All language subtitles for Episode 81º Patreon Off Camera Marc Sheila

Dear ones, how is it going?

How are you?

How are things going?

How are the weddings going?

How is the summer going?

As always, send you my positive energy and

hope that everything goes as best as possible

and that this shit is solved as soon

as possible.

The truth is that I am starting to

recover after a pretty hard week, in addition

to a wedding that we photographed.

The truth is that on Wednesday we received

a photographer from Holland, Gilles Strefland, who received

a one-to-one of ours.

We have a service, which is the service

of offering a one-to-one in which

the students or people or colleagues who are

interested come home for several days and spend

literally three days shooting like crazy and showing,

I mean, and we showing how we work

at all times.

In the case of Gilles, she is a

girl from Amsterdam or near Amsterdam and she

came here on Wednesday.

She was resting on Wednesday, on Thursday we

already started with the one-to-one.

In the morning they were theoretical, philosophy and

all this, and both Thursday and Friday were

practices, they were pre-wedding sessions.

And finally, the workshop ends on Saturday, covering

a real wedding with us.

And on Sunday, a little bit, checking what

photos we have taken and how we have

tried to get oil from where there is

none.

So, both this video and the next one,

I thought it might be good to share

with you the two sessions or some of

the photos we took during the two sessions

of last week.

Specifically, both Thursday and Friday, because especially on

Thursday we had a day of those brilliant,

that usually come out beautiful photos or interesting

photos, and I thought it might be interesting

to share some of them with you.

Because the truth is that Erika actually recorded

some videos for us and I think it

can be interesting.

So I won't entertain myself anymore and I'm

going to start sharing with you some of

the most beautiful photos for me.

And as it is obvious, as they did.

The first one I would like to review

with all of you is this image, okay?

And I would like to stop first in

this, in this piece of black and white

so Martian, so mine, in which we can

only see the couple in that triangle of

light.

And apparently we can think that it can

be complicated to get to shoot or get

to take a photo like the one I'm

showing you now, right?

But believe me, it's not that complicated or

that complex.

The first thing we should do is know

what we want to do, know how we

want to play with the couple.

And as it is obvious, as in most

sessions, it is to take a look moments

before the couple arrives to have prepared a

couple of shots.

That's what we did with Gil, right?

It is to review the location a little.

The location that we said, as it is

obvious, is the location in which I can

play perfectly with lines, with clean backgrounds, with

the light that crosses everywhere.

And then, as I say, as I am

going to show you, moments before we went

to review and I wanted to explain to

Gil how important it is for us not

to imagine a location as if we were

reviewing or as if we were looking at

a postcard photo, but from that postcard photo

we are going to look at the important

points.

What was the important point for us?

The light.

The moment we arrived with Gil, I explained

to him, do you see that square that

there is of light?

Well, in that square I want to put

the couple.

Therefore, if I expose that high point of

light, if I expose correctly, what will happen

to the rest that is in the shade?

That will be completely dark, that is to

say, it will be completely black.

The black, as you all know, is a

neutral background, it will highlight the couple, it

will enhance both him and her.

Therefore, I thought it could be a good

idea to start there, for example, the session.

And so it was.

Just as the couple arrived, just as Marc

and Sheila arrived, to whom I want to

thank you enormously, because Marc is also part

of Patreon.

And I think they did six hours by

car, well, I don't think so, sure, six

hours by car to get to photograph this

session.

So, again, thank you guys.

So when they arrived, the square that we

had seen at first was no longer there,

but that triangle was there.

So it was the idea of placing them

there.

I would have placed them separately, but since

the triangle was so small, I told them

to get together.

Clearly, the perspective that I used was to

place my camera in such a way that

only that triangle was seen and nothing else

was seen that I did not need.

So then, it is as simple as asking

the couple to look at the light, that

is, their bodies and their faces to the

light.

Because remember, we are in June, at the

end of June, in Spain.

The days, in addition to being very long,

the light, at least in my city, is

super hard.

So we have to redirect them there, to

the point of light, I mean, to the

sun, and that was simply that.

One of the points, or the main point

of interest, is simply to look at the

light, to know how it affects, to look

at the triangle and simply decide or say,

invite the couple to stand there.

Of course, why did this happen to me?

Because that is my project as a photographer,

it is to understand how light works, try

to find geometric lines or geometric shapes like

the triangle, and just look at me, as

I told you at the beginning, just a

small part of that postcard or that building

that we have in front of us.

That was the first photo that I wanted

to share with you, and after finishing it,

Erika came to my ear and started yelling

at me, and she said to me, you

will not pretend that the next photo is

so romantic, I mean, so static, sorry.

And I said, no, I already understood then

that I could not let myself be carried

away by constantly getting static photos, but she

subtly invited me to make the next photo

something more moving, to also show part of

our claw, of our strength with the images.

At that precise moment, the first thing I

did was to walk around me, we were

on the roof of a building, and the

next idea, to have some claw, was to

say, damn, I'm going to have to make

them dance, jump, scream, throw themselves on the

floor, the first thing I did quickly was

to analyze how both Marc and Sheila were

dressed.

Maybe it would be good if I showed

you this photo first, so you can see

what I'm going to talk about, or the

image I finally took, and I would mainly

like you to stay, to see how they

were dressed, because before shooting, we have to

understand how they are dressed, and how we

can fit them with the landscape that surrounds

us, or with the location where we are

going to photograph them.

Quickly, Sheila was dressed in a red, pink,

light dress, with which I understood perfectly that

that color could work perfectly with the sky,

with the sky, which, as you know, is

a neutral background, correct, clean, very good, with

which we already had the first base, it

was necessary to place, for example, the groom,

I thought it might be interesting that if

she was in the foreground, Marc would be

in the background, and try to photograph, not

his fully illuminated body, since the illuminated body

was Sheila's, but Marc's body, photograph it in

silhouette, with which I proposed to him to

be placed on one side, on one side

of the building where there was shade, with

which Marc assured me that he was going

to be in the shade.

Why did I do this?

Because I'm always looking for the contrast in

my images, the contrast, I'm not talking about

the contrast in Photoshop, but the contrast, okay?

If, for example, if the girl is illuminated,

the boy is in the shade, I mean,

the positive side or the negative side, that's

what I'm always trying to achieve in each

of my images, to have something more than

the separated couple, because yes, but to look

for something that the image is much more

compacted, much more round.

Finally, when I already had both one and

the other separated, her in front of me,

the thing is that I told Marc, for

example, okay, you have to jump up, and

I already knew that when I jumped, her

face lit up, so it worked like a

charm, and Sheila was close to me, okay?

And simply what I asked her to do

was something like lifting, for example, the mane,

right?

I mean, I wanted her to create movement,

I mean, I didn't want her to jump,

but simply move that mane up constantly to

create a super strong or super macho action

in which she clearly stood out.

And why did I make them jump, especially

Marc?

Why?

Well, because he was on a rooftop, he

was on the top of a building and

he didn't have a photo, I mean, a

clean background, I mean, if I shot, as

you are seeing me now, the background that

was behind was part of the building and

part of the mountains that were in the

background.

I'm always looking for a clean background that

helps me stand out that couple, with which

I discovered or I realized that if Marc,

for example, jumped and I had her in

front of me, I could tilt my camera

a little, a few degrees, and what I

was going to get was to clean the

whole background and have only little clouds, so

it seemed or may seem that the couple

was floating, right?

A little more or less.

Also, I don't know if you remember, but

in one of my previous videos I told

you how important it is not to show

the ground on which the couple is being

photographed.

Why?

Because that way we have to imagine, as

spectators, where they are.

It is obvious that Marc and Sheila do

not float or do not know how to

fly, as far as I know, but by

not seeing the ground on which they are

there, our head thinks, and when we see

clouds, it seems that we create that intention

that the couple is floating, in addition to

what I have told you about the colors

that work perfectly, both the sky with Sheila's

dress or with, for example, Marc.

That's why I found this photo interesting.

Also, I think it is a resource that

is very, very easy, right?

And sometimes when we have a creative blockade,

I mean, we don't know where the hell

to go.

We are saying, damn, what is the next

photo, right?

If we are not clear about that, clean

backgrounds, what is the sky?

We have that, we already started to create

and we get a more or less interesting

idea, as you have seen, well, this photo

that seemed a bit good to me, right?

And to finish this video, I would like

to tell you a little bit about how

we did it, or how I took one

of the photos that also seemed a bit

interesting to me.

And I think it is interesting because of

the fact that out of nowhere, out of

nowhere, something interesting came out, right?

Sure, but why was it interesting?

Because there is always a creative process or

a photographic project that helps me find this

type of images.

Before I continue explaining, I think it would

be good if I showed you the image

of which I want to talk about, which

is this one, right?

As you can see, it is a place,

well, it is an industrial site, like so

many others that I usually visit, but what

I was always looking for, right?

It is trying to find patterns that are

repeated, colors that are repeated, things that work.

And what I understood, or one of the

things that I always like to do, as

I explained at the beginning, is to look

for the contrast between someone illuminated, someone who

is not.

Another thing that works very well in my

portraits is to divide the frame into two

parts and I always just place one part

here, one part on the other side, and

try to play, right?

If I had already achieved, I had photographed

the first photo, which was in black and

white, more romantic, but at the same time

conceptual, the second photo of the couple, for

example, separated, for example, dancing, jumping, the next

photo that would be something centered in the

center.

Do you understand the rhythm?

Where am I going?

That is, a photo together, a separate photo,

and already jumping, and a photo together, and

again something more static, but not romantic, right?

Why?

Because, as you are seeing, the couple is

giving each other, for example, the back.

Who did I put to be perfectly illuminated?

Her.

And she was for the sun.

I already knew that Mark, if he was

placed in the place that I proposed to

him, was going to be in the shade,

so the thing worked as I wanted.

Why did this happen to me?

Well, I have already told you, because of

the same vertical bar that is crossing everything.

I was quite shocked that it was green,

but notice that in the end, by giving

it in post-production that darker, more contrasted,

more dramatic touch, it seems or gives the

feeling that the color already fits perfectly with

the blue, because, you know, blue and green

are like two magnets that repel each other,

but in the photo it works.

And also the red dot of her, or

the point of the dress, of that warm

color, works perfectly with the contrast, in addition

to what is, for example, Mark, who is

right there.

I just asked them to be placed like

this.

Why?

Because it looked a bit like that shape,

like the symbol of peace, and at the

same time that line that crosses, and those

lines that hold it, which for me are

them, I mean.

And with this I finish.

When I play with couples, I don't think

it's Mark and it's Sheila.

Obviously, yes, but I think more that they

are figures.

Geometric figures that must be constantly combined with

another geometric figure that was that stick that

was right in the center of the image.

So I wanted to share that with you,

so you can see a little bit what

was the creative process in some of my

best images that we took in Gil's one

-to-one, specifically on the first day, on

the first day that we went to a

location that we have visited so many times

and it was so hard for me to

find oil, because, as you know, finding something

attractive in locations that we visit so many

times is complex, right?

But well, I won't entertain myself anymore, so

I want to leave this video up to

here, and in the next video we will

continue, okay?

With more stories of how we took some

more photos and how we took another photo

with the next couple on Friday, okay?

So nothing else, friends.

Enjoy the summer if you have time to

watch these videos.

I think they are full of interesting things

and that can help you in the next

sessions or in the next weddings that you

will surely have this summer.

So nothing else.

Until next time, bastards.