Gotta love photographers like her who doesn't just glorify themselves while shooting. She goes straight to tips and just clicks away, not too much blabbering.
I liked what Julia did, but I'm starting to question it. At 3:02 I tought exactly the same what she mentioned later at 6:37 😁 Aand finally she did at 7:35, noway! So , she argued against herself ;P So if she knows what is not worth to do then why is she doing 1 minute later?
Tips are helpful to beginners, and serve as reminders to intermediate. I wanted to say that your on camera presence is terrific. Good cadence in your speech, just the right amount of confidence. You are genuinely fun to watch. Not everyone has that.
This video was great, and thank you SO much for explaining the "cropped" vs. not when it came to the feet in full body vs. sitting down photos. (Right before you brought it up I was sitting wondering, "Hey, wait a minute..."). In conjunction with what you were saying about using vs. minimizing Leading Lines, one thing that struck me in the photos is that: 1. In the case of the cropped foot at 5:43, another reason cropping the foot felt like it worked for the composition is that the two legs together created visual lines towards the Docs (rather than the model's face) and as a result tension between where a viewer's focus should be, and 2. By pivoting to reduce the leading lines in the photos at 8:24 you almost play an optical trick - in reality the vanishing point terminates at the (higher luminance) white door in the background, but by pivoting it creates a sense that the lines converge on the models face instead. Thank you for putting out all these great composition videos! I feel like I finally understand approaches to composition that have been eluding me for years 🥹
Your model was fantastic. I really love that you add the preview screen at the bottom right, super helpful and amazing!!! I just started following you, so far I'm loving what I see
I usually take landscapes but I got roped into taking photos of a team building event. Discovered your channel because I wasn't quite sure how, when and where to crop. I shied away from taking portraits for the longest time, but thanks to your videos, I think I might give it a shot again. Thanks for the tips and cheers!
This is the first video of yours I've watched. I really enjoyed it! I've been thinking for a while about buying a camera and starting to learn photography. Today I've been watching UA-cam tutorials all days and I was so stoked to finally find a woman making some tutorials! And an Australian which is even better. You almost threw me with the American Photography thingo sponsorship and I doubted myself for a minute and assumed I'd been watching too many videos of Americans today haha. Also I'm now regretting being signed in to my partners UA-cam account and not my own because I am in fact a woman, which is why I was stoked to see a video by a woman.
Yes I would love to see more video like this made by you. You're an excellent photographer and great teacher. Thank a lot!!!! And BTW - you model, SaaraahHenderson is excellent too,
It's ok to crop body parts because your composition has focus and the photographic elements and composition are cohesive. A lot of photos by others that have cropped body parts have such haphazard compositions that the cropping is distracting and takes away from the scene. When I point this out, they adjust for it but they don't take into consideration everything else like how focal length, distance and environment comes into play. Some wil blatantly say that they'll just crop in edit but it then changes the whole perspective of the photo because they weren't deliberate in their composition. Adjusting in post can save a photo but it won't do it all the time. Loving your tutorials and shoots.
In one of your videos you mentioned you were hesitant to shoot people at closer distance but then went on improving it. I had similar experience in recent shoot. Even I tried it on old dslr with old 18-135 lens. It did much better than i expected & got some awesome shots
Tip 1: Give more room to breathe Tip 2: Crop the knees Tip 3: Reduce negative space Tip 4: Keep subject at center Tip 5: Shoot portrait oriented for sitting Tip 6: Crop the shoe closer to camera Tip 7: Watch for background distracting head Tip 8: Wall leading lines 3:28 This model is amazing and beautiful. Even the crows cannot concentrate lol.
God, the model is soooo on point with her posing! 😭🙌🏾🔥 Excellent tips! The best tip is the Leading Lines and line through the face. And framing above joints. I am sometimes bad at that 😅
I wish I had seen it long before. I learned by a lot experiment. This helped to reiterate some. I like the comparison shots, easier to see the point. I also like the demonstration of how the model does subtle movement to allow a natural beautiful catch. Thank you for the tips!
Very helpful video thank you! I would like to hear about how you think about placing the model and getting them to move. How much do you plan I’m advance or do you rely more on improvisation? 🙏😎
This was a very helpful video. As someone who is just starting off with photography and suck at taking portrait, your tips were practical and too the point. Love the side by side comparisons and simple pointers throughout the video 👌📸
I loved the tip you gave about putting a little negative space in full body shots. I tend to shoot with very little space and it leaves me no room to crop in post.
Great video, Julia! It was a nice refresher for me and learned new things as well. Also, I really like your model for this shoot. She was very interesting in terms of the emotion and movement she brought to the shoot!
This tutorial was AWESOME! And the model constantly moving but not too fast helped me with some posing ideas too 👏🏽🙌🏽 y’all were a perfect match for this vid! Thank you for this ♥️
Always great stuff. Just on the spot as I’m doing a shoot today and very helpful. Can you do some more on what the model is thinking to make them comfortable and moving. Kinda like the one with your sister. This model was great but I see young people feel uneasy. Thanks!
I appreciate the tip with the negative space in the full body shot. I was still wondering why I don't like doing full body shots so much :D And the rest of the tips is something I agree with and I like to use those techniques too. By the way, using a 35 mm for portraits isn't too weird, I just need to buy a 35 mm to do it too ;)
Great tip about cutting off your subject's limbs! Not sure where people are picking up the habit of centring the subject but it often leads to the bottom half of their body being cut off (Maybe it's a smartphone thing).
Favourite tip was the cut off above the knees. I like to see portrait shoot with a 70..200, 2.8, where you utilize the different classic portrait f-stops 85, 135 and some of your preferences.
I just bought the 35mm 1.4 for my a7iii last weekend and I love it so much for portraits already. This video is perfect timing and helps me so much! Thank you for another great video Julia!
Great video. I love your editing style and all of the vertical lines in the setting you chose. Your using them as leading and framing lines was educational. I’m now a subscriber.
Both did an awsome job. So fullnof great tips. I'm just getting started in portrait photography but it's so much harder then creative which I've shot before. Beacuse no live objects that must look alive in the shots. But still a ton of fun and already looking forward to getting out and shoot some more portraits 🙏
Thanks Julia.. This is so insightful.. Well, after seeing a lot of your videos, I have fallen in love with 35mm.. Also, the perspective of your compositions is unique to what your style speaks about... However, all your tips are so insightful which I would definitely keep in mind in my upcoming photoshoot.. Thanks a lot for this video
I’ve been watching your videos I didn’t realize I was not subscribe.. quick question what are those wires in your camera 📷 do you mind sharing your setup please
Gorgeous and very talented model. Congrats on a beautiful photo shoot. I know you like the 35 but I would have used a 135. That's just me. That model and the 135GM - woooow!
Good basic posing video. And, PPA is worthwhile joining if for no other reason than the equipment insurance. They also have a lot of training; My go-to lens for portraits and most other work is the Nikkor 24-120 mm f. 4. It works well for me because I never shoot portraits wider than f.5 or 5.6. Once in awhile 4.5 at wider focal lengths.
That was so much fun to watch. I could tell you were having fun cause you were very focused during the shots. Compliments to the model for her posing. I really enjoy watching these videos so thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us 🤗. I would love to know about when to use flash and the difference it makes in photos because I don't use it either unless I'm at a wedding reception haha. Would you say that flash is better suited for studio shoots? Thank you! ❤️
Really appreciate your tips Julia! classy work and the model is a dream! My focus is street photography but noted down your tips for my portrait shoot this week. Thanks a lot. Subscribed!
Gotta love photographers like her who doesn't just glorify themselves while shooting. She goes straight to tips and just clicks away, not too much blabbering.
Yes ,also she have so much positive energy which make her videos so appealing!!
Just a genuine, professional person who wants to connect with the model and isn't full of herself.
I liked what Julia did, but I'm starting to question it. At 3:02 I tought exactly the same what she mentioned later at 6:37 😁 Aand finally she did at 7:35, noway! So , she argued against herself ;P So if she knows what is not worth to do then why is she doing 1 minute later?
This model really is fantastic. Her movement is on time and effortless. Also your tips are great.
I love the simple location. Gives it a relatable feel. Make any location beautiful, you don't need something extravagant to capture a moment🙂
Tips are helpful to beginners, and serve as reminders to intermediate. I wanted to say that your on camera presence is terrific. Good cadence in your speech, just the right amount of confidence. You are genuinely fun to watch. Not everyone has that.
This video was great, and thank you SO much for explaining the "cropped" vs. not when it came to the feet in full body vs. sitting down photos. (Right before you brought it up I was sitting wondering, "Hey, wait a minute...").
In conjunction with what you were saying about using vs. minimizing Leading Lines, one thing that struck me in the photos is that: 1. In the case of the cropped foot at 5:43, another reason cropping the foot felt like it worked for the composition is that the two legs together created visual lines towards the Docs (rather than the model's face) and as a result tension between where a viewer's focus should be, and 2. By pivoting to reduce the leading lines in the photos at 8:24 you almost play an optical trick - in reality the vanishing point terminates at the (higher luminance) white door in the background, but by pivoting it creates a sense that the lines converge on the models face instead.
Thank you for putting out all these great composition videos! I feel like I finally understand approaches to composition that have been eluding me for years 🥹
Love that you’re adding the footage on the bottom right!
Do you know what’s the name of this machine?
amazing tips and what an amazing model!! i love how she just seamlessly changes her pose after each shot.
"Flow posing"...
Love how the model started smiling as soon as job was done, so sweet
The lines through the face is a good point. I feel like not many would notice this!
She said that and then she shows lots of her photos with the garage lines in the back in the middle of the head
The best tip is the one where you talk about getting the model above her knee! Great video Julia!
Never in a million years would I have thought about where I'm cropping. Julia you are amazing.
The real time footage you added on the screen was SO HELPFUL!
I could listen to that voice all day. Great work 👏
Your model was fantastic. I really love that you add the preview screen at the bottom right, super helpful and amazing!!! I just started following you, so far I'm loving what I see
Very helpful tips, added to my knowledge and definitely I'll use them in my next photo session! Good luck Julia!
I usually take landscapes but I got roped into taking photos of a team building event. Discovered your channel because I wasn't quite sure how, when and where to crop.
I shied away from taking portraits for the longest time, but thanks to your videos, I think I might give it a shot again.
Thanks for the tips and cheers!
You are my favorite portrait photographer honestly! Wow !
I love the face photos, they greatly highlight the model's expressions
One of the best tutorials so far. Simple but straight to the point of what actually makes the look of such images stand out
This is the first video of yours I've watched. I really enjoyed it! I've been thinking for a while about buying a camera and starting to learn photography. Today I've been watching UA-cam tutorials all days and I was so stoked to finally find a woman making some tutorials! And an Australian which is even better. You almost threw me with the American Photography thingo sponsorship and I doubted myself for a minute and assumed I'd been watching too many videos of Americans today haha. Also I'm now regretting being signed in to my partners UA-cam account and not my own because I am in fact a woman, which is why I was stoked to see a video by a woman.
Beautiful work and great tips as usual. I must say, the audio track at 4:34 is lit!
Thank you!
I really loved this video! Thanks for including all the different examples next to each other, it made it so helpful.
Somehow I'd missed this one Julia. Some really great tips here. Thanks.
Great shots! I specifically liked the crop above the knees over the railing. Looked really good and made a difference.
Loved the leading lines shots at the end looked fantastic
Yes I would love to see more video like this made by you.
You're an excellent photographer and great teacher.
Thank a lot!!!!
And BTW - you model, SaaraahHenderson is excellent too,
It's ok to crop body parts because your composition has focus and the photographic elements and composition are cohesive.
A lot of photos by others that have cropped body parts have such haphazard compositions that the cropping is distracting and takes away from the scene.
When I point this out, they adjust for it but they don't take into consideration everything else like how focal length, distance and environment comes into play.
Some wil blatantly say that they'll just crop in edit but it then changes the whole perspective of the photo because they weren't deliberate in their composition. Adjusting in post can save a photo but it won't do it all the time.
Loving your tutorials and shoots.
In one of your videos you mentioned you were hesitant to shoot people at closer distance but then went on improving it. I had similar experience in recent shoot. Even I tried it on old dslr with old 18-135 lens. It did much better than i expected & got some awesome shots
Loved the tips as usual Julia 😍 the photos were bomb!! Love seeing your viewfinder preview too.
Loved the full body picture tip where you leave more space on the top, really interesting
the model is GREAT
Tip 1: Give more room to breathe
Tip 2: Crop the knees
Tip 3: Reduce negative space
Tip 4: Keep subject at center
Tip 5: Shoot portrait oriented for sitting
Tip 6: Crop the shoe closer to camera
Tip 7: Watch for background distracting head
Tip 8: Wall leading lines
3:28 This model is amazing and beautiful. Even the crows cannot concentrate lol.
God, the model is soooo on point with her posing! 😭🙌🏾🔥 Excellent tips! The best tip is the Leading Lines and line through the face. And framing above joints. I am sometimes bad at that 😅
wow, did the model attend some sort of posing masterclass? her movements were effortlessly on cue, imagine every model with such talent
I wish I had seen it long before. I learned by a lot experiment. This helped to reiterate some. I like the comparison shots, easier to see the point. I also like the demonstration of how the model does subtle movement to allow a natural beautiful catch. Thank you for the tips!
Very helpful video thank you! I would like to hear about how you think about placing the model and getting them to move. How much do you plan I’m advance or do you rely more on improvisation? 🙏😎
Out of the common tips! Excellent work and its a plus the fact of seeing such a talented model posing. Thank you both!
I wondered while watching, with how many poses would I be able to come up with? Kudos to the model! 🌹
Awesome tips; I always found it really hard to make full body shots look good and I never realised where I was going wrong. Thank you!
This was a very helpful video. As someone who is just starting off with photography and suck at taking portrait, your tips were practical and too the point.
Love the side by side comparisons and simple pointers throughout the video 👌📸
you're the best Julia! greetings from colombia
I loved the tip you gave about putting a little negative space in full body shots. I tend to shoot with very little space and it leaves me no room to crop in post.
great video, lovely model, liked the shots with leading lines at the end,,i try to do that kind of shot when i out doing my street photography...
Great video, Julia! It was a nice refresher for me and learned new things as well. Also, I really like your model for this shoot. She was very interesting in terms of the emotion and movement she brought to the shoot!
This tutorial was AWESOME! And the model constantly moving but not too fast helped me with some posing ideas too 👏🏽🙌🏽 y’all were a perfect match for this vid! Thank you for this ♥️
the model is super beauty and excellent!
thanks. I will try for your advice👍👍
On the second composition, you should mention that the reason you shot from the end of the rail was to get leading lines to add depth!
Very nice photoshoot and tips , Also your edit , so Awesome 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🥺🥺
Always great stuff. Just on the spot as I’m doing a shoot today and very helpful. Can you do some more on what the model is thinking to make them comfortable and moving. Kinda like the one with your sister. This model was great but I see young people feel uneasy. Thanks!
I appreciate the tip with the negative space in the full body shot. I was still wondering why I don't like doing full body shots so much :D And the rest of the tips is something I agree with and I like to use those techniques too. By the way, using a 35 mm for portraits isn't too weird, I just need to buy a 35 mm to do it too ;)
Great tip about cutting off your subject's limbs! Not sure where people are picking up the habit of centring the subject but it often leads to the bottom half of their body being cut off (Maybe it's a smartphone thing).
I feel like such a Pro, after watching your Video!
Favourite tip was the cut off above the knees. I like to see portrait shoot with a 70..200, 2.8, where you utilize the different classic portrait f-stops 85, 135 and some of your preferences.
Love the tips and tour videos. Could you tell me why you use the screen instead of the view finder? A see a lot of photographers doing this much more.
More videos like this please it is such a cool video for beginners like me
This is a great video on portrait photography.
Just discovered your channel and have been loving all of your content
The model is one of the most beautiful women I’ve seen. Great pictures!
Great job and the model excelent. Thanks
I just bought the 35mm 1.4 for my a7iii last weekend and I love it so much for portraits already. This video is perfect timing and helps me so much! Thank you for another great video Julia!
Just stumbled on your page and I absolutely love it...
Your tips are so helpful! Thank you so much for sharing! BTW, your videos are so relaxing to watch!
Great Fotos and great Tipps. Thank you Julia.
Great video. I love your editing style and all of the vertical lines in the setting you chose. Your using them as leading and framing lines was educational. I’m now a subscriber.
Thanks so much!
thank you for the tips. Im hoping to see 24mm or 28mm portrait tips in the future especially how to control the distortion
Both did an awsome job. So fullnof great tips. I'm just getting started in portrait photography but it's so much harder then creative which I've shot before. Beacuse no live objects that must look alive in the shots. But still a ton of fun and already looking forward to getting out and shoot some more portraits 🙏
Thank you Julia!!! 🥰
Thanks Julia.. This is so insightful.. Well, after seeing a lot of your videos, I have fallen in love with 35mm.. Also, the perspective of your compositions is unique to what your style speaks about... However, all your tips are so insightful which I would definitely keep in mind in my upcoming photoshoot.. Thanks a lot for this video
Hi Julia greetings from Brazil! your photos are beautiful! I love your job! success!
I’ve been watching your videos I didn’t realize I was not subscribe.. quick question what are those wires in your camera 📷 do you mind sharing your setup please
Wow, a lot of videos today, keep it up, Julia!
Gorgeous and very talented model. Congrats on a beautiful photo shoot. I know you like the 35 but I would have used a 135. That's just me. That model and the 135GM - woooow!
Phenomenal work…motivational too thanks
Hello.. any idea and tips for family portrait, outdoor or indoor ?? Ive been watching your videos. Thanks for the bts really helps.
I like the tip u gave to avoid lines coming in the face👍
Your tip was so helpful for us. Would you please also share your lightroom PRESET
I love it.. We need more like that dear.. lovely. ❤️
Amo estos videos, Gracias por compartir
Very nice photoshoot I always see ur vedio magic in ur photography
Thank you so much i am very helpful i don't know how much better composition but this video i am understanding compositing tecniq portrait
Hi! I love your work, I was just wondering could you make a video of how you keep consistency with using presets in different lighting situations?
Good. Now I want a 35mm f/1.4. Thanks Julia!
:)
You're shots are really amazing!
Nice how you show the good vs 'bad' photo side by side to illustrate you portrait tip. thanks.
Good basic posing video. And, PPA is worthwhile joining if for no other reason than the equipment insurance. They also have a lot of training; My go-to lens for portraits and most other work is the Nikkor 24-120 mm f. 4. It works well for me because I never shoot portraits wider than f.5 or 5.6. Once in awhile 4.5 at wider focal lengths.
This is very helpful. Thanks for the tips!
A lot of excellent composition tips, another enjoyable video.
First video I’ve seen from you…SUBCRIBED!!!
That was so much fun to watch. I could tell you were having fun cause you were very focused during the shots. Compliments to the model for her posing. I really enjoy watching these videos so thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us 🤗. I would love to know about when to use flash and the difference it makes in photos because I don't use it either unless I'm at a wedding reception haha. Would you say that flash is better suited for studio shoots? Thank you! ❤️
very helpful, thank you. Starting portraits as a hobby mostly family pics. which is the first lens I should invest into? please help
Julie - how is your wireless HDMI set up working out? I'd love to have a video on the set up.
Bro.!😅
Same! I hope we get some more info on it soon.
Really appreciate your tips Julia! classy work and the model is a dream! My focus is street photography but noted down your tips for my portrait shoot this week. Thanks a lot. Subscribed!
Thanks for the great tips Julia. Wonderful model also.
i like all the tips but overall i really like you.. 😍❤
Excellent and very helpful tips!
Julia, what is the accessory you use to record the screen of your camera?
excellent as always!!!
Yes Julia. This is helpful as I plan to shoot with 35mm. 😃
heaven on earth this video!!
Really good stuff!