All language subtitles for Europe Tour __ Glasgow

And right after London
we went to Glasgow.

Again, another limitation
for me was to stay....

(and this was even more difficult)

To stay between the lobby
and the business center

where I taught the workshop.

I hate putting myself
on so many limitations

but, at the same time,

when you are surrounded
by other photographers

and they want you to do
what you normally do

(when you are in a city
so different from yours)

it's very easy to do
what they would do.

Use the same locations,
the same mountains

or the same corners of light.

So, I limited myself
much more this time

and it was awesome, because

for the first photo we use
the table of the conference.

It was a huge table.

We had very interesting
colors on that table:

we had wood colour,
yellow and black,

and everything was like a triangle.

And I liked that:

to position couples and use
the window light that was there

and we got something very cool.

It was a very sweet couple.

They just looked
at the camera and laughed.

It was like...
an evolution or another attempt

of the photo I had taken
in the previous workshop

(of triangulations too)
just looking directly into the eyes.

This time I try to add some mischief

matching the style of the couple
I was photographing.

A plus was that the guy
was wearing a blue shirt

and blue and yellow
are complementary colors

and that helps us to have
a natural contrast in the photo.

About this last picture

(that many times we don't realize)

in the upper right corner,
there is a person,

like a guard.

If you see it,
it looks like a protest image.

The window was red.

That is why this image looks red.
It was not a postprocessed.

The whole place was red.

I squatted the couple,
looking out the window

so that they receive a soft
and beautiful light on their faces

and I waited, waited and waited

because I knew that someone was going
to enter and someone was going to leave.

So, playing with
the brightest points of the image,

which are: where are they and
the upper right corner

(where there was no one)

was to try to shoot several bursts
until something magical happened.

And I was lucky that this guy, who seems
apocalyptic or something, appeared.

I am very, very proud
of this picture because...

It's these little gifts or sparks that,

whoever is up there, gives you

to strengthen your work.

As a moral of this series, guys,

it is important to always
look for limitations.

I like being in places
that don't have a natural beauty,

or a perfect architecture,

because it makes you
force yourself to find photos

and do a more personal job.

I struggle myself
when I go to iconic places

because everything
looks like a postcard,

everything looks already done
and beautiful.

And...
always be justifying that:

if a person, who is not
a "professional" photographer,

get here, "Would he or she see
the same thing I'm seeing now?".

That is the question
we always have to ask ourselves.

Once we have our but covered,

(that we already did our backlights
and the pretty photos...

...and all this
that the couple expects),

Ask yourself that question:

"How can I justify the investment
they are making in me?".

And many times is that:

It is using our creativity
or our visual intelligence

to achieve images that
are harder to see

and that you need to have
this mind educated in this way

to reimagine what we are seeing

or what a boring eye would see.