All language subtitles for Patreon __ Fer Juaristi __ Paso a Paso 02

Hi guys,
how are you?.

Welcome one more time
to this part of:

"How was an image made?"

I will talk about
how external inspiration

can inspire us and take us
to create something

that motivates us
and takes us out to the comfort zone.

Everything we consume each day:
books, music, images, social media

we will reflect it
when we have a camera in our hands.

Conscious or unconscious
we will try to do it our way.

For this image,
I have been inspire

for these people
for a while now.

This photographer called
George Mayer...

I don't work in studio,
I feel a bit isolated in studio

-I have to try
and explote a little bit more-

but since I saw
Mr. George's work

I was amazed with
the minimalism of it

because he is
not making the illumination obvious

the illumination is not perfect.

And he is playing with
-known in film world- with cookies,

cookies are these
light cutters

to just focus the light source
where we want it to be.

This is an extreme case,
like "I just want to show

this part of the face
or this part of the body."

I was stunned with his work.

I have been following him
for a few months now

and I haven't had the chance
to try doing something like this.

But well,
I'm a fan of cutting heads,

of cutting faces.

And...
In this image, he inspired me.

Another person I follow
and she inspires me is Malika Favre,

she is a French illustrator.

All of her illustration is about
simple lines and hard light

and direct light.

What I like about these
two images

or about these two creators

is that they
push the emotion aside.

I really like that,

that the visual strength
on their images is not based on:

"Oh, love..." or
"Oh, romance...",

it's more like a visual punch
that paralyzes you

because of the minimalism
on their creation.

So, they inspire me
for creating this image, because...

I mean,
when we go out to the street

we get saturated with
everything around us

but if we look for hard light
and simple things

we can focus
on creating something.

In this occasion...
I will show you the contact sheet.

This image was made
in a workshop in Belfast.

We can see here
the light source,

it is a hard light,
as we can see

I still don't know
what am I going to do

I just have the idea
that something can be made here,

I'm working beside
but I'm not getting there...

I feel this is a
dirty image.

So, I get closer
to see if this image gets clean

and I feel it is a better
representation of what I want

but the texture on the wall is
making the place so obvious.

I take a step to the left
and I'm in front of them

and I split the couple.

The guy is drawing attention
because the light is hitting on him.

The idea...

If I had done better,
would be...

that her face would
have been cut with this line.

I move him a little,
to put him in the shade

so that he is completely
in silhouette

and I modify
my exposure,

from 1500
I shift to 2000

to underexpose more.

And now I feel
it's a cleaner image.

I distance a little more,
I put garbage

-this is a distraction
and evidences where we are-

I move my camera
to the right, just a little

and the image feels cleaner.

That's what
I am always looking for.

When I create these -for me- iconic
or representative images

about how I see the world,
that's the process...

Process of elimination.

This is another image.

But well,
you can see how all the process was.

My "Hard Light Radar"
always takes me to it.

I start to clean...

I adjust my angle...

I remove distractions...

I add distractions
to see later if it works

because sometimes
to open up a little can be interesting...

I clean...
and I finish.

In the final photo
this is the "before",

and this is the "after".

In this case I overexposed
to lose the texture on the wall

that is very obvious

and in post-production
I removed or overexposed the jeans

which, for me,
evidenced too.

What I wanted was
to focus the attention on her face.

And if I had been more "picky"
-I realize now-

I would have
eliminated her hand

so that the image and the eyes
would go directly into the people.

But remember, guys,
our process is slow.

We have to honor
what we are doing

and doing it consciously.

To consume images
that captivate us

that remain impressed
in the subconscious

and when we have the chance
to honor those who we admire

to find and to make
a version of our own.

The illustrator
does not use couples

she only uses figures.

And George
- the studio photographer-

works more with models
and nudes.

So I tried to merge
those two parts

to create an image
with which I was happy about.

I hope you enjoyed this video.

Here I am.
Thanks Patreon!

And continue in this life...

¡Éxito!.