You talk like a presenter dude it's insane. Like, wow... You really are the best teacher because the way you speak is so clear and precise... You're no where near your peak, the futures coming in hot.
Woke up to a beautiful golden hour this morning in Dallas in the midst of an excessively rainy period - had to watch it with my coffee for a very long time. Then turned on my PC and noticed your golden hour woodsy shoot. It's a perfect morning so far! Thank you for the bracketing exercise and notes! It is always a pleasure watching you and those beautiful pups in action.
Thank you for your kind words, glad you find the videos a good watch 😊 Thank you for your continued support even though it outside of your personal genre
Thank you so much for this tutorial! You've explained everything so well, it's insane. English isn't my first language, I'm only 15, I've just bought my first camera and I understood (almost) everything! Tysm
It's always interesting to see what you are doing. I hadn't really considered bracketing with the subject in the frame, mainly because I don't like the extra editing, but might have to consider it after seeing the great results. One thing I have done is bracket without the subject on a tripod (not really sure that is necessary given how well PS works) to get all the shots lined up. Again, more hassle because now I need to deal with the tripod. Your way looks easier 😀.
I did some backlit golden hour sessions of horses in a field in Saskatchewan one year and there were sooooo many teeny bugs that were hard to see on the display, but once imported, they popped out at me as they'd caught the light too -- it was an editing nightmare! Live and learn!
So with the bracketing do you shoot of 3 shots and pick the best exposure? Or do you blend them together afterwards.. Great shots by the way... Such lovely colours 😎
Ok great question, so the MM is the internal meter, and because we're using fully manual settings, the number here does absolutely nothing, but acts as a guide for exposure depending on your metering mode. I do not use metering at all on my cameras and work by eye or the histograms. The -1.5 is your stops so the camera read this as 1.5 stops underexposed based on the metering it had set up, which was probably centre weighted or spot (though I'm not 100% sure because I don't use it). With super bright highlights in the frame, working to protect those, that part of the image was deemed to be 1.5 stops underexposed. To me, it's just a number, but it can be good to glance at it now and again as a reference!
I have a Sony Alpha 7ll and confused about metering and focus area. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I use spot meter and for Af-lock for 1 subject, but it looks like you use multimeter mode. Looking to use for family photography! Thanks!!
This has been requested a fair few times so it would be rude not too. Not sure as to when a tutorial on these will be released but I shall get it done on at least one of the photographs 👍🏻
Oh when I tried to do photoshoots in Golden Hour and I the woods and field 1 the trees blocked to sun completely and 2 in the field the grass was to tall to see Prissy
That must be one dense wood to block the sun completely 😳 Aww poor little Prissy, maybe there is other woods near by that have tracks through them where the ground is relatively clear
@@ThatPhotographySpotmaybe Prissy is short tho I don't think there would be much of her I got some pictures in our yard and the grass was about tapper than her 🤣
I'm curious to know why you bother with white balance when you can do that when editing? It literally takes 2 sec to do in LR or PS and in my opinion, not worth stressing about, especially during a shoot with clients as you already have so much to think about. Just curious to know the reason behind that 😊✌ Btw, love your videos! 😀
You are not wrong, but there is more to it here especially in the extremes that golden hours give us - Your white balance will also have a subtle effect on your exposure/clipping, and therefore your decisions at this point too. For example, at golden hour if you shoot to blue, when you warm the image up to correct WB, there is likely to be clipped reds/oranges in the red channel that didn't previously show in a cooler kelvin setup. Singular channels (red, in golden hours case) are likely to clip where others will not, so the correct WB in camera gives you a more accurate reading to make exposure decisions with. Also but less importantly (for most!), it's very hard to get the correct WB of a non-black or non-white subject by eye, often there will be a tint or temp shift and accurately adjusting is incredibly difficult. Photographing Piper the red dog here is an example of that 👍
Looks like another practice shoot with the teddy bears coming up, poor little sods. This bracketing and exposure blending stuff might be just what I need to combat the dreaded two stops darker than everything in the universe schipperke dilemma (two full stops, every time, in every light, unbelievable, they must be made of dark matter). I'm with Hess below, please show us the editing, pretty please...
Poor little teddy bears. Only joking, use whatever you can to practice, trust me when I say this ... I have used all sorts of objects for practice shoots. I mean even on these videos, it wasn't too long back that I couldn't use an actual horse due to lockdown in the UK so I used a small toy model horse. The principles stay the same so why not! Also the editing of at least one of these photographs will be having its own video at some point 👍
@@ThatPhotographySpot I remember the model horse and barn video. It worked to illustrate the positioning pretty well, and perhaps more clearly than with a real horse backing and shuffling half out the byre, and why can't grown-ups play with toy farm animals anyway. The bears didn't object too strenuously and they paved the way for the dogos yestereve.
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You talk like a presenter dude it's insane. Like, wow... You really are the best teacher because the way you speak is so clear and precise... You're no where near your peak, the futures coming in hot.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad that you find the information easy to understand and follow!
Would love to see how you edit these with the bracketing shots!
Keep your eyes peeled as there will be a video of at least one of these edits released some time in the near future!
Nice video. Is the editing video out now?
Woke up to a beautiful golden hour this morning in Dallas in the midst of an excessively rainy period - had to watch it with my coffee for a very long time. Then turned on my PC and noticed your golden hour woodsy shoot. It's a perfect morning so far! Thank you for the bracketing exercise and notes! It is always a pleasure watching you and those beautiful pups in action.
Great news! Fingers crossed it doesn't keep raining - finally some sun here in the UK - yay!
I too would love to see how you put it all together when you edit.
Due to popular demand there will be a video of at least one of these photo edits released at some point in the near future 👍🏻
@@ThatPhotographySpot That would be awesome. Thank you!
Your videos are simply the best! I’ve learnt so much. Thank you for doing what you’re doing 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for your kind words! 🥰
Finn did awesome! Beautiful shots as usual.
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Love it! ❤
Great video! Love to see you work, and share your knowledge! Thank you
My pleasure!
THANK YOU! Your vid's are always so very helpful.
You are so welcome! Thank you for the continued support!
You are amazing. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience in dogs photography. Your pictures are always superb.
Awww thank you for such kind words 🙏🏼
Super helpful Jess! Excited to give this a try!
Good luck in putting this into practice!
Thank you! Will certainly take fabulous pictures of my dog today haha ❤️
Hope you managed to get some beautiful pictures of your dog! Thank you for the continued support!
Love your shooting videos! Always so inspiring. Thanks for sharing this!!!
You are very welcome 🤗
Such a lovely location.. will be trying bracketing for backlight, thank you! :-)
It sure is! Glad you have gained something to try and practice from this video. Good luck in putting this into practice 😊
This is fantastic I am going to go and edit some stuff right now
Great news - good luck!
Always a good watch.. you present very well. I’m a landscape photographer primarily but I enjoy most genres. Great work :)
Thank you for your kind words, glad you find the videos a good watch 😊 Thank you for your continued support even though it outside of your personal genre
@@ThatPhotographySpot I love portraits as well... it’s just my income comes from landscapes mostly.. how have you been feeling lately?
This video is awesome! So good 🥰
Thank you so much!!
Cool shots !
Thank you so much ☺️
Thank you so much for this tutorial! You've explained everything so well, it's insane.
English isn't my first language, I'm only 15, I've just bought my first camera and I understood (almost) everything!
Tysm
Glad it helped!
holy smokes. i finally understand this. you are amazing
Glad you found this useful and understandable 🤓
Amazing tip as usual
Thank you! Glad you have found our content useful 🤓
Great video, I don't use photoshop, I'm not that savvy with editing, I do tweak things in LR would bracketing work without lots of editing. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing!
It's always interesting to see what you are doing. I hadn't really considered bracketing with the subject in the frame, mainly because I don't like the extra editing, but might have to consider it after seeing the great results.
One thing I have done is bracket without the subject on a tripod (not really sure that is necessary given how well PS works) to get all the shots lined up. Again, more hassle because now I need to deal with the tripod. Your way looks easier 😀.
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So good! Keep going ❤️
Thank you for your continued support
So helpful 😍 I will try that for the challenge 🥰 thank you
Glad you found this video helpful. Looking forward to seeing you put this information into use in your monthly entry!
I did some backlit golden hour sessions of horses in a field in Saskatchewan one year and there were sooooo many teeny bugs that were hard to see on the display, but once imported, they popped out at me as they'd caught the light too -- it was an editing nightmare! Live and learn!
That does sound like my worst nightmare but sometimes these things happen and aren't avoidable but like you say live and learn 🙂
Fantastic video! I wonder what device she uses to capture her camera? Does anyone know?
So with the bracketing do you shoot of 3 shots and pick the best exposure? Or do you blend them together afterwards.. Great shots by the way... Such lovely colours 😎
Hi Just wondering which off camera monitor you use? Love all of your videos!!! Thank you Kim
We very rarely use an off camera monitor and if we do it is just a field monitor 🙂
My Canon 500d broke. I got a Sony a7. I'm hoping I made a good choice? Any tips/tricks/ideas?
We have an A7Rlll and love it - so you've made a good choice! 🤗
Hopefully the channel will give you all the tips you need!
Hi Jess when on live view you have the thing MM which is -1.5 or above. is this auto do you have to set an whats the process for it..
Ok great question, so the MM is the internal meter, and because we're using fully manual settings, the number here does absolutely nothing, but acts as a guide for exposure depending on your metering mode. I do not use metering at all on my cameras and work by eye or the histograms. The -1.5 is your stops so the camera read this as 1.5 stops underexposed based on the metering it had set up, which was probably centre weighted or spot (though I'm not 100% sure because I don't use it). With super bright highlights in the frame, working to protect those, that part of the image was deemed to be 1.5 stops underexposed. To me, it's just a number, but it can be good to glance at it now and again as a reference!
Anything wrong with using a flash to fill the shadows and expose for the highlights?
Nothing is wrong with it, but the resulting image will be completely different with OCF involved 👍
I have a Sony Alpha 7ll and confused about metering and focus area. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I use spot meter and for Af-lock for 1 subject, but it looks like you use multimeter mode. Looking to use for family photography! Thanks!!
We have a video on metering but as I shoot on full manual and use my histogram, I don't use metering at all: ruclips.net/video/np5LSoHPpy8/видео.html
how do you change the grass to look like autumn colours without effecting the subject?
This video should help you with that 😊. ruclips.net/video/dw2LTNPyKF0/видео.html
Do you mind goving me the think to your camera recording add on thingy? Sorry im not sure what u call it.
This is just a field monitor and is rarely used on shoots 🙂
can you further this tutorial with editing those photos? please!
This has been requested a fair few times so it would be rude not too. Not sure as to when a tutorial on these will be released but I shall get it done on at least one of the photographs 👍🏻
Oh when I tried to do photoshoots in Golden Hour and I the woods and field 1 the trees blocked to sun completely and 2 in the field the grass was to tall to see Prissy
That must be one dense wood to block the sun completely 😳 Aww poor little Prissy, maybe there is other woods near by that have tracks through them where the ground is relatively clear
@@ThatPhotographySpotmaybe Prissy is short tho I don't think there would be much of her I got some pictures in our yard and the grass was about tapper than her 🤣
I'm curious to know why you bother with white balance when you can do that when editing?
It literally takes 2 sec to do in LR or PS and in my opinion, not worth stressing about, especially during a shoot with clients as you already have so much to think about.
Just curious to know the reason behind that 😊✌
Btw, love your videos! 😀
You are not wrong, but there is more to it here especially in the extremes that golden hours give us - Your white balance will also have a subtle effect on your exposure/clipping, and therefore your decisions at this point too. For example, at golden hour if you shoot to blue, when you warm the image up to correct WB, there is likely to be clipped reds/oranges in the red channel that didn't previously show in a cooler kelvin setup. Singular channels (red, in golden hours case) are likely to clip where others will not, so the correct WB in camera gives you a more accurate reading to make exposure decisions with.
Also but less importantly (for most!), it's very hard to get the correct WB of a non-black or non-white subject by eye, often there will be a tint or temp shift and accurately adjusting is incredibly difficult. Photographing Piper the red dog here is an example of that 👍
@@ThatPhotographySpot Thank you for this great reply! Good to know! 👌
Looks like another practice shoot with the teddy bears coming up, poor little sods. This bracketing and exposure blending stuff might be just what I need to combat the dreaded two stops darker than everything in the universe schipperke dilemma (two full stops, every time, in every light, unbelievable, they must be made of dark matter). I'm with Hess below, please show us the editing, pretty please...
Poor little teddy bears. Only joking, use whatever you can to practice, trust me when I say this ... I have used all sorts of objects for practice shoots. I mean even on these videos, it wasn't too long back that I couldn't use an actual horse due to lockdown in the UK so I used a small toy model horse. The principles stay the same so why not!
Also the editing of at least one of these photographs will be having its own video at some point 👍
@@ThatPhotographySpot I remember the model horse and barn video. It worked to illustrate the positioning pretty well, and perhaps more clearly than with a real horse backing and shuffling half out the byre, and why can't grown-ups play with toy farm animals anyway. The bears didn't object too strenuously and they paved the way for the dogos yestereve.
I think I’ll give bracketing a whirl and see what happens.
Good luck in putting this into practice!