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1. Introduction: Are you ready to cut the magical flow to the
lace of your camera? Join me as we dive into
the heart of the world of wedding photography in
this beginner's guide. Hi, I'm Abby, a
wedding photographer, an educator with a
decade of experience. I have built successful business creating timeless
memories for my clients. Wedding photography to me, is about docmenting two people coming together
into a new world. It's love and spirit form. A Wendy photographer
must be observant and ready to quickly capture
emotions and reactions. All these passing moments in the couple's special day that make up their
memories forever. In this class, we will explore the fundamentals of
ready photography, from choosing the
right equipments to mastering vital techniques. We will begin an in depth
look at the equipments, the importance of
having backup gear, and what kind of
settings to use. Throughout the process,
we will learn how to make intentional choices about
exposure to Portrol, the outcome of your photos. Communicate with a
couple and build a short se based on their needs. Make the most of the
different life situations, both indoor and outdoors. Use basic corbion rules to
create eye catching images, basic retouching and
color correction, and how to personally
deliver your photos. This class is perfect for anyone interested in pushing
wedding photography, whether you are a hobbyist
or an aspiring rational. By the end of it, you will
have a solid understanding of the fundamental
skills and techniques needed to create beautiful
and timeless images. And an eye for capturing those candy moments that
makes readings so special. I'm finding about running photography because
it has allowed me to document happy comment
in so many people's lives. It's truly a privilege
to be part of a couple's special day and I'm excited to share
my knowledge and expertise with you together. Let's wake memories and capture low through the lens
of your camera.
2. Class Orientation: For this class, you
need to practice. So I would advise you
to get a friend or a married couple that can act as a couple for you,
like a real couple. Just get friends or family
to act as a couple for you. And you can use
them to practice, because in this class I'll
be sharing posing skills and also little things you need to observe about weddings and
how to capture good weddings. Even if you're
just starting out, remember stops will help you as the beginner to give you
that confidence you need to actually thrive and build your wedding
photography business. And definitely, you'll need a camera or any camera
at all for a start. Should just learn
about taking pictures. You don't really have
to get a e mails camera or seller for now. If you don't have
to have money, just make sure you have a camera or you better to just
have a phone and just practice with
a phone you get. 'cause right now with
in software in town, you can achieve a lot
of things easily. And you also need a laptop for this class because Lt
is very important. You need a laptop to get editing software, but also
you have a phone. Just get phone editing softwares and practice it and
have fun using it. Remember it's all about you just practicing and also I right to also go ahead and get like someone you
can collaborate to it. Like people that into maybe
make up or people that are into set ups for
venues and events. People that are going
like you can go on Instagram and look for them. People close to you on Facebook, look for them and without. Okay. I want to
do a style shoot. Can you support me with this? This That, you know,
just have fun. Because so many
people that you feel models that would like
to create a portfolio and in return tell them to put
for you as a bride and you can just create that portfolio
using them to practice. You have to practice
for this class. Practice is key because
without practicing, you'll not be able to
create self confident. I remember repetition is king. The more you repeat
things over and over again, it
comes part of you. So you can really leave it like it can't really
go away from you. It comes in it,
it becomes abuse. So go ahead and
make sure that you tell people and try to practice. I'm dropping some
documents below whereby you can
download and read through it to help you give you a good understanding
of how to pose and help you with the short list of most half shots you need
to get at a wedding. And this short list
will really help you to create the confidence and give a good ideas of what
you to capture. Remember, you need
to just practice. So practice is key. And I know sometimes
due to work around the world and the economy
right now, all over the world, practicing might be a little
bit difficult for you, but just try practice
with your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your sister, your brother, your
dad, and your mom. You can do that day
and your mom tend to push for you and just try to create some
pictures with them. So practice very is
key for this class. I want you just practice. I mean, you can always drop
questions for me to answer and I'll be glad to answer your questions as
soon as possible. I'm very fast doing that so
you can at least improve your ready photography and go ahead and start
booking your clients. Like I really want
that for everybody because I've tried it for people where I am and I've
seen them grow and become really good
for any photographers. So I'm open to
helping people out. Just go ahead and
let me know what you think and what
you are facing. If you have any deadlocks
you really need help with, if you need anything,
just let me know. I'll be glad to offer my assistance hundred
percent to you and help you grow your
photography brand. Like I'll be so excited to
help you out in doing that. You have a couple, I've
taken your pictures, which can be your friends
or family members. Make sure you share your pictures with
me so I can see it. And can also go through basic things you
need to improve or basic ideas that can help you create that portfolio you
can use to sell yourself. And also how to create
that consistent feel when you're editing your photos in either light tube
or capture one. I use light rub and capture one only for now because those are the two softwares that I
feel have given me more u, possibilities to really
achieve a lot of things. I really want for more
pictures and it's amazing, those pots are really amazing. Light room and capture one. The Photoshop also is
very good for retouching, or they call it a
brushing portraits to make them pop and adding
effects, overlays. And you can shape
on any platform or social media platform to give
your first paying clients. Remember, you need good gears, and I'm talking
about gears that I use that you also can
afford that is not really that expensive
and can create a very good kit around a budget
which is really amazing.
3. Your Gear and Backups: Starting point
photography business, you're going to need to have
your gears and backup gears. An AI, you can get a
very good camera for as low as $1,500 We'll give
you really good pictures. So what you need
to know is this, is that we have the type
of cameras we have, the full frame and
the Copsle cameras. Now some years ago, this
camera difference in Ss, of size was really a big deal. But now I is a Fuji and a
Fuji is a copal camera. And it gives me
amazing pictures. So years ago it was about
full frame and crop. But now you can actually
get a very good camera for just $1,500 and
it's a costal camera, and to give you good pictures, don't get carried away
by the difference, just not that you can
get a good camera. And any sensor is
good right now. The new cameras in town will
give you good pictures. So don't bother about if it will be a full frame or a crop. Just make sure you
invest in good lenses. So for a start,
I'll advice if you have a budget to
get a Fuji camera. Because I use a Fuji and
I can vote for Fuji. So that's what I'll go to the red camera for a
start is good enough, like Fuji 20, the Fuji S ten. On the budget, you'll get
really good, amazing pictures. Because I also get good
pictures and I use the X ten for weddings
and it's amazing. You can get a good
signal lens into 52.8 and it's not
really expensive. Now this sigma lens
is below $550 so that means you can get a very good
lens, that is zoom lens, it eat into 52.8 and you can get amazing pictures
with it like I use the lens because I also got one for myself and I
use the lens a lot for outdoor events and a
little bit of weddings. And I take for the fact that
this lens, a lifesaver, we just started out, you're going to get only just one lens. Make sure you get zoom lens
like zomblence between 24, 70 or using the Copsal
camera 18 to 15. Zumblence would save you a
lot of hustle for a start. The later I have a lot of money. You can actually
invest the 50 MM, a five MM, and sell the 200. That also depends on you and
your budget Before a start, just get one Zomlenth that
can go from D to zoom, from Y to telephoto, from Y to long wage lens. Just get a lens like that
and you'll be saved. Another thing to do
is that you also get a flash, that's a speed light. Now speed light is
also very good because sometimes you will not
have enough light in the venue to light up your
subject or light up the venue, so you get a speed light. Now speed light
is also in speed, getting good speed light
for less $5 $100 and below. And do perform really nice. Make sure you have spare batteries if you
have enough money, make sure you get at
least two flashes. Two flashes is better than
one because you have, you have that safety net, you'll be safe and if
anything goes wrong, you can have enough
light to help you out. Now mas also if you have enough
money to get two cameras, two cameras is also very
good 'cause you might have a camera as a backup
for an event. It's not make a lot of sense
if you have just one camera, an LD camera just stop walking or if
something goes wrong, it's not really good experience. I've had a experience
before and I most went like crazy and it's
not really good enough. So maybe you have two cameras.
Maybe you have somebody that assist you to shoot. Remember, if you don't
starting out you will only be limited
to one camera. So I think you can take care of the cameras and
make sure that you don't make it, you don't
let the fold down. Also, remember that you
don't have memory cards. Now, memory cards
are very important. I always advise you to
shoot on two memory cards. That one card will take rod peg, but time we just
starting now you only have access to one camera. So please go ahead and buy enough memory cards
for a safe keep. I would say if you get 464
gigabyte memory cards, you can get four of it. It's better make sure you have a memory card
case that can put your memory cards inside to save it from falling off
or getting bad. Also, camera
batteries, make sure have camera bates at least. You can have two to
three camera batches for the Fuji takes a lot of
energy from the batches. Batches run down quickly than any other camera
have used bots. If you have enough
batteries, it's good enough. Like I have Sabidu
top party battries for Fuji And As. Fair enough. So I have that and I have
at least four patches of my excess ten at the
wedding and it lasts. So also have a charger. So make sure you have
a charger with very important charger
is very important, Have a charger with
you so you can always charge and get light. Noting that Wasabi
have GSB charger, whereby you can plug the power
bank and charge on the go. So that's also a very
good innovation that I love about to Wasabi
and it's amazing. Make sure you have a system is very important
because you need them to edit your picture in
the system for softwares. And make sure you
also have like Sna, Head, HDD and SSD. Now the deference is that
HDD is not as fast as SSD. But according to Pre
saying, people are saying, we step saying that the SSD are not really as
reliable as HDD. Well, for me I will
say just have both. Your HDD should have at
least four by two terabyte. You have at least
500 1 Terabyte, 500 giga, 1 terabyte terabyte. The good enough SSD, the HD
two Terabyte or Poa byte. So you back up on both places. Now I edit off my SSD because it's always
faster than HDD. And for my own experience,
isn't a Mac book four. We actually killed
our HDD drives over time using
it with the mark. So as I using the mark, just to back up on
the HDD and SSD, I'll go ahead and just
put my files and work directly from there so that
time I've been 100% safe. So make sure you have two Na
hard drives very important. Two hard drives very important can tell you hypoth you to have. I can't tell you hypos this for you to have so to
external hard drive is very important for you
to have it so you can back up your files,
back up your fuse. Weddings are like
once in a lifetime. I don't want to go
ahead and just get some where I'm wedding
sports because of you're not really observant or you're not really careful on how to store or how to
back up the pictures. Please play, save,
play. Very important. What you must do
is that you must make sure you have a cam that can do one Jpeg
like I do Jpeg. Do you want one peg
on a particular one? Single card sometimes makes the camera slow for my own
space in the existing. That's why I will
stay with the Fuji. The Fuji have really good role and when you capture
one for Fuji, you really have that
pop and it's amazing. So go ahead and get a
camera that can shoot raw files and make sure you're shooting
role at a wedding. Don't shoot peg. If you're starting out as we
a photographer, please don't shoot
peg shooting role. Just play safe. Like
I'm like a safe guy. I, I love to play safe. I don't want to
take any risk that would interfere with
the joy of the couple. Remember I'm all about the couple because they had
me to take their wedding, so I'll make sure that
their pictures are safe. I can't really emphasize
how much you need to back up these files and hypothz way to
back up these files. If you go online, look and search for lowsuits
agains photographer, you see a lot of
things happening about photos who had lost couples, wedding pictures and
other things like that due to theft
or other things. And it's not really
good experience, you have to go to court.
It's just much hustle. Any around the world,
it's just much hustle. So just make sure that you play safe and you have your back
up guests for your wedding. And remember, go out there, have a checklist of all
your guests you need. Make sure you do your checklist a night before the main event. Put everything like in
a particular place, I sure not forget
anything is possible. Pack everything up in a bag. Make sure it's all
set for the next day. Remember, play safe. You always want to play
safe so you can have that comfort for you to get creative at the wedding
with talking about gears. Oh, I forgot this, I
forgot this at home. So you just have that comfort
around like the couple. And you know, you have
everything with you to achieve that creative juice, to achieve that creative source, to achieve your creativity to the highest level you
can actually think of. So go ahead and make sure that you have backup gears in place, so make sure you play safe and make sure you have
fun at your weddings.
4. Shooting in Raw vs JPEG: In this lesson, we want
to discuss the pros and cons of a
versus Jpeg format. Now in a camera, you have two
formats for your picture, which is or peg for raw files, it's a negative, you'll
need to process it using a software like capture
one lightroom affinity, among others to
convert it into Jpeg. But Jpeg is the finished
product from the camera, so you don't need
to do Basic or New editing at all for giving
it to your clients. Now for me, I shot
it in raw files. Now a files give me
that leverage for me to expand it and built of
manipulation or adjustment. A files for me is
like a safe ground. Yes, a files are
heavier than peg files. Like if I need a quick
delivery for a couple, maybe let's say a quick
event like a dasher. I can do Peg files because I know I will not be
doing a lot of editing, a lot of manipulations to it. But for weddings, I
always advise Bodmer, please shoot raw 'cause
Wafiles gives you that leverage to extract the information for
meat and manipulate it. It will be of great
importance if you have the opportunity to adjust
raw files for weddings, then E files, Peg files. It has a limited to
adjusting how much machine can pull out from Jpeg files which is not really a
good one for weddings. I'll not advice, do that. But if you 100% stating that you can get it
done in Peg Winders, do you know creativity
is all about someone's perspective and how
you perceive things like. For me, I believe in having this safe
ground on everything. I want to be safe. Weddings are so delicate and so important. I wouldn't want to spoil
anybody's wedding or give someone a bad impression
or someone a bad service. I'm always about client
satisfaction 100% So I would advise you to just shoot in row feel studying photography, wedding photography in
part color or events. Please shoot in
Vo and stay safe. Files are very heavy.
Yes, they are heavy. But information you get
from raw files can actually help you to do a lot of things
like you'll understand. For example, if
you shoot in Jpeg, let's imagine you mistakenly change the white balance into something you
don't want to. So let's say you shoot in a white balance that makes the
pictures bluish in nature. With Jpeg files you have a little bit of opportunity
to actually adjust it, but with raw pictures
you can actually change the bluish fuel into that warm fuel that makes
picture look outstanding. I always advise you to
just shoot in raw files. Like I can't tell you
how important enough a files are for wedding
photographers shooting in files. Either it's like that
milk con or the pancakes. Oh, here we are making tea. It's just everything
you need to have. So, most cameras would give you these two options
to shoot in Tipeg. Raw. Yes, files are very heavy. Tipeg files are not so heavy. But remember wanting for sure, please shoot in
raw files and have that leverage to manipulate those images and
create those amazing, artistic pictures you want. When you take a picture of a raw file or Jpeg
file member wanting, you have to get a
well exposed image. A well exposed image is key. Now get under exposed image with a files or
even the Jpeg file. It's not really a
good one I believe, except you want to make
it artistic in nature. But for a fact, in to get well
exposed images and actually key for your
image to look outstanding.
5. The Exposure Triangle and The Directors Decision: Knowing how to take
a very good picture means you know how to operate. Work with the **** triangle. Esposo triangle is what
makes your image look outstanding and look so
really well exposed. And that is actually
controlled by the aperture, shutter speed, and eye. When I talk to people
about Espoo Triangle, I tell them to imagine them being the
director of a movie. And this way it means
that you have aperture, shutter speed, and eye. So these three
people work for you. Now, what does shut speed do? Shutpeed is a cutting
that opens and closes. You get it opens and it closes. It's about timing. How much time the shuttle seeds
open and closes. Now, shutter speed actually affects how you freeze
or show motion. That's very important, how
you freeze and show motion. Shuttle speed does that for you. And shutter speed
is like a timer. So that's what's
called shutter speed. Now, aperture is a hole in
your lens that opens and closes and it has
defend opening range. You can go as wide as
1.4 as wide as 1.2, as wide as 1.8, some as wide as 2.8 and it depends
on the lens you buy. Now, aperture, remember, is a hole in the lens
that opens and closes. So that's the aperture for you. You have the S. The ISO is
sens sensitivity to light. The S is sensor
sensitivity to light. Like how much sensitive
sensor becomes to light. It's like the brain becoming
so attracted to lights. That's the ISO for
you. Now, this theory are so easy to understand,
don't mix it up. They are very easy, but you must understand it.
They're very easy. Now remember shutter speed, Cutting opens and closes, shutter speed
aperture, a hole in the lens that controls how much light comes
into the lens. You understand that.
How much light comes into the lens,
that's aperture for you. The S is how much light
the sensor can take in. Like the sensor is very
active and the S is high now. So how is the sensor so sensitive to light?
That's all about the. So now this TV Mkes up the
pot triangle and very pool. So multiplate en to
get what you want. So let's say for
example now I want to freeze a bride walking
down towards me. Let's say in the church or at the sption, dancing
to the table, or where they would
be staying that way. I need to use a
shutter speed that can freeze them to
show that action. Now if you look at
sports pictures or a bright dancing
and it is freezed, you will see that it was shot with a fast shutter speed and faster speeds freeze motion or shows motion, that's
very important. I'll show some pictures that I took using a fascial
speed to freeze motion. Now outdoors, you need the
fascital speed to freeze motion because you won't
make them looking. So motion like a lot of motion and needs a
bride walking down the aisle with the
bride's dad or the bride's mom
and the next thing they look a little
bit blowd out. Yeah. Sometimes might be
a little bit creativity, but I don't really believe that's just to me,
that's my personal view. I believe you're able to freeze
the motion and show them still and show that this was happening
at the moment there. So shutter speed is just to freeze motion and show motion. It's just so important
you understand that fact. It's very easy to understand. Then the aperture controls
what is called depth of field. That's how sharp the soil will be from the fog of the
background that you want. Blow out a bright,
a lovely garden, you need to use a wide
aperture because wide aperture takes in more light
at the same time it blows out the
background for you. I remember wanting for sure
depth of field doesn't mean just the percent the
foot represent behind you. It means that any in
front of you can be sharp and anything in front
of you can be blowd out. So of very interesting topic that we'll talk about
it in composition. Very, just as though
you love the, It is so amazing. Now the aperture is
a hole in the lens. Please remember that. It's
so easy to understand. Now the O is how much
light the sensor takes in. Now the O is so bad, and it's at the same time the O takes in any
light it sees. Let's say you have
an so that is so high taking any light
that it sees any light. The light here, the
light behind me, taking heavy light, speed, light taking that light. Also, the ISO is the last
person that you will go to. So let's say now
you're director, you have shuttle speed,
aperture, and ISO. What will you do now
for an outdoor events, Let's say Sony Day First. Nowadays, I'll make sure
I work my shuttle speed. I say shutter speed. Come
right here. Take control. Sound Motion, shuttle speed. That is fast because I
want to feed the motion. That's what I'll go to force a director Schtped
comes in first, what? Ness for me, aperture. I want to show depto field. I want to blow the background. Let's imagine it's
a garden wedding and I want to really
blow the background. I don't any distractions, So I would use a wider aperture, like a 2.8 because
the wider aperture takes in more light and also blow the background than a smaller aperture,
like an F eight. For me I'll use a
wider aperture. So I'll tell aperture to come
in nest at a shutter speed. Then also what comes
in last for me is the SO because it's
only in the garden. Definitely. You need less
light, not a lot of light. So let's say 100 is good enough. Now, what city about
this is that numbers, distance is very easy. So let it like this, the shutter speed from 100, shutter is a little bit
low for you at weddings. So for me, a foundation
is still at 200. 200 is good enough. 200 and above. Or 200. That's for me. Because
out to play save. Now if you're
starting photography, you have to play save for
a start, Get creative. But not yet later, you can actually
do what you want. But for a start,
just the safe place. Just stay right there.
The safe places are good. The rule for me is this
should be 200, stay there. You can go from 200 and above to maybe 4,000 depending 2000, 1,000 or you just stay at 200. Aperture for me depends
on what you want. If you want more
depth or less depth, that means you want to
have sharpness from the foreground to the
background or less sharpness. So let's say at the garden, we have a lovely walkway
at the garden them, and I want to really show that
walkway to the end of it. There's a lovely castle behind the brides, walking
down towards me. That way I can shoot
with an aperture of H. Now remember an eight is a
smaller hole in the lens, which means I'll have more
sharpness from the froguno the background than
using a 2.8 aperture. Moves from the 1.01 0.21 0.41 0.82 0.82 0.0
It all depends. Now, the lowest number,
aperture means taking in more light at number, taking in more light aperture, Highest number, taking in
less light for the aperture. Lower number, more light, higher number, less
light, shutter speed, The lower it is from 200
you have in motion blow, sometimes you can shoot at
one of a 50 shutter speed. But just stay safe.
Pay to stay safe. I'm always a safe guy.
I love playing safe. So 200 for me is good
for any beginner. 200 is good. From 200 and above, you start to Fez
motion from 200, shutter speed and
above you could start to freeze a lot of motion. So that way you have this
sharp steel in front of you that's not really
moving blood so sharp that way you get
using a fast shutter speed. Then the S S 100 is good. Some cameras do ISO 80 some 50, but Ice 100 is good for me. Foundation is, stay at 200. Remember, you can only go up to taking more lights and you
go down taking less light. I say 200 is good
enough. Just stay there. Don't think about it too much. Don't start from there, 200, then you go up. You
want more light. That's very important to
understand that as a director, you can direct who to go
first and who to go last. Remember, there's no
one rule fits all. It's all about you. But if you understand what it does for you, you can actually manipulate it. The SO sensor striated
to light, aperture dept, field hold the lessing
more light or less light, shorter speed shows
motion or fits motion. So now let's say a foundation
for indoors for me would be 0800 or 1,000 shut
a 200 apacho four. That's for me and
it's always works. I have a lot of people and it
has been working for them. So let's say you're outdoor. For me, a foundation
would be shot. Us 200 Apacho F eight, ISO 200. Just start from there. Manipulate if you want
more light or less light, blood background or
not blood background. Just play safe aperture
on shutter speed. These are your brothers that you must know
how to control. The director, you know how to put which one force
and which to put last. That way you can achieve
amazing pictures. And create those pictures you see online that are
magazine worthy. Go ahead and have some fun.
6. Constant Light vs Flash Light: This lesson is about
constant light flash, light in the wedding. You want to come across a
lot of constant lights. Maybe the dance floor lights, the chandeliers, table light, anything that gives you lights. Those are constant light. Like now, I'm using
a constant light here to feed myself
for this lesson. And if I put it off, it will go. So in a wedding, you
have to know when to use constant light and
when to use flash light. Flashlight comes and goes be
constant, light stays open. So if it isn't an ISO, which is high like 1,000 remember the ISO is a sense
of sssivity to light. So the ISO will take any
light available and if you urn a light down for a long time IS will also take that light in. Sometimes you might want to just use a flashlight that comes and goes for you to get that
creative effect award in a particular portrait. And also you don't want to
be interruptive in any way. They go into people's eyes cos light to actually try
to blind other people. And they like it
like the guest they might not like the coso
Lit to always be on. And might also not
be good one for the videographer
because that can also affect his exposure. Which cos light is not a good
one for that kind of thing. And you don't want to have
an enemy at an event. You want to make sure
that everybody or vendors are happy
what you're doing. And you want to make
sure everybody have a chance to be creative as well. To create those amazing
pictures for the couple. Remember the couple,
your client, and you have to give
your clients the best available by
cooperation and time. Everything. Using
a flashlight has a lot of advantages because a flashlight can come and go on. And as well that a flashlight
have high powers damage. You can have what? Flash light, but we're taking
a constant light and it's like what, user watts? That means you will
need a power bank, a big power bank
to power that up. But flash light, you can
get a good flashlight. Like for example,
the 8,600 you can get 8,600 flash light. And it has a very compact
battery and you can create a lot like you can have
a lot of juice from that light alone to light up. Or like a hole I've
used to before at the hole and thus
well lit, amazing. So if you use that
kind of power for an event to light up a hole
in terms of constant light, you need power packs, big ones. And you might also
need light source and it's really be a good one. We want need cables around the hole to be
lighting up the hole. I don't think it's
really that creative. It doesn't make you
look expressional enough and that way
it's not a good one. So flash light has
a lot of advantage. Same thing with constant light.
The basic thing is this. You're a creative director, you decide how you want
to interpret your image, how you want to
light up your image. And sometimes I mix up cstighte a flashlight together to
give me that extra pop. Like I want to create that idea, I want to create that film of a light coming
from somewhere, maybe the bathroom,
maybe the window. And I can use
cotlite for that to create that kind of
light and make it warm. Then I'll use the
flashlight to just fill up the subject subject pop
out from the background. Now that is just a
way of just doing it. You can mix border
together and you can you can do it
either one of them. And sometimes I use
only flashlight all through my weddings and
I create amazing pictures. You don't have to invest,
solve them for now. If you have the money, you
can invest in just one and build up your gay kit
later For accessories. Yes, a color light actually is nice because you can
see what you're doing immediately and take the
shot emit ring shirts as the shoes and Reies. You can use the conson light for that to actually see
what you're trying to photograph and know how to place your light
well by a flashlight, you t have to take
a shot and place the shot maturily,
get what you want. So as a beginner or small
studying photography, I'll advise you to start with a flashlight and later
buy a constant light. Remember, a flashlight
is very good, but when it comes
to accessories, a color light can give you that ability to see what you're doing immediately and get
that picture and move away. So it all depends on
you and your budget. Well, remember color light, a flashlight, It
affects the ISO. So no matter how
you play it, save, always remember that
your ISO controls the amnant light because
the cesc sensive to light. So you must know how
to work with your Y. So to make sure
that you don't have overexposed images and also make sure that you don't become interruptive to guests
and other people trying to enjoy the events the same you're trying to
capture the event. So go ahead and practice with cotton light
and flash light. And make sure to always
be observant of your SO when using both so you can
create a well exposed image.
7. Communication: The Couple's Needs: Know what the couple
want from you. It's actually key in every
ready photographic service. You must know what
they want from you. You must have written down agreement between you and them. Must understand what they need. So most times for me, I don't ask them what they like. I try to know their mentality and how they try and show
love between themselves. I always ask them if they show intimacy or
they're religious. Now that way I tally
what they want, like to ask them if they
want us to also photograph the family members or guests
and add that to the album. You have to know all these
key details about the couple. Couple really want you to just capture them alone
without any guests. They just want me alone. Me and my husband
or me and my wife. They don't really
care about families. So people are so family oriented that they cares much
about their family. You have to capture everybody down to as little
as anybody there. So like they're so
passionate about family, they want everybody captured
or their wedding day. Everybody uncles,
aunties, niece, nephew, everybody
must be captured. That's for them. So knowing
what the couple wants from you generally
key to everyone. Photography service we offer, you have to know what they want. Now for me, I have a short list which I will
include in this lesson, that you can
download and look at this short list and also go through with a couple and
ask them what they need. Can you tell us about yourself, what you like to show you, like to show intimacy in public? Or you'd like to just be
reserved to yourself. Like what do you want us to do for you on your wedding day? And that way you can actually be someone
that would flow in, actually be of help to them to achieve the great
pictures that they want. Like some of them
really have this idea of this baby fairytale
wedding concept. And sometimes it might go wrong on the wedding day due to of seen circumstances and you have to play the role of assisting them and helping
them achieve it. Now if you don't have everything down agreement or written
down idea of what they need, how can you offer
that service to them and make their
dream a reality? Because a great photographer, you are there to help
capture those moments and help create those moments to be memorable for a long time. I always advise photographers
that before you take a job, make sure you have like
a really good agreement. I make sure you have a
really good understanding of what a couple needs from
you on the special day. Remember, it's their
wedding, it's not yours. So always make sure to
ask them what they need. And always make sure you try to achieve what they need
at least 9% of the time to make them happy every time important plans should be happy because they
pay for a service.
8. Preparation and Shot List: This lesson is about
you, preparing your mind and getting yourself
ready for the big day. Now for this lesson, I'm going to tell you
that you need to have a mentality mindset,
preparation mentality. You need to be ready for some things and how you
get these things ready, like getting your short list, getting the couples
preferences and priorities. You need to ask questions. So here you need to know
what the couple want, so you have to ask
them. Now, this is all also the couples
need. Some people are so specific about
flowers and colors, don't to get some
specific things. Now, the only way
you can get to know this is if you have a short
list of what they want. So you can have a short list
and ask them what they want. So you can say,
okay, what do you think you really want to
prioritize on your wedding? You have, you want to
do family pictures. I know some people that are so family oriented
that they want family pictures that
should be in the list. Some pop want pictures
with their grandparents, that's being the list. Also own pictures of my
grandparents. Dub in your list. Pictures with my siblings
being your list. Own pictures of my mom and
dad being in your list. Un pictures with
my close friends. They also be in your list.
You want pictures with coworkers or pole
people from religious outlets. You want that
also in your list. That way you can use
the list to strike out all the potentials your
couple want at their wedding. Remember is their
wedding and not yours. So always make sure you have this short list
with you to guide you. Because if you're just starting, you might not
remember everything. And people can be so
emotional about Ally wedding. Wedding is really
expensive to have all over the world and people are so emotional about wedding. So if I once want to be
captured in my wedding, I want you to capture my cake, to share details of my cake, and I spend the money
in the other cake. I don't have that
picture of the cake. I'll feel not satisfied. I feel discomfort in
me which is not good. So you must make sure you have a short list of things the
couple need. Very important. Please work on a short list. Always make a couple happy and give them the best
experience ever. So oh, your shortlist. And you must now to do is
that you must be ready to get that
genuine emotions. You must be ready
to react quickly to genuine emotions
happening at that scene. Remember, short list
is only there to guide you to get those
shots that they need, the party shots they need. And also, you should
be flexible because sometimes I want to
get other shots, so definitely, please do
get other shots into it. But make sure you get
the couple's shot first, which is very important because
the couple paid you for this wedding and you have to be able to capture
what they need. Then you must know that you have to be ready to capture
genuine emotions, Emotions that go
around the event like a mother looking at the bride
walking down the aisle. Those genuine emotions,
just genuine love, Just genuine feelings of the bridesmaid of the gums mean towards the
coupled to capture it. Now that way you are ready, you have to create yourself. Put yourself in that mood. Put yourself in
that mindset to be able to get all these special
moments for the couple. Like what I do is
that I go online and I look at pictures
to really get in it. I look at pictures of weddings. And I just sat myself into all these ideas and
all these feelings, like I will put
myself in a way that I'm just like in
love. I put myself that love cloud that. I'll make sure that
I just show nothing but pure love show that feeling. I'm always there to help.
I'm always there to assist. Anyway, they want me to assist. I want the couple to have a really amazing and lovely day. Now that way, I'm preparing
myself to be in the same mood the couple is in
paring myself to be in that same reality that they are in that same
dreamland that they are. My mindset is ready, made up. I'm ready to go out there
and show love the way I can. So having a mentality like that would really help you. So
all this mentality mindset helps you to be
better photographer. He puts in a place
that is just amazing. I know a photographer that
before going for a wedding, he watched love movies, he listened to love songs, and he does like, he does look at
romantic pictures. Only now this person sets
himself in that mentality. He wants to capture love. He's someone that shows
love all the weddings. All these pictures are all
about love. Love, love. I know someone that all he does before going for a
wedding is to watch fashion. And one way shows
he doesn't want to show a deta, side of weddings. That's what he does for a
living and he always watch all these fashion one ways,
read fashion magazines, suck himself in this
fashion high life type of pictures and it just
does look amazing. So these are things
that they create their mentality and create themselves set for the wedding, weddings and once in a lifetime. And you have to be ready to create those amazing
pictures anyway. You can remember to always
follow what a couple needs. Get what they want it
take to do your thing. Yes, do your thing but also ask them for the pirates.
I'll pt it shortlist for the lessons that you can download and you
can follow mine. And also if you like it shortly, will be adjustable
whereby you can make amendments to it and make
it suit what you want. So go ahead and have some phone. And remember to always create that mentality and
put yourself in that space whereby
they're ready to just capture those amazing
pictures for the couple.
9. Composition: Rule of Thirds & Leading Lines: Well, in photography,
you need to understand some commsionalrulescmosional
rules can actually help you
now, all of thuds. One rule that is common and
really didn't understand, it's like placing
the couple, Placing the subject in one of the toads. One of the lines there,
not at the middle either. Imagine there's a box and there's a line here lying
here in the line between place couple on one of the lines here on the line
that's rule of thule. Show intimacy, show emotions le, of thought is an amazing
cmosional technique, amazing compositional technique. That is great. A
rule of thought. It is so sweet. It's
really so sweet. So you can have the couple at one of the lines there
and have them look away. You can have the couple
walk towards you. Rule of thought is just
replacing the couple, one of the lines
there inside a box. Rule of thoughts,
really, so easy. It's so easy to do that. You can just find your friend, your family member
and have them stay right there and you
place them one of the lines to making up
that toad in the box. And that's rule of
thoughts. Rule of thoughts, help create those images
that are not just ordinary. It helps you stand apart
in the hand of way. So imagine if you
have a bride walking towards you and you have,
looking at somebody else, can place on one of the toads, like walking down the aisle, you can have the couple
being one of the toads and have other people feel
up there sitting down. Or you can have the car in one of the toads and have
them walk towards the car. Rule of thought is just
about your placing the couple on one of the
lines there in that box. It's as easy as rule of thought. It's not really
complex rule, it's very easy to understand. I make sure you
place the couple, one of the lines there
and you're good to go. Now, leading lines is
all about leading lines. That is, the line leading
your eyes into the picture. It's one really
amazing technique, you should know to do that, you must look for lines. Anything that leads like lead by looking at your
picture, into the picture. So let's say a walkway. So you have a walkquay, You can make someone use the walk quay and you can
lead them into the couple. So leading lines are very amazing like for guarding shots. Also, you can make
those flowers and those three branches
lead to them like parks, you got to any park,
you will see Walk Quiz. Those walk quiz can lead
someone's eye into the couple. Any to lead them, you
can use a straight line. You can use water. Anything that has that
illusion that can make people look at picture
and can take them into the picture,
the leading line. Because the lines lead
them into the picture. Leading lines, it's
not really that common in terms of locations
that have used the lots. I've ad seen leading lines at parks and maybe at the beach, but not really at event
centers or the church, the church sometimes
already have enough leading lines,
but sometimes they do. They have those
church chairs that they can sit on and the couple
can walk down the aisle. If like a V, you can use the
church work and lead the subjects eyes
into the picture so they can see the picture.
And analyze that, okay. Them to see that is leading
line for a hotel lobby. Yeah, lobby can be
also a leading line. They can have that hotel lobby. The hotel walkway
leads straight down to the subject and
make them stand out. Leading line is the
rule that helps you lead anybody look at your
picture into the subject. It's an amazing
rule of composition that you should know to do. It's not as common as
using a rule of thought. Rule of thought you can
get rid of to you can rod of thought
anytime, anywhere. But leading line is not
really that common to see. If you have luxurious locations, you have a lot of leading lines. It's so amazing if you use the staircase
as a leading lines. Anything that leads the subject I into the picture,
the leading line. So find that line and lead people looking at your
pictures into that subject. That's one amazing rule of composition you can
actually achieve. If you find that we
need to do that, please use the lithing
line is so lovely, like when I go to any wedding, I always try to look for will of thoughts and try
to look for lithing line. Like those artists I try to create every anytime I have
opportunity of doing that, I always want to show people the picture and lead
them into the picture. Leading lines, so you can
use walls at leading lines, also called the walls are
by each side and the lead, someone's eyes straight
down to the subject. And leading lines,
it's really powerful. You find a place that can help you achieve that
conventional role. You can achieve those
great pictures. So remember rule of
thought and leading lines. These are two rules that you can easily come across and do. What? Rule of thought
is the easiest of all emission part
rule of thought. So go ahead and
practice the world of toads and use people around you to achieve what is nice and look for
leading lines around you. You could look, go to the
park, put your dog there, and lead people's
eye into your dog, your girlfriend, your
boyfriend, your family members. You can use them
as a subject and practice and make sure you
lead someone's eye into it. Remember, I'm always
here to help you have any problem achieving
what you want to achieve. I'm always here to
help. I'm always here to help you
answer questions. I'm always here to support you. So go ahead and practice
and have some fun.
10. Adding Depth Framing and Reflections: What is framing?
Now, framing means you taking the subject's
eye to the subject. Framing means you taking the
viewer's eye to the subject. Filming means you showing people what you
want them to see. That's filming, filming the
person I'm making people see. This is what I want you
to see for framing. When I said photography, framing to me was placing
everybody in the TV. So when you watch a film, you see everybody right there
in the TV, like in the box. So for me back then, I used
filming to grow myself. So I make, I put everybody
right in the box. So like my idea in my head, put everybody in the box. So I filmed everybody
in that box. Because I want people to
see what I was saying. Like I wasn't that creative. I also wanted you to see what I was saying.
Just see this. I want you to see how
I want you to see it. Framing is a lovely
rule to follow. You can use framing to
show intimacy swimming, to show moment swimming, to pass across a message. So imagine if the bride is
trying to feed the groom, and you put the cake
there in the frame, and the cake is blood
and you're looking at the bride and
groom over here. Now that is framing. Now, framing is just
you showing the viewer. Watch on them to see
the subjects, okay? At. To see this, aren't you to see the kick,
but don't kick. Look at the bride and
gum feeding each other. You want to show a kiss. You can have like a leave in front of you
and you show to the leave. And you show the couple
holding that intimate shot. And also, most of you see that at the couple looking
straight onto the camera. Those are framing.
So those are film shot also. That's framing. Now, framing sometimes get confused with within the frame. Now, frame in the frame
means that there's a frame as another frame inside
that's frame in the frame. So it's like having a frame. Imagine having a window. And outside that window, the couple are there
holding their heads, walking away, or looking at you. That means you have the window,
which is the first frame, and them also in there. That is a frame in the frame. So we have the first
frame here and sc, second frame is them inside
that window that's a from in the frame also an act and
you shoot through the act. And the couple are not under the act, like right on the act, but there outside the arc that's fimiting the frame.
Because you have two frames. They have the arc as
film one and you have the other space between the art and the
couples are there. That's a frame. And the couple are also a frame that's
a fimting the frame. So most times we just
say framing, you know. So we say framing them
some say framing, but I'm like just frame them because if you
have the couple come close to the C and still under the art, that's
the frame already. So the arc is framing them. Now, framing can come
in different ways. You can frame with somebody, can frame with the windows, you can frame with
hallways, framing, you can frame with
street branches, you can frame with anything what met is that you're trying to pull the viewer's
attention to a subject there. That subject is your goal and
that's how you frame you, fame it, so that you
can go to that subject. I want you to see
this, see this? I want you to look
at this and say, oh, oh, I get, You know, it's like someone
holding the dog and it's pulling the
dog and you can see, you can just see the
hand or you can see the leg and you can
not see the dog. You get so that way it means I look at the dog,
not the person. Because you can see
the person's leg and the dog and not the person. So I'm faming the dog with
the leg of the person. So that's how you frame
you also fame with the bouquet film with the pride and the
bridesmaid film with the brighter train. I've seen pictures that have the bride be back and
have the best man, the best lady look at
themselves and Laugh. I've seen pictures of the go maid take champagne and
just laugh and have fun. And I've seen someone
place the bride and groom right in between them and
go for a kiss, you know? So that's about
frame. And famine also can work with mirrors. Mirrors are femine also. And that leads us
to reflections. Now, reflections
means reflections are not only done by mirrors, you can use mirror
for reflection, but you can also
use glass table, anything that reflects
a then people pour water on streets and it reflects reflection
is about you having a duplicate of the mean
image in the same picture. So imagine if in the frame, but this time inside the
frame is a reflection. So that's a reflection down. So you can have reflection through water, reflection
through mirrors. Flexions to any
reflective surface. Flexions are one way of
creating amazing pictures. It's kind of creativity. It's creative phone
for reflection. If you have a very
good phone with a nice reflective surface, you can use the phone and take that low reflection pictures
and have the brighter and go look at themselves
and kiss themselves. So pictures are really
amazing pictures you can really achieve
if you get creativity. These rules for you to go, they're there to guide you. They're not really rules that
set the boundaries for you. These rules are
just there to guide you and keep you in check. You can go ahead and
break the rules. You're allowed to
break the rules and do what you have to
do the best way you can. So remember to always use these rules for
creative pictures. And always put in
mind that you need to at least achieve two to three of these rules at every wedding. That way it becomes
very good for you. Go ahead and practice and try to create reflections with
mirrors, with water, And also try to practice using
what if within the frame, look for a frame and place somebody inside the frame again. Or try to use the window
and frame somebody there. So go ahead and have some fun.
11. Moodboard and Posing the Couple: In this lesson,
we're going to talk about having Pinterest as a platform to store your ideas together in one folder
and also posing. Now in wedding we have
functional posits that have been for
a very long time, since 1980s, and they're still up today called
the Family pleasers. These poses would always
get you that safe shot. Pinterest is there to help you get creative and find ideas. If you're dot
starting photography, it's always hard to bring up ideas to be creative
at your first wedding. It's not really easy because
you've not been there. You know, over time you get
to grow this creativity. And the Jews to perform,
create amazing pictures. But for a start,
you have a guide. And that guide is Pinterest
and foundational poses. So is that I go to
Pinterest and look for poses that I like and
are easy to recreate. I always try to create poses
that are simple for a start. So if you look at
not photography, look for poses that are
simple to recreate. That wouldn't take
a lot of time, a lot of energy, a lot of, a lot of creativity from you at that present
time you are at the wedding because you don't know what's going to
happen next at the wedding. So it's better you
always at save. So I always advise you
go for basic poses and good poses for a stat,
starting ready photography. You don't have to go all out and try to create those poses. That win what we need poses, however we need
photographs for a style. You don't have to do that.
You just have to create that clientele and give
people good pictures. People just want good pictures
for a stat the letter to improve yourself and to create that clientele of your dreams. Then you can go crazy
with your creativity. And I create amazing
stuff out of the world. So interest for me, I go there, look for
easy to recreate poses. That's when I sell photography. And I take all these poses
and put them in the folder. So when I go to an event, I tell myself, I'll try and checklist 20 poses to recreate. Now I know we have people that are against recreating poses, but for me, honestly, as a foundation, I think
you should just recreate poses and try and understand
the at the same time, Do not take away from having
the foundational poses. Functional poses are those
poses that you see every day. You call them the
parents pleaser, whereby you have the couple and the bride face themselves
and look towards the camera. Those pots will
always work the room. Stand behind the bride holder, the bride from her waist
up, look at the camera. Also always work head to head. Look at each other, they
look at the camera. Those pots will always walking down together and
looking at yourself. Look at camera. Those
poses will always work. So according pose, the safe
shot and appearance please, Like these poses will always make up that shot for the frame. Amazing pictures are
gotten over time, like no one does piece of camera and crease that one shot. Okay, you might be lucky
like a lottery hit one shot. But at the same
time, it's really hard to go ahead and just
create those amazing shots. You need to understand
composition, to understand light, you
understand your settings. But the safe shots
and Pinterest is just to help you
remember to just have as little as ten pictures to show the pictures and try to recreate them for a start. I know you are creative. I know it's against your rule. I know. But calm down, Listen, it has worked for a lot of people and it has worked for me. When you're starting out,
you need to have a guide. Anybody swimming will have
a guide for swimming. So that guide is what
you need to have. Always have a guide, so
Pinterest is there to guide you. You will see a document for
this lesson whereby you can download and see those poses and try to recreate them. Also measure your practice
with your family, friends, someone close to you. And just have fun doing it.
12. Indoor and Outdoor Shooting: This lesson is about
shooting indoor and outdoor. Now, indoor means a
place is covered. That's indoor. Outdoor
means and open space. A garden is outdoor,
a hall is indoor, a church is indoor, a park is outdoor, indoor
and outdoor shooting. Now, knowing how to shoot indoor and knowing
how to shoot outdoor is one skill like lane
and not available, for example, at a wedding. In a park or a garden. Fine my financial settings, I use shutter speed of 200. I go to F eight, so
200 outdoor garden. Then from there I ask
myself what I want to do. Remember exposure.
So I tell myself, do I want to blow the background or do I
want to show more depth? That way I can say okay,
un blood the background, I can go to 2.8 and
then that way I'm sure my ISO is down
lowest possible. Then I'm sure my shuttle
speed is high now. Some can go as high as
4,000 shuttle speed, some go 8,000 For me
I can go 8,000 some. Good. So I'll go ahead
and shoot with that. Now you don't have a, can go 8,000 Make sure you
get an end filter. Filter is what you put is a filter put file of your
lens to help you but I use available end filter verb fit very important because you can have one that is just fixed. You don't want that one,
you want the verablere. You can move two
different stops. Make sure you take the one
that can move that give you that long range whereby you can darken it and you can backen it up, that's very important. And get a good one and
get a good one for like $100 or $50 and it's amazing. So that way you might shoot
a shorter speed of 500, 200 and get really exposed. Image curve the aperture. The aperture is a whole
less taking light, So if you're outdoor, I
open your aperture up, it taking a lot of light. And that is not really
that good if you don't know how to balance
your ISO and shuttle speed. So shuttle speed, outdoor, I ate you to go to 200. Aperture eight, ISO
200. Work up from that. For outdoors that settings
work up from that won't lot. Background starts
with aperture of 2.8 or 1.8 depends on
what you want to achieve. Shoot out speed for me. Outdoor garden out paz, every way.
Uthezeveryway outer be. Freeze. Like that's me. I want to have fun
freeze the subject. That's for me, so make sure that my speed is like 200 or above. My S is always low outdoor. My S is like the lowest
possible and I'm good. I don't have any
issue with the Y, so So is last night good too? But I make sure that I work on my aperture and my
shut out speed, depending on what
I want to achieve. That's the main thing there
for me, shooting outdoors. Now for indoors, it's
something as low light you get because you can be
indoor and have low light. Say you might be indoor and have a lot of light coming
into the windows. So that way for me going indoor, I will stay to stay
at the foundation of Show Sp 200 Apacho, like 2.84 The I
also stay at 800. That's foundation settings. Remember you're the creative, you can walk away up from there. Now, these settings
are what I've tried with me and my intents and people that have trained
and that's worked. It's just like give you that
strong foot into the water. Give you that foundation, that confidence to
know that you're ready to take on and do
what you have to do. So that's about
indoor and outdoor. Indoor, it's just saying you're inside and outdoor means
you're staying outside. I remember your states have
to change depending on how you want to
achieve your shot and creativity you have in mind. That's what on to show people. I want people to really see and get from your images stand. So that's what's
important about you. Shoot about indoor and outdoor. Indoor and outdoor
shooting, it's very easy. Remember Phil's easy right now, them cameras all over the world. It's easy right now with
Philphic Easy and it's amazing s. The world is
just endless way right now. So become a good photographer. Remember that indoor
outdoor shooting is just the difference between you staying inside and outside
and you're good to go. You want to have
fun and practice? Please drop me your images
like so I can see them. How we can communicate,
how can talk better. Like I'm so open
to helping people. So go ahead and let
me know where you need assistance with and I'll be so ready to assistance
as soon as possible. I make sure that
you ca your feet, are you creating
unbusy pictures, both indoors and outdoors?
13. The Reception Background and Details: For reception. You always experience low light at
receptions and receptions. We have a lot of details, like the menu and
other things there, that you need to take
pictures of for reception. It depends on if you want
to isolate an image there, you want to take a lovely candle or a lovely detail on the table. You have to isolate
and make it standards. So for exception, I use a wide aperture for
all the details. I make them standard
from each other, and that way I can
create amazing pictures. For exception, I use a 2.8 aperture or 1.8 depending
on what I want to achieve, I use a short spit of 200. My ISO is dependent
on development. Sometimes I go as high as 2000, and I don't use any
flash power at all. I use any flash at a reception. To take reception details, I just go ahead and
have four mitts because you know they're like
static. They're not moving. If it's moving
mactually want you use a closer aperture
whereby you can have details from
fog to background. Like imagine taking a
long line of details like the chairs and you might
want to use like an F four because you want to show depth from the fog
to the background. But if you have just
one tiny details on the table and don't
just take that shot in the rest of it you can
go ahead and just use a 2.8 and you're good enough
for details at reception, I use the 8.8 aperture and I use a 50 MM and
above for details. I love it. Tp MM
is actually good, but not really that nice because a 50 MM is like a mid range
and it's very okay for me. So 50 MM at the reception to
get details, 1.8 is amazing. Now remember one thing, for a reception, you
have backgrounds. Now the backgrounds
may also kill it, or you have to show
the background. So let's imagine I'm trying to take someone at the reception, maybe the couple
and their friends. If I see the background is
not really nice enough, I can underexpose the image
and use light on them to make the whole place
well exposed or I just go ahead and use the
light on the background, powerful of them make them
pop up from the background. It all depends on the
environment because sometimes the background can be
really distracting that you want to
kill the background. And that means that you have to underexpose the
background and you make your light source from the speed light
overshadow what's there. You can make your
speed like bring out a license that can overpower the ambient light And
make your light and make your subject stand out
from the background. It's very important, like
I believe for receptions, if you want to work
with the background, you want to kill the
back, you must ready to andispose the image. And that way it means
they can kill your ISO. Doesn't mean that I
have to equipped. Ses are total for me,
Altro at reception, but in those are at 200 Altro. Then my pacto repairs cause front background to be a
little bit under expose. All I do is use my S to kill the light coming from the background.
That's what I do. I use my to kill that
light because the S is actually what taking light, that's sum sensitive to lights. So I use my S to just
kill those lights and I use my fast power to
just fill up the subject and make them pop up from the background so the background can be under expose
and Max stand out. So the thing is
that for reception if you want to take details
I don't have to stand out, you must have a wide
aperture. That's a fact. If you want to
show more details, you might use like an F four
and you're good or above. But for me, I just love to make the
images just stand out. I love to make things
stand out and I love to show that fall
into shallowness. Also show that follow
up into softness. I don't like to be sharp and finding out
the background for reception like it doesn't
make it look artistic. To me that's my own style. It depends, You might
think otherwise. I just have fun. But it's
very important that you note, you have to use like a
wide aperture to blow out details to make the background
not to be interactive. Sometimes the background
we're actually bringing that lovely feel, the picture that having a fast less that can go like
2.1 0.8 is key, E, 1.4 is key because
that way you can make the subjects front and everybody
subject is really sharp. Imagine the bat and groom
having the keys on like forehead keys and the
background has a love colors. I don't really
show those colors. You could make the background
go a little bit under exposed or expose spend on what you want to
achieve with the picture. So it's always part of
that, you get creative. I just have fun at reception. For reception, my
financial setting is the same thing with indoor. You go to Shape 200, I saw 801,000 Aperture
is 42.8 for details, I go to 2.8 for a start. 1.8 depending on how I want to show that soft follow
from fun to background. That's what I will do now. You can do it any way you feel it's best for you
but just have before Sal knowledge so that they can
use that to build upon and create those ablation shots
as receptions for background. The SO controls how
much brightness so takes in so you can bring
it down or take it up. The SO does that key function, your ISO is your friend. Be ready to adjust
your ISO Aperture affects the sharpness
of fork to background, so you must be able to
adjust your aperture to get either shallow
depth or more depth. And at receptions and taking details at
receptions and backgrounds, it all depends on what
you want to achieve. Blow out backgrounds,
2.81 0.8 you're good. 1.4 you're good, showing more information from
fund to background. And four, if a start is good, I hardly take a 5.6 aperture at receptions,
I hardly do that, except maybe we have
a group of ten, and I'll have to use
enough flash power to make up for that because U, I always love my backgrounds
to not be really so sharp. I don't really like
that. At the same time, if the backgrounds are
really distracting, you can go ahead and kill the So, but you need
more flash power. That's why I always
advised you to have to flash two speed lights. Because speed light means more power than one speed light. I've had the money. You
can get an 8,200 God up 8,200 E 200 was power
compact flash drive. Compact flash. It's amazing,
you have the money. You can buy that and
use that also to bring up the ambit of that place and give that pop or the subject. Make them stand on
the background. If you have the money you
can go ahead and buy. 8208200 is a compact
flash. That is amazing. It's only Watz power and
it's like a speed light. It's compact, it's amazing. Kaiser to 8200 to add more light to the scene
made Bergan Dhaka. So that's in about
the background. Bagger can be bright or dark, bend on your artistic vision and the baker can sometimes
be distracting. And that's where you
need more fast power. They have enough fat
power you can do to speed to light
is good enough. And you can do like a modifier
to put on a mess stand out from the background and make them pop, which
is very important. Remember, imagine the background
and the subject becoming close to one another and it's like they're blending together. That's not really a
good one for a picture. It doesn't make them stand
out, but at the same time, you can get really creative
and just do what you feel is better and what you feel they would love,
what you feel you love. But always get those shots that you can sell to the couple. You cannot just create those amazing pictures that
are magazine worthy. And at the same time
you don't create those pictures that the copy really want to see every day. And you have an issue
with them after a lot of people have
issue with that, that they don't
understand what copy need and you just go ahead
and get creative. A reception member always take a safe shot and get creative. That's also what you
need. Safe shot and creativity makes it perfect
for any couple experience.
14. Capturing the First Dance: This lessons about you capturing the first dance of the
couple, the special day. Now for first dance, I always believe
someone should have two lens or you
have a zoom lens. So I use a 35 85 for first dance because I won't be able to get a white shot and also get a
close up shot of the couple. The expression they love. The couple are trying to
relieve their precious moments, no memories and every
other things happening. And that way you don't want to be interruptive in any way. You want to able to just
get those precious moments and allow them to enjoy
themselves while they dance. I always advise you should have a zoom lens, Emirate zoom lens. Mediate zoom lens like 470. Or you just have interft Em prime lens and
attract M prime lens. Now the lens combinations
are like very important. You have a longer lens
like Se 200 perfect. Have some fun, just
create amazing pictures. You're good to go for first
dance, I use two lights. I use one light to fill the
couple up to make them pop. Then I have other light put
behind them or by the side, depending on how you
get created this. If you're just starting
your photographic career, please please save. You want to just stay at
one of two shutter speed? They stay at F four like
F four is very good. Have a wide lens
lights like 35 MM. I'll stay at F four there
and increase my eyes so to allow me taking
ambient lights and also put like a
flashlight front of them. If I have only one
light, I'm good. If I have one light, just light up on them
from the front or to the cylinder everywhere bright or behind them to get creative. And that way I can create
amazing shot thing. Again, what you
should know is that first dance might have other like fireworks or
other lights coming into play that we should
be ready to reduce your Y. So remember IS takes in light, like ISO makes the sense,
also sensitive to light. So you need to be able
to adjust your ISO. So if you have the couple plan for a firework or maybe the hall
has really amazing lights, they want to create
those stage lights, those spot lights on stage. And that way you must be
ready to work with your ISO. So, if you have a couple
that love fireworks, be ready to work your ISO, Make sure your sets and
your aperture is fixed. Work on your S N.
So for a wide lens, like at five MM or 24 MM, I advise you to just
stay like four. That way if they put in
fireworks and becomes so bright, you can just work on your
ISO only because I've had my intense struggle with things like
that at a wedding, whereby they'll be like
S 1,000 and they'll have their aperture like 2.8 and
she lasted will be like 200. Do not try to quickly adjust the aperture and the
S at the same time. What? Maybe I'm like, no.
How about you just get a foundation for your
ISO and your aperture. So let's say you want to take a first dance and there'll
be fireworks stage. You just put your
aperture on four or 4.5 depending on you
and what are they get. And from that stage
you can just work on your SO the light
comes in and the so is bright 1,000 Immediately I work on my IS I take my SO down
now guess what happened. I don't take my shot speed
and I don't take my aperture. I'll Ted my ISO, so
it's very easy for me to quickly adjust for first
dance. That's very important. And also, if I'm
putting light in, I'm sure that okay, I put this
light in at the settings. All I have to is adjust
my eye and I can adjust the power of the flash I'm putting in to light
up the subject. So for first dance,
it's always good to have a wide angle lens. Let's say a mid range white
lens like a mid range zoom. A mid range zoom
like a photo 70. And a long telephoto lens
like something to 200. Now those two lens are very
important for First Dance. And right now we
have cameras that can DX like they can
crop the sensor again. Now those cameras can
make 50 M go longer, that's 50 m crops
will be 50 times 1.5 0.6 depending on the sensor
and on the camera brand. That way you can get really creative and achieve
amazing shots. Remember, you need to be
ready for the moment. Remember to leave in
the met with them. Remember you're
covering the movement. You're the one in
charge that's want to show those emotions
and search and show those amazing movements
they had between themselves. The couple, the
bran and the groom. I remember you don't get to
carry away because I remember I was at an event one time and they had this amazing song. Come on, I think I think the
artist was Mr. And it was so emotional that I was carried away and I forgot
to click the shot. It was so funny that
they like take the shot. I was like, oh, and the
met was so emotional to me that I could cause I had a by the love story and I was
card with the love story. And I really loved
this couple so much. And I card with them that I had to just share that moment. So remember, you
are yet to work, not to share the
moment with them. Just take those shots and make sure you take the shots well. So remember to have your
settings locked down. Remember, have fireworks work. Your shutter speed, aperture, and your eyes should
come like class. You should be the ones that you actually
move up and down. Not your aperture
and shutter speed. Speed enough. It is good for me. I thought people should.
U 154 first dance. I had we show 154 first dance. But I will not do that
for sure because I don't really want to just
have any blow that image. I want to just have
omstatic images that show emotion and show the
couple in that moment. That's for me. So go ahead and practice using a slow shuttle speed and
a high shuttle speed. I have one move and go ahead and practice using a light
to hit somebody. And go ahead and practice
and use one light to a dependent from the
front to light up someone from the front and
move the light to the side. Also, you can try this with
your friends, your friend. If your friend has a girlfriend, get to our boyfriend, go ahead and try that
and just have fun. Remember, the key is that you're ready to antipate
the moment and you're ready to get that
moment where it is ready to share emotion.
You ready to capture it. Remember you need
immediate Zolan, like 35, 70. I remember that. You need to be attentive. You need to pay attention
to what's happening around you and bet
to also have fun. I remember to always
click those shows that a sailable and make those couples always remember you and
want come back for you. I refer you to other people
also better to have some fun.
15. Basic Editing: Lightroom & Capture One: Welcome to the basic
editing video. Now in this lesson
I'll be taking you to my work flow in
capture one and litrumI also be giving you my capture one style and
litrum pset for you to kick, start your journey in Lit. I won't be going into
details of how to import because those are sympathetic
and they're very easy. But for a quick one, come
over here, click on Inputs. You can go to your folder
and input your pictures into litrm or capture one. It's basically the same thing. You can also go to the
folder here and drag it in. It's basically the same thing. Input your picture into capture one and litros, the same thing. You can drag it in or you can
go to the input over here and litrom two input over
here under the library. Now let me show you how I
get things done in Lytro. Capture one, I starts, I'm going to start
with light room. I'll take you
through my process. I'll be giving you a
free press I created, which I named abbyscolopop. Let's go to abiscolopopd,
the develope. You come here, click on Abby, color up, and you get this. Next thing is that you need
to pick your camera profile. You can see my mouse over here. I'm going to try to
pick my camera profile. Go to Browse, and you go to
go down to Camera Matching. Let's go down to Pa,
this is what I use. Click on it, click on Close. So now I have set my
camera profile to Provia, which is what I use
my Fuji camera also. Now I'm going to try and
adjust the white balance and adjust the exposure
to what I want. One thing I know is
this, is that can use this eye dropper tool and look for a place where
you have similar values. Like look at this, pick a
target tra, look at the, the house starts for red, Green is for green,
B is for blue. Now I'm going to look for
a place where I can get at least a similar
value to them. As I'm moving it, it's
actually changing. So let me see the
similar value. Okay? Now this is good, this is
nice, this is what I get. And I'm going to try
to adjust the colors, basically depends on what you want and depends
on what you want. If you want to be
colorful or less colorful, it all depends on you. Some things that I change
is that I try to work on the exposure s. This is okay. Contrast is okay for me. Highlights okay for me. I'm going to go down to
Situation and Aluminus. Now this place, your HSL is where you
adjust individual colors. Now we'll go to my situation. Click on this here,
I'm going to go up to not all, one after the other. Yes, let's go for
satration first. Click on this T here, click on a Skintone's orange. Let me just quote. You can see now for the orange, say 12, There's -12 For
satration of the orange. The skin, I think
-12 is good enough. Stay right there. -12
This is good right now, I think I'm good basically. Just try to adjust
some other things. Let's say the
blacks if possible. Because it's bit good
contrast. Okay, good. Yeah, so this is basically
what you would get, you see before on my
left, after my right Now, this is what you would get with my electron facet. I remember. Please go ahead and adjust it to what you
want and make it yours. And that you must
understand is that I'm using a Fuji camera, isn't a Canon, or an icon, or a Sony may actually
be different from this, but it's giving you a
foundation for you to move up while you're
editing your pictures. Remember you have to
adjust the right balance. Come over here, adjust your HSL. Adjust your curve,
your tone calls. You can make it a
little bit brighter, a little bit darker. You're good to go.
Skillshare has amazing videos on understanding
lightroom as a whole. Don't forget to
go ahead and look for a video skillshare that will tell you more about
light rum like in depth understanding
of lightroom. Let's go ahead, I'm going to get here like this, I'm good. I can copy this settings the next picture by
clicking on this picture, which is and clicking on now pus would copy the settings for
me in the next picture. And I can just
adjust what I want. Stop right, just exposure. I'm good. So right now if it's too warm
that's has skinton, I can walk on the right
balance a little bit. Make it a little bit
good. Now, this is good. If you look at this, this
is actually very nice. So I'm good now, this is before,
and this is after. You can see that just
lead to adjustment. Now the next picture, also click on it and I'll click on Fibs. This is why I get
now, it's too blue. I can just walk on
the right balance, make it a little bit warm, expose a little bit, just my
highlights, just my white. Then I can go in and
adjust the skin tone. It's too warm for me.
I can adjust that. Now, this is more like, This is before this. After now I'm sticking the
white load, let's see. Okay. Yes, this is
actually amazing. This is the after of
what we have gotten. Now, something you
can actually adjust. You can come over here, look for your linear gradient. Can displace here. I'm going to drag it from here, down, up, then work on the exposure.
This is actually nice. Yes, you can also resize
it coming over here, this to crypto and
resize your image. Remember, this is a quick demo. You can actually go ahead
and play some more with it and look for ways
make your pictures pop. You can come right here and
pick things that you want. You can add, I'm
using the Ltrum, I'm using the latest
litrum and have some AI features in it,
which is very good. You can select people, subjects, sky, and background, but if you don't have the
latest litrum version, you can also get the same tools in any litrum version and
make it work for you. This is litrum for you and litrum is amazing
for capture one. It's actually the
same thing as litrum. This capture one is an amazing software for converting your raw files
to peg or to files. Also, it all depends on you. For capture one, I'm giving you my styles. You
come right here. You can import it,
come here on styles and import your styles
from the supplicate and input I'm giving you
my capture one cells pop up and you can use it to build your foundation or build your
own styles from using mine. This also help you kick, start your editing
experience in capture one as you can see right now but one click,
it's looking good. Remember I use the Fuji camera, so other cameras might
have a shift in colors. And other me to adjust it, it's actually the same
thing as light room. The capture one has some amazing
things you need to know. So let's go quickly through it. Come over here, go to adjust it. Look a bit bluish. Remember I picked
the eye dropper to also look for a place
that has similar value. I look up here
where the mouse is. You would see the values
you can see here, You can see the values there. I'm going look for a similar
value that can walk. As you can see, this
is too reddish. I don't want this look, I
can't walk, I don't like this. I'm going to try to
adjust it manually. Okay. Okay. Okay. This
is just a little bit. Yes, this is good for me. The highlight to go a little
bit of a white outfit. Remember you can always adjust
it to suit what you want. This, I'm working on the
Kelvin and the tint for the white balance
is the same thing with can see right here. Um, also has it. You can see the
temperature and tint. It's the same thing. Let's
come by the capture one back now we go to look for
a way to just haskinton. We'll go down here to Skinton. Click on the eye dropper. Click on Skinton. As you can see this night
expand a little bit. Okay, that's what I do remember. This is how I edit the little videos on Skillshare that takes you in depth
into capture one. So go ahead and
have fun with them. Go ahead and watch those videos. You won't have an in
depth knowledge into capture one right now. I think I'm good.
As you can see, this is the before,
this is the after. I think I'm good with
this and I'll move on. Next one is this one down here. I can copy my adjustment from one image on that
image by going up here. Click on Copy, click
on Next image, and click on Apply. As you can see here, it
looks a little bit white. I were just the exposure
a little bit down. I come right here to
the levels eliza bit, then just work it out. Contrast a little bit. Highlight is good,
put some blacks in. Okay, this actually good. Now for the hair,
if it's too dark, you can actually add
an adjustment layer and paint the hair
back with a brush. Remember this, how I work, just a quick introduction
into capture one. Then you can go ahead
and stick on your brush to over here and paint on the hair just to bring
back that details saying, okay, I think this is
a little bit good. Look before and after. Before, after, okay. Effect. No way that much because the hair
is actually dark. This is one way of doing
it. Can actually use the, the linear gradento. Also draw it over
here and adjust it, but it all depends on what you want. Speak
it a little bit. Yeah, this is actually
good right now. I'll just, I'll come
back to the background. Click on the background here, I'll let me see what can I do. The background. This is good. Shadows, okay. This is good right
here. And you can go ahead and adjust other
things you want to. This is just how I work for
me. This is fair enough. I'm good to go and I'll, I'll put it into Photoshop and do some busy
skin retouching. And show you what I do
for my skin and make it look a little bit polished before giving it to the client. Right now I'm done. The same thing too. You can
actually copy from this. Click on Copy, go down
and click on Apply. Yes, the same thing here. You can just increase the
levels a little bit from here. This is the highlight
Bright. This is the shadows. Right here is the
mid. Some good. Right now remember Cape has one amazing thing and
you can work on the Kintun. Litum also has that lie. Tum has the AI ability. Come right here,
Click on People. Litum has that ability
to select the outfit. To select the face, the body is just amazing. Now, this is not an
index class into lltrum. This is just how I work. Let's continue with capture one. Right now, I'm good. And I will export the pictures. I use my pictures
as T files because I work most of my
portraits in Photoshop. You can export it as a Jpeg file if you want to. It
all depends on you. For me, I have to use the T file because it
retains that quality. And I also work in system
bit, not eight bit. Remember I use a fast system. So if you have a fast
system, have a fast system, you can go ahead and edit and export your file in eight bit. Right here. I'll come
right here. Export button. Here I click on
this, your folder, You choose a folder, you can put the file
name if you want to. Here I use the file and system, also use the eight
bit if you have a slow system and that
would help you out. This is my settings here, but I use and I export it. Click on Export, and there's it. Let me show you
what I'll do if I need a class of pictures from this
series. Come over here. I'll click on five. Now this out a
little bit bluish. I'll put a little bit of warm into it, take away the blue. Okay, now this is good. Now this is really good. Click on five just to read it out for me to select
just these pictures. And I come down here,
click on this copy, click on the next image, That's good, and click on Apply. This is actually good exposure should go down a little bit. This adjustment layer
here was copy from the other picture
and I will just put it off or delete
it. I think I like it. It's nice Reduce the past to 50% Let me use the pasty
to 50% and this 50% Okay, nice Press five to read
it into five star, this also 55 star. I come right here
to the library. I click on this and it
shows me only my selection. Now this same thing applies to Ltrum're, actually the same. One thing I think
is Fuji files work better on capture one
than Ltrum as man. Personal experience,
that's what I feel. But people using light
for Fuji cameras all depends on you remember
use a software, you are the creative
director and you decide what goes
in and what goes out. The nesting is, I'll go
to export. On export. And export this. Come here, choose the folder. This is we. I'm good too. So let me go to the folder I already opened for
this from here. Or files go to be
touching pictures. Let's call this capture 11 exports for edits just for the command A to highlight everything
I've selected. Also for Windows control, that is like copy and paste. The same thing,
copy and pasting. But this one is
control, my command, because I use a Mac command for me to highlight everything. I'll go to the Export
and make sure that I file Sam bit for me
and click on Export. Remember, I've actually
choose my folder and to export it into that
folder, for me it is. Same thing too with
Ltrc right here to Ltr. You can give it a starting, like 55 starting and
come over here to the, we've done this five starting. This five starting. This also put in five starting. You come overight here, click on Five Star to show you just
the five stars you have. Now this five star
rating is actually good, or you can rate it one star, two stars all depends on you. For me, anyone that works
best for you is good. I ate it. Five stars. That's picture. I want to go
ahead and do a little bit of skin retouching because I can't retouch all the whole pictures. So command, so I light
all you go to file, you go to export. It's the same thing
to select your folder and also you can customize the name like capture
one file for me, steam bits and you're
good member color spaces, LGB for me, which is
actually very nice. That's works for me a lot. So I'll stick with that
color space and you export. So you're actually
goes that way. Now this is what I do in
capture one and light thrum. As you can see the 50
sets are there and the fiscal go ahead work with it and adjust it to
suit to what you want. Yes. So that's amazing thing about capture one and light rum.
16. Photoshop Retouching, Color Correction and Balance: In this lesson, I'll take you through my process of
a touching portrait. Now the first note is
that you can open up an image by going
to file and open, but for me I fairly short cut. So I'll go to my finder. It's a folder here, I call pictures test files. So you can go here and
get this files to work with it and follow along with
me for this first image. Click Open Photo. Good. The first. Nowadays I'll try to remove any blemish I might not
want in the picture. But for this model, I think she's perfectly fine. Maybe here, there just a few. I'm good at this. The
next is that I'll try and work on has King now Flying, which is an online
platform for Lenin has a free action for fregacy
separation you can use. Now I'm going to attach the link in the folder for you to view. Now there's a link. You can download it and use
it. I use the lot. It is free. I also have
the action that I bought. But this one is free
and it works very well. Some come over here f go to Fregacy separation
system bit. Cause the images of system bit. Next that I'm going
to play it so with the plate continue now
I'm going to go to skin. I'm going to try to
select ididals that would not show her skin texture. Let's say seven is good enough. I'll click on. Okay, continue. If I click on this,
here the group, we have the LF and the HF. The LF is for color. Hf is for texture. Now that's what she
put in my LFHFextuow', smoothing out the color. Come to LF. I'm going to go
to my lasso two over here. Select this and select
this part of her skin. Go to far, go to
blow, blow seven. Okay, command D or
contradict to the select as you can see right here like it's trying to blend the
colors in which is nice. It's a quick one. Next part here, you can always take your time
to adjust it out before me. I want to be so fast, so I can just move on
to other pictures. Come over here,
I'm applying blow to those areas for the skinton. Do it for the next part. Also, select here,
select the skin. Now for this part here, I'll do a general
selection for it. So select over here. Now make sure you are here. The plus sign. Add more select. Now remember, this is just a quick one on how to go around, how quickly your skin, you can spend more time
being precise about your selections so fast. This is good enough
for me, I'm good. The next thing is that I'm
going to look at other areas. I can just think for now. The next thing
I'll do is work on the mix up brush.
I'll come right here. My mixer brush, my mix
up brush right here. Now for Photoshop that I'm
using my Mi bush over here. But sometimes you can find
around this axis here. So it all depends on the
Photoshop you're using, that's the function of
Photoshop you're using. Come right here, I'm going to Mi Bush make sure you're on F, which is the color. Now this is over here. That's my wet load mix flow. Just copy my, and
you're good to go. This is over here. Come here, make sure this is clicked and you're 30% weight, 10% load, 30% mix, and 10% flow. Now I'm going to try to mix, but be careful not to overdo
it. Just do it gently. Now I've done the mix up brush
that's mixed a little bit. Just try to mix the colors together to have an
even flow of colors. You can see this is
this is after now. This is good enough. I
think I'm good with this. In this out this,
I'll try to widen up the ice ways of doing it. You can just come right here. Colors. Increase this up. Control or command. Invert it before brush
go down to the eyes. Maybe a little bit white. Okay, so that's good enough. You want it to be
more white like he can just increase a little
bit is fair enough. At the same time, add the situation if it has
a little bit of red in the eyes and go come
down to huge situation, just hold on the
option out middle, lock it in this way. Remember option for
mark out for Windows. Click it in to lock
it in like this. It's inside already. This way you can actually
reduce the red in the eyes or any color you don't want. Just come right here. See the hand right
here? Pick it. Click on the eyes, remove it. Okay. So this is fair enough. You can see. Yeah.
So this is good. If it's too bright, you can
always come here and reduce it a little bit. Okay. That's how you
righting up the ice. Just have fun doing it. At the same time, you could get actions that already
exist on wighting up ice, which are it faster
member actions. I use a lot that I bought, but at the same time,
if you are a budget, you can just do it
yourself and later purchase other actions
to make it work faster. Right now, I think I'm
good. The eyes are good. Good right now. All depends. If you want to go ahead
and do more smoothening, you can come right here to HF, use the Close Term
tool and try to remove textures. It
all depends on you. Let me share example just like just come
over here and say, this all depends on you, on what you want to achieve. Sometimes for me, I like to
leave it a little bit cool. Sometimes I go extreme. It all depends on my mood and what I feel the
image can portray. Now, for skin tone, which is probably
also color balancing, you can do it in different
ways, but for me, I come over here, got
the color balance. I look at her skin, I have a
little bit of red on this, so I want to work on my maton. Take up a little bit.
Okay, so minus ten. This is good from here. Yeah, so let me see. I think I'm good with this. As you can see before
before, after now. I have the model skin look a little bit good
where I want it to be. It all depends on
your artistic vision and the way you want
your image to look like. Both forming is good enough. If you want to go ahead
and play out with it, please go ahead and play
out with the shadows. The highlights and mittens
all depends on what you want. What I can do is I can
come over here and go to selective color and
work with the reds, because she has
reds on her skin. So you can come here, just
adjust all the paints, almost the same
thing, to just play. Tate, I see what you like. I think this is good enough. And let me share
how it looks like, this slate of color. This is balance. That's how you can
balance your skin tone. Remember you're the one
who's going to determine what you want and what it
will be for me this way. I'm good and I'll
do the next image. But what you can
do again is this. Now let's copy imagery on the
Marks command shift option. That's a copy match on the
Windows, it will be different. So the thing now is for me
have a plugging that I use. Now this plug is a
little bit expensive, like 100.5060 use. It's a little bit expensive. It pays on your budget. You can buy it, and it
actually does really well. Now, Dodger bone
are of two types. We have the globo bone, we have the codogeon bone. Now bad bone means that it's like an overall
dog bone of the image. I'll show you how I do that. And we have Mcodogon bone. Now there's a plugging
called Geon Bone by touch. For me it's a little
bit expensive. Like $150.01 $80 depending on the time you get
your plugin from them. Come over here, go
to touch for me, Geon Bone going to
load like this. This blogging actually
helps with codojambone. I'll show you how it does it,
so it's loading right now. I'm going to select Select Auto. But I'll select this because
like half length portrait. Click on this. Here. Yeah,
here, half length portrait. Click on it. Come over
here, take it to 150. I'll show you how
I work with it. Take on 50, and I'm
going to click on Apply. Let me show you how it looks
like. This is right here. This is a, as you can
see, it's really nice. Now, look at this, take it away, Look at this. Amazing. Now I'll show you
how I do the bond. That's why you come
over here. Go to caves. Create one cave to be a
little bit like this. Command control, I
call this one B. Come over here. Caves
also take, take one up. Take this one up. Yes,
go command dodge. Now I want to do what is
called dodge and bone. Come over here to flow
five in this place. Here, here, here, here, here. A little bit of this place too. Dodge here, the nose here, here, also the chain. Okay? She can see just subtle changes. That's how you do it. Then also for the hand, the
leg can do that. Also come right here in here. For the hands, come over here, duck in this place, come
to dodge the middle. Give you some light. Right
here, give me some light too. Okay, we're good. This is how I edit my images. This is before this process, I use editing my image. And I'm going to go right now, I'm going to go add a little bit of levels,
you can do that. Come right here. This
is good at zero, I'm good, this is the before. This is the after.
As you can see, we did a little bit
of suppression, a little bit of curves
of the eye color balance and selective color. Then I use retouch for me
plugging to just even out. And also I also did Globo B and add a bit of
levels. These are my process. Remember it's Photoshop, your creative director,
do what works for you. Please remove what
doesn't work for you. Remember, nobody has a
totality way of touching. We just have ways that we
touch and works for us. My touching flow might not actually work for you very well, but at the same
time you can have something we can take from
my and add just into it. A member skull has a lot of
ital videos on the platform. Please go ahead and watch it and this does my
style of editing. I'll look the next image and
we'll look at it. Thank you. So now let's get
the next image and look at what we can
do. We're right here. Click on this. Open it up. Yes, this is good.
This is really nice. This image, we have a lot of
warm tones in this image. Let's see how we can
balance it up quickly. For this image won't
come to color balance. Color balance can
see right here. Yes. Now look at the goal. I want to white on it. Come bit here, blue. Let's say this is okay. So this is good.
Let's say before. After now, I've taken away that warm tones away
from the image. Was looking for it better. Right here you can go to levels, but right now I'm not sure
what I'm going to do. I'm going to try to
ducking up the background. Come right here to cave bag
down command before brush. This should be like five. That's your flow. Five, there's paint on this member over here, phase D, X to change it. Now if this is black, this a white here
needs to be white. Remember D to change it. X to switch between
black and white. If this is black,
this has to be white. Painting on just to
kill the colors. Just to kill the highlight. I'm painting on
the cout, please. I'm painting on it just
to kill the highlights. Make it a little bit
darker before after. See, that's what I'm
doing right now. Okay, good. Before
after now on her. I'm going to try to add
some levels on her. Come right here on levels. Click on it. Yes.
I'm going to press command on this command
paint. I'll paint on her now. This is this is after
I just moved it from this warm film because I had
a video light coming from the top of her to this. I will edit my image. From here, I do the
normal figure separation, mating of eyes and
bone if possible. And I'm going to go right here. This is how you
can get the image. One thing you can do
again is that you can add a little bit
of effect into it. So you copy command option shift for a Windows I think it
is cultural option shift. The next, I'm going to
try to come right here, Blow, blow, this is over here. Now here you can add a
little effect to it. You can click on I'm
using the mark right now, it might be different
from yours. You hold option on the Mac. You can drag all these points down and help you with
the blow I'm holding option right now and move
this holding option. The circles around can move the circles
around holding option, we can look at it, pick it
this way, pick it up this way. A little bit of
this. 25 click on. Okay. Now this is here. We have the blood
out background here. As you can see the effect, it gives it a little
bit of dreaming effect. Blood out background,
this is before. After we're close to it, he blow out areas, blow out areas of the
image, really amazing. Blow gives the image a little
bit of blow at areas you want it to be blowed out of
Jimmy effect. It's amazing. So this is before, this
is after a good to go. So this is how I edit my
portraits in Photoshop. Go ahead package and remember of which you can actually
editor Photoshop. There's no one way all about you being fative and having fun doing so go
ahead and have fun. I touch images, you can.
17. Delivering the Photos: Live Photo Two plans is one big deal in the industry right now
all over the world. And some people actually
pick Google Drive and some pick pick the set
over Google Drive. Now for me, photos, digital copies of photos. I use Google Drive and Piz Set. Once in a while, no Petset has a monthly plan of
like $8 monthly. After a month I think it's going or use the
version where you have just five pilot byte
kinds can see and that's all T St has an amazing U I, UX has an amazing interface. Lovely whereby you
can slide through, you can download, you can
click the one you like. It's just amazing. Pitt is amazing, but Fresno's
photography. As a beginner, I at you
to go with Google Drive. Now Google Drive
gives you 15 gig. And 15 gig is a lot. So that way you
can plot pictures in the folder and Google Drive and save it for the couple. And they can access the folder
for as long as possible. How you want to do
it starting out, we want to give them
data copies for approximately like one
month or three months. But I'll say give them
like three months because three months kind
of wide enough, like it's enough time
for them to go ahead and view the picture and
download the pictures. They might not have the
most amazing interface to view pictures.
Yes, it's very funny. Google Drive might not have
that, but it's actually free. 15 gig is free. Like, I don't know what you
want to gain. 15 gig is free. You have the money to pizz
sets and just have fun. You have the money. It's
amazing more than Google Drive. A Google Drive is
the platform I use to share my pictures
with my couple, and I keep it on the platform
for approximately one year. I do one year hosting for all my clients,
one year for them. And after that I take it down. So that gives them
that Levy to do that, the pictures that see it. Me. Then also I do give out a flash drive or a paint
drive to my couples. I give it to them so they
can have their pictures and around how they want
to, it's all theirs. Then also what I do is that I give them a photo
book if they want to. Now, photo book is relative. Some people just want desat
copies and they're good. People want had
copies like prints. You can do frames, you
can do small postcards, can do photo books. It all depends on what
the couple needs. Remember that the couple
needs, what do they need. That way you know how to charge them and what to
deliver to them. And also photo books
have different types. We have the types that
look like a magazine or the popular magazine
like Vogue Magazine. They are very soft and thin. I the type that looks
like cardboard, so strong and
heavy, and extense, You know, these photo books are just different types,
they are just amazing. A lot of photo books exists
in the world right now, so it all depends on what
the couple needs from you that you will
determine what to deliver. And sometimes it's
really good for you to make them have an idea
of photobook design. And photobook product denies
the outcome before they pick because I had a client once complain to me about a
photo book I did for her. She, she search one of the photo because it looks so
luxurious on paper. And they told me that it looked like a high school college, US high school college magazine. It was really that funny. She she didn't really like it. I told he said this is what you pick. Said well,
you didn't show me. You didn't really make
me feel how it was. I was like you told me,
this is what you once said. Yes. But, you know, plans, they're amazing.
That's all we can see. It's always better that you make them understand what
they're going to get from you in
terms of delivery. Like are they
getting photo books, are they getting films? Always make sure you
give this to them. And always make
sure that these are soft copies are backed up. Please back up. Soft copies
like it's important. So for me, upon giving them
the pain drive the hotel for a year gives me
that leverage to know that out picture
is backed up somewhere. Now, some people also offer extra fees for backing up for a longer time. Yes,
some people do. But remember, it all depends
on your client's experience. What you want to get from me. It's like Apple and Samsung
and other type of phones, what you get from
them use an Mac. But at the same time,
some people really prefer an SR and other type
of brand like HPDl. That's just people
what they want. I can't tell them, that's not good enough,
that's what they want. I have to get them
what they want. Let me show you a quick
demonstration of how I use or how to
use Google Photos, Google Drive and
Pizzas right here. This is the interface
of Google Photos. So the Google Photos here, here, come over right here,
have a similar account. Click on this icon here, you will see Google
Drive and Google Photos. The Google Photos right here. Come over here to create album. Let's name this skill. One, Add photos,
select from Computer, Select the pictures you want. Open Neon, is that you
go to the Share icon, click on it, Create Link. Copy the link and can send
this link to anybody. Let's imagine this
Datafase for the couple. Put the link here, Enter. They will see this right away. They click on this, it opens. This is the slide
show to view album. Go to the cloud icon. Now this cloud icon
can allow your couple save this album into
their own Google Photos. That means you don't
have to download it, but they can just see it right away and it gets stored up. Click, Save Photos,
they are going to go. I always tell your couple or your clients to click
on the Cloud icon. I make sure that they save this album eight of
their on Google photos. When you deleted from your
own end, they are saved. They have the stored on Google photos and
they always assess it anytime and it's there except they deleted off
their on Google photos. You go back to my
own platform here. If I delete this
from my side here, delete album, it's gone. But over their own side, they still have
this Google photos. You can see it right
here. It's here. They still have assets. They always view the
pictures anytime that they want to, and it's saved. That's a good thing
about Google Photos. Now, let me show
you Google Drive. Come over here, click
on it, go to Drive. Click on Drive, you can
create in your folder. This skill, this is skill. Open it up here, goes right click File upload. Click on your files open,
you can send the link. After it's done uploading,
click down here, she click on it. Make sure you always
allow anyone with a link when it comes to general access and
click on Copy Link. That means you can share
this link to anybody. But the good thing is that
good photos actually has a better viewing experience
than Google Drive. I like to use good photos. Good photos is now
really more advanced, but back I use a lot
of Google Drive, but right now I'm
using Google Photos. This is pits. Rest out your
email account as limit skill. So create. Okay, move right here to Klein Gallery in collection. You can create a new
collection here. Get started. Just a sample. You can customize it and peerview, this
is what you get. Okay, so I think we're good. Customize. Skip,
sorry. Looks like. Let's go back to the
gallery right here. Create a new collection.
Create new collection. Let's name it Skill
Click on Create. I'm using a free plan right now. I actually differ between paying for a package and where you
actually use the free plan. Click on Select
Photos from Composer. Select your photos open. It's loading, so wait why finish loading. Now you're done. Publish, we are good. Click right here,
get direct link, click on it, copy the link. Now this download pin is for you to be able to download the
pictures from the gallery, but you can actually remove it, copy the download settings
and just take it off. Just turn it off. I confirm. The good thing about
the pin is that they can download the pictures
except to give them the pin, it to just view a picture without
actually downloading it. Then I can put the
paint there but download the pictures
for download Pain. This is what you get for
using the free package now head be limited
to just 3,600 pixels. That's all for the paid plan. If you upgrade, you actually
download the original. That means can download the
real quality the way it is. It's ten per picture
or five per picture. You can download
it the way it is, but for now limited
only 3,600 pixels. Now that's a bad
thing about pixels. You have to pay to enjoy
the benefit of it. Come right here. Share
and you're good to go. This link copy pieces anywhere. And this is the photo
gallery right here. They can from here. Good photos gives
that extra advantage that we just save it
directly to your own photos. The client has a
similar account, that's wonderful
that you just save. Pick the setting, download first and then we upload minority. That good right now, it depends on what I want to do. I prefer Google photos. Any time I would advise
my couple to always get a mil account so they can just download it straight
up, legitimate account. When I let from my own
end, it's still with them. But for pieces set, if it goes off from your own end here, deleted from your own hand here, they can't really view it
anymore. So it's gone. That's about it. So remember to always use what
works for you. For me right now with the plans Google
have and pizza sets. I'll go for Google and make sure that when I delete
from my own end, the client is still safe
except the delete form their own end or they can't log into their email
account anymore. So for me, I'm good, and that's
how I deliver my photos, Google Drive pizze sets
and Google Photos. So for delivering soft copies, check out Piz St
and Google Drive. Just look at it and see the
one that works best for you. And pick the one that
you feel to give you that platform to actually deliver what you want
to your clients. Now, Pizz set is amazing. Nola, keep saying
Piz set is amazing. This and other for them,
but they are amazing. Google Drive is also amazing. If you're starting up and you
don't have a lot of money, please use Google Drive
and save yourself the cost of $7 or
$8 every month. You don't need to pay
that. And every month, over time, it's
always expensive. So knowing the difference between pizza set and Google
Drive and what they can do, you can go ahead and visit
the website and see what they offer and look at it if you really
love it or you don't. It all depends on you that
we also remember that print out should be calculated like should be calculated
into your expenses, like into your package, or it can be a
start loan package. Printers can be a stand lo
packagehereby charge for it separately, different
from subtcopies. That way prices of
modity goes up. You're generally locked up with the price you are
able to charge, present rate for it
and print for them. And you don't have to lose
your money doing that. I think that you can
also charge them some more money ahead
of it to indicate inflation heats and it
goes above what you have by what you have
read in your package. So it's better for
you to just make sure you are safe than sorry. Remember, always
back up your files online and also your
SSD or your HDD. Please just please save. Remember the couple's
needs is most important of all.
I'm bet to have fun.
18. Conclusion: We have come the concluding
part of this amazing class. Photography is all
about practicing. As we see, practice
makes you better. Now, photography is all
about taking pictures, It's also about the business. The business side can be
bit hard and that's why I always advise people
that if you're not going to business to get
someone to help you out. You can outsource someone
that's reg business to help you grow your brand and you can actually do that and make money. This class is going to give you an overview of when photography and how to go about taking amazing pictures and
to grow your brand. So go ahead and have fun
and keep practicing.
Olusola Abisagbo, Professional Photographer and Educator
