Shooting with RaRa in Fiji
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- This BTS is from Peter's first shoot in Fiji with RaRa, you will see him finding the light with no reflectors to create some stunning images first thing in the morning. All colour images are straight out of camera, and the black and white images have had a green channel added to them.
Model: Rhiannon
Instagram: @ragdoll212
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Lighting: Natural Light
Camera model: Leica SL2
Lens used: Apo-Summicron-M 1:2/90 ASPH & Summilux-M 1:1.4/50 ASPH
Filmed on:
Sony A7c with Zeiss Batis 18mm on a DJI Ronin-CS Gimbal
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RaRa Fiji! An awesome combo.
Thanks
Always nice to see RaRa working with Peter. Few can do as well as she.
RaRa is awesome :)
Consummate professional.
Great session in the Fiji beach side and superb light.
Thank you
You guys are the best! Simply Magic makers! Videography, Photography Tutorial and Modeling all in one!!!
Wow, thank you!
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Your welcome ! I look forward to all your productions on you tube.
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL shots! That woman is always ready for her closeup.
Thanks so much
You are shooting Rara so much I wonder when people are going to ask "Are you a couple, is she your girlfriend "
Great video, thanks for sharing !
Amazing shots, Peter! RaRa is one of my favorite models! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
She is awesome :)
I have said it before, but the mark of a true master is how easy you make It look, but I know it IS NOT that easy! God Bless!
Thank you
Great collaboration. The 2 way communication makes such a difference I noticed.
Thanks yes it helps heaps
Excellent beach shoot, RaRa effortlessly amazing and they way Peter plays with light and natural reflector is so good. Great video !
Thank you
Poor Peter stuck on a deserted Fiji island with Bec and RaRa. Where were all the other inhabitants? Ra Ra is fabulous, she's my favorite of all the models you shoot, enjoy the great weather!
Great use of the natural light. RaRa is a great model and I love how she enjoys working with Peter. Great job everyone, and hope you all enjoyed Fiji.
Thanks yes we did
RaRa and Peter ..epic. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching
Beautiful......🦋
"Which tree turns you on more?" lol
Hi Guys! Thanks for suffering (?) Fiji just to do some shoots. Peter, this is for-real photography, love it!. The RaRa mojo is working overtime in this shoot, absolutely looks the part. And the wild hair beach girl Bec look in this video is somewhere beyond awesome! Again, thanks. A bit of domestics to get through and then on to Inspire for Bec Fiji - day 2.
Thanks Steven
Ra Ra shish boom ba!
Oh Bec looks terrific 😃
Stunning!
Very much appreciated Peter! Very educational!
Thank you
Why does it look so easy to take such amazing photos? I know the answer. Grab two stunning models, get yourself to Fiji with the models. Find some shadow. And don't forget to use Leica camera and open your lens as wide as possible. Here, the masterpiece is done. ))))
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing. it with us.
totally agree! Isn't there so much to learn from this video? So many practical aspects of photography in challenging circumstances... ;) :)
Nice...
Natural light
What the throng. Take us back to paradise please 😊
Yes I injoy it bec great job Peter 👏 👍
Thanks so much
Loved this shoot so much ❤
Thank you
Gorgeous - top work.
Thanks
Many thanks for this new backstage session.
@Bec: As you can see, outdoors, next to the sea or ocean, looking to the horizon, there is hope. Many thanks for recording the session, from different angles.
@RaRa: Many thanks for posing in this session. I have already told you so many things… here there is another one: if you keep on raising your arms, contort your body and move your neck like this, you are going to melt even both North and South poles. You always give to the audience all your body and soul.
@Peter: many thanks for showing photography with natural light outdoors.
@Peter: I have been thinking about the blurred backgrounds, and after watching these two Fiji sessions I have a consolidated point of view about it, that I will try to describe in the following line: have you ever watched those movies, mainly for children, where at the beginning a story book is opened and theirs characters came to life and become real?
@Peter: this session brings doubts to me: BW versus color. Video in color and photo in BW?
@Peter: I am fully aware of the negative impact of being close to salted water for the camera.
@Peter: one of the focus in this session is the position of the Model and Photographer in shadow or Sun. I would always think that the Model in Sun, and the Photographer in shadow, but I see that there are other valid combinations. Other focus is the high/angle of the camera regarding the pose of the model; I asked in one of the podcast sessions.
Wow beautiful place to do your photograph work
I'm starting to wonder whether Peter has _ever_ captured RaRa's smile. I know she can and he missed at least two opportunities. I also know she has a beautiful smile as evidenced from her IG account. Come on, Peter, capture that beautiful smile!
Your contents are the best man
Thank you
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer your very welcome
Love the use of underexposure.
Thank you
@PeterCoulson I’d love to see some OCF outdoors to see your style.
it's not my thing, I only use OCF at night ua-cam.com/video/-ZUI6gCNcR0/v-deo.html
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer I understand it was just something I would be interested in if you ever did make a video about OCF on location, even though I know it’s not something you typically do. Either way I enjoy your videos very much!! Cheers
I might have a play in the new year 😊
Brilliant you guys, can I come and be your caddy on the next trip. 🤐
Thanks but as you can see I don't use caddies 😊
Is there a reason why breakfast cannot come before dawn so you can shoot in early morning light? I always wonder about that
..aah...a nice fashion-shooting.....😁
Thank you
Awesome 👍👋🙏😛
Thank you
Tip from MarcusPix I just learned for Bec and RaRa. When you are in a tropical location and your hair gets frizzy try to find some distilled water and wash your hair with it. It will get rid of pretty much all of the frizz. Might be tough to find some places but it's worth it if you are doing photoshoots.
Thanks heaps for the tip
You can always make your own distilled water by boiling and condensing the steam.
And there’s me thinking that she must have gone to a lot of trouble to get her hair to look like that…..
@@dorsetdumpling5387 Depends on the vibe you are after in the photos, I know Peter is confident in the images he's getting so I figured I would share the tip if it's helpful. I am by no means saying there's anything wrong with what they got. Hair gets super frizzy in tropical locations and sometimes that's perfect if you want that look but sometimes you don't so that's when the distilled water comes in. Better to have the knowledge to get a different look if that's what you wanted.
@@PAPIKen0728 yeah definitely. I'm sure it would be tough to get enough to wash your hair doing that though. Some hotel rooms or resorts don't have a kitchen.
Nice
Thanks
I love watching you work, Peter. Gorgeous shots. I know it's easier with mirrorless to see your exposer before you take the picture, but I'm wondering how you are metering. Are you spot metering when shooting in this kind of environment? Thanks.
I use over exposure alerts or Zebra, Canon, Nikon and Hasselblad don't have this feature in the viewfinder
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Thank you for responding.
Awesome work of you two! And great usage of natural light, as always. Learn a lot from this. I wanted to ask you if you don’t shoot in portrait on purpose or do you just like landscape better in your pictures. I realised that you barely ever turn your camera in to portrait position.
Thank you, My eyes see in landscape, also I can crop a portrait out of a landscape
Fantastic shoot! Peter, when you are first working with a model how do you get them to give you that "Far Away" look in their eyes so consistently? Is it just training, or is there some explanation you use to get them there? In the past I've asked models to look past the camera, or to some imaginary dot in space to try and get that look, am I on the right track? As usual I love the use of shade to augment from full sun or overcast and that mottled look is just stunning, of course RaRa may have something to do with that "Stunning" part!
Thanks, I just tell the model to look through the camera to who they want to be looking at
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer I will have to try that. Thank-you!
Hmm. Nice images. But why go to Fiji and shoot 90mil f2 then ? The location gets lost. More to come I think ?
Thanks the look I wanted but I also shot at 5.6 and a 50mm
What are your thoughts about tilted horizons behind the model? I did a beach shoot forever ago and one of the critiques I got was to keep the horizon level in the background
Doesn't bother me, I don't follow camera club rules :)
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer 😁😁😁 i love it
Bec, Your shoe is untied...
🤫
I should have been a photographer.
maybe one day
Love becs top
I gotta say many photos are kind of average. I don't see much creative use of the insane scenery. The model is standing in front of the palmtree that hides so much of the scene. Or the background is blurred 3:25 so much, that it could be anywhere. same situation in 4:17.
The model is really pretty. With good models almost everyone can take nice photos.
Many photos are simply overexposed and have bad composition at the same time. 4:35, 5:49, 8:28, 10:37, 12:01, 13:54
At 7:10 the chosen composition of the background is not that interesting. The model is great of course. She's really good with her expression and her relaxed mood and loose body posture. In that scene it would be a better use of the background if the Model sat on the stone wall on the left, where the other camera is sitting. Using all the palmtrees as a nice environmental bokeh and having the model sit there, leaned forward with closed eyes or similar variations of all possible ways she could be sitting.
If you'd see the photos just for themself, you wouldn't see mich of the beautiful area.
I noticed that we don't see all photos. I'm sure there are more photos that are good.
5:12 is a really nice shot.
I think Peter has an insane understanding of how light works! That's why I'm surprised to see so many overexposed photos.
What I admire ist the fact, that Peter actually does it and travels to that place and gets it done. That's really cool! That effort is kind of rare I'd say.
And you were there for probably more days than just this shoot, so I assume that there will be more photos to come!
Looking forward to it :)
Mmmmmm
I am sorry for crytics, but i missunderstand why did you use so poorly that beautiful location and nice model? There was a plenty potential shots that you haven't make, you could ask your model step in the water, sit on those stones or lay down to make a couple shots in the sand, put a shoreline in the background - it would look beautifully blured and give you a nice perspective. Besides in all your frames she was just looking straight into the camera, and overall all photos look more or less the same. Another thing I have noticed is that you haven't done any editing, why? The sky is overexposed, the colors are poor and dull, I just can't catch the reason
and if I did all of what you have suggested this would be your style not my style. I take photos for me and what I love. Just to finish 1.5% of the views on this video have clicked the down thumb 98.5% clicked the up thumb I think I will just keep doing what I love 😁
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer probably you're right, but likes and dislikes are illusion of confirmation. I have put a thumb up to your video and subscribed to your channel, because I do like it, and so I do like what you're doing in general and I like you personally, and still I think that there is something to improve. Don't take it personal, same I think about myself even in more important aspects than work with model or location