When natural light photography goes wrong.
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Biggest mistakes new photographers make when shooting portraits in natural light.
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Really good points here. Regarding augmenting available light with flash, years ago I attended a talk by the famous black & white large format photographer John Sexton. He showed a stunning image of a native ruin in the southwest U.S. that was under a deep overhang. Somebody in the audience asked how he was able to get the quality of light he did. He responded, “Well, I’m known as an available light photographer so I looked in my bag and saw two Vivitar 285s and they were available so…”
This made my day 👌🏼
That is a good story. Love it.
LOL. I LOVE this!!!
Awesome
Hahaha, classic…..I don’t get it :/
I'm guilty of all of these. Thanks for educating all the natural light photographers.
Same
Same here😅
I really appreciate the images offering examples of every scenario. Instead of just one shot to rule them all. Very helpful!
Hey Omar, this was truly a master class on lighting that is not too technical or intimidating for beginner or novice portrait photographers.It took me many years to develop and recognize great lighting. Don't be afraid of the sun.
It cracks me up how so many "bad" examples are just sweet pictures of your kids. "Halloween face" "dead eyes" "raccoon eyes" ... jeez, THANKS DAD... haha!
Thank you for sharing these tips! I signed up for my first local photography class tomorrow and was just notified it was cancelled, so - thanks for still letting me learn new things through you!
Yes a lot of these bad pics are in fact very good in my opinion!
I have this video bookmarked and I revisit this regularly. I love these check point items. Every shoot I do I use at least ONE of these techniques you show us: USE YOUR HANDS (Point#2) has been indispensable, thank you! What I find especially helpful about this video - and most of your videos - is that you relate the effect of the techniques to something we can see in our mind ... for example "Halloween Lighting". More than just tips, you help us understand what causes an effect rather than "how to get" an effect. "Dead eyes" from lack of catch light and the example scenario of being too deep into a building or shade is another great example of your teaching style. This whole video is "worth its weight in gold"!!
Man, these tips are absolutely golden! Thank you so much for making the mistakes, talking about them and explaining everything. You are the man, Omar
Hey Omar, Happy New Year. Loved this video. I started as a natural light photographer so this def hits home in a lot of ways. I even used to try and photograph weddings receptions ALL natural. With a 5d mark 2 no less. 😳 But just wanted to say I’ve been following your channel from the beginning. I’m in your area and I recognize a bunch of locations which is fun and your videos make me feel like we’re hanging out. Your doing a great job. Have a good one.
I'm way back on "seeing the light" and "identifying the direction of the light". Hopefully in a year or two I'll be able to appreciate all the finer points you outlined in the latter part of this video. Thanks for all your help Omar.
LOVED this content. Just a bunch of information, right on point, and a slap on my face for nowadays, not keeping my attention on shoots too much, and being scared of doing stuff different. Thank you for that!
your a great teacher, i am just learning photography and i learned so much. I love how you didnt say that certain things are the WRONG way to photograph, but just explained how natural light will reaction to the world around u
At the first glance the topic seems simple and obvious… In 9 minutes here is such a lot of helpful content! Color cast, quality of light, no fear of sun… Excellent sample pics and as always humorous. Thanks, Omar 👍🏻
I am practicing to be a better photographer and I've volunteered to do family portraits in my neighborhood. In the first few sessions, I made every mistake on your list, which allowed me to learn Lightroom more. Even though I knew what to do, I still got thrown off a bit.. but each session got better. So one thing I'd add to your list is practice. It's so easy to watch YT videos but getting out there and re-watching this video gave it a whole new depth.
Also... using direct sun only works at golden hour for me. Even then it can be too bright for my subject so they get squinty eyes. The time of year makes a huge difference on every part of the available light as well.. the angle of light changes the intensity in the morning vs. evening. I use my hand to see the light also...
Thanks for sharing this. Your photos have a really nice soft look while maintaining detail. That's pretty nice. I hope to get there.
Honestly Omar, this is one of your best videos. I have seen a lot of videos on lighting and this one is so approachable for novices, and just great reminders in general. I came for the Fujifilm 4 years ago, and stayed for the great content.
Incredibly helpful video. A 'must watch' for anyone with a camera. 👍
My early photography lesson is: unless you're shooting silhouette, your subject should be the brightest part of the photo. This simple lesson still holds true 90% of the time.
A great video! Seeing the light is the most important part of natural light photography, and you've gone over all the mistakes I've done in the past. I hope you'll keep doing these types of videos, very educational.
What a great input! You mentioned exactly all problems I have when shooting in natural light and after watching your videos it all makes sense now. I do have problems with "dirty light" coming from green grass on a very bright day many times and being able to avoid this is key. With your video I think I will be more aware of the problems and how to deal with them so thank you for that great video. :)
Great video, Omar. Thank you for sharing your successes and some of those early “failures.” This is an area I want to grow in, so thank you for helping me (and others) to speed up our learning with thoughtful tips like the ones you shared.
This is exactly what I needed! I kept getting those "accidentally good images," but wanted to learn the "science" of how to get those everytime! Thank you so much for this!!!
I immediately subscribed after the 'using your hands' tip. I've been a hobby photographer for almost 10 years, but still feel like I have a ways to go before mastering natural light. Your video was immensely helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for your work, I’m trying to up my outdoor product photography game and even though this was about shooting portraits it’s been one of the most helpful videos I’ve found!!
This short video is one of the best tutorial I saw in my life! Really useful!
Seriously one of the best tutorials I have watched so far and I ‘ve been photographing for more than 30 years .Very, very ,very useful stuff . Thank you !
I love your goofy personality and sense of humor Omar....and of course your content for photography :D
Have a blessed and beautiful day
I struggle with this - and "use your hands" to see the light is the best and simplest advice I've gotten. Thanks!
Thanks for all the help Omar, love you to bits!
Excellent and succinct tutorial Omar! One of the best refresher videos on RUclips! Thanks for your expertise, humor and humility.
I've literally experienced all of these. I knew "something" was wrong but this video really helped me place it. Thanks so much!!
I can not explain in words that how much I enjoyed the realization of all those mistakes. I am grateful I found your video. I also, once upon a time, watched your video of using hands for knowing the direction of light. This is the second video and now I just subscribed to your channel. Please keep it up.
I am absolutely learning this right now Omar. Thank you sir!
that's the best advice you can give any photographer. Using 3D modeling apps like Blender taught me about lighting a lot. I just applied that knowledge in my photography.
Omar, this is the way to go with your vids. I watch almost all of your videos because you are funny and very humble but I usually never comment. After seeing you struggle in your "failure" video I could totally see your point and hoped you would find a solution and motivation to produce content. Boy you nailed it! Videos like this are helpful to such a broad audience - beginners who learn new stuff and seasoned photographers who get reminded about things and/or also learn something new. Combined with your talent to teach and the easy vibe it's very valuable content. Keep up the good work (I can see all the work going into such a vid, e.g. digging out example pictures). Saludos de Múnich, Alemania.
Thanks so much. Sadly most of the helpful videos don’t get the views lol.
Yah, I know. That's how people are - they like 'fast food"...
@@ogonzilla Well, they SHOULD. I like the idea of using your hands to see how light makes them appear. Totally stealing that. My hands though. Not your hands.
Love how you talk to us like a close friend. Thanks Omar!
Perfect tutorial: Humorous, lots of example images, not too long. I learned a lot in 9 minutes and I'm going out to look for some natural light with my camera.
Wow! There are so many things in this video I have never been aware of. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, Omar. Your videos are always a pleasure and so much fun to watch, especially your humour. Keep on going with the good photographers stuff. 🙂
Good information for those who are into photography.
For those who just want a simple picture with the mobile-phone, set it to high speed bracketing (usually quicker if you reduce the resolution) or use interlaced-video or use an app that lets you adjust HDR levels as a post-process (achieve alien-colours and dynamic-range then change it back to normal via sliders). The sensor will capture 3 shots in very quick succession for you to overlay and adjust the effect you want for lower-resolution social-media audience who mostly don't know the difference between a good photo and a bad photo.
This is all really great advice, thanks! Many things I had not thought of. I'm going to look back through my own shots, and see which of these mistakes I've made... maybe ALL of them!
As a still relatively new hobbyist photographer, this was a educational video. Living in Phoenix, Arizona, where we have 300 sunny days a year, heading for the shade does not always produce good results. You can end up with blown out backgrounds. Likewise, light reflection issues are problematic. More videos like this one please!
Very very very useful tips in only one video. I don´t remember if I ever seen something so detailed also with examples in other YT channels. Good job, man!
These are good tips for beginners just getting into portrait photography. The hue thing is for real. I did an indoor shoot at the selfie museum in Atlanta for a friend last summer. They have different backgrounds and themes to use. One of them was a little cubical that had been, pink and white artificial flowers and leaves on the sides and top with artificial grass for the floor. I got a lot of color cast but was able to fix it in Photoshop. 8 just bought a Godox ad200 but I haven't used it yet. I have a couple of speed lights I've used before and a couple of softboxes. And a Gary Fong light sphere. That works great in small areas when you can't bring a softbox in.
Really like this lighting-centred content, Omar. How about pursuing some of the points you raised with more in-depth how-tos in future videos?
Just mak me smile when I see your notes..you really nailed the things you’ve mentions in your previous videos. This is nice and great!
You have decoded my bad photography times. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the useful tips!! I love how you explain everything so clearly like talking and teaching a friend instead of the stereotypical kind of tone you see elsewhere. Definitely understood better.
Love your teaching videos! Keep them coming please! Love your sense of humor as well!
Really great advice, thanks Omar for putting these together.
Thank you for all the reminders of all the things we so often forget....
love your videos, love the "personality" you put into your videos. I can learn something and smile at the same time. You deserve many more subscribers !!
These are great details. Love getting this type of insight from someone who's learned from experience.
Great tips, thank you! Especially love the last point. I think people too easily fall into camps. I’m a “natural light photographer” or I’m a “strobist” etc. and of course there are many good photographers in both camps. Maybe one camp is afraid of learning another more complex skill (artificial lighting) and the other loves to acquire more gear. But the great photographer uses whatever tools available to make good pictures. Sometimes less is more but other times more is more.
Perhaps, though I've yet to see a photographer that is good with strobes/OCF have poor natural light technique (I cannot say the opposite is true). I think once you get good with OCF, your natural light skills just get that much better as you quickly learn to understand the four elements of lighting much better and on a much steeper curve than natural lighting :)
Great stuff. Probably one of the videos with the steepest learning curve for the viewer. Many thanks!
I'm just starting out doing natural light portraits, and this is the most helpful thing ever!!!! Plus you have an appealing demeanor :)
Honestly one of the enlightening (pun intended) lessons I’ve ever watched here on RUclips. Thanks a ton.
I'm starting in photography, and really love street and natural light portrait photography.
But it's fun to see these points come up, as I actually started in game photography while having some knowledge of graphics rendering.
Especially these days with ray tracing becoming more commonplace, all these points are 1:1 translateable in a lot of modern games.
Like how you mentioned taking a shot in the shade and using the edge of where the sun hits, my mind instantly went to game lighting principles of "it bouncing around, creating colors around the subject from the objects it bounces on". So you can make use of specific objects that are a specific color to make a nice filter. Like how you can use red objects to make the light more warm.
It clicked with me so many times with how much game photography can be translated to real life photography.
You tell it like it is, very easy and fun to listen to. Thank you for the tips!
Excellent video, Omar!! I remember when it dawned on me that I was only photographing the SUBJECT and not the LIGHT. Thx for this video.
That tip about using hands to judge light? Fantastic. It's a perfect way for me to /experience/ the light. I'm going to use that method all the time, I owe you one!
thanks Omar. This video is one of the best I've seen on the internet, a very interesting topic, your words are easy to understand, and the examples are very enlightening. Very good.
All wonderful tips and examples Omar...it's true, photography is simply the presence and absence of light...learn light and you are set. Great vid! :)
Omar, great video again! Thank you. I have both the X-T2 and the X-T3 and prefer the X-T3 with the same EVF as the X-T4, big and bright. I do not do video and do not care for the T4's LCD screen. I do appreciate the extra film simulations on the T3. For a more stabilized image, I'll use my 2 Fuji stabilized zooms. For my everyday documentary camera, my minimalist travel camera, and for street photography, my X-100v wins every time.
This is the video I have been needing, thank you so much for posting!
Hi Omar, just starting out on photography.. Insane how you nailed to show your experience! Got like 3 pages full of notes! Thanks!!
Excellent, Omar! I'm old and forgetful, so I needed to see all these reminders, yet once again.
Very nicely done sir. Loved the class. Thank you for taking the time to teach us.
This is a gem Omar! Thank you!
I clicked on this video half-accidentally, but my word how informative this was !! Very helpful, thank you!
I'm not really a natural light photographer doing portraits etc but a lot of what you say in there is a real insight in to shooting a bunch of stuff. Good post : )
Wow, I always found all of these points strange but couldn't quite put my finger on it and no one classified and underlined them with example. Felt like an apprentice learning from an experienced master. Thanks!
Man that was pure fun to watch this video, I like your job with the flash and ambient flight.
interesting point about the grass creating that hue, thank you!
I Love the advice that you gave, going to take all of it into consideration when taking portrait.
This was a fantastic video. Very helpful tips. I enjoyed how you gave examples of good and bad, as that’s helpful for me to see as a reference. Additionally, I noticed that all the tips were relevant to my work. Lastly, you have a great personality that resonates in your videos. Great work!!!
One of the best explanations for use of light
Great video as always Omar. I always appreciate your tips and insights. Thank you
*hand up* GUILTY! This was so incredibly helpful before I photograph my first wedding this weekend. Thank you!!!
Thank you for this. Long time photographer, but first wedding shoot. This will help, thank you.
Great video, love the sense of humor. Thank you! I certainly struggle a bit with finding the right "spot" to place my subjects so they can get the best light.
I needed this. Thank you for making it.
Thank you! You add so much value .
THANK YOU!!!!! I'm not a professional by no means, but I love taking pictures and I'm doing a shoot with my niece who wants to be a model. I usually shoot nature or people in the distance, not models. These tips are going to be a big help for our session, and it will make me so happy if I can do a good job for her.
Lots of really excellent tips with no fluff in one short and well presented video.
The "hand trick" is awesome. Thank you. 💙
Oh, I see all my bad photography in this video. Thank you for helping me be a better natural light photographer.
Always enjoy your helpful, nicely delivered, tips!
Great subject and great points! You have been on a roll lately.
Perfect explanation and a reminder for me to avoid mistakes as a photographer. 👍
I've been learning photography for a year now only watching RUclips videos. This is the FIRST time YT has recommended one of yours. I learned SO MUCH from this video! IMMEDIATE subscribe!
I wish you covered this a few years ago.. I had to learn these with trials and errors. Please more of this kind of contents!
Probably one of the most useful vid I’ve seen on NL photography thanks!
such a brilliant video, just what I needed ! I struggled at utilizing natural light... very helpful ! ❤
I adore all your content. You have an amazing personality Omar.
This is very helpful had a lot of mistakes today and this very helpful on how to go about it tomorrow. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for those advices Omar.
I don't even have a camera yet... I just take pictures on my iphone for now and wanted to learn more about lighting. I learned a ton in this video! gold nuggets freely given in a concise easy to understand way with relevant examples. Also a few funny moments! Well done Sir!
You got me sub on your channel! A very simple but truly effective way to improve one’s skill to capture light. Amateur or professionals alike will benefit from your tips. Well done!
I don't really shoot portraits but still found this video fascinating Omar thank you, Rich
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Thank you so much, finally found someone who gets down to business and explains the important stuff =))
you're amazing! the way you explained is just exceptional.
I appreciate the efforts. good job, Man