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How are you friends?

How are you?

How are things going?

Here I am all upset with the edition

of multiple weddings that I have accumulated and

several Patreon videos that are taking my sleep

away.

Well, having said all this, welcome to a

new chapter.

As always, it is a pleasure to be

here with all of you and in today's

video I want to share with you an

off-camera video to tell you mainly how

to get started with a location, well, more

or less not very interesting, but yes, thanks

to a set of elements that are going

to help me or helped me find an

interesting photo in an uninteresting place, ok?

I would like to start by telling you

a little about what was the background of

the location, of the place where I was,

the couple, everything, ok?

Because first of all I have to tell

you that of the photos that I am

going to talk about, it is mainly this

one and this one.

These two images were taken in the same

place, only with a day apart and were

the result of having taught two workshops in

Mexico.

First of all, I should tell you that,

of course, teaching a workshop is great, it

is very good to share with everyone, but

the moment the practice arrives is sometimes a

bit of a lottery because it depends on

a thousand factors, one on the climate, two

on the location as such, and not only

on the location, that is, the neighborhood in

which you are, but on the potential as

such, because sometimes you leave the place or

the hotel in which you are teaching and

there is nothing that can be interesting for

you and that is always a fear because,

of course, you are not working for a

couple, you are not working for twenty-something

photographers and you have to respond, you have

to do a good job and, in short,

you have to surprise or at least try.

So, that's why, first of all, although I

was a little lucky with the location, which

was a space that was in works, I

mean, a building, a mall that was in

works, and well, I was lucky that I

was in Mexico, the light, you can imagine,

the light in Cancun was great and then

it allowed me to take the images that

I have shown you, but of course, in

this video I would like to show you

what the creative process was so that you

can understand me perfectly, because the first thing

is always to check, analyze how the place

is, as you well know, I mean, I

can shoot anywhere, whether it is a place

with hard, soft lights, whatever, we have to,

in the end, fit everything together, but in

the workshop, as it was obvious, I had

hard light and I wanted to explain to

all my students how to work, so in

the first workshop, the first day, what I

wanted to show you was that, it was,

sorry, it was all my creative process, okay?

As you have seen, the place is not

a fantastic place, but it has elements that

will help me, which elements?

First of all, let's start with a neutral

background, a clean background, that is the main

thing, that is the starting point, and notice

that I always take a photo without a

partner, without human beings, and it is as

if it were a white canvas, okay?

As you can see, what I clearly notice,

right?

One, that the background, the clean background, sorry,

works perfectly, and another, that the light works

perfectly.

Something very important is that, in that shot,

in that first shot, in that first image,

what I'm going to do is, I'm going

to overexpose a little bit, for what?

To know the dramatism of the mere space,

I mean, I'm not going to leave the

histogram to the right, no, no, I'm going

to leave the histogram to the left, and

it's going to be overexposed, almost sure that

a step of diaphragm, that is, with which

you have to be clear.

Why do I do this?

Because it is more than likely that if

there is a white element, a wedding dress,

when, if we adjust with hard lights, that

is, if we expose with hard lights perfectly,

the white dress is going to end up

burning, that is why I always overexpose a

point or two, and even if there were

no white points, the wall is not white,

but almost, with which I am going to

overexpose, okay?

Important with the background, there are backgrounds that

are not going to work, concrete backgrounds, cement

backgrounds, rock backgrounds, that is, that type of

background does not usually work.

What type of backgrounds usually work?

A clean background, as you have seen, and

in colors, in all kinds of colors, any

color can work, okay?

But that is, well, that is very important,

okay?

And then a light that crosses, as you

have seen, the light crosses me, well, literally,

well, to the neck.

Once I understand all this, I have already

exposed, remember that once the first image is

exposed, everything is done, you no longer have

to change the exposure, because the sun is

very unlikely to change, unless there are clouds,

but we are in that place because of

that type of lighting, okay?

So then we start working.

The first option that I had, or that

occurred to me, was to place my friend

Tania in the mere light, in the pure

ray of light, and my friend Andrés in

the shadow.

This photo is diluted, why?

Because the boyfriend does not have strength, but

he does not have strength, why?

Because they do not give him any light,

I mean, and there is going to be

a shadow, there is going to be an

element without much definition, that is why I

told Andrés to take a step forward and

bathe a little in light, be with that,

with that ray of light, and that makes

the thing start to be a little more

interesting from my point of view, but the

photograph is still not 100% finished.

I mean, notice that it is also very

important that it is very unlikely that in

my personal case I have a brilliant idea

and from minute one I already know that

I am going to do that.

No, the first thing is to always have

a neutral background, light and the couple, which

is the main element, of course, and start

playing.

I mean, once I have the couple, I

start moving them, playing them, altering their order,

now your point here, now your point there,

now we go back, now we change, I

mean, I'm going to start doing all kinds

of games until in the end, more or

less, the thing starts to get interesting.

Notice that from what Andrés had said, that

it would finally be placed there, what I

asked for, that it would be placed on

the other side and I already have Tania

illuminated and Andrés in silhouette, you understand, of

course, Andrés in direction for Tania, both are

perfectly connected, one is illuminated, the other is

in shadow, one has, that is, that is

the negative side that we cannot see, for

example, the face and the other is the

positive side in which we can see it.

That contrast between what we can see and

what we cannot see makes the photo start

to be more attractive, but it did not

seem completely finished to me, so simply what

I did, what I needed, is that I

asked Andrés to come for me, I opened

a little what the plane was for, to

include the sky, but be careful, it was

in a place full of buildings and the

sky, well, sorry, on the left it was

full of buildings and I did not want

that to be there, why?

Because I'm looking for clean backgrounds, if on

the right I have a clean background, on

the left I have to have it too,

the blue of the sky fitted perfectly with

what?

With the white wall, a broken white, you

understand, with which the white and blue are

complementary colors, we always have to see this,

we have to understand it, okay?

And the reason why I asked Andrés to

come is to clean up the whole background

and to stay only with a space in

blue.

Now yes, Andrés had it in silhouette and

Tania completely illuminated, okay?

But I wanted to break with the above,

that is, remember that this creative process is

as if we were building a building and

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was building a simple streets without any attraction

when I say without any attraction it means

that they were only trees and a sidewalk

and there was nothing that said wow there

is a light that crosses there is something

that is interesting no that is everything was

in the building that is under construction so

then again we return but of course as

I do with my partners with my workshops

also that I want to say with this

that although I constantly visit a store for

example in Zaragoza in my city although I

visit it four times a year or three

that gives me the same I try and

I force myself not to deliver the same

photos in the same corners to all customers

in the workshops the same thing means that

is, I did not leave me to the

second group to do the same session because

well it is not because of them, it

is also because of my milk, that is,

what a boredom to be doing the same

thing all the time, after all, that causes

me collapse, frustration and well, it is not

necessary that I continue that I think I

explain to myself, that is, therefore, I had

to find things, of course, we went taking

photos but suddenly I went to stop in

the same place in the same damn place

and I already thought well, okay, what do

I do, what do I do to get

out of the comfort zone or the result

that I did yesterday, one as you can

see the line had already widened because because

the day had already advanced more or it

was an hour more than the day before,

therefore the line was already completely different so

I started to think about how I could

work, of course, you also know that in

addition to finding an interesting background, playing with

a powerful or interesting light, the following is

the body language with which I thought of

playing with the veil but with both hands,

I mean, I was going to play in

that cutting pool and I was going to

play in such a way that I asked

the boyfriend to mount his hand that he

will place his hand on top of hers

from Rebeca's hand and that they will start

playing with the veil, of course, I started

doing this but the truth is that whatever

it was, I did not know how to

get to an interesting result and I started

to go, for example, playing again, I accidentally

asked for the same pose that I asked

my friends, Tania and Andrés, I mean, first,

for example, I mean, the girlfriend in the

foreground and the boyfriend in the background, I

mean, that was the same formula that I

used exactly one day ago, with which I

wanted to go with everything, that is, with

everything that was surrounding me, what did I

do then?

I mean, well, change the register and place

them separately again and explain to them both

to Tavo, who by the way is a

great photographer, Tavo Cota, explain to Tavo in

what place he had to place his face

so that the sun would start right here

to create something very powerful and I told

her to place herself on the other side,

but I didn't want her face, she already

had Tavo's face, I mean, if I show

the viewer, for example, simply by two faces,

in the end it was ok, but sometimes

or on that occasion I thought it was

because it was too repetitive and that it

did not contribute more, there it comes again,

although you can think that it is the

same formula but it is not the same

image, it was to tell her, that is,

my friend Rebeca, to throw the veil just

so that Tavo would fall on her face,

but on top of her face so that

part of her face, that is, she did

not have, that is, as little as she

had, that is, we could hardly see her,

for example, with her eyes, but her smile,

I mean, body language again, so I started

to tell her not to stop moving it,

move it, move it, move it, move it,

until in the end, after I don't know

how many attempts, it came out and it

was the image that you have seen, as

I tell you, it has a certain similarity,

but well, believe me that it was what

my idea or my head took out at

that time, not simply to finish things that

I want to emphasize, very clean backgrounds, always

and if it can be colored, there are

backgrounds that will not work, such as those

formed by cement, stones, concrete, or you understand

me, things like that, and then something that

I have not said is very, very important

when we are going to cut, that is,

sorry, when we frame again, that is, although

what we have in front is a huge

space with dirt everywhere, as you have seen,

as you have seen or are seeing in

the videos, I only stay with a small

part, that is, what I am not interested

in, in the same frame, I already take

it away, that is, as I already mentally

abstract and focus on what I need, light,

couple and body language, the rest is sucked,

okay?

So that was all for today, this video

I wanted to share with you because the

location, as you can see, is quite, quite,

or it was quite complex, well, complex, I

mean complicated, but in the end, something came

out that I think was attractive, right?

So I wanted to share it with all

of you, I hope you have a good

weekend, if you have a wedding like us,

give it a strong one, that we are

going to the top, well, be good, have

a good weekend and bastards, see you later!