All language subtitles for Episode 97º Patreon Critique

Hello friends, how are you?

How are things going?

Welcome to a new episode.

As always, I hope things go as well

as possible and I wish you all the

best.

In today's video I want to talk to

you about criticism.

Remember that a few days ago I invited

you that if any of you wanted to

receive some constructive criticism from me, you only

had to send a link, as it was,

and I corrected the link with the story

and all these things.

The truth is that, simply thank you, because

there has been an incredible response, so we

are going to start with what is the

correction.

But before I start with all this, I

would like to give you a little advice,

okay?

Just less than a week ago my Facebook

account, my personal account, was hacked by a

son of a bitch, who, in addition to

hacking my account, published sexual content photos, that

is, child pornography.

I think he published 7 or 8 images,

therefore, first, in addition to losing my account,

what Facebook did was to restrict it for

inappropriate content.

Of course, two or three days later I

recovered the account with the passwords and all

this, and I find myself with a big

problem, that due to the publications or the

photos that were published, I have the account

restricted until almost next month.

In other words, I have the account restricted

for 30 days.

I'm going crazy to see if I can

recover it, that is, to see if I

can publish it, because nowadays I can see

everything that happens on Facebook, but I can't

publish or I can't give it a like.

As a consequence, a couple of little things.

How tied we are, without us realizing it,

to social networks, that is, be careful with

this, right?

But of course, for people like us, like

the photographers that we publish, that we announce

workshops, that we do this or that, not

having Facebook, although it seems like bullshit, believe

me, it's a real bullshit.

And second, don't be as stupid as me

and please always have, both on Instagram, which

I already had it, the security double factor,

and on Facebook, even though you don't use

it much and everything, please put the double

factor if you are not going to suffer

the big bullshit like I have suffered.

So that's it, I just wanted to give

you that little piece of advice on the

one hand, and let's get into what would

be the criticism, right?

As I have already said, and always constructive,

as I have also said many times, it

is only my opinion, so it is only

mine, okay?

That is, do not misinterpret me, do not

take out of context anything that I say,

please, even if I say it, do not

believe that this is the word of the

Lord, quite the opposite, it is always my

opinion, period, and I can be very wrong,

okay?

And sometimes I can make the same mistakes

that I criticize you now, and I may

not realize it.

What do I mean?

That it is easier to see the straw

in the eye of the beholder than not

yours, do you understand what I mean or

not?

In other words, having said all this, I

will always try to find something to improve,

something good, I don't know, for that, but

please, if I say a word that escapes

me, I mean, that sounds bad, or that

someone has not just understood it well, do

not go crazy, I will try to always

be positive, no matter what.

So, let's get started, I'm going to share

the screen, and we'll get started.

Ah, as I have received so many, we

are not going to correct all of them

today, but every while I will go a

little bit correcting, as today, four or five

people, okay?

So let's go for it.

Well, as I was saying, friends, let's start

with, well, with the correction.

I would like to correct five people today.

We have my colleague Miguel Ángel here, we

have Ángel, who sent us this gallery, Alberto

Galicia, my colleague Mar Prades, and Roberto Vega,

okay?

So I'm not going to get distracted for

a second, and we're going to start.

The methodology, or the way I'm going to

do all this, is going to be the

following.

We are going to see first the photos

that you have sent us, and later, well,

I will criticize or simply give my opinion.

Here, as you can see, we have five

images, if I'm not mistaken, okay?

That's it, if any more can, okay?

Six, I think, but hey, first of all,

these series of images have been taken in

a small town in Menorca, which is amazing,

because it is like what you are seeing

now here, it is a small town in

which the blue of the sky is perfectly

combined with the white, okay?

There are even views, for example, to the

sea, which is incredible, and it is a

perfect place to do, for example, a pre

-wedding, right?

Perhaps what I miss is that I would

like to see more photos like this one,

right?

From Winnebaker, in which we can see a

little, well, the architecture so, so special, right?

It does not mean that images like this

one are not good, but in my opinion

it is a town, or it is a

report, sorry, that perhaps in color would have

made a little more sense, perhaps, right?

There is an error, there is an error

that I see, for example, in this, well,

in this series, and it is that although

I am sure that Miguel Ángel knows how

to control the light perfectly, here his hand

has gone a little bit with Photoshop, that

is, I mean, here he knows perfectly in

this image how to direct them to the

light, but I would like you to take

a look at it, right?

Here, as the mask has gone, well, it

has gone and there is this halo that

makes it smell, well, it smells digital and

makes it not so powerful, right?

And there are images, not this one that

works well, in which it is light, sorry,

I am trying to, sorry, it is this

one, okay?

In which it is clearly noticeable that it

has been tried, well, to clarify, right?

Because it is already seen here.

This is one of the most common mistakes

among us and that, like it, it is

perfect, that is, of light, it is perfectly

fitted in the frame, why not play with

it in that way?

And we do not worry so much about

how to edit, but we are going to

see how the light works and, depending on

that, we are going to pose it to

him, do you understand me?

And I wanted this.

Here you have, well, like another example, right?

In addition to the acting that does not

finish convincing me, you have to understand more

how the light works.

Imagine that we do not have Photoshop, that

is, that there is no Lightroom that helps

us.

Imagine, force yourself for a second to try

to take almost the image of first, already

finished, do you understand me?

That's what I would do.

Honestly, my opinion is that in color I

think they would win more and I would

bet more images like this and images like

this.

And as I told you, in my opinion,

I would do everything in color to see

how we can get to it.

But it is a good session, very good.

We are going to go with Ángel Hernández

and we are going to take a look

at his images.

First this one, second this one, okay.

Notice that it is a good gallery, good

light, you hardly notice that there is an

edition here, but I like it, okay?

But less is more.

In my opinion, I think there are more

images than there should be.

What does this mean?

That there are images with a really interesting

color and maybe I would do it or

I would have published less because there are

images, for example, this one, although it is

very, very beautiful, perhaps it does not make

sense at all, okay?

Why?

Because I consider it to be a color

report, right?

And there is, well, sorry, not only because

of the color, but also because of the

intensity of the moment or the action.

What do I mean?

That this one works perfectly, with this one

it works perfectly, with this one it works

perfectly and this one also works, but this

one ...

it is not that it is ...

let's see, let's see, let's see, it is

not that it is bad, quite the opposite,

it is perfect in light, well-defined colors,

whites are not broken, it works well, but

what happens?

That the mood is a little lower, so

it no longer ends up working because this

one, with this one, with this one, with

this one, with this one, and with this

one as a header, I mean, as a

hit, as to open the post, it would

work very well.

I mean, primary colors perfectly defined, I mean,

intensity of the moment, right?

I mean, maybe this is the one that

...

the color photograph with less intensity, but despite

the fact that this one is beautiful, as

the one that I had shown you in

black and white, I think it was around

here, no, that one in color, they are

images that end up being diluted by the

fact that they do not have so much

intensity, with which, if instead of publishing 10,

we publish 6 or 7 maximum images, super

well defined in color, super ...

with a powerful moment, we are earning a

lot more than not this, right?

I mean, always an image that is cut

in half, that is, if we publish 10

and an image does not reach the height,

it makes the report a little more lame,

but congratulations, Ángel, because it is quite good.

Let's go with my colleague Alberto, which I

would like us to take a look at

first, okay?

The ideas are well raised, it shows that

you have a vision there, okay?

But there are images that are not quite

well executed.

Mainly, one of the main mistakes, so to

speak, okay?

Is that the funds you have chosen do

not work.

Come on, this session was taken in Mexico,

Mexico, I know it a little, one of

the things that Mexico has, and that I

love, among many others, is that you always

have walls, colored walls, okay?

When we pose a couple, when we tell

them, for example, how this image can pose,

I know from experience that backgrounds like this,

which are like granite, concrete, or something like

that, do not usually work, because it is

not a clean background at all, and it

absorbs too much light, it does not reflect

enough light and it does not finish working.

There is also a common error in all

your images, that the light does not properly

accompany the two people, okay?

I mean, here it does accompany the boy,

but not the girl, okay?

I mean, maybe if there was not such

a direct light to the area that we

are seeing now, to this area of the

boy, by the face and all that, and

by the shirt, maybe it would not bother

me so much, right?

But having such a bright light here, in

the boy's face , and the shadow, sorry,

and his girlfriend, or his girlfriend, who is

completely in the shade, does not work.

Notice that for many photographers, the biggest problem

is the acting, it is how to pose,

but it is that you do not have

problems with what refers to that, okay?

You make small mistakes, such as cutting here

in the eye, that is, hiding it completely,

but you have small mistakes such as the

selections of the backgrounds, but you also have,

I mean, the aptitude to choose this, cut,

I mean, I mean, this is not casual,

that there is a crack here, but the

lights, as always, do not accompany you at

all.

Here it could work, but if the boy

has a belly, hide it, little boy, and

the background.

The background, I love this background, but not

this line.

I mean, again, your acting works perfectly, but

something important fails, but it is easy to

correct because it is only to realize and

notice, which is how the light works, you

understand me?

Because here the light works well, but look

at this master line, it is cutting the

boy's arm, so that is a small problem

that we should correct, okay?

They are small problems, and this one, despite

the fact that black and white is not

one of my favorites, because it looks a

bit like sepia, but it is beautiful, I

mean, your acting works, but your backgrounds and

your light, sometimes not, so the most complicated

thing you have already done, that is, now

go for the simple thing and look carefully

at what you fail, okay?

We go for Marc Prades, my colleague Marc,

and something similar happens to Marc than to

Ángel.

What do I mean by this?

Let's take a look.

Very good.

In my opinion, Marc, and despite the fact

that he demonstrates natural light control, artificial light

control, he has managed to get this girl

into the damn glass, I mean, here is

a photographer with a look that he knows,

that he notices what he is doing, right?

But in my opinion, his mistake is that

there are images that, despite being well resulted,

like this one, are more or less compositively

speaking, and light too, of course, and this

one does not transmit, that is to say,

sometimes, and I include myself, the photographers are

more concerned that everything is working technically perfect,

that what those images transmit, okay?

I don't know if I explain myself, what

I mean is that this image works, yes,

perfect, that is, for a photographer, in a

portfolio review, because of perfect composition, but what

does he do?

Nothing.

What does she do?

Nothing.

What does it transmit?

Very little.

Like her, because this photo is a perfect

exercise to combine post-artificial light with interior

light, fitted perfectly in this little frame, that

is, everything works well, but nothing happens, and

here it is difficult to understand her, and

here she is perfectly fitted, in the middle,

centered, everything is fine, just the moment, but

the bride is like all the brides, like

many of the brides, sorry, she enters and

does nothing else than enter.

I don't know if I'm explaining myself, and

here, okay, there is a super well achieved

reflection, but we don't know what happens either,

but here everything changes.

How do you think the future client will

want to see himself?

I don't mean that you have to take

photos that are not well composed, but the

future client wants to see himself like this,

with his husband next to him, jumping with

his friends, and here you can see that

there is an artificial light perfectly exposed, emotions,

toasts, friends, alcohol, party, fun, okay?

This is the one that transmits me the

least.

Of the ten, I think you have four

killer ones, and the rest that are perfectly

well exposed, worked, but do not transmit, only

that.

I would like you to take a look

at that, Mark, okay?

But very well, man.

And we are going for Roberto, who told

me that he does not publish series, but

publishes one by one, okay?

And I told him that what I could

do is simply criticize a little the aesthetics

or the functionality of publishing only for an

image like the one you are seeing.

First of all, and this, in addition to

my opinion, is a little advice, okay?

Have you ever been to a museum where

a work of art is in a black

passport?

I think not.

I mean, it doesn't work well, in my

opinion, to put this black strip on it.

My opinion is that white would work quite,

quite well.

I'm not saying this.

This is simply a standard of aesthetics.

If you talk to Erika, surely she will

criticize you more than me, and more harshly,

okay?

The problem of publishing, for example, series of

three, because these three make sense, that is,

they are united, it is the same couple,

these three are the same wedding, these three

are the same post-wedding, and these three

are the same post-wedding, or yes, well,

I guess so.

I mean, what happens is that when an

image like this is published, perhaps in a

series of ten it would work perfectly, it

would make sense and, I mean, it would

have a weight, but in this case, this

image alone does not say much, it does

not convey much, in addition to not working

compositively at all.

In a series of ten, this photo should

fit you and it would work for you,

but of course, I don't know, Roberto, how

many weddings you have in a year and

how much material you want to publish or

can publish, do you understand me?

Of course, if someone has few weddings, they

cannot afford to create ten stories constantly, that

is a problem, do you understand me?

I mean, that could be one.

And only when three images are published, for

example, since we spend three bullets, notice how

well this works, that there is a shadow

here, there is a veil that is moving,

with which we are feeling the air, the

girl is smiling, it means that it is

a photo with energy, okay?

But what happens here?

Okay, yes, the light is very good, the

composition works, everything is correct, but there is

not so much energy.

This image in a series of ten, that

is, of the post-wedding session, would make

sense, but here it is lost and diluted,

and the same thing happens here.

Of course, yes, the light is perfect, even

the pose, okay?

Although I already imagine why it is taken

from so far away, right?

As a boyfriend, you can put this like

this, but hey, it doesn't matter, these absurd

comments of mine will be left over.

I mean, everything works well, but when, that

is, it is worth that each one of

us has to publish what comes out of

our noses, come on, that is, no one

can limit us and we as artists have

to be faithful to ourselves, but we have

to know that Instagram moves by visual aspects,

that is, by the punch, okay?

That we do not have to let ourselves

be carried away by it, but the visual

punch is really interesting.

I don't want to seem like the man

who knows all this, but look at how

important it is to receive, that is, to

show a blow like that, and how important

it is to let yourself be carried away

by emotions, right?

And you see that all images have a

brutal action, and I did not publish 10,

I think there are 5 or 6, but

do you think I had bad images, for

example?

No, man, no, I had good images of

this fashion, and more than 5 or 6,

but why publish?

I mean, the future customer, when he sees

this, now yes, I think, he will say,

wow, how cool is this, how curious, right?

And I show the cathedrals of my city

in an unobvious way, boom, with his best

friend, a little one, with a little fatter

one, with the dress, I mean, emotions, right?

And my soul of something that is not

so obvious, and now, well, the moment that

they offer under a completely different perspective, right?

And the dancer out there in the middle,

all crazy, and then the end of them,

right?

So that's it, I hope to remember that

I am not an example to follow, okay?

So this was for, well, that's all for

today, friends, I hope you liked this, and

what I always say, they are criticisms, I

try to be constructive, but it is always

my opinion, so if something I have said

does not suit you, do not take it

to mass, come on, do not listen to

me, okay?

So nothing else, friends, until next time, be

good and keep hiring weddings, assholes.