All language subtitles for Episode 59º Patreon How to balance your photos

Hello, how are you?

How is that band going?

How are things going?

Welcome to a new episode.

In today's video I want to talk to

you about something that is really important and

we could almost say that it is the

base or the foundation of the vast majority

of my images, regardless of whether we are

talking about moments or we are talking about

portraits.

I am talking about visual balance or how

to balance images, be they real moments or

posed.

And all this comes because I remember that

a long time ago, on one of the

trips I made to Mexico, I was lucky

that I just visited Monterrey and as you

may well know, Monterrey is the city where

Fer Juaristi lives and with Fer Juaristi we

kept a small friendship and well, the truth

is that sometimes, well, we write to each

other or we talk and at that dinner

I remember that a little bit speaking, what

Fer told me was that what he liked

about me was that when he entered into

my images, in each of the little corners

there was some kind of information, right?

With which that seemed interesting to him because

he was not a photographer who would leave

his boyfriends in the center, which obviously on

some occasion, as I will explain later, I

do it because it always makes sense, but

what he liked about me was that, right?

He liked to sit down and he liked

to see, right?

Like the boyfriends who were around here, or

a boyfriend was around here, the girlfriend was

over there and how he directed the viewer

to where he wanted to direct him, right?

That is why, although possibly everyone knows that

it is a visual balance or how to

balance, for example, the image, but I do

not know what happens with us, with the

wedding photographer, that when we start taking wedding

photos we forget that we are photographers and

in the end we end up doing almost

everyone the same and we usually take the

same photographs regardless of whether you are in

Italy, in Spain or in the United States,

right?

With which, first of all, I would like

to throw you a few tips, okay?

So that you are clear about what that

visual balance is, right?

I mean, first of all, in our mind,

the way it usually works or how it

is most comfortable is when you find an

image and find that, right?

That there is a visual balance in what

we have on the right and in what

we have on the left or simply the

image that you ...

or if there is an element in the

center, how are you going to feel or

how, I mean, how the rest of the

information that is around that object, element, person

affects it and makes it, in short, well,

how that works.

You should also know that colors, warm colors

attract, attract more weight, more attention than cold

colors, that is very important and in the

same way you should know that geometric elements

attract or have more weight than non-geometric

elements.

Notice that in many of my images I

am playing with warm colors, with cold colors

and, in short, giving more importance with those

warm colors to the elements that I want

to highlight.

I am not going to stop much in

talking about geometry in my photographs because, as

everyone already knows, that, come on, that is,

geometry is one of the most important elements

that inhabit my photographs, right?

So what I'm going to do now is

just select or show you, sorry, some of

my images, both images that are, for example,

portraits or, for example, poses, right?

And I'm going to explain a little bit

what my concept was and how they were

working and so that you can perfectly understand

how that works and, of course, I invite

you to the next session you have or

the next wedding that you really have to

adopt or that you take some of these

tips in your pocket because I assure you

that they will help you, right?

Look, the first image of all because I

want to show you is the one that

I show you now, it is a real

moment in which it is a simple speech

but notice that if there was not that

girlfriend, that smile in the background, the image,

okay, we would know that it is a

speech but it would not have, that is,

it would not have that kind of connection

between the one who speaks with the one

who listens, between the one who speaks with

the one who smiles.

As you can see, this image has, that

is, like a force and both elements are

perfectly balanced, both in light, notice that the

element that has given it more light is

the one in the background, that is why

our gaze will go straight to the smile

and then it will go to the rest.

If we talk about, for example, a pose

photo like this, right?

If there were no hands, if there were

not both the hand of the girlfriend on

the left and the hand of the boy

on the right, well, yes, we would understand

that they are for two pets, for two

dogs looking at both sides, but it would

not stop being, at the moment that we

are showing on the left and on the

right, fucking plant, at the moment that we

are showing on the right and on the

left that there are, for example, elements, we

are balancing, we are endowing with an over

-information and, in short, we are contextualizing, we

are uniting those two concepts to the doggies

with the hands, okay?

Do you understand?

If we already talk, for example, about another

real moment, if only, if there had not

been, for example, the girlfriend with her father

in the background reflected in the mirror, okay,

well, we would have simply shown some people,

well, excited, applauding, without anything else, right?

But at the moment that we are deepening

and at the moment that we are showing

in that mirror that there is information and

it is totally connected with the people who

are right in front of us and that

we are seeing in the foreground, out of

focus, out of focus, but the term that

matters, the focus, is in the background, our

head, which is something more than a sack

of potatoes, is, that is, it thinks twice

as fast as us and makes or sends

us inputs or ideas in which it tells

us, that works fucking well, those two gentlemen

who are in the background are totally connected

with the two gentlemen who are here, as

they are connected, look at this hand with

the girlfriend who is entering, obviously, if there

were no hand, photography could also work, but

that hand is perfectly balancing, what information is

there on the left?

The hand, what information do we have on

the right?

The girlfriend entering the car, that's why it's

always about trying to look and if I

got into my own skin at the time

when Adela was entering the car, at the

same time that I was entering with my

left eye, that is, if I look around

here with the right, if I am here

looking with the left, I am looking that

I have on the left and if that

hand of the Lord entered, I go a

little back so that the hand fits to

introduce it into the frame, and that it

tells two stories, you understand me, that is,

we are adding information and it is also

totally connected, I am talking to you all

the time about how to combine human beings,

but it is not just about combining human

beings, it can be elements, such as in

this image, the element is the graffiti that

is perfectly connected with the couple that is

perfectly fitted in that yo-yo, in that

yellow circle, therefore, the element of graffiti is

perfectly working, if there were not, for example,

a graffiti, I assure you that the photo

would work, but it would not stop being

more of the same, it would not have

as much strength as a priori, because it

has, for example, this image, of course, I

am always talking about balancing, it is an

element that works really well, but we do

not have to be, for example, always balancing

to get super powerful or shocking images, notice

that I have a multitude of images like

this one in which the visual impact is

huge and in which I go direct, that

is, I show directly to the viewer without

any kind of parallel element to the bride

just with her veil floating, you understand me,

that is, we are there, or if we

change, for example, the register, we can go

to the image, for example, of Erika, this

one that I love, in which only the

blow of attention goes directly to the hands,

it is worth that later the eye or

the look goes to the bottom and leads

us to the little feet that are completely

out of focus, but what is the blow

of attention?

The one of the hands, and where are

they?

In the center, there is a parallel element

on one side or the other, on the

left or on the right, no, this swing

does not need it, because all the force

is in the center, if we talk, for

example, about another image in which everything is,

for example, in the center, then we could

say the image that you are seeing now,

no, that is, notice that it does not

need any kind of element that distracts us,

that is, we go directly to the couple

in front of the immensity of the landscape

that we have right in front of us,

which is incredible, of course, we could even

say that in a certain way this image

could also be balanced because there is a

main element, which is the couple with another

secondary element, which is the environment in which

it is located, with which I do not

know if this image could also be valid,

but it could fit perfectly in what I

am talking about, so this was what I

wanted to talk to you about, you see

that I have been fast, I have gone

a little fast, perhaps also talking, but I

liked it, depending on the last videos that

I had shown you, for example, couple reports,

I wanted to dedicate a video a little

just to this, not to talk about how

to balance and how important that is to

try to finally get images as complex as

possible and as visually attractive as possible, so

so far I do not want to roll

up more I do not want to shit

more the video talking about some bullshit or

something that ends up going to my head

completely and I do not want to make

you lose a second more of your time

so so far all friends I hope you

found it interesting and I would like to

invite you to do something about this in

the next session or in the next wedding

because it is not only about portraits and

it is not only about moments but about

photography in general until next time friends be

good