3:06 on #1 my worry and hold up switching to manual shooting was I thought photographers just KNEW.. “Oh.. hey.. we are outside.. loads of sun.. I need to shoot ISO 100, f/2.8 and at 1/500 .. “ just off the top of their heads. But one doesn’t need to know it. Just take some test shots and know if it is dark, then we need to raise ISO or slow the shutter. If it is over exposed.. need to raise the ISO or speed up the shutter.
Exposure triangle is a misnomer. “Choose your Shutter Speed with purpose and Aperture with feeling. Then adjust the BRIGHTNESS with ISO.”- Joe Edelman.
For lighting, #3, I'd love to see how you choose your locations and how you choose to position your models in those. Also, sometimes, on the same shoot, you choose to use the strobe and other times just natural light. What's the process for those decisions. It could be a whole video!
As far as paid gigs go, weddings can be had if you will do them. There's all kinds of money to be made. But for me, one wedding equals 40 hours of work, between meeting with the couple originally to plan the day sign the contract, to the entire day shooting, to driving back and forth to photo labs, and album places and meeting with the couple again to pick images/album layout, etc. They're a lot of work, but you can earn a weeks salary in one wedding. I did them for many years on the side to build my pro camera kit. I got a little burned out, because I was booking up weddings a year in advance, and I wasn't sure I wanted to be shooting weddings in a year or more. Every once in a while someone can convince me to come out of retirement so to speak, to do another wedding (Usually family or friend), and it's fun again when it's casual. Going to do more seniors/models now.
Well that's good. There're ways to shoot weddings for less work too. I met a guy at a bar who said he'll pay me $700 to just come and shoot a wedding with him that Saturday, and an extra $100 after the first one. We never even met before. I never had to meet with the couple, no editing photos, no album builds, just shoot the day maybe 12 hours, and give him the files. If you're good, I know there's a lot of photography studios that will pay $1000 near me in NE Ohio anyways, just to shoot day of. I'm sure more, in bigger markets. It's a lot less work for sure. I may do this at some point. Even when people are broke, money comes out of the woodwork for the wedding. Make a cake, cater the food, be a DJ, drive a limo, rent tux's, for me I'll take the pictures. But I totally get why photogs don't want to do it. It's high stress when you're by yourself and a loooong day.
10:39 I’m glad you said these things. People get mixed up with what I shoot and I explain and they don’t like that. Just want to shoot single or couple portraits and a lot of times I get asked if I can do birthday party’s and I decline those cause I don’t want to deal with a lot of people respectfully. Same for weddings. I’ve done one wedding and it was great but it was too many people. I’d rather start small.
This is another great video with great information to learn from, thank you. I recently stopped sports photography after a period of 10 years pro and amateur soccer and amateur tennis in my hometown. Now I've chosen to go for model photography and birding and I'm not going for a profession as a photographer (I have a well-paid job), I choose to do TFP and have fun taking the portraits I take of my models and also retouching the best portraits of that shoot. I started as a natural light photographer because I did not know how to keep the flashes working the way I wanted them to work. End of 2022 I started with a Profoto A1 to see if that would work better and it did so now I own a couple of A1 flashes and also two B10 flashes. I love the Profoto system and I don't take any portraits without these flashes and modifiers anymore. I love the result of the portraits in this video, Carolina is a great model to work with as she shows her ability to pose well!
I agree with your five things and I would like to add one more, that we have to take care about small details, as how to pose hands, fingers and eyes direction, there are many photos I started to dislike after I started to notice them.
I guess it might help new photographers to know that to have full control of the 3, it's best to put your camera on MANUAL mode. Very nice video Jason!
I have a 300mm F2.8 bought on ebay 6yrs ago. I use it for bird Photography on a cropped sensor camera. I have used on Portrait photography all handheld. I actually do closeup flower photography also. 300mm F2.8 ridge with the camera weighs about 8 1/2 pounds this is not for everyone.
For me, "posing" is more about "directing". That's the hard part. Learning how to direct someone who isn't good at posing to pose, or pose without looking like they're posing...which is my preference.
Exactly! People may not even consider posing when considering photography, but there is an art to it! I love working with models to watch and see how they create. They are artists in their own right.
I really like your videos! I wish you could provide a little info about controlling the strobe power and color temperature. Your strobe work is amazing. An amateur can not take photo like you :D When you shot the 300mm natural light. That was simpler.
This is indeed a god job well done. I think I would love to request for a tutorial using a nifty fifty 50mm Canon Lense f1,8 stm. Thank you in advance.
This was fun I am a old man with a big dream and lots gear and gas I have spent so much on my kits can you help me figure out how to get paying custom for portraits
Mr. Allen, great work and awesome model!. I always benefit from your videos. I have a question. I noticed that on your previous videos, when you use a wide aperture f1.2, you set your ISO to 100. In this video, is there a reason you set the 300mm to ISO 500? Is it because of the your "shake"? I was under the impression that the lower your ISO the better. Please advise. Thank you!!!
Great question! So with that 300mm. Wide open is 2.8 as opposed to my usual 1.2 on my 85mm. Since I’m shooting at 2.8, it allows less light. I also shot at 1/800s on my shutter, to eliminate camera shake. So this also cut my light a little. So I bumped up the ISO to give me the proper exposure needed, without going to my flash.
@@J.Allen_Photography Thank you! You have taken my fear of moving from ISO 100! I have a 70-200 2.8 that I love using! I'm going to test that out. Thanks again, Jason!!!
ISO allows more light in, I thought ISO increased the exposure after the image has already been taken? I liken ISO to a rheostat after the image has already been captured by the image sensor. Am I wrong? Thank you!
No. As you adjust the iso, you can see real time what it does to your image…if you’re using mirrorless that is. It’s just another component of the exposure triangle and works in real time in conjunction with the other two. Aperture and Shutter.
What is the purpose for the photoshoot you are doing in this video? Meaning what did you do with the photos from this shoot? Was it for her portfolio? Was it just for fun?
Sometimes. If they are stuck. Or if I’m working with a client who doesn’t pose all the time, I have them send me some inspo images and sometimes we can recreate using similar poses.
I am a bit suprised now. 7 years until you learned the exposure triangle? May I ask why so late? It isn't super complex or rocket science, so I doubt it was a thing of you not being able to understand it the first years, so it seems you didn't care or think it's important for you? Because most photograhers I know who want to teach others (reagardless of direct in a 1:1 course or in a tutorial online or...) bring up the exposure triangle as one of the first things to learn (and in fact I don't even think its the first thing you have to learn, I find image composition, focus and depthoffield much more important), so I think you are the first to state that you didn't learn it for 7 years. :-o
@@Lofote you make solid points all together. I actually go into more detail about it in my RUclips podcast videos. First. I basically bought a camera off Amazon and a nifty 50 and thought I was a photographer. I never even heard the term exposure triangle for about 7 years. Much less think of the term to even research it. Now 5 of those years I was basically on taking pictures of my family because I had basically given up because I wasn’t getting any better. So as you mentioned…I didn’t really care at that point to try to learn more. Once I decided to give it one last shot, I found on RUclips quite early in ‘relearning’ the triangle. And things just exploded for me.
Super awesome images ✨✨👌
Amazing model 😊👌❤️
Amazing model 😊👌❤️
3:06 on #1 my worry and hold up switching to manual shooting was I thought photographers just KNEW.. “Oh.. hey.. we are outside.. loads of sun.. I need to shoot ISO 100, f/2.8 and at 1/500 .. “ just off the top of their heads. But one doesn’t need to know it. Just take some test shots and know if it is dark, then we need to raise ISO or slow the shutter. If it is over exposed.. need to raise the ISO or speed up the shutter.
Very lovely session!
Exposure triangle is a misnomer. “Choose your Shutter Speed with purpose and Aperture with feeling. Then adjust the BRIGHTNESS with ISO.”- Joe Edelman.
Love that quote!
Your ISO can only go so low if it's bright out and so high before noise kicks in. It's ALL a give and take
What a beautiful model and beautiful photos.
Thanks for the tips. It's always great to have a model that's fun to work with. Makes the whole experience so much easier and fluid.
#6 I wish I'd known Carolina.
Funnest model😊
For lighting, #3, I'd love to see how you choose your locations and how you choose to position your models in those. Also, sometimes, on the same shoot, you choose to use the strobe and other times just natural light. What's the process for those decisions. It could be a whole video!
As far as paid gigs go, weddings can be had if you will do them. There's all kinds of money to be made. But for me, one wedding equals 40 hours of work, between meeting with the couple originally to plan the day sign the contract, to the entire day shooting, to driving back and forth to photo labs, and album places and meeting with the couple again to pick images/album layout, etc. They're a lot of work, but you can earn a weeks salary in one wedding. I did them for many years on the side to build my pro camera kit. I got a little burned out, because I was booking up weddings a year in advance, and I wasn't sure I wanted to be shooting weddings in a year or more. Every once in a while someone can convince me to come out of retirement so to speak, to do another wedding (Usually family or friend), and it's fun again when it's casual. Going to do more seniors/models now.
Yeah. Too much work for my blood.
I’ve got a dance studio volume gig this weekend. It’s my kind of shooting and wedding money! So I prefer that.
Well that's good. There're ways to shoot weddings for less work too. I met a guy at a bar who said he'll pay me $700 to just come and shoot a wedding with him that Saturday, and an extra $100 after the first one. We never even met before. I never had to meet with the couple, no editing photos, no album builds, just shoot the day maybe 12 hours, and give him the files. If you're good, I know there's a lot of photography studios that will pay $1000 near me in NE Ohio anyways, just to shoot day of. I'm sure more, in bigger markets. It's a lot less work for sure. I may do this at some point. Even when people are broke, money comes out of the woodwork for the wedding. Make a cake, cater the food, be a DJ, drive a limo, rent tux's, for me I'll take the pictures. But I totally get why photogs don't want to do it. It's high stress when you're by yourself and a loooong day.
bonjour, bravo à tous les 2 ,belles photos magnifiques . la modèle est vraiment très gracieuse 👏👏,c'est assez rare sur you tube
Damn those poses! Fantastic!
(also the photos and timing to take it!)
10:39 I’m glad you said these things. People get mixed up with what I shoot and I explain and they don’t like that. Just want to shoot single or couple portraits and a lot of times I get asked if I can do birthday party’s and I decline those cause I don’t want to deal with a lot of people respectfully. Same for weddings. I’ve done one wedding and it was great but it was too many people. I’d rather start small.
Shooting what you want to shoot makes your better, but it also makes it more enjoyable for you! Keep shooting what you want!
This is another great video with great information to learn from, thank you.
I recently stopped sports photography after a period of 10 years pro and amateur soccer and amateur tennis in my hometown.
Now I've chosen to go for model photography and birding and I'm not going for a profession as a photographer (I have a well-paid job), I choose to do TFP and have fun taking the portraits I take of my models and also retouching the best portraits of that shoot.
I started as a natural light photographer because I did not know how to keep the flashes working the way I wanted them to work.
End of 2022 I started with a Profoto A1 to see if that would work better and it did so now I own a couple of A1 flashes and also two B10 flashes.
I love the Profoto system and I don't take any portraits without these flashes and modifiers anymore.
I love the result of the portraits in this video, Carolina is a great model to work with as she shows her ability to pose well!
Great comment and I love the story!
Keep shooting and loving what you do!!!
@@J.Allen_Photography I certainly will do so, thank you.
Appreciate you sharing this information. Very helpful
This is simple encouragement and called life and good teaching
I agree with your five things and I would like to add one more, that we have to take care about small details, as how to pose hands, fingers and eyes direction, there are many photos I started to dislike after I started to notice them.
I guess it might help new photographers to know that to have full control of the 3, it's best to put your camera on MANUAL mode. Very nice video Jason!
Thank you so much!
I have a 300mm F2.8 bought on ebay 6yrs ago. I use it for bird Photography on a cropped sensor camera. I have used on Portrait photography all handheld. I actually do closeup flower photography also. 300mm F2.8 ridge with the camera weighs about 8 1/2 pounds this is not for everyone.
For me, "posing" is more about "directing". That's the hard part. Learning how to direct someone who isn't good at posing to pose, or pose without looking like they're posing...which is my preference.
Exactly! People may not even consider posing when considering photography, but there is an art to it! I love working with models to watch and see how they create. They are artists in their own right.
I really like your videos! I wish you could provide a little info about controlling the strobe power and color temperature. Your strobe work is amazing. An amateur can not take photo like you :D When you shot the 300mm natural light. That was simpler.
Beautiful Photos!!!
Very nice starting tips :+1:. Agree with all 5 now.
Cheers!
Thank you!
Always great videos. Great shoot.
Thank you!
Great video and advice 👍🏼. I’ve been struggling with getting capture one installed right to learn to edit 😂
This is indeed a god job well done. I think I would love to request for a tutorial using a nifty fifty 50mm Canon Lense f1,8 stm. Thank you in advance.
Carolina is so fun to work with
Great Video - beautiful model
Thank you!
Awesome Jason! Keep kicking ass📸
Thank you!
#5 hit home so hard 😢 Thanks for the awesome info sir.
Glad you enjoy it. Keep grinding!
Man... you're a wonderful photographer.
Thanks. I appreciate it!
Beautiful Work Jason!
Great stuff brother
Thank yiu
Thanks for this information 🙏
This was fun I am a old man with a big dream and lots gear and gas I have spent so much on my kits can you help me figure out how to get paying custom for portraits
great video
Nice work
Hey Jason!! Great content!!! I’m just west of you in Bandera! Could you link your podcast? Thanks for all your insight!
The podcast is currently hosted right here on youtube!
Mr. Allen, great work and awesome model!. I always benefit from your videos. I have a question. I noticed that on your previous videos, when you use a wide aperture f1.2, you set your ISO to 100. In this video, is there a reason you set the 300mm to ISO 500? Is it because of the your "shake"? I was under the impression that the lower your ISO the better. Please advise. Thank you!!!
Great question!
So with that 300mm. Wide open is 2.8 as opposed to my usual 1.2 on my 85mm.
Since I’m shooting at 2.8, it allows less light. I also shot at 1/800s on my shutter, to eliminate camera shake. So this also cut my light a little. So I bumped up the ISO to give me the proper exposure needed, without going to my flash.
@@J.Allen_Photography Thank you! You have taken my fear of moving from ISO 100! I have a 70-200 2.8 that I love using! I'm going to test that out. Thanks again, Jason!!!
Thanks Mr Allen
Its where i am at currently
Fantastic video
👍👍 good stuff
Thanks bro!
Super helpful vid thx. How much do you charge for a shoot like this?
Love to have a model like Carolina
Было бы интересно посмотреть больше съемок на 300mm f2.8 или 400mm f2.8 или например 200mm f2.0
I can't imaging portraits at 400mm. That would be insane. I would love the 200mm f2.
ISO allows more light in, I thought ISO increased the exposure after the image has already been taken? I liken ISO to a rheostat after the image has already been captured by the image sensor. Am I wrong? Thank you!
No. As you adjust the iso, you can see real time what it does to your image…if you’re using mirrorless that is. It’s just another component of the exposure triangle and works in real time in conjunction with the other two. Aperture and Shutter.
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amazing bokeh for an F2.8
👏👏👏
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The bokeh on 300mm 2.8 is special.
What is the purpose for the photoshoot you are doing in this video? Meaning what did you do with the photos from this shoot? Was it for her portfolio? Was it just for fun?
@@SvEnjoyPro it was for RUclips.
Would you tell the model or show the model what to do , for example show them a picture of the pose
Sometimes. If they are stuck. Or if I’m working with a client who doesn’t pose all the time, I have them send me some inspo images and sometimes we can recreate using similar poses.
I am a bit suprised now. 7 years until you learned the exposure triangle? May I ask why so late? It isn't super complex or rocket science, so I doubt it was a thing of you not being able to understand it the first years, so it seems you didn't care or think it's important for you? Because most photograhers I know who want to teach others (reagardless of direct in a 1:1 course or in a tutorial online or...) bring up the exposure triangle as one of the first things to learn (and in fact I don't even think its the first thing you have to learn, I find image composition, focus and depthoffield much more important), so I think you are the first to state that you didn't learn it for 7 years. :-o
@@Lofote you make solid points all together. I actually go into more detail about it in my RUclips podcast videos.
First. I basically bought a camera off Amazon and a nifty 50 and thought I was a photographer.
I never even heard the term exposure triangle for about 7 years. Much less think of the term to even research it. Now 5 of those years I was basically on taking pictures of my family because I had basically given up because I wasn’t getting any better. So as you mentioned…I didn’t really care at that point to try to learn more.
Once I decided to give it one last shot, I found on RUclips quite early in ‘relearning’ the triangle. And things just exploded for me.
for me number 5 is hard to learn and accept
Hey
你拍照水平很差，都是大光圈
Lol you said you specialize in hs students? Good suggests but creep tho lmfao
Definitely need to be sure I say correctly what I mean. Lol.
Nice work