Hi Martin. Your content is very good and useful. I just wish you would light yourself better. I love the dark and moody myself but not when I’m watching an instructional video. I keep trying to brighten my screen or wonder if my eyes is getting a lot worse. Just a thought.
Hi Martin. This is a timely subject. I sold my film cameras many, many moons ago, and after that, photos were done on phones. However, a few months ago, after using a friends camera for a few weeks I got a camera again. I do out and about pictures and table top still life using light from bay windows of my home. I will add portraits in due course and am making plans in advance, as I did with the still life images, and will take what you said on board. I find myself, as you do with your 5D Classic, just sitting and clicking the shutter for 'that' sound fix :-) Have a good start to the week.
Hi Martin, love your Videos but would love to have them available as a podcast. Any chance you could upload them and make available for Apple? I think its free!
Thanks for all your good advice, not only on this subject but also in general. I appreciate your vision on photography that really teaches you something, without commercial stuff.
Can't wait to give these ideas a go! Not only have I got a d810 on the way, I even bought my 1st camera again (f60) and threw some b&w film in it, spent last weekend getting ye ol d70 covered in rain, sand and the odd wave for hours.. thanks for rekindling my love of photography
What I enjoy here is the fact you have the quality work to back up your opinions on camera performance. I recently changed up my gear and am now shooting with a D810 and a Z6 version one. I thought the Z6 was going to be a personal, take everywhere back up to the D810 but the image quality of the Z6 is surprisingly holding its own being more compact modernized body. Any thoughts?
Well, the d810 is 10 years old, I would expect any modern camera hold its own really but one thing we see is that the sensor technology hasnt moved on very much over that time period.
A while back I watched a few videos on posing (not yours) and thought okay I will try this out and I did and just couldn't get it right. In that case it was a friend who knows nothing of posing and me being photographer just wanting to practice. Eventually I just put my phone away and just used the surroundings and tried to work with that and got some good results. Some very good tips in your video. I think you will agree with me that lots of practice helps with this a lot. For me at least, I will look at a picture and like wow, that is a good picture, but the persons pose or so doesn't stay in my mind haha. So maybe I need to look at the pictures in a different way or find pictures that I can understand.
for sure, its about practice, i think looking at poses and other shots helps but its probably better to give this to the model than for you to look at. really i want the model to to get into a mood/vibe, i dont pose my models much but i just guide them.
@@MartinCastein hey that is a very good tip. Once the model understands the feel the photographer is going for and gets in that mood, sometimes the poses come by itself. Or the mood creates the poses I guess. Thanks. I will try to work with this tip for sure
@@Mikey1421985 yeah its like, if i hire someone to decorate my house if i show them a load of pictures that are all the same style and strongly express what i want, its much easier than me walking around and pointing at stuff and saying i want this white and this be brown etc. A lot of it is always just communication all the time :) all the best
@@MartinCastein thanks. Nice illustration. Keep pushing out those videos, I will keep watching and using your tips to learn. I think I found your videos when I was looking up things about the Canon 5D classic. I have that camera and really grew a lot just using that camera and Canon 50mm f1.8 STM lens. I also have a Canon Rebel T5 and beginning of this year I was able to buy a Canon 5D mark iii. And last Saturday I got my Canon 24-70 f2.8 and am playing around with that lens now, getting the feel of it and calibrating that autofocus but I think I have it about right. I have to take pictures Friday and Sunday so I think I will use that lens at least some of the time on both days.
Hi Martin. Your content is very good and useful. I just wish you would light yourself better. I love the dark and moody myself but not when I’m watching an instructional video. I keep trying to brighten my screen or wonder if my eyes is getting a lot worse. Just a thought.
Hi Martin. This is a timely subject. I sold my film cameras many, many moons ago, and after that, photos were done on phones. However, a few months ago, after using a friends camera for a few weeks I got a camera again. I do out and about pictures and table top still life using light from bay windows of my home. I will add portraits in due course and am making plans in advance, as I did with the still life images, and will take what you said on board. I find myself, as you do with your 5D Classic, just sitting and clicking the shutter for 'that' sound fix :-) Have a good start to the week.
Hi Martin, love your Videos but would love to have them available as a podcast. Any chance you could upload them and make available for Apple? I think its free!
Great video Martin and excellent advice.
Another excellent video Martin! You really explained a lot of intricate details here.
Thanks for all your good advice, not only on this subject but also in general. I appreciate your vision on photography that really teaches you something, without commercial stuff.
thank you!
Can't wait to give these ideas a go! Not only have I got a d810 on the way, I even bought my 1st camera again (f60) and threw some b&w film in it, spent last weekend getting ye ol d70 covered in rain, sand and the odd wave for hours.. thanks for rekindling my love of photography
You are going to fall in love with the RAW files produced by the Nikon D810! I promise
@@infinityfabric thanks man!
I would love to see a photographer show up in a yellow chicken suite hahahaha, that would really be funny. Talk about standing out haha
hahahha yes go on you know you want to!
@@MartinCastein well I don't have a chicken suit but it would be realy funny haha
Awesome video, thank you
What I enjoy here is the fact you have the quality work to back up your opinions on camera performance. I recently changed up my gear and am now shooting with a D810 and a Z6 version one. I thought the Z6 was going to be a personal, take everywhere back up to the D810 but the image quality of the Z6 is surprisingly holding its own being more compact modernized body. Any thoughts?
Well, the d810 is 10 years old, I would expect any modern camera hold its own really but one thing we see is that the sensor technology hasnt moved on very much over that time period.
Hope you will offer courses in portrait photography!
i have 2 editing courses on my website that will become full courses later www.martincastein.com
A while back I watched a few videos on posing (not yours) and thought okay I will try this out and I did and just couldn't get it right. In that case it was a friend who knows nothing of posing and me being photographer just wanting to practice. Eventually I just put my phone away and just used the surroundings and tried to work with that and got some good results. Some very good tips in your video. I think you will agree with me that lots of practice helps with this a lot. For me at least, I will look at a picture and like wow, that is a good picture, but the persons pose or so doesn't stay in my mind haha. So maybe I need to look at the pictures in a different way or find pictures that I can understand.
for sure, its about practice, i think looking at poses and other shots helps but its probably better to give this to the model than for you to look at. really i want the model to to get into a mood/vibe, i dont pose my models much but i just guide them.
thats really where the mood board comes in, if you show them the type of thing you want before then they will just do it usually.
@@MartinCastein hey that is a very good tip. Once the model understands the feel the photographer is going for and gets in that mood, sometimes the poses come by itself. Or the mood creates the poses I guess. Thanks. I will try to work with this tip for sure
@@Mikey1421985 yeah its like, if i hire someone to decorate my house if i show them a load of pictures that are all the same style and strongly express what i want, its much easier than me walking around and pointing at stuff and saying i want this white and this be brown etc. A lot of it is always just communication all the time :) all the best
@@MartinCastein thanks. Nice illustration. Keep pushing out those videos, I will keep watching and using your tips to learn. I think I found your videos when I was looking up things about the Canon 5D classic. I have that camera and really grew a lot just using that camera and Canon 50mm f1.8 STM lens. I also have a Canon Rebel T5 and beginning of this year I was able to buy a Canon 5D mark iii. And last Saturday I got my Canon 24-70 f2.8 and am playing around with that lens now, getting the feel of it and calibrating that autofocus but I think I have it about right. I have to take pictures Friday and Sunday so I think I will use that lens at least some of the time on both days.
Also, find handsome people that actually wants to be photographed. Got my fair share of reluctant cave trolls ;)
hahahaha!