How to Shoot ANY White Subject | STOP Blown-Out Highlights | White Dog Example | Photography Tips
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2023
- This week’s video will take you through the necessary steps of shooting a white subject and provide tips on how to successfully stop blown-out highlights!
Common problems when shooting a white subject include ending up with a super dark scene because your camera is overcompensating for the whiteness, or blown-out highlights - neither are welcome here!
Although I'm using a white (blonde I guess?!) dog as an example, these photography tips can be applied to ANY white subject and will stop the blown-out highlights you might be seeing in your current shoots.
Working with a white dog or a white subject comes with its challenges, but with these simple steps you can achieve the desired image and overcome the difficulties you might be currently facing.
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Haha the blinky, Sony has "Zebra" haha
Blinkers and zebras are different things so be careful. At the standard setting on zebras you’ll see them even if the data isn’t clipped (when shooting raw), so increase the numbers to around 107 to get a more accurate reading with zebras. Blinkies only show true clipped highlights so it’s a bit more “black and white” and available on all cameras so hopefully more universal for our audience 🙌
Lol your videos have saved my butt a few times now! I’ve been taking several of your videos and implementing them into my photoshoots and I have seen such a great change in my level of skills already. I look forward to every video you produce. Thank you for making them! ❤
I am so glad that you are finding the weekly videos useful and they are helping you develop your work 🙂 Thank you for your continued support 🙂
SO USEFUL!! Thank you for yet another valuable lesson. 🤩
I am glad you found this video useful 🙂
Super helpful! I just figured out how to get the histogram on my DSLR can’t wait to get out and try some shooting!
Glad you found this helpful and hopefully you find having the histogram present on your DSLR helpful too 🙂
Great job explaining how to.
Thank you so much 🙏 hope it's going to help 😊
Very Helpful - thank you very much!
You're so welcome 🙏
With three buff/white/cream (whatever) dogs, this will be very useful for me once I finish wrapping my head around it. Thanks Jess!
That's great, thanks Alisha 🙏 So pleased it's helped
Well explained. Thank you.
No worries, I hope this proves useful for you 🙂
You're the BEST!
That's really kind of you, thank you 🙏
For my Nikon d3400 I put it to video settings and I can see what I’m adjusting on my LCD screen. Did it for years with that camera.
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I'm new to your channel and have been watching (and loving) all your videos the past few days! 🙌🙏💛 Looking forward to trying your online courses for pet photography business info!☺
thank you so much - glad you're enjoying the content and finding it useful 🙏
Very very good!
I am pleased to hear you thought this was good, hopefully you found it helpful too 🙂
@@ThatPhotographySpot so very much 👏🏻🙏
Amazing! Do you have any tips for shooting black and white dogs? I have a border collie and tend to struggle to balance the black and white areas of his coat. I think it may be a skill level problem (I'm a total beginner) but if you have any tips that might help I'd love to hear them 😊
Thanks for tips😊
What you think about ETTR?
In almost all situations, I don’t. But in the case of light/white subjects or backlight/bokeh through trees, I’d rather go the other way!
Thank you so much. My Jack Russell is so white the only solution that works for me is subtle/consistent lighting
No problem, I hope this video proves useful for you when photographing your Jack Russel
@@ThatPhotographySpot will update :)
On dslr we can view it on live and adjust accordingly, no?
Fab videos! New fan here 🐶… I noticed you shoot mostly at 2.8, do you have any videos about keeping dogs noses in focus, distance or tips? Maybe I get a bit too close 🤔 thank you :)
Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏 and great to have you with us! Give this one a try ruclips.net/video/At8XpyVJDy8/видео.html hopefully it'll help 👍
@@ThatPhotographySpot thank you!! You’ve inspired me, was out photographing my dog today trying a slightly new approach 💪
The closest to 5 min I think you have gotten! 😆
Thank you!
We tried a different way of prep/filming this time, it was more complicated, but I think more concise in the end?!
@@ThatPhotographySpot my thank you was for the great video, not because you almost hit 5 minutes. 😆 Just wanted to clarify that. 😊
helpful, thanks.. Sound is kinda off, isn't it? As if it was recorded through the notebook's mic
Yes, it is! I’ve just replied to another comment re the audio, we’re using a very old mic for this one and it isn’t what it should be. It won’t happen again 🙌
What about a white dog on a white background in studio? 😀 The histogram always gets pushed to the right due to the background.
Thanks for the video .... I spy an A1
I’ve been caught 🤣🤣
Thanks Jess. I look at the histogram afterwards as it is a DSLR, and can deal with blown out whites. When shooting against a black background is it OK to have histogram pressed up against the left hand side or is this considered wrong?
Yes, if you want a completely black background left hand peak is perfect 🙌
Very helpful, but wouldn’t this be situation for partial or spot metering?
Really it depends on the subject and situation, and the photographer for what they prefer. If you compose in camera then spot is next to impossible on DSLRs because the spot is usually central, where the subject might not be. There are many things to consider, so it isn’t one size fits all 😊
Small complaint Jess, not about the content which was excellent as always, but the sound. You seem to have a sound dip at the upper mid to lower treble which, for old farts like me with industrial hearing damage, makes it a bit difficult to hear your voice clearly. I had to have subs on to catch everything in this one, and I haven't had to do that on one of your vids before. Sorry to winge, but if you could have Dan boost the upper vocal range a tad it would help us decrepit sods.
This is absolutely correct and not a winge!! I was so close to not actually posting this video because of the audio so I’m sort of happy someone else thought it was poor - shows I’m not overthinking!
Our main mic died a sad death the day before we filmed this one, it’s in the shop for repairs/replacement so this is actually the old decrepit one that sort makes me sound like I’m in a swimming pool underwater, or a room wrapped in bubble wrap and you’re on the other side of the wall! We’re working on getting the main mic replaced ASAP and it won’t happen again 🙏
@@ThatPhotographySpot Thanks for confirming that it wasn't just me being a whiney twat, Jess.
Jess, sometimes my display on my a7R4 shows blinkies that say I'm overexposing, but when i look at the histogram is not the case... why is that happening?
Do you have a contrasty picture profile set up on your camera? It could be reading the preview instead of the histograms of the RAW? Alternatively, are the blinkies you see actually zebras in real time? These are by default set up way more sensitive and need tweaking to show true blown highlights?
@@ThatPhotographySpot I think i don't have any profile selected! and nope no zebras on real time. What I now have to do is to see the histogram in real time but sometimes I even have to check the picture taken because when it splits the light into RGB, one of the colors is clipped
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Glad you found this helpful 🙂
You can add magician to your repertoire, because girlfriend you just made a camera disappear at 4:12-4:13!
Now you see it… now you don’t BAM 🤣
very nice video but the audio is a bit scuffed i dont know much about audio recording but maybe a shotgun mic would help it sounds a bit muffled
😊 Thanks, I'm constantly looking to improve my equipment and will take your suggestion on board 😊
Hi Jessica not sure you've noticed but you sound a bit like you're talking underwater in this vid 🐟 thanks for the great content as always though
Great spot! Yes, we’ve replied to another comment on the audio with what happened. Waiting for our main mic back from the shop as it died (though not in water!)
Now there is no excuse for not exposing well! 🤓🤓🤓
😂 Picky Patricia will be keeping an extra vigilant eye out for poor exposure now 🤓
Sony sensors are mostly ISO invariant, so on the A7R4, you can shoot at ISO 100 or 320, underexpose tomorrow protect highlights and then brighten the image in post. There is almost no noise penalty for doing so now, as long as you shoot raw and don’t take it to the extreme and underexpose too much. 🎉