding the saturation to the image itself versus priory before. So as she crosses her gs, as she sits in a relaxing pause, the picture itself gets better. It works better in some directions. Now, as you go through this and you keep on making small adjustments, see the hits and the details, everything makes such a big difference. The picture itself becomes much more lifelike. It adds more favorable to the taste of the picture. Of course, those leaves, you have to add some of them out. You want to go ahead and change small variables inside the picture to make it even better working and add more details to them. We kept doing this. We went ahead and we tried a different kind of pause, while she was looking over here, and this one did not come out as good. So then I ask look back and see if this will come up as a better image. Unfortunately, sometimes, although the idea was great, the background for this image was not. And because of that, the picture just didn't come up good, so I immediately switched it and tried a different kind of pause. This one was not really that successful as well. So as you go through this, you want to see which one is the more visual appealing. Now I zoomed in, and I'm testing something different here. This one, you can see the difference. You can definitely see by adding more coal situation. The picture just come and becomes more lifelike. Now, next thing you want to go ahead and do here is add the edge brow. It's going to brow, this image makes it look really nice when something was just good, it becomes just great as well. As we went through the entire photo session, the pictures themselves, we keep on trying different kind of things, boost the coral mode over here. She's trying to do different kind of pauses for us, and the picture session basically was dying down. The whole energy You know, there was a peak energy and then it goes down. As the energy goes down, you want to go ahead and decide, Okay, it's time for us to basically cut the photo session. It is time for us to either go to another scene or for us to try something new. So we went to a different scene, which is go inside. We attempted it over here. So it was not coming out the way I wanted to, and that's when we called this entire photo session to be ended. And of course, the time was over at this time. So, yeah, that's a summary of an interesting photo session that we went through, and of course, how it goes around by doing really casual and rolling from your mistakes and getting better at your craft as you keep on doing the session. And some of the images came up pretty good. So we should to become better at what you do by making small changes, small edits. And sometimes you still make mistakes, but you get better over time as you keep on rolling from yourself and figuring out what mistakes you made and how to make everything better next. 10. Session 2: Skin & Imperfections: Photo editing for photographers. In this specific section, we are going to go into editing some images that I did with a model suit. And she's dressed as Hawaii queen. As you can see here. The pictures came out pretty decent. So the first thing you want to actually do in a photo editing program when the skin, food images and the workforce stuff that has to be deleted, e.g. this picture right here, the eyes are close. That's it. It messes up the entire picture. You got to delete this picture of I80 together. You got to go through and look at things like that. Before you go ahead and start editing the images, you want to make sure that the images are good. Because otherwise you've go for everyone at a time and then you see things that maybe you decide now good. You got to delete this. So the first thing I do is delete all the bad images, the ones that cannot be fixed and all this one, the eyes are pretty bad. As you can see that something went wrong here. Well, the focus and her face is poorly. Let's go ahead and zoom in and see if we can see the difference. Why? Yeah, That is the problem here. By zooming in, you can see the whole face is totally out of focus here, which makes this image and fixable. You haven't fixable images. The best thing for you to do is pretty much to delete them because you can't do enough and you cannot fix them altogether. This one seems like maybe it's focused on not to solve. You have to check it out later on. This one is two. It's two white. There was too much white in this picture. When a picture is too dark, you sometimes can fix it when the picture is too bright. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't in this specific case? Yes, it does. You can remove some of the white and the picture came out pretty good. So we're about ready to go for all the images. Here's another one to close the eyes. Gotta be deleted. It cannot be actually fixed. And we went for that. So that was the first step to fourth time to go for. The next step we have to do is to get the editing tools out. And we're not going to fix all those pictures, but we will be fixing substantial amount of them and looking at them. E.g. this one right here, what we have white in the background, right here on this side is a piece of leaf that message this picture up. So let's go ahead and remove that. So small, different things like that and see if we can add more white animals situation to the picture. Altogether. This makes the picture good. And working for all the images. This one here is pretty good as well. And sometimes we get issues too. And I'm trying to go for them to show you so you can tell which ones are the ones that sometimes need to be fixed and which ones are not. So this looks all good except there was a problem. So I wanted to show you exactly what happened here. We have an amateur problem with this image that messes up the whole, entire picture of full buffalos. Let me zoom in and show you. So this one right here, There's an amateur. You can see the tag white on this. Now sometimes you can try to remove their actual tag with the weightage to attempt this forced as the way to fix this problem and see if it actually works. It doesn't actually totally removes it. Of course, if you add Photoshop, you'll be able to remove it much easier and better. And this is the thing I prefer not to do. I prefer not to get into the toughness goals of trying to fix images and the remove major issues like that. It's better not to have this happen in the first place, but we're moving it. As you can see that it messes up the image, which makes this an image that has to be deleted unfortunately as well. And that's actually another one right here. We have the same exact pump. Now, another way for us to fix this is to just remove this part from the image and just saw which though as to the image right down. So let's go ahead and place on Done. And a little bit more spousal situation. As you can see, the picture becomes so much better as well. Here we go. And add a little bit to touch here. Make premises, stuff like that. Move it to form the picture. And just easier to go through and get it done. You see like some of it on the face tool, which I think is makeup or something. And that works so much better. It's like small edits make the big difference in the quality and how the picture actually looks like by going for that. And that's essential. It's really important for you to remove false the imperfections, things like that, that you don't want to have in the images. And then you're gonna go through them and see what else you can do to make the picture so much better. E.g. this one right here has some issues in the background. I'm not talking about this boat right here in the background. This object or a doubt. So personally touch. And this works much better. See it's gone now. I think there was something else he'll do it is this thing right here wherever this thing is. And it's gone as well. And going back. And you can kinda see where it was. But most people will not be able to tell that. So I'm going to be zooming it more wide heel down. And it needs more white as well. So adding the right. And now nobody can tell that I did some edits over Tao. And that's actually the whole point of doing this. You want to stay and do little edits. You don't want to do a lot of edits. That's something that I always do. I don't want to do too many edits in a picture. I want to make sure the picture is already good. There's only a few things I want to fix. I want to do here. I'm going to keep the fixing to a minimum. Most of it is just sticking a centrals, other words that make the picture very good. And here is a picture that's already been a little bit edited. As you can tell, I did a little bit of editing in it as well. And it looks really good To Go ahead For the images. We're doing the same kind of a thing, Q, scanning food the image. And because it's kinda like for like you will see things sometimes on the ground. And you do want to go ahead and zoom into that center of the attention of the image itself. Just like that. And Poisson done here, it looks much better. When you zoom in, into the actual subject. Give me up to zoom a little bit more. Just because over here it took a little bit too much white or whatever. And now the light is gone. And this looks a little bit more natural to just that. Unfortunately, this wave right here is taking a bit of that tension, but there's nothing you can do. You shouldn't have been removed when the picture was originally taken. This one over here. Not to over fan you see like she's arching hold back. The best way for us to do is to make it a portrait and get rid of this part right here. So let's go ahead and try this. And this looks a little bit better. You want to add more saturation to the actual image right here. And this one already been important as much as I can. It didn't actually come out as well as I wanted it to originally. And I don't think the problem with this is specifically is not the white because we got the right amount of white heal. The problem may be in the lens or the problem is with other factors outside of my control. And sometimes regardless of what you do, you will have some of those issues in the picture. Like you would think that you did the best you could, and then you actually find those things in the image. You could have improved when you took the picture. And it would have been so much better. So I'm removing things that are distractors. Distractors form the actual picture itself. And it makes it work better in some ways when they moved it. Now, you can see there is this ball eating in here. That was not a good idea. Let's press on, redo the touch. Touch with you. Touch it again and putting it back in. So it was fine. It was actually a battle before we moved it. In this specific case here, let me moving forward the images. Doing a little bit of balance. It's always something that I recommend for you to do is always try to improve the picture. You always try to make it work better, but don't overdo it. The power of Photoshop, you might spend so much time over one specific image and you're missing out all the pictures for your client. You're gonna be spending way too much time to edit every single image. And that's not something you want to actually do here. Now, for this specific picture right here, it would have been better if I use less depth of field. And that's when it comes. With the lands and the territory. This is not a modelling lens. It's a fixed by our minds and it doesn't seem to be the best ones for this job. And of course, I discovered this after I took the images. But it's always evolving process. And you're learning which things you're not supposed to be doing. And specifically some lenses are better than others. So yes, I'm blaming the equipment for this one. But sometimes the equipment is not delight for the actual job. And you have to experiment, you have to test different kinds of equipment and to see which one is going to work for you. And of course, this specific image right here, this one is pretty good. As you can see how I'm always trying to crop the image because there was a lot of things on the side here that don't belong. Moving away these, so this leave that totally doesn't belong in the image. And zooming more small edits like this make a big difference in the quality and how the picture looks like. Here we go. You see on top of this, I didn't notice that when I was taking the picture. And so this is something for you to always keep in mind of your surroundings are everything that you take. Put it into the flame. So as you can see here, the picture would have been perfect almost. But then again, I got some nature on over here. And it kinda messes up the picture just a little bit, but enough to make it work not so good. So this one is very good because it does not much here that was messed up except part of her costume. Oh, there's always something that's like that's going to happen in a picture session. And then later on when you go back to Edit, you will see it. This is why it's really good when you do one session to do the same session again, because then you know what things you're not supposed to be doing. One of the issues that we will getting with this. And we can see that the wardrobe malfunction either is making it a big thing. It messes up, and otherwise it's a very good picture that we actually took here. So this one came out a little boy here. This one does not work that well. That's not much fixing to do in that specific image. Needs to be a little bit more white. And it came out pretty good. I actually like this one the way it came out. This one is the same exact identical picture as well. Sometimes if you want, you can go for effects and you can try to black and white effect and see if that comes out even better. And sometimes the black and white comes out even better in terms of classic. So you can give your clients and black and white image. The way you go ahead and go into bike and white is if it's a duplicate or you make a duplicate image of the same exact thing. And you give them the bike and Weibo and given them a few samples of black and white is always a good thing. Because once you do, and they're like, oh wow, I want them all black and white. You can go for the images and you can double them and give them a biker whitewashing of the same image. The one thing I don't suggest you to do is to shoot everything in black and white because you cannot go from black and white to color. But you can always go from color to black and white, and that is very essential as well. So of all, really good pictures, you came out pretty well. And always pay attention to the small details because they make the biggest difference with the picture coming out, great or good or not so well. 11. Session 3: Advanced Editing: When we get started with photo editing, the most important thing here is to do as a widow as you can, to make the image as beautiful as you can. That is my row. Everyone has their own rules, but I tried to not do a lot of editing when it comes to pictures. The first thing that I want to do in this kind of an image is to go and enhance it and make it so much more better. But you don't want to go and do too much enhancements because it takes waveform, the quality of the original image. This is why shooting in the world is so important. He pulls off most of the image itself and then you go ahead and start to edit it. Right now. First thing I'm gonna be doing is adjusting the picture, but doing it very rarely, waiting to see if it looks much better. So I'm done with this part. Now the next part is moving the other thing around from the other side. I'm doing the same exact thing here as well. Trying to add a little bit more definition to this picture by moving the white and the dark tones right over here. There's also a level 08 in the middle. And you can also experiment with it just a bit as well. Then when you're done with the white and adding some darkness and lightness into the overall image. It is time for you to play with the exposure of the image itself. So the more exposed image, if it is way too exposed, it's not gonna be good. And if it is too dark, it's also bad. You have to find a balance and it's not always in the middle. So in this case, it's a little bit of almost in the middle. Sometimes the picture is almost perfect and you don't need to do much things to it. In terms of the contrast. This one is pretty good, but I want to add a little bit more to it, so the image pops up more and the books are at more appealing. Next step is situation. The situation is one of the best tools that you should be using. Every single image I have. I like to use a while loop situation, but using too much sometimes doesn't work with well. Over here you can see whole face and everything is just using too much situation to it. Therefore, we have to bring it down. Next thing you want to do is look here, which is avoid situation skin color. Specifically what it does. It avoids her skin color from getting too much situation to it, but sometimes it doesn't even help. And if you go overboard, it's going to mess up the whole image. Next thing we have is the definition. And this is one of the best tools here. In fact, if you use too much definition, the picture becomes a little bit too. Not good working. And therefore, I tried to use it a little bit, just a bit. Then we have the highlights here, the hybrids themselves. You can use some of it in order to enhance the picture. And I already added some highlights to this image. Next thing is the shadow bedding or add more shadow to the image. Everything else start to walk so much bridle and so much better if all the other edits, the shadowing gave this image over at my wife, and that's what I would like to see in the image itself. The sharpness is also good. Let's use a little bit of this tool. And now it's time to denoise it. If it has too much noise in it, it looks too much computerized and you have to reduce some of the noise in the image. If you overdo it, it doesn't do so much of a difference. But look at the whole face, how boil it gets if you go all the way to 100. So going to match with the denoise is just not a good idea. Lastly, is the temperature. The temperature has to be how it is. This was how it is in real life. Now, I wanted to give it a little bit of a different flavor. So you're changing the temperature around with glass, you can actually do that. So in this specific case, it's not such a bad idea to make the picture a little bit different in terms of the temperature. On the other hand, sometimes you want to preserve the original image. But in this case, we are going ahead and making this a little bit more of being our own taste. How we want this image to be, how we want it to look like. And then we are adding some tint to the image itself. So now you can see there was so much more that they add to the image itself and immediate, so much more different than it originally was. The quick fix is the next thing we want to do. Plus on the crop. And you're wondering we adjusted here. We're going to have some of the background. But at the same time you don't want to emphasize the grass or something that is n doesn't belong in the picture itself. So you can try to minimize everything. But if you minimize too much, you're losing out on the whole entire image. So therefore, you have to find the correct balance of what you want encoded and what you don't, and then place on Done. So now we took out some of the image itself, but she's not actually stationed the correct way. Let's move it up a little bit here. So she is a little bit in the middle of the image and Poisson Dan. And now the picture looks so much better. You as a small images that you can do. You can press on with touch. You can zoom in. And now you have to take a look at blemishes and other things that you want to take out from the image itself. So here it's a little bit to add. And you want to get rid of that. Y goes as the imperfections. And you want to use the smallest tool that you can in order to get rid of all those things. If you use the Big-O tool, going to smudge it all up just like this. So definitely don't do that. And if you use the one that's a little bit too big, it will still, will go a little bit, smudge it up to. So using the smallest one you can do is the best. And then you go ahead and keep on editing. In fact, you should definitely zoom in as close as you can and then edit every single spot. Just like that. If this is too small, you get a little bit bigger. Just to take care of this issue right here. Now, I tried to avoid for the shop, but sometimes you really do need for the SAP for some of those things. Now, we're gonna go and zoom all the way in as much as we can. And we want to inspect every single inch in the picture and see if those in the imperfection. Here we go, not an imperfection. And we go through the whole image, look for any imperfection in it. Here we go, another one and we just getting laid off every single imperfection we can find in the image itself. And we keep on going forward. Go to the face and see what we want to edit out of it as well. When you're done inspecting everything else, the picture should work. Absolutely perfect and beautiful so you can hang it just about anywhere. And when we'll download this image, we go for the next image as well. So let's go ahead and take a look at some other images to go for. But we have a whole sequence of pictures. I took that photo session. Now, this specific one, you could convert it to a black and white image, pleasant black and white to fill it though it here. Next thing you wanna do is to go to adjust, add the situation to the image. Now we're going to be pressing on co-op, zooming in as much as we can. And pleasant done. As you can see that this image itself became so much better working As they added a lot of details to the image and even a plain image, even if it doesn't look really good, just as a picture, you can definitely change it to black and white. And then if you change it to black and white, sometimes the picture itself becomes amazing working. So don't just go ahead and present the wheat just because the picture was okay, not so great. Try to do black and white editing in it and see if it's going to help how it looks like. Here's another picture that we want to salvage. This specific one is not so great right now. But if we go for this and do some edits to it, we sometimes can fix those images and make them look so much better. So let's go ahead and try this at more white to this image. And already we see some difference in the image itself. Adding a little bit more situation to it. Or add more definition to the image and highlights and take the shadows and move it away. Then the most important thing is don't give up just because the image itself is not perfect. It means that you have to put some time and fix every image. And fixing it is going to make it so much better. Sometimes you don't need to make that match fixing for the image itself. In this particular case, all we need to do, crop it and get rid of the distractions on the side. And then I'm going to go into the next image. We don't need to do too much edits in some images. In fact, that least edits you do the battle. Sometimes. Oval editing is a huge mistake by photographers. While other photographers do, they find a picture and they tried to keep on editing this specific one. Who eyes on just looking at the wrong direction. This one could not be salvaged because y is already ruined. The entire image. This one goes directly to delete. Here's one that's just too overexposed. So it needs a little bit more darkness to it. I really dislike overexposed pictures because it's a lot harder sometimes to fix them up. Some pictures have their following problem. They'll either overexposed or underexposed. With a picture being really underexposed. There was only so much you can do forward. And being overexposed is even worse if it is too dark, you have to go ahead and bring more white into it. And as a hand and white picture, you can only use blend so much more darkness into the image itself. Sometimes you don't have much choice and things that you can do to fix the image. In this specific case, there was only a little bit that I needed to do in order to make it such a better image. You can see right here fairly small adjustments that they did. The picture already looks really good. And another one they did is just do, I will sweat here. So sometimes you don't need to make a huge amount of edits to the image to make it stand out so much. But I do suggest for you to keep on working for your images and try to find a few that are favorites. The favorite ones, the ones that work the best. I don't want you should emphasize in and put all your time into fixing and making them work the best. 12. Session 4: Western Session: This is the model session number two. In this specific one, I took a bunch of different pictures, and then I looked it up, did all the ones I didn't like and modified some of them. Now, this one came in with different kind of rights. She dressed up different and we had a lot of makeup being used in this session. Now, the light itself, as you can see, it is a different tint. Because of that, you want to go ahead and change the core temperature to this. As you can see if it is too yellow, it doesn't look appealing, so you have to change it to something else. That works better. The same time as you change it around who skin col, it starts to change as well. You got to see which is going to make it more appealing, which one makes it look more realistic, and of course, to make it work as best as possible. This one over here is very similar picture to the other one. The adjustment will have to be almost like as well. Now another thing about this, we have something right over here in the frame. We have two choices. One is to go ahead and zoom out of it by cropping it out. The second choice is to go to retouch, make this route, and try to just go ahead and get rid of it out of the picture itself. And think in this case, this would be the better and the smart option for us to do. Now, as we go ahead and change this around by changing the right filo, if it is too much or too little and over exposing, under exposing, you want to make it exactly right. The picture looks really good and the best that it can actually be, and you're working with whatever is in the actual picture. You want to make it as appearing, and as nice as you possibly can. Here was the next one over here. In this one, we can add some situation to the picture. And keep on playing with this. As you can see that, every picture is going to come up very good, especially when you're working and you are inside. When you're working with actual right inside. The pictures themselves sometimes come up very good, but at other times we are dealing with things that are beyond our control, and we have to use artificial right to make it much brighter. In this specific case phase is a little bit out of touch, and the sharpness in it needs to be added extra to this to make it look so much better as well. And the next thing about this as we flip this around, we have another picture taking the same pause. So we add some situation to this and we make it so much better as well. As we go ahead and add more contrast to this, you can see that the whole genes are start to look much better with added contrast or subtracting it in this case that is. Then we are going for 100% here, the levels and changing it around. You have to see which kind of tools are going to make the picture more appearing, what's going to subtract or what's going to make the picture just so much better. As you can see I'm moving the temperature around, making it look more realistic, and then it makes it really more visually appealing as the picture gets better and better by changing a lot of variables around. This one over here is another picture, and we also have the same problem here as well. Now, those are the things that you can definitely control. Right now I see the problems, but before as I was taking the snapshot, I didn't see any of those distractions on the side. This is going to happen to you as well, as you can see those black right here too. We have to go ahead and crop this right out of the image itself and move this right out of here. A lot of times, you're not going to see this until you take the picture and you review it afterwards and then say, Oh, I made this mistake. Here is some shadow that you can see, so we should probably have another set of light next time for the next shoot. You're learning as you're doing this all along and you're figuring out what basically not to do next time around. Here's another picture of the here of the boxing bag, and we are trying to salvage, make this picture so much better. Some pictures there is not much you can do with them because somehow the face doesn't really look as good in this specific setting. Over here, I added extra lights to make it a little better. So after the last picture, as I took it, I realized the right system was not correct. There was too much in the wrong location. And therefore, I made a better amount of adjustments, and I got this picture next out. So you're trying to figure out what to do in those situations and how to make it much more visually appealing. Much more better working and trying to fix anything that you can that you see in the picture, like, for example, there's this black spot right here, and we're just getting it right out of the image itself by using the crop tool, which is very, very useful when it comes to that. The crop tool will get you and fix the image and make it so much more better, regardless of how many mistakes you're going to be doing when you're making the pictures. The other thing I suggest for you to do is to go ahead and zoom in as much as you can in the actual picture. As you're zooming in, you are inspecting for any imperfections that you can actually see here, and then you'll be figuring out, what mistake has been done when I took this picture and is there anything for us to go ahead and fix? This is very important as you're doing pictures. You want to eventually do this before you give this to your client to make sure there is no visual imperfections in the image. There is no mistakes that have been done. So everything will work really good when it is the final product that you're going to be delivering to your client, to your customer. And you want to make your work as best possible. Now, let's go ahead to the next one over here. As you can see, we're taking different pauses of different pictures. There was not that many pictures I took in this specific photo setting, where I was going for quality versus quantity when it comes to the images that I take. Now, in some cases, you want to have more, but in this specific case, less is actually more because everything is focused on as much quality as you can get. The pictures look as best as you can produce them. Now, we have a bunch of them that have been made using this specific visual style, and then it goes into the portrait mode over here. Portrait mode has been used in this specific setting, it looks pretty good, and that's why you will use the special effects and we have a few of them for us to pick form. You might have different effects for you to use, and I like the edge brow because it gives it this interesting oval shape look to the actual picture. You can also boost the image itself as well. It all depends on what kind of tools you're having to go along with you. Some tools might be better than others, and other tools might be better as you're using them all along. Keep in mind you have to get familiar with the tools you have and to see what's going to work the best as you make those adjustments with your toolkit. To make it as visual appealing as you potentially can actually do. In this one, we have more shadows working for us. We're working with a different kind of set of rights here, and I turn off back lights and they kind of go all natural when it comes to the images. Now, one thing that you can do here in case like this one over here, the visual appeal is interesting, but you want to go classic. Every time you go classic, some of the pictures that don't come up as good, can look amazing when you do a classic photography, and it's going to make the picture look so much more better. Although this is really dark, it's going to give it a different favor to this. But the biggest thing that I suggest for you to do is not necessary to do something like that because as you go dark, it's much harder for you to go ahead and restore the right right back to it. In fact, overexposed or underexposed pictures are some of the hardest you'll be working with. I don't really generally suggest for you to do this. Sometimes it will come up really mystical, interesting looking image altogether. But the other times the picture itself might really get ruined. Keep this in mind that as you're working with very interesting whites, you have to experiment more and some of the pictures might not come up as well as you thought. But some of them that do come out are going to look extremely amazing. Experimenting with different kind of whites is the way for you to go. I do suggest for you to try this out because you just never know when you have this amazing picture come out because you have decided to experiment with different kind of rights instead of always going for what everybody else is doing usually. Now, this one also has the window frame over here that we have to either zoom out or just go ahead and crop it out. Those are the two options that I usually use. Go to retouch and get rid of this window right here, and now it looks so much better. Every picture that I go through, I adjust it, I do my co adjusting to them to make it work better and just make sure everything is the best within my control in the post processing mode. At the same time, I don't spend too much time post processing and working with the images because I think it's more important for you to get the shot right than going ahead and working with photoshop and trying to go ahead and fix every single small minor mistake that you actually did as you took the picture. I think it's more important to get the shot right instead and then go ahead and do some minor adjustments to the image to make it work, so much better and so much more amazing. This one over here came up pretty good, as you can see that the shadow came from the side. It makes it much more unique and different altogether. Now, because I'm not too satisfied with the specific picture, I'm going to turn it into a black and white image and give this to my client, and she's going to like it because she doesn't know that the picture itself was just not to the level of satisfaction that I wanted it to actually be. Now, although some of those images did not come up, the way I want them to actually come out. It's air learning experience. It doesn't matter how long you've been doing shooting and how long you've been in the business. You want to always experiment. You want to hire a model, you want to walk with hole, you want to get battle at the photoshoots you're doing. You want to figure out what are the mistakes that you've been doing and how to make your craft so much more visually appealing and better. Only way you will get better is by going through and making more photoshoots and figuring out the mistakes, what have I done wrong here? Why this photoshoot did not come out as well as I anticipated it to be. What are the mistakes that I actually did and how can I go ahead and make a better quality pictures next time around? Is really the key for you to run and get yourself better at the craft is by keep on doing what you're doing and just improving yourself a little bit every single time. In this one over here, I'm changing this to black and white photography because I think it's going to work, which is so much better than previously before. And I'm done. Basically, those are the 23 best pictures that I came up with this specific photo shoot, and I went ahead and I added them and make sure they work so much more better. 13. Session 5: Cosplay Session: For many people who are not yet at the level, where you're getting a lot of money where you can create your own website and showcase everything. There is an alternative for you. It is cheaper, it is better, and because most people use Facebook, this is the way for you to go. I myself have stopped paying all the fees for sustaining and creating my own website and I moved everything to Facebook. The great thing about Facebook is Foster. People can see your likes. When people see your likes, you can go ahead and advertise to everybody else and let them know what kind of things you offer on your page. The next thing, the great thing about this is that you can go ahead and get people to review your page as well. The best part is for me, I have almost 1,000 res on my page already. Over here, I can showcase my latest and best work to date. For Model Mayhem, I send people over here for my proof so they can see the additional pictures. You don't have to pay extra membership for Model Mayhem to go ahead and post everything every single month to that site. You can do that all for free on this site itself. Over here, I showcase some of my best and latest work as well. The most important thing that I want you to do is as you walk along, you want to go and post the pictures themselves. This is my final proof. The best pictures I have created in this specific final session. When you create a final session, you go ahead, you edit all the pictures, you make it look the best you can. In this one, it is the Hari Queen photoshoot, where we have a whole addition of black and white, color pictures, and everything else in between. As I took those pictures, those came out excellent. In many ways, they come out so much better than I anticipated. The rights outside was exactly right. The sun was shining exactly from the right direction, and a lot of things were going exactly right as I did this photo session. So a few things that you have to do as you're doing a photo session to get the best possible pictures. First off, the picture session itself has to be where the light is going and it is full sun, and the sun is coming from the top. That is the key to get the best possible images. The next thing you want to actually do is you go ahead and take pictures is to make sure that the pictures themselves are going to come up as good as they possibly can. To do this, you have to emphasize, get the model all excited. She has to smile. She has to look into the camera. Another thing is the costume or whatever makeup and everything else has to be set exactly right. In this specific photo session, everything did go exactly as plan. As we went and took pictures, she posted herself on the pause that we've been practicing to do before, and the pictures came out really good. Then I went in, I enhanced and I made the pictures much more vivid. So they came out and worked so much better. You walk your way through it, you want to make sure that every one of those pictures is going to be as enhanced and is going to look as good as possible. Using the right kind of lenses, and equipment is the key for your success. Of course, the rights outside is also very essential and important as well. You can see one pause from one side is good. The pase from the other side is a lot more better. You go through this, the whole entire photo session, you want to edit every single picture and you want to make sure that different kind of pauses in different directions in different places have been taken place. Now, it doesn't have to be anything extraordinary. One place that you're going to go and shoot it, it has to be just a place you're comfortable because the whole entire idea here is to get the model to get comfy and for her to open up to the camera. Once she opens up to the camera and opens up to walk with you, the pictures themselves are just going to become totally amazing. Keep this in mind as you work through, you want to get the best possible pictures and get them even better to the next level. This is a process. It's a way for you to go ahead and get started from being a good photographer to being a much more better and a professional photographer altogether. 14. Session 6: Special Effects: So make sure you get this specific program. It's called omino No. It is free for you to try it out for a limited amount of time, and it is a very nice program that lets you go ahead and do all kinds of modifications or combined. The first thing you want to do is to go ahead and do a model shoot with your model, and we now have a bunch of images that we can use that we did with whole shoot. So what you're going to be doing is finding the image that you like the most or just any image that you like such as this one over here, use one. Here is another one that I really like as well. And then once you have every single image that you like, and those are the pictures we're going to be using for us to edit. So there's a bunch of them over here for us to pick from. And sometimes that is the key when we have so many, it's how to know which one to pick. I'm going to be picking this one right here. So I pressed to input this one right now, and now that we have the picture ready for us to work with, press on edit. And here we have the enhancer, which is really cool, which is the sky over here. So what we can do here is pretty much change the actual sky for this picture. And we have a bunch of ones for us to pick from and change the sky to look different in here, such as this one over here, which is going to be right there. And what you have to do is pretty much just pick the one you like the most and move it over there. So this is the one that I like and moving to the Blue Sky, there's so many pictures for us to get from. After you get the one you want, you can even get more of them if you like. And this one right here, they are extra for you to buy in case you want the extra ones. But the ones that are coming with it are free, so you don't have to go ahead and pay extra for them. You just have to find the one you like the most, and then you're going to be picking and moving down to the sky. So I pressed on it because you can see the picture changed to a different picture, which is really cool, by the way, and it changed to another one. So you can swipe through the different skies and let's go back to the sky itself here. So right here, we're going to go to preset and we can change the way it works. Let's go to Edit again. And you can even change the way it actually looks extra features for us to work with as well. You can see we changed it to this one right here. So here we have the core structure. And we can either add or subtract the core, but waving it is going to make it just amazing. You can see the more pictures and the more saturation that you give it to, the better it actually does look. Now, we also have the vibilince and it does look much better with some vibilance as well. And we have other kind of things that we can do to the picture too. Luminosity, which is very familiar tom because it goes with umeno and you can see how it actually works over here as well. And we also have a boost, too. Let's go ahead and give all those different takes into this picture. We also have a golden hour. Golden hour is going to be something I really suggest for you to give the picture a lot more details as well. But do experiment with the different things that you can do and to add to the picture because a lot of it has to do with giving a bit of something and just to see what happens to it. For example, you want to give some mist over here, we can move some mist around right into the picture itself. And right in the back, you can see it's getting more cloudy because we're adding a mist right into the atmosphere. Or we can add some fog into it, too. So there was a lot of different effects that we can give to the picture that otherwise we will never be able to do, but it makes it so much better. Now, let's go to the mood over here. And add some situation as well. And you really have to experiment with which tools are your favorite? Which one look really nice as well. Now, one of my favorites is the classic black and white. You can convert the picture to a classic, and then you can go ahead and add and edit the different things to it. You can actually add a nice tint of blue right into a black and white picture. How cool is that? This is something that is just hold of previous and you can only do those kind of features at Photoshop, but I'm satisfied with this look. This look just looks so awesome. And once you get this awesome picture, you get this awesome effect and look, your client is going to love it. That's what you're going to be stopping. That's when you know you did it exactly to perfection. The next step you have to do once you achieve some perfection in the picture is to go ahead and save this picture in something that you remember, and we're going to give this right to our client 100% resolution and quality all combined and person save. While we're done is at expoding I'm more than psych about creating more awesome pictures for my clients. You should do the same as well. 15. Session 7: Extensive Seminar: The first step for you to do is to go ahead and duplicate all the different pictures that you have created and did during the photoshoot. Some of them here, I have more of them than I actually need. Others, I made slight modifications to them. The whole entire key here is to go ahead and fix the small different things. For example, this one is a black and white picture, but you can always make it better. Now for the software you're going to be using, I'm using a simple photo editing and it's called I Photo, but you can use any kind of photo editing and do those changes. The small little changes that I make are making a huge difference within the picture. You're trying to make it more artistic, more interesting, and more better looking in every way possible. Basically, every picture has small imperfections, things that you find that might not be really good as you scan and look at the picture and try to figure out, is this actually on my monitor or is this actually right on the picture itself? That's the first thing you want to do. This one over here you can see those little dots over here. Is not from my monitor, actually, and I see it from my monitor, there could have been on your monitor as well. But the whole entire key here is for you to scan the picture for that first and then go ahead and reduce when your eye actually meets and looks at the picture, you don't want to have any of those distractions in the actual image. That's the first thing I'll be doing. The next thing, of course, is this one looks like it's a little bit, the angle of it is incorrect. Let's go ahead and straighten this picture up and make sure it is straightened up. Now, sometimes not straighten is going to work good, but in this specific case, straightening out the image is going to really fix it and make it much more better. Now the next thing I'll be doing is adding some situation. This is one of my favorite tools, by the way, as you can see here, it looks a little boring, but giving it better situation is going to give it much more better vibe and it looks much better as well. Every way that you're trying to enhance the picture, you're trying to make it look better. You're trying to make it look more interesting. Above all, you want people to say, Wow, this picture is awesome. Did you use Photoshop, but in reality, I didn't. I didn't use Photoshop and that's the whole key. But I wanted to make it look as if I did. Here's another good picture here too. Of course, as you work through it, there was another imperfection. This one probably because it was the beach and something got into the lens, maybe a small little flick or whatever, and it messes up the picture. You have to go through it and you want to make sure that it works better. Now, second thing here, it looks like we could use a little bit more zoom. In the picture on the side here and press on IDL. Now, I think it looks much better as well. Given the situation, you can see how black and white, you can go all the way to that, or of course, you can give it much more colorful picture as well. Now there is a reason why we have multiple of the same picture because one of them we make it more colorful and more beautiful, another one, we go ahead and make it black and white. We go saturation less and transition the picture to a black and white image. As you make it black and white, you want to add different kind of things like exposure over here, some of the rebels. And change it around. It's not just a boeing black and white picture, there is more substance to it as well. Of course, edit any perfections you find too in the picture, same exact deal, we're editing the same things in the same picture. But then we are changing the core perspective on it, and it's going to make it look so much better. Now, we have a third one over here that we have of the same exact image, this one, of course, we're going to be trying something new here. Let's go ahead and play around with the rebels. This one is more for the exploration. We want to make it different. We already have black and white, we already have very good situation in the picture. We want to make it a little more giving it more cartoonish vibe to the actual image itself. This one, we're playing with some of the different highlights with the shadows, but we want to make sure this image just looks different and better in some ways as well. We can also play with the cold temperature wow. Take a look at this. We are giving it this blue vibe. More classical, more interesting, and more different is the key here. We have three different viewpoints of the same exact picture over here. Now, some of the special effect pictures, this one looks really good. There's almost nothing I would fix. Here is another one. I like this one as well. Of course, with any picture, you can always add a little bit more add x situation, makes it even more interesting. Let's go ahead and do the same thing for this one. This one is I would say this one is just perfect. There is almost nothing that needs to be done. Now, there was very few times you're going to have an image so perfect that you just don't know what else to fix. There's almost nothing that I find here that there was a mistake or there was something that needs to be changed, but I did. I did find a few AsO blemishes, very small. But this one is probably the most perfect out all those pictures because there's nothing almost that needs to be fixed and done. But you want to scan it, you want to make sure that every single spec, for example, think about this way, if you're going to blow this up and make this huge postal, what is in this picture that's messed up that needs to be fixed. That's where you go for everything. You change everything. You look for every single spec and you want to see what are the smallest of the imperfections that you can go ahead and fix, that you can make them better, and you can make this picture just outstanding in every sense of the way. Then of course, when you give this to your client, they'll be like, wow, this picture is amazing. But they don't know how much you went for and you fixed, how you edited, every single imperfection, every spec, and you made it look just petal. Now, this is the key here, but sometimes what you need to do is even though I went through everything and I think this picture is good, it's not enough. You might have to just go ahead and zoom in and then give it a cause of inspection. Because sometimes there is the the smallest of imperfections that you missed and they make a big difference. Keep on zooming and you want to zoom all the way in. Now we are just really inspecting and you want to really inspect it small imperfection, you go food. And you look for everything. Now, this is talking about being totally making sure the picture looks as perfect as possible. But you can see something that's interesting. When you zoom this machine, the actual picture itself, this thing that they got rid of moved becomes a smudge, the small smudge, but it is still there. So moving out and when you zoom out, you understand what I mean. This smudge cannot be seen on the big picture, but when you zoom in, you could see it. So yes, when you work with a software that's not as good as Photoshop, it's not going to make it perfect, but it's going to make it as cost perfect as it is possible. Now, going forward, the images here, we have a lot of good images. And sometimes as you go foods, you want to check it out. What's wrong with this picture? What can I do to make this picture so much better? The first thing you want to do here is row of toads and we're going to be toading this whole entire picture up. And then we're going to get rid of some of the image, just like this, this looks much better. It changes the perspective of the entire image by doing that. Next thing is retouching and we're going to be zooming in and looking at the smallest thing to fix here. This one over here we have a little bit of smudge, we're working on that first. The next thing we're going to be doing here is zooming out just a little bit and changing the size. As we fixed this specific thing, we are going to be zooming out all the way over here and going and fixing some of the other imperfections that we find in this image as well. Going to retouch right here and we have to make the size of this a little bit bigger, getting rid of the specs over here, the takeaway attention from the actual image itself. Next thing we're going to go to adjustment and adding some core to this picture. You can see it looks so much better by doing just that. Now we have this stint over here, which is really interesting, as you can see, you can make it very interesting looking picture going for retro style all the way to the actual picture itself. Let's keep it at this at this point because it is neutral and we're changing it to make it a little bit more booish just a little bit on this one. Changing the entire levels and everything else, just like this. Now, this makes it so much better. I think it makes a lot of differences in there and we have this option here, which is avoid situation skin tones, or you can saturate the skin tones. The question is, which one is better? It's hard to tell, and I think it's better not to saturate the skin tones in this one. We go through this and you can see the new one and the original and such a big difference between those two. Now, next one over here, we're just going to make this black and white. Situation is going away. We are putting it all the way and changing the coals out of it. Now, it doesn't necessarily make this black and white pulse because it just takes away the core, but it makes it more classic. In this case, we want to go right through the black and white, which is special effects and we have the black and white filter being on. Next thing over here, we are going to be adding the situation into the Black and white filter and then we're going to be making this thing look so much better and more amazing just like this. And of course we touching it, the same exact deal, you have to go through the same exact imperfections. Now I should have went through the imperfections before. I duplicated all those pictures because you have to go and do the same thing every single time. That was one of my mistakes as I went through and did this. Of course, I have to go ahead and zoom this one more in to make it more interesting with the wool of toads. Now the picture looks so much more love and so much better as well. Here we go. The final touch to this one. So now we have two of those. Let's go to the third one. This one is the playful one. We're going to go through changing the situation mode over here, making this more darker. As you can see this picture is going to be stunning. Now we're going to be going retro on this one just a little bit, just like that. It looks like something from them maybe 1980s or something much further than it was. Model and picture, but it gives this vibe of being a little bit older, being more classic, wow, this looks just stunning, stunning in every sense of the way. You can see that the picture itself, the whole entire thing about making a picture really good is making it interesting to look at, and this one just makes it just cool. Now, going through this, we have two different black and white shoots right here. We have one of them, second one, same deal. The problem is, you have to know this one. This is very essential. Once you go black and white, once you convert Black and white and give me a Black and white picture, you cannot go ahead and change the black and white and add coal to it. Always keep this in mind. Cannot add coal to a Black and white. Don't go ahead and shoot Black and white pictures unless that is your goal because once you do that, you get stuck with them and there is not much you can actually do to make them different. Here we are making this change over here. Now we're going to go and zoom this one in like this. This looks really nice. We go and this is pretty cool affected here. This one doesn't have any effect right there, but we can change this one around. Now we're adding some more attention to the details to make it even more stunning in every sense of the way that we go. Now it looks so much better. And we're going through every single image here to try to figure out, well, this one is okay? Do we like this one enough to keep on editing? Yeah, why not? Let's take a challenge of editing, even the ones that don't seem to be that good. Because even if the picture seems like salvageable and something that doesn't seem to be perfect, you can always find a way to make it more interesting, to add more eato to it, to add more life to it, to make it more interesting, and it's worfet for you to experiment to see what you can do. For me, it's like a personal challenge. The picture looks okay, but then you're like, Okay, there must be something I can do to make it better, to make it more interesting, to make it more appearing. Of course, sometimes when you add those things, it just doesn't come up, it just doesn't make it as good as you thought it would be. So in this one over here, it's okay. There was a few things you can do, but the black and white one doesn't seem like there's too much modification that is worth my time to do. This one over here might actually look good because that's the core for picture. Let's take the core for one, change the temperature around, give it more saturation over here. Zooming a bit bit, just a little bit more. Here we go. And now it looks so much better. It does make a huge difference in the original picture. Who is the one that was done before. As we go through this, we want to go through every image that we have that is interesting that they picked for us to work with. Let's walk on this one over here just a little bit on that one. This one is going to be converted to a black and white image right here. I think it's going to make it much more interesting, making it a black and white one. This one is going to go actual that one. Total actual, Boko, giving it this interesting looking classic picture it came from an auto magazine, it just looks really interesting together. So every picture looks good, but you want to make it look better, we missed that one. Now, this one is stunning. We go to make this even more stunning. We got to make this even better. Now, this thing is looking so much more magnificent, but small little changes just definitely puts this picture from being good to being great. You can see the original one, as you can see the original one is just missing. Few modifications to make it look so much better. Here is the Black and white one, go for the Black and white, making it a little bit more doco so it more stands out and wo Just small changes. Sometimes the small changes is all you need to make the picture just look more stunning. Once you realize and you figure out the workflow how to use the software battle, you can go through the whole entire system and you come up with a style. A style that works for you and makes the pictures just look so much more reistic and so much more better. 16. Class Ending: Thank you so much for getting all the way to the end of this course. You are one of my best students. And I want to thank you. The best way for you to thank me is to go ahead and write a review about this class, how it helped you out with your photo editing skills, but you are not yet done. The next step for you is to enroll in any of my classes that I teach online in my photography, I'm gonna be teaching you how to improve your pictures for to take better pictures as well. If you are interested in learning about any of those classes, check out the rest of my courses. Once again, thank you for enrolling. Hopefully you will enjoy the journey and I want to see you in my next class as well. I teach how to do different things online and specifically how to take better pictures.