All language subtitles for Episode 61º Patreon Bea Dani Off Camera (Part 2)

Hello friends, how are you?

How are things going?

In the previous chapter, remember that we were

talking about the session of my friends Bea

and Dani that we photographed in the Expo

2008 enclosure.

Remember that it is an enclosure that I

told you that we used to visit a

lot in my early years as a wedding

photographer because many couples asked to go there

after the ceremony.

Today the same thing is still happening, okay?

And in fact, the couple asked me that

they would like to visit a little bit,

well, to be part of the report at

the Expo.

So, whoever pays is in charge and we

went there, okay?

In the previous chapter I was talking about

some of the photos, how we combine flashes

and such, with natural light and all these

things, but in today's video I'm not going

to talk about flashes, but I'm going to

try to talk to you about how, in

places apparently with little interest, you can get

really interesting photos, first working with the light,

second working with the composition and third working

with the couple, okay?

The first image I want to show you

is the image that the couple told me

when I gave it to them, that it

looked like the cover of a music video,

right?

As if they were a music band and

I'm talking about this image, okay?

The truth is that maybe they are right,

maybe they are right that in a way

it seems, because in fact, after seeing the

boyfriend, I mean, after seeing Dani, it seems

that he has a face like David Guetta,

right?

And on top of that, how he wears

those glasses, it seems as if that is

the point that you are seeing of light,

it seems that it was even a flash,

right?

Well, nothing further from reality, it was the

sun that was hitting his face, right?

Of course, I thought the place could work

for the reason that it is a white

building, right?

Well, or that the color of the building

is white, with which that was going to

help me a lot to make the couple

stand out, okay?

The place is very, very interesting, you see

that two air outlet tubes appear or this,

but I did not want to photograph the

tubes completely, but I just wanted to keep

a small part, the lower part, which is

like a kind of surface, and the two

parts that go up or the two tubes.

I thought that between the two parts Bea

could fit perfectly and in the lower part

he could go perfectly.

In the report or in the video, sorry,

what I am showing you, remember, are the

most creative images or the ones that interest

me the most.

Of course, in addition to these images that

I am showing you, not in this off

-camera, but in the rest, keep in mind

that there are many more, many more in

which there are photographs, sometimes more classic, sometimes

more normal, sometimes the couple is more romantic,

but here I only show you the most

artistic, okay?

So that you understand me.

Well, once I had done this, I just,

as I was telling you, what I told

her to try a little to see if

between the two tubes she could play and

she could place herself and she could move,

right?

At the moment she was moving, I was

already prepared with the camera, okay?

Although she is doing portraits, after all, my

philosophy is always to have the camera here.

And so that at the same time that

I am, for example, telling her, come on,

yes, now move, but notice that I always

have my finger ready, because it may be

that in one of those that is moving,

it may be interesting, and dad, dad, dad,

okay, well, you are moving, dad, dad, and

dad, right?

It's like, it's always having your finger very,

very close, because since we are posing and

since they are static, we are going to

try to give it a more dynamic touch

and perhaps a more interesting touch, right?

That not only, just this, right?

So, well, you see that the image does

not hide anything special either, it's just that

it seemed interesting to me to tell you

a little about how my head had developed

the concept, the idea, and how we finally

developed it, right?

We were in this building, which is called

Torre del Agua, okay?

And right at the bottom, let's go, just

going down the stairs, there was another corner,

quite, quite, quite interesting, and it seemed curious

to me that I could also play again

at two heights, with the girl in front

of me and with the boy in a

corner.

What I felt was that in the background

there was a little triangle that could work,

and I already asked Dani again that surely

he is remembering me, because I did not

stop asking him during the whole session, positions

or super strange things, and I would say,

this guy, why is he so weird?

Surely not.

Well, on the east side I thought, okay,

I mean, Dani can work perfectly there, I

asked him to get up, to sit up,

as you are seeing, and I simply asked

Bea to be in front of me.

Of course, when Bea was right in front

of me, I realized that I had to

ask him to either get on a stool,

or to get on a place, or to

jump, why?

Because I had to have her elevated right

in front of me, if not, she was

very, very, very, very low, you understand me?

So I started telling her to jump up,

to jump up, to jump up, to put

on her glasses, and to look crazy, or

whatever was necessary, but to get up, right?

Finally, the image was like this, in which

Bea, in one of the jumps, is perfectly

captured above, and as you are seeing, right

on the other side, in the other corner

of the image, we have Dani right above.

I mean, interesting things I should say.

You see how, again, there is no background,

you see how, again, there is no ground,

okay?

Why?

Because if I showed the ground, it was

too obvious again, okay?

And look how well it works, that on

one side is, for example, the girl, perfectly

illuminated, on one side of the image, jumping,

and look how well it works, for example,

Dani, who is completely in silhouette, and also,

how well the color of the building works,

which is a broken white, with the blue

of the sky, and with the clothes that,

for example, the boyfriends wore.

And speaking of clothes, I always, or often,

I usually ask my partners to usually come,

or to usually wear, I don't know, first,

whenever they can, a little dark tones, like

browns, dark grays, even blacks.

There is also something that I like, too,

is that I don't like that they wear

brands or weird things, but that they are

smooth tones, okay?

Because then it is twice as simple when

it comes to, well, to work, and to

mix colors, and to make, in the end,

the images, right?

Just going back to the corner, moving Torre

del Agua, that is, in the place where

we were, about to go to the last

location, suddenly I saw that there was a

fence, yes, yes, a simple fence, that served

to open, well, that serves to open and

close, simply, well, a path, right?

And I thought, okay, it may be interesting

that in that fence I play with them,

and I also found it very, very interesting,

one, that the fence had a color like

that, white, gray, super nice, and that it

exerted a super interesting contrast with the sky,

with the background.

Like a couple of little things, you see

that if I get close enough, what I'm

going to do is that the fence is

not so obvious, the ground, you don't see

it, so it's less obvious, and the couple,

I'm going to ask them to go a

little, like several meters, because my mission was

that they were both fit or perfectly between

those gaps in the fence, and I just

asked them to look at the sun, I

mean, that their bodies were perfectly illuminated, and

I just started telling them to jump, to

move, and in the end, I just started

telling her to play with her glasses, and

to her to grab the hat and start

moving, for example, her face like this, and

in one of those, I captured this image,

and as you can see, very simple, but

when we are clear about what are the

parameters with which we play, or the parameters

that we need to be able to take

the images that we need or that we

like, it's very, very simple, that's why I've

always said that it's so important that we

know what photos we want to take, what

are the resources that we have to support

to get that kind of images like the

one I've shown you now, that's why it's

really important.

So, to finish now, I would like to

show you what I think is the best

image, or one of the most interesting images,

and that also, as you are going to

see, it is a very anodyne, very basic

place, good to be on this side, but

it helped me to get a couple of

images that are quite interesting and that you

are going to see.

First of all, let's start, I would like

to show you the location.

The location, as you are seeing, is, as

I told you, very, very basic, but you

are going to see how in this quadrilateral,

in that square, I'm going to get three

completely different photos, two photos, at least, really

very interesting.

What I noticed is that, one, I'm not

going to focus on the location as such,

on how big it is, but what I'm

going to, for example, always look at is

the light that perfectly fits squares there, as

in the background, which is a background with

a very, very soft turquoise green color, with

which I was going to rely on that.

And also, something I told you in previous

videos, don't always think in a postcard format,

but always think in small formats.

And I thought that if I got closer,

another important thing, whenever you see crystals, metals,

I mean, things like that, always think that

you have to explore what happens if we

bring our camera as close as possible.

Why?

Because being a crystal, there may be a

reflection, and if we look at it like

that, it may be that that reflection, or,

sorry, that the light gets inside the lens

and creates effects like the one I'm showing

you now, right?

So, what I started playing with, I mean,

first, trying to simply put the couple in

that square triangle, well, there, right?

In which I tried to play first with

the 45mm, always, okay?

Why 45?

Because, in addition to the focal length, which

I love, it will allow me to focus

or blur parts that I don't need to

be, for example, focused.

Parts that are destroyed or are not interesting,

so that's going to help me a lot.

So I started, for example, by shooting little

things like that, and little by little I

started to move less.

I went to a side, you know?

And I was already worried that I had

them perfectly.

Also, as it was a whole quadrilateral, there

were reflections everywhere, everywhere, I mean.

So then, in one of those, I stuck

my 45mm on the sheet I had on

top to get this interesting result, okay?

And so, constantly, I went walking, walking, and

I was taking pictures, and I was getting

little things like this, right?

Until, more or less, when I thought that

the thing that had already been...

Well, that I already had all the fish

sold, or I had everything done, well, I

decided to really finish, right?

You see that the most important thing about

all this is not to have a brilliant

idea, nor to be creative, nor to be

just sometimes a very good photographer.

Simply, what I always tell you is to

have those clear ideas of what you want

to photograph.

And I always say the same thing, it's

as if a fisherman went fishing and didn't

know what fish he wants to catch.

It's as simple as saying, okay, I want

to fish for a salmon, I'm going to

have to put a specific type of hook,

with a type of sedal, with a type

of thread, with a type of rod.

I mean, for the photography that we are

using, we have to know well what we

want to capture, and we also have, very

important, to explain it to the couples at

all times.

Because before each session starts, I tell them,

surely you're going to fall to the ground,

surely you think I'm crazy sometimes, you're going

to constantly hear me say nonsense, please don't

take anything into account, but it's just to

try to start incredible photographs.

And besides those creative photographs, keep in mind

that we are also going to take others,

maybe a little more normal, I mean, but

just as interesting, just as photographic as the

others.

That's how I always try to make it

clear, you understand me with the couple.

And someone the other day, for example, from

Patreon, who commented on one of the questions,

and it's just that my couples, if I

did that to them, they would get scared.

Okay, of course, that's a very good question,

but by solving it, I have already prepared

all these couples to hire me for this,

okay?

Just as keep in mind that there will

be couples, for example, in my city, or

in my country, or in the world, who

will see, for example, my photos and say,

I don't want that for me, okay?

Well, it's perfect that you don't want that,

but there may be others who will say,

wow, how interesting, how curious.

You have to think about that, that I

don't think about being the photographer of all

the couples in my city or in my

country, I just think that every year, to

20 people who like, for example, my photographic

style, and who want to pay for it,

it's too much, right?

So, it's really perfect.

That's why publishing, showing it on social media,

is so important, because that's the first step,

and it's the first point in which we're

educating our future clients, and that's where it

all comes from.

If we don't publish, if we don't show

any of this, suddenly, if I told a

couple, for example, that I'm going to throw

them on the floor, they're going to say,

sorry?

What do you mean, throw them on the

floor?

But of course, if my partners have already

seen that I throw them on the floor,

that I put them on a tree, that

I put them on a billboard, that I

make them run, that I make them stand

upside down, I mean, when they come to

a session, it looks like they're already waiting

for that, and that's why they come out

like that, well, I mean, that's why couples

don't feel affected or anything, because of the

style, okay?

Well, you see that I'm already starting to

go crazy, so let's leave it here, okay?

Because if not, I'm going to start saying

nonsense and it's not a plan, okay?

So nothing else, friends, that's all for today,

I hope you liked all this, so far,

the off-camera of Bea and Dani, and

nothing else, and we'll see you very, very

soon in another chapter as interesting as this

one, right?

Until next time, kids!