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Hello friends, how are you?

Happy New Year!

How did you spend Christmas?

Sure that, well, sure it has been great

and, well, I hope you have enjoyed your

family, yours and, well, and if you have

been able to take some photos, I know

that wedding is complicated, but hey, although another

Christmas landscape, some foggy day and some day

of storm, who knows, right?

So, well, I mean, I wish you that

everything has gone as best as possible and

hoping that Santa Claus has been good to

you.

In my case, Santa Claus has behaved quite

well, I suppose he has behaved well because

the gift has been quite good.

Look, I want to show it to you

because many of you do not know me

or do not know my facet that for

a while I have been a game addict,

or now they call them gamers, and well,

Santa Claus brought me the Nintendo Switch.

The truth is that I had, it seems

that I had taken away a bit of

this video game thing, but notice that throughout

history, well, I even have this pin, it

is an imitation for Game Boy, then I

have a PSP, it's been days since I

got into it.

Another one that I get quite into or

got into is this, it is an imitation

of a PSP, but with 5,000 games.

I bought it, I think, in a story

on a Chinese website, I think it's called

Wish or something similar, and my friend Fabio

Mirula, on one of the trips I made

to Tuscany, Fabio found out that I am

just as addicted as he is, and he

gave me the Super Nintendo Pocket, with a

few games, including Street Fighter, which stole hours

of my youth, or my childhood, or whatever

we want to call it.

But hey, this chapter is not about video

games, because surely you are all laughing at

me, or freaking out, who knows?

But no, this video is not there, nor

is it to congratulate Christmas, since the previous

one was dedicated to all that, but we

are going to talk a little about photography,

and today's chapter is about portraits, and in

particular, about how to get more dynamic portraits,

or with something more powerful, if I say

dynamic portrait, it is that, or dynamic posing,

I mean that we are going to try

to give something more strength to what our

portraits are, for example, the main function of

all this is to attract the attention of

the viewer, it is something fundamental, as you

are seeing now, it is about including some

element more than the simple couple, it is

like I am talking about providing a little

more content to our image, since if we

are constantly photographing portraits, or taking portraits, or

posing, at the moment that we are showing

on so many occasions, or in numerous photos,

it is paired simply as such, in a

landscape, or in a foreground, or even if

it is not in a foreground, what happens

is that in the end it becomes a

bit monotonous, it seems that the portraits are

already beginning to be all the same, and

it seems that in reality we are not

contributing anything, of course, one of the functions

is to give more movement to all this,

because it is to break the rhythm of

what a couple would be constantly, for example,

kissing, or face to face, or loving each

other, of course, that is what everyone has

been doing, and I think that adding photographs

like this, what it will create for us

is, that is, to break the rhythm, as

I am telling you, and create a little

more movement, or a greater dynamism to what

would be our photographs.

I think it is great when we are

photographing, for example, a pre-wedding report, or

a post-wedding report, to alternate this type

of image, that is, for example, I invite

you to obviously photograph the couple in the

foreground, a little further away from them, including

the landscape, but if we find ourselves in

an exterior landscape, if there is some element,

like a little house, like animals, as well

as other people, for example, if we do

a report on the beach, it is good

to include someone else who is there, for

example, located, or if we do a report,

for example, the couple, and the couple has,

for example, animals, for example, in the company,

what it will allow us is to include

those animals, or those different elements, for example,

and create a much more interesting image, with

much more content and much more strength, and

also, by playing with different elements, what will

help us to introduce something that is really

complicated when we are only talking about a

portrait, I am talking about composition, about creativity,

thanks to including, for example, elements, like animals,

or people, or architectural elements, what will help

us is that we add a touch more

creativity, we help to play, or it will

help us to play with the composition, and

consequently, our images, from being from a simple

postcard, from a simple portrait, will become much

more complex, and also, going back a little

bit, when we are talking about including, for

example, animals, as is the case if the

couple has, for example, puppies, or has a

cat as a company animal, or whatever, what

we are going to create is an empathy

with the future client, what I mean by

this is that what is going to happen

is that if we are publishing, for example,

a photo of the couple that we are

photographing with their puppies, what is going to

happen is that the future clients who want

to hire us, if they have dogs, or

if they have company animals, they will feel

identified, we are going to create a direct

connection with our future client, and ultimately, we

will have more possibilities than other photographers who

do not have this type of portfolio, with

which it can be very, very interesting, and

well, as an anecdote, as an anecdote only,

if I am one of the photographers that

you send to, well, to contests, that you

know, and I say it from experience, that

sending photos of couple, with company animals, or

with other types of animals, you are going

to have more possibilities, or you may have

more possibilities, to win some prize, because, as

I say, not only empathy is created with

the client, but with the jury of a

contest, it may be that that jury has

some type of animal, well, of company, and

that may serve you a little bit to

empathize with the jury, but as I say,

the function of all this is to try

to get more complex images, with greater dynamism,

with greater strength, and ultimately to break the

rhythm, it is about that, to escape a

little from the static, so rigid posing, in

which it is only about posing a couple,

if it is not about, as I have

told you so far, to include different elements

to support us in all this.

As in the previous chapter, not in the

one at the end of the year, but

in the one that talked about the 2x1,

to include several stories in one, notice that

this also goes through that stele, through that

philosophy of getting images that tell more than

one story, but what I want to get

to, and just like I did in that

chapter, in the 2x1, I used some of

your photos to explain myself better, and to,

by the way, customize this a bit, and

not always show my images, which in the

end, as I tell you, you are going

to end up a little tired, and so,

by the way, we do a little, we

create an interaction, and by the way, I

criticize the sheet, and there is the portfolio,

and I give you a couple of shoulders,

right?

The first image that I want to show

is of my friend Fran Ortiz, and what

you notice, as this image, in addition to

having consciously put the couple in that circle,

is included, sorry, in a broader context, in

addition to including it in a landscape, in

a landscape surrounded by people, which makes us

look a little more, the viewer, that is,

me, you, you look a little more, you

stop for a second, and you think, okay,

well, the portrait has been made on a

beach, we have people here on the left,

in short, it is about providing more complexity,

or more, well, elements, right?

In the same line, for example, I could

show you, by the photo, for example, of

my friend Parejo, that is, it is an

image in which, maybe, if there was not

all the environment that surrounds the couple, it

may be an image in quotes, a little

simple, or a little, not boring, but not

complex, right?

In other words, a photo, without further ado,

of a couple in the backlight, because they

are kissing, but of course, at the moment

we include, for example, someone from the back,

as we are seeing, we include just on

the right, someone who seems to be giving

the paddle, or a racket, or is playing

tennis, or whatever, we are already including a

lot of, for example, information, right?

Like, suddenly we have a couple on the

beach, we know that it is a beach

environment, and we know that around the couple,

who is kissing, we have, for example, someone

who is playing, we do not see the

opposite, or the opponent, or the colleague of

the one who is playing with the racket,

but we already intuit that there are many

more people than those that, for example, apparently,

in the photo we have, right?

With which that is really interesting.

I would like to show you one more

photo of my Brazilian friend Rafa Vigarelli, in

which, notice that, well, Rafa has a multitude

of images in which he combines, well, the

formula of what is being spoken, he has

images, for example, like the one you are

seeing with the horse, he has images, for

example, with this kitten, and I am going

to stop, especially in the photo, in which

you are seeing now, in which it comes

out, well, a couple, simply, well, walking on

the beach, and the puppy, the puppy of

the couple, which is right at the other

end.

You see that it is simply, well, telling

two stories, that is, we could start, for

example, with the image in vertical, and on

the left side we have the story of

a puppy swimming, and on the right side

we have the couple walking.

Of course, if we put them together, they

create content, that is, they already create a

sense.

If we include animals, it is also possible

that we get, sorry, to get a funny

look, right?

That is, a funny point in our photograph.

I am talking, for example, about images like

this, from my friend Oyer Aso, in which,

notice that it appears just, well, the couple

who is kissing, or is about to kiss,

and we have a flame right in the

background, right?

Of course, in itself, the look of the

flame seems really funny, right?

That is, with which we are already raising

the smile of our future client or viewer,

and that will make the viewer empathize with

us, laugh, in short, connect with him, and

the image really works, right?

It appears, in a certain way, more interesting

than it could have been.

Notice that if we remove, for example, the,

that is, the animal in the background, the

image says rather little, okay?

As in Alex's photograph, for example, if we

remove this bicycle, the photo seems to lack

all its strength, and what's more, I think

that in the bicycle it receives almost all

the force of the image, because the couple

is barely interacting with each other, and the

bicycle makes us go from end to end,

all the image, and we look at the

different elements that there are.

Of course, the bicycle is perfectly fitted on

that door, and the couple, that is, it

is perfectly triangulated with what would be, well,

the environment, right?

And, as the last image, already one of

all, and one of my favorite images, well,

that I have seen, notice that Vivian has

played perfectly with the colors, and with the

car, and the color of the car, I

mean, as such, right?

Because, notice that the car in which the

bride is sitting is red, the white of

the bride fits perfectly with the blue and

with the red, and at the same time,

the car that is in the background perfectly

fits, or the color, and the composition, and

the information, I mean, everything is perfectly united

with what would be, for example, the bride,

and also, that cross of legs, that X,

and that triangulation, makes the image totally round,

and makes it work perfectly with, well, with

everything that surrounds it, right?

So, again, Viviana, I'm using too many of

your photos, but it's that, come on, I

saw it, and I really loved it, right?

You see that, well, this video was about

that.

I'm giving you little, I mean, little brushstrokes,

to give you little tips, or little tips,

to make your images add more value, right?

I mean, if you are, for example, in

an environment, for example, well, I mean, for

example, urban, well, in addition to taking pictures

as such of the couple, how about we

include more people, right?

So we will give it a little more

movement.

If we are in a landscape, for example,

of the sea, I mean, how about we

include something more than, I mean, the couple

with a beach, right?

Well, I mean, there are like a multitude

of possibilities to turn your postcards into something

more than just postcard photos.

And, well, I mean, if we publish just

one, for example, a postcard photo, well, okay,

if it's just the couple kissing, well, it

may seem perfect, but the moment, for example,

we publish a blog entry, a series of,

for example, on Instagram, of 10 images, or

on Facebook, the moment we include one of

these images, we are adding, we are adding

information, and we are adding creativity, with which

this will always help us, right?

So I'm not going to finish here and

keep saying nonsense, right?

So nothing else, friends, this has been the

first chapter of the year, I hope you

liked it and very soon more, okay?

Be good, behave well and until next time!