Make the model the client and some training
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Meika is back in Melbourne for the holidays and came to the studio for a shoot, and Peter made her be the client. He decided on the lighting but she was in charge of everything else. He then tried to take her to the next level by getting away from her usual posing she does every day on commercial shoots and get her to be more ‘real life’ Meika.
Model: Meika Woollard
Instagram: @meikawoollard
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Lighting: Zhiyun Molus G200 - zhiyun.com.au/...
and Broncolour HMI with California Sunbouce Scrim
Camera model: Hasselblad H6D-50c
Lens used: 300mm
Shutter-speed: 1/124
Aperture: f/4.5
Iso: 400
Mamiya RB67
Kodak Portra 400
Filmed on:
Sony A7c with Zeiss Batis 18mm on a DJI Ronin-CS Gimbal
Sony FX6 with Sony G Master 16mm-35mm
iPhone 15 Pro Max on Insta260 Gimbal
Sony RX vii
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Can process RAWs through this program with any camera on a Mac, but you will not be able to tether or use certain sliders.
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Every Peter Coulson video is a priceless piece of education. Always great to see Meika and Bec!
Thank you
That last Portra shot was probably my favourite of all of them. Perfectly timed! Also love the sweet chemistry between the two of you - it even made me smile. Thanks for another wonderful video. Cheers!
Thanks so much
Peter, Meika, and Bec- a triumvirate that never fails to educate and entertain. Sorry to say this, but you never need another model other than her to make the most fantastic videos.
Merry Christmas to you all.
..Joe
Merry Christmas to you too Joe
What a refreshing video with Meika. Really great chemisty between you too and she seems much more confident in what she wants and does. Great shots as well!
Thank you so much!
Spot on Peter as always.. I especially like the interaction and conversation here between you and the model.
Thank you
Thank you for video! And special respect for film camera!!!
Thank you too!
Peter, the way you empower the model is amazing and it was great to see Meika to take that and make the picture her.
Thank you
Meika is such a sweetheart! Always lovely to see her on set!
One of my fav videos, she has such a natural beautiful look and you can tell she is a sweetheart of a young lady!
Thank you
Meika is so beyond beautiful. and luv that you are actually chatting with her, beauty just shines more when we hear her voice & expressions.
Yes Meika is awesome
She really is an amazing model. I lover her expression.
Great to watch you work and interact - so much more useful than 'the usual' videos focusing on unimportant technical details! I too am moving more and more to constant lighting (as powerful enough constant lights have become more affordable) - the other bonus in addition to pre-vis is being able to create videos as well with the same set-up saving a lot of time!
Thank you very much!
Wonderful video Peter. Very natural flow with Meika. We just shot two days on the sunscreen campaign in our studio with constant lighting as we were also shooting video for the Tradeshow reel in the same session. It worked out well and I think it helps the newer models flow and drift a bit more instead of reacting or anticipating the pop of the strobes.
Thanks Jim
Another 12 month lesson in 20 minutes! Thanks so much guys!
Thanks heaps Mick
Your interaction with your model is perfect. Grooming your client as you provide direction is refreshing to see. Enjoyed your photo session.
Agreed on that, but just wish he could tone down the flattery a bit, since it becomes an annoyance. Other than that, this was pretty good.
Thank you so much!
Next level creativity Peter, Meika and Bec, I had serious goose bumps. Master Class as usual Peter &Bec Thank You❤ and compliments of the season.👏👏👏🫶🇳🇿❤️🙏
Thanks heaps Anthony
I've seen tons of photos of Meika, but I didn't realize how sweet she seems. I really like seeing the interaction between the two of you, also. My goal is to have such a great working relationship with models.
I'm always amazed to see eyes like Meika's and Bec's. Stellar rapport between the artist and the model. Thanks for sharing!
Peter, you really capture the essence and nature of the models - a gift and talent, but also honed with much experience.
Thank you so much
First of all, Meika is so cool! I love her look as Peter elicits her response. When you were talking about Taylor Swift she changed immediately, same with her favorite place. Thanks so much, Merry Christmas 🎄
Thanks and Merry Christmas to you as well
Another great lighting tutorial and motivator to try a variety of lighting instruments and positioning. Of course, having so beautiful a model is a big plus.
The good ol' Mamiya RB67, what a boat anchor they were! I went from a Mamiya twin lens to one of those, and then a Hasselblad 503. It was just to heavy to lug around doing weddings. I was surprised at just how soft the RB was in the video. We really have moved on with sharpness. Nice shoot too... Have a great silly season.
"The very handsome neighbour look" excellent captured.
Always have a bit of a laugh when you explain that super sharp is not the goal and then proof it with an amazing shot
By default I have all the sharping switch off in my RAW editor, basically it is only useful when you print (when needed), totally get your opinion.
Must be fun working with her, you always get the best out of the models like no one else can.
Great job Peter, a joy to watch and thanks again for sharing.
Thank you
Brilliant ! Never fails to amaze me how stunning your images turn out. Meika has grown soooo much since I first saw her on your channel. Happy Holidays to all of you ! Cheers
Thank you so much, and Merry Christmas to you too
You can literally see her bring it all in with her eyes…the focus…
That was beautiful. Thank you guys for what you're doing
Thanks for your support
Peter, another XLNT video! Really enjoy how you and the Model communicate between every frame about what you both are wanting. ALSO very happy to see you use the RB67 Beast along with your usual atomic powered cameras. 🙂 Jim from Las Vegas, NV.
Glad you like them Jim
You're the Master, Peter. Everything I've been taught, is your second nature. I love your process. It leans more toward acting and filmmaking, than still photography. The final picture you shared, expressed a transformation. It's interesting to see the masks we wear and how you break them down, to portray your desired look. This session really highlighted that skill, because you gave all the decisions to Meika, apart from the inner motivation/ dialogue. Technical ability aside, the way you draw out personality is how we see you in the photos. On the technical side, using the floor for fill and balance, was incredibly economical and effective. That's a new trick to add to my bag. Thank you.
I really enjoyed this one.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙏🎁🎄🎅🌞
Thanks heaps and I hope you have a great Christmas as well
That was an amazing reaction, just talking to her and not pushing her, just lit her face up and made her VERY relaxed.
Like the Pink Floyd The Wall jacket 👍
😊 thank you
Really like how you support and increase the confidence of young people and I even more liked it when you shoot the last pictures at traditional film! To phrase you: stunning!!
Thank you
She is absolutely stunning. Makes an old guy like me wish for younger days.
I love using my 300m when I doing a wedding. Beautiful young lady and nice job Peter 👏 👍
Thanks, I forgot how much I enjoy using it
Very informative video. Peter, you are the best instructor, and manly you are the best portrait photographer.
Wow, thanks!
Sitting at my desk working from home trying to watch but listening to the video and all of the sudden i hear a different camera shutter sound. Whoa a Mamiya RB67 on deck...nice. Great instructions on how to set up the shot using the film camera. I definitely learned something today.
Thanks Love the RB
If I had to only shoot with Bec and Meika for the rest of my life, I'd die a very happy man. Peter, I'm so looking forward to you guys coming back to the states next year, but please make it before the election, things might get a little crazy over here.
O I forgot about that
Super how you tookMeika's ideas and then enhanced her output with your mentoring. She really got it. Great leasson/Session Peter.
Thanks so much!
i like the whole effect with longer lenses, both the added "space" for the subject's comfort, and the slight "flattening", plus, of course, depth of field...i used to have a 200 mm imagine....sigh...on my 6x7 i use the 165/2.8, or 300/4.0
nice to see your "translation" among the different looks, and helping your "client" understand more of the process, and, actually, getting her confidence in "her" look...
Thanks for sharing!
Geez Peter, are you the luckiest photographer in the world? Your photography and Meika's looks - WOW!
Thanks
My people skills has improved watching your videos. Thanks for the tips.
Great to hear!
I remember some of Meika's earliest shoots/videos. This one is really cool, and interesting, and the added Film shots at the end. Quote "When Peter Lindbergh took a group shot of five models in New York’s Meatpacking district in 1989, he didn’t know he was anointing them as the definitive beauties of the decade. The women were Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford. Though the models were known in the fashion world, their ascension to pop culture stardom began in front of Lindbergh’s lens." Well Mekia's Ascension started with Peter Coulson. Also Reminds of the Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel which made her famous, and coined a phrase “get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.”
the real fashion days
Oh, that looks like a Mamiya! Love mine as well!
Yes its one of my favourites
Meika is a brilliant subject. Well done. Quite enjoyed the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
She is a wonderful model. And, wow, she has very sharp and beautiful canine teeth! Love this detail.
Thanks for the tips!! Especially using other lenses and the film camera added to the photoshoot. Happy Holidays!!
Glad it was helpful, and happy holidays to you too
love these types of video, great images and technique with the models / subjects
Awesome, thank you!
Excellent instructional style of talking us through your thought process as you shoot your images! 🙂
Thank you
Every time I watch your videos, I learn something new! Even when you seem to be doing the same things on abstract level, paying attention to the details, reveals a whole bug of new tricks each time! Thank you, and I wish to all of you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Thanks so much, hope you have a great Christmas too
It’s simple. I see Peter & Meika, I click
Love the Kodak film shots Peter I hope that you do more of them! Cheers! 🥃
That's the plan!
this was the highlight of my week. thanks for dropping it when you did. yeah, ill get to your last 3 podcasts at work this weekend (7 on - 7 off and 12 hours so LOTS of time to watch/listen)
is that Meika's mom in the background at 11:08-ish? just back there reading an old magazine like waiting for a dentist appointment...
Enjoyed and learnt a lot! Thank you so much Peter, Bec and Meika! Good luck!
Our pleasure!
Amazing Amazing Amazing!!! I use Nanlite 500 with a scrim and the Zhiyuns as well.
yes they are awesome
Gooood Job! and Happy new year 2024 to you all.
Thank you and happy New Year to you too
Great to see you shooting film Peter. The RB and RZ are more studio friendly vs the old Hassys. (Sorry i'm a behind on your vids). Meika is definitely film worthy! :)
Thanks Matt. Yes, the RB is my Studio film camera and I like the M3 and the 503 for outdoor use, hope you have an awesome Christmas and catch you in the New Year
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer great. That makes good sense. Yes have a great Christmas too Peter and speak soon!
«The more she wears her own look, the more she becomes unique» «Its true - Mika» «When you try do add a pose, it does'nt work» That's the essence of portrait photography for me. Thanks for that great lesson. Happy Holidays 🎉
Thanks and I hope you have a great break too
More Meika but also more film pictures if you could. Pretty sensational stuff!
AI software only dream of attempting to capture the real beauty of Meika. Great video. (And beautiful Kodak film shots as well)
Thank you
Yes, Mamiya RB 67, big, and capable camera of past days. Liked that Mamiya, interesting 6x7 format...
Yes, I like it for Studio work
And, the dolt that I am, I should have added how good/interesting/cool this shot was, the interactions, the lighting setups...I really took note of the 'floor bounce' that beautifully sculpts the chin and neck.
Thank you
amazing video! as always.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Shoot more on film ,this is awesome
I love the Jacket!
Thanks, I love this jacket as well
Another great video - nice to see the Rush patch on the jacket.
Thanks so much, yes I love Rush
Great models on this channel, video, and tethering software. Something to consider if having client in studio to review photos. Thanks for the refresher course on editing photos.
Thanks heaps
Great series, like a tutorial for photoshoot, hoe to deal and talk with a model.
Glad you liked it!
Sweet!! Wish you great success next year.
Same to you!
I so like when model has own ideas and not to posing but playing naturally on-camera :)
Thanks heaps, yes it makes my life easier :)
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer I just want to add one note about skin texture and automated photo processing by AI.
I tried Luminar Neo today and it is very careful with skin texture, I was almost impressed, because usually I edit everything manually to make people look like people and not porcelain dolls. So Luminar makes this work much easier and very fast. I don't know if I'll buy a subscription yet, but I had fun processing the first few photos.
Of course, it also allows you to break the geometry of your model with all sorts of eye enlarging and "body transformations", but using your own mind, this tool can be useful, especially for speeding up the final processing of a large number of photos. Judging by your comment, you don't use such tools, or you're not satisfied with what you get. You can try it when you have some time for it.. ;)
Very nicer session. Quite enjoyable.
Many thanks!
Nice to have an example of how you work with film Peter
More coming soon
Thank you for this video.
My pleasure!
Meika says now that i'd seen it i cant unsee it!
😂
Great video Peter. Nice to see you using film!
Many thanks!
You are the master!!!
Thank you
Getting the authentic expression and pose, and away from the commercial looks, getting that genuine from-the-heart looks completely changes the images. On the processing, and keeping what's done as minimal as possible,.. vs redrawing everything in photoshop,... Never understood why one would hire a model for that models look and features, and then change everything in software afterward, it'd be like hiring Marylin Monroe and redrawing to look like Sophia Loren.
Yes agree :)
Pink Floyd Rocks!
YES
That's awesome 😍👍
Thanks 🤗
Thankyou
You’re welcome 😊
Peter. Have you ever used wedding dress fabric as a defusion material. It has a soft yet specular look.
Yes white silk is amazing
Wonderful. No need to say any more.
Thank you
Many thanks for this new BTS video.
@B: Many thanks for recording this session. It's a pleasure to see you again on the screen. Never forget that a new year always bring us amazing experiences, and in a few days time we will have it.
@M: Many thanks for posing in this session. Many thanks for sharing. I wonder why you like the photograph with the big space on top; is that space to write dedicated words to your fans, or to indicate that there’s so much you want to say,…?
@P: Many thanks for showing how to star photographing with a Model where she guides. I would like to know if photographers like to be guided by Models, or the other way around. Very interesting the sharpening exercise on the face.
@B&@M&@P: Take good care of yourself!
Thanks heaps
One of my goals in life is to photograph Meika and Bec, separately and together.
What a super little vedeo
Thank you
Great Video!
Thanks!
I read somewhere, that's eye catch light on the bottom was awkward. Well, it passes perfectly to have the tiny upper and larger bottom light in the eye. I don't know what Peter's opinion would be about the catch light in the eyes. Interesting topic.
I don't have an opinion on catch lights the models expression it's the most important thing to me
Wizard!
Thank you
Kodak Portra :D
Замечательная девушка у тебя Питер 😀 отличное видео
This is great, and Meika is so pretty....but it's clear that it's tough for her to get out of her "posey/model" mindset when that's prob what she does, 90% of the time. Getting a shot in that moment she's not is the challenge! (Having said that...the posey stuff is still fantastic).
Thanks heaps, yes Meika does commercial modelling every day so it is very hard for her to break out of it
Great
Thank you
Peter, because you were shooting with HMI lights what was your camera settings when you were shooting digital. Why did you decide to finish off the shoot and shoot film?
The settings are in the description and they get lots of people say they want to see me shoot film
Great video! May I ask whatus the size of the box she is sitting on?
600 mm x 600mm
Since you mentioned Swift.... wasn't one of those 3 pretty terrible? She should use you...
very good,very good.I'm Theo, starting up with my new fotostudio and new hasselblad x2d gear.Quesion,What do you do with the pictures a girl asked me when I asked her or she willing to expose in my new home fotostudio.Good question Peter, what we ganna do with the pictures, what do you with the pictures.Regards Theo.
Magazine editorials, commissions, galleries, publications and exhibitions
If I ever meet Peter in the flesh I want give him the highest of ❤high fives
Thank you
Hey Peter what powder do you use? or what should I look for in America for something similar?
this is the powder we used to take shine off models faces, it is also sometimes called setting powder. This is the brand we use is www.makeupatelier.fr/en/hd-loose-powder-24g-1904.html but here’s an alternative from Sephora www.sephora.com/product/lock-it-setting-powder-P409988?skuId=1822204&icid2=products%20grid:p409988:product
@PeterCoulsonPhotographer awesome thanks Peter love the videos!
Was that the Mamiya RB67 you pulled out at the end Peter or was that an RZ?
RB67
Hey Peter, what are the dimensions of the box Meagan is sitting on? Thank you.
600 x 600 x 600mm
I got a question peter what is that white background Meika is setting in front of? And who makes them?
Its a cyclorama, all professional photography studios have them
The last three frames of the film shot on the Mamiya RB, did you shoot it at box speed or did you push it?
box speed + 2/3 rds of a stop
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Thank you! I’m glad to see you firing off some frames. Would love to see more of that
coming soon
Which film camera did you use?
Mamiya RB67 in the description
the generational conflict about the sharpness if funny to watch :D
Yes I agree