Portrait Photography at EVERY aperture - f1.4 to f16 examples
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2022
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Hey everyone! I'm so excited to be back with my first video of 2022!! This video idea was requested from some of you in my past comments and it was a really fun experiment to try. My aim was to capture at least one good photo for every single aperture of my Zeiss 50mm f1.4 on the Sony A7III. In this video you can see aperture photography examples from a live photoshoot to get a better idea of what each f-stop looks like and in what situations to use them. Let me know which one was your favourite photo in the comments!
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I have been studying all your tutorial and photoshoot. As an amateur photographer, your videos were a great help in getting quality photos. I would like to thank you for that and wish you success in your channel. Best of luck..🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
Thank you so much!
@@juliatrotti Can you please tell me what type of device is used to capture images from a camera in real time?
As in the last video in the lower right or left corner
Maybe this type of device Wireless Video Transmission Systems?
And the video stream was recorded on an IOS/ANDROID device?
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Thanks for this video. Although we all know technically what it means to shoot at different apertures -- you really laid out the impact different apertures have on the creative process. When we are given a fast lens, our first instinct is always to open up the aperture as wide as possible, because that is the one magic thing to do to make a dreamy image every time, regardless of the background. But looking at the photos you've taken here - I am more impressed by the ones taken between f 2.8 - 5.6 over the ones at f 1.4. Those taken at smaller apertures were more thoughtfully created, their background contexts give the viewer more to imagine (they tell better stories), and they really are a pleasure to look at with a somewhat vintage feel.
Bravo for the good work.
Really great video and loved your commentary as you reduced the aperture from wide open portrait, through to fashion, street and finally landscape was spot on. A 10 minute master class. Thank you.
I've been doing photography for 6-7 years now, and I've struggled a lot to find creative energy over the last three years, and I really haven't even been spending time watch photography videos. This video was very refreshing, and interesting. Appreciate your consistency with making quality and educational content!
My takeaway from this as an amateur landscape photographer is that I will start using shorter shutter speeds when doing portrait photography. You shot f4 with 1/400 and iso-500, I would probably have gone for 1/80 and iso-100 or 1/200 and iso-250 instead. I used to do some modeling and this was a good reminder that it was really frustrating when the photographer would ask me to hold poses and stay perfectly still for ridiculous amounts of time. Now I won't be that guy and I have you to thank for it!
Yess that’s great to hear! I always love capturing movement with my portraits so a fast shutter speed is a must 😄
These aperture comparisons always mesmerize me. Because if you have a decent skill set, you can make any one of them look good. I personally like to use wide open to hide the fact that I'm not very creative or location aware in my compositions. I haven't given up just yet...there's still hope! ;)
This video is so helpful, thank you! I also appreciate that you shot in harsh sunlight to show us that it isn’t anything to be afraid of and you can still get beautiful photos as long as you are mindful of the lighting. The patch of sunlight on the ground acting as a reflector is a great tip.
Thanks so much!
I love people who share their editing app ❤
I love this video and all your others! can't wait to see what you keep posting in 2022! happy new year 🎉
I really like the comparison. For me, I usually tend to shoot wide open, only when I shoot like semi-profile and want to get both eyes more or less in focus, I go up to something like f/2.8-3.5. I also like the dreamy look of closeup portraits with the 50/1.2 when I get a chance to shoot with it because I don't own it :D
Just wanted to say these videos are super helpful as someone who is getting familiar with the manual settings on a camera. Thank you so much for all the help!
I just wanted to say I really enjoyed your video. It is really well put togeather. I really liked around f2. Personally I almost always shoot at f1.4 or f1.2 depending on the lens. The only times I use a high apreature when shooting people is when they are near something interesting. Like a famous monument etc. But your video confirms that. The difference between wide open and f16 🤯. Again, thank you for the great video!
I am glad that f2 looked so nice, my two full frame primes are f1.8 and f2 (my 24-70 is f2.8 and my 100-400 is f4.5-5.6).
Great video. I really like that you explain in which situations would you use certain aperture. Outdoors portraits up to 5.6 are really beautiful. Just enough background so it's not distracting... and styling, posing, compositions, model... spot-on as always
Thanks so much! And I agree, the 5.6 shots were my favourites from this day.
Such stunning shots from every aperture, great work!
I love this video Julia, very useful !! a great help in getting quality photos. Have a lovely week and . Happy New Year with many inspiring content : )
I've been waiting for someone to make this EXACT video..so thank u.
F 1.4 for sure. That creamy, dreamy, bokehlicious look is too good!
Thanks Julia. Another great video. Happy New Year!
Ive been gone a minute, Julia. Ive moved down the hipster road of fujifilms but still come back to learn a lot from you. Stay beautiful hun. Bokay!!
Love the explanation of which aperture to use in different scenarios. Thanks for sharing ❤️
And gorgeous model 😍
Hey julia. Thank you for this great video! Your model is so magically beautiful that I forgot to pay attention to the content of the film the first time I watched it ...!
Happy New Year Julia and Dan. Great video to start the year and all the ones below F5.6 worked for me. The f1.4 look amazing.
Happy new year to you too and thank you! I agree those were my favourites too - 5.6 and below. Although I didn’t mind the others either but I would need extra lighting to make those apertures really pop
excellent work julia!!! love this video
amazing video, so much information yet so simple to comprehend and formatted extremely well!
Fun video Julia, made me appreciate that I don't always have to shoot wide open! Any plans to do a 35mm portrait tips video? I just got the sony 35GM, and I loved your 24mm and 85mm tips videos but can't seem to find a 35mm tips video. Which is surprising cause I know that's a personal favorite lens of yours! Appreciate you and your content 🙏
Thankyu for doing this, I made tones of notes and it seriously helped me figure out what to do for my own work.
Julia, I learn SO much from you♥️
I kinda like the raws better if not equal there! Also always soooo blessed with these models!
Maybe its cause I shoot portraits and landscapes but I like the shots she was getting after 3.5 up to 16. Although I do love the dreamy-ness of the 1.4, higher aps have a different effect especially in the landscape orientation. A sense of togetherness between the scenery and subject is how I can explain it when composed with intention. I shoot disposable film as well and those are usually set to a 5 ap.
WOW !!!! Amazing how you found such a beautiful background setting, striking model, and came up with such a creative project of trying out different f stops !!! Coooooool !!! 🙂 I have always been a fan of 85mm but thanks to you Julia I can now see how the 50mm can take it to whole NEW level. ALSO you are so so so good at your post production skills so we the students can really see the ALL the important differences !!!! YES !!!! With HUGE gratitude and thanks 👏🙏 🌹ps. Happy New Year to you guys 🙂
yes exactly sir
вау!!! это прекрасный образ и модель, а фото выходят просто сказочные!
So many ideas!! Thank you!!
I still have to resist the urge to shoot wide open. Never forget the first time I shot a close up portrait at f4 on my Pentax f1.4 manual lens. It looked almost 3d. So much more was in focus and you could make out the curve of the eye balls!
Bellissima modella, i tuoi video sono stupendi!
I feel like I understand the uses of f-stops better in the context of cinema, where roughly speaking:
f/8 and up is for shots where everything is in decent focus and good when there are multiple people in the scene, or when the environment itself is important
f/3.5 to f/8 is when you have multiple subjects at different distances and pulling focus is needed to clearly see one, but you can still see the one that's out of focus, which is good for dialogue between subjects; or if there is one subject, it is where the subject is more important than the environment, but the environment is not insignificant (say capturing an important expression in the subject while the subject moves through an environment that too needs to be shown)
f/3.5 and below is for close ups when a subject is saying something important or expressing an important emotion
Perhaps there are portrait photography analogs to these.
I got interested in this type of video after watching Camera Conspiracies videos making fun of Toneh, whereas before I thought larger apertures were universally considered better
Hey, I know this is a 3 month old comment but I found this interesting.
Can you explain this again but with focal lengths instead for cinema?
I want to buy a 28-75mm f2.8 lens for video and photo work, but I'm interested to know what focal lengths are used in Cinema work.
I can Google it but it's good to hear it from someone rather than a written article.
@@paiman_ I'm not a cinema expert, I just learn from UA-cam videos. My understanding is that the focal lengths used in cinema are the same as in stills and give you the same field of view for a given sensor size. Cinema might also be where larger sensor formats are used like in Medium or Large format, or the biggest which is related to IMAX and give the largest natural field of view for a given focal length.
The idea of having different fields of view is to be able to get shots that more or less fall into one of the categories: Wide establishing shots, middle "normal" shots for dialogue between characters or for revealing the character's body language, and close ups for capturing detailed reactions of one character. The focal length used isn't so important, because one can simply move closer or further away for a closer or wider shot. But out of convenience, certain focal lengths will make wide shots easier to capture vs. close ups.
Off the top of my head 15 mm or less is considered ultrawide, 30 mm or less is considered wide, 50 mm is standard, 80 mm or more is considered tight or telephoto. I could be off on these.
Using a longer focal length will give you a blurrier background, which is also where artistic considerations come into play (also functional, because a blurry background can hide things or make the subject pop).
Then there are T-stops, which are mathematically the same as F-stops but you also divide by the fraction of light captured by the lens. This controls for different transmission levels of different lenses at the same aperture size to focal length ratio (f number), therefore helps standardize the amount of light exposure for a given T stop setting. Some lenses have more glass elements and different coatings that affect light transmission through them.
In view of this, it would seem that blurry background level isn't as important to standardize as light exposure level. Because you could have a cinema lens with an f number 2, and 0.8 transmittivity, and you get a T stop of 2.5. You can also have a cinema lens with an f number of 1.4 and 0.56 transmittivity and you also get a T stop of 2.5. The difference is that the f/1.4 will have a blurrier background. Correction: the formula for T stops is dividing the F stop by the square root of the lens transmittance, so the examples I gave above aren't numerically correct, but the idea remains the same.
@@cryora Good stuff man. You got good knowledge. You should put it into some sort of use for sure.
Thanks.
@@paiman_ Some of it overlaps with what I do, which is graduate research with lasers, optics, and imaging. Photography youtubers are helpful in learning to understand the jargon and how lenses and camera settings work in a broader context, so that whenever I want to do something in the lab, I can just do it without asking for help and do it in the way I intend to. Helps establishes credibility as an "independent" researcher. Nothing is more defeating than having to ask for help and then having others think I am not cut out for the job, so then they take the reigns and do it for me, and I learn nothing from it, but am still expected to write a report / give a talk on it as though I did it myself.
That tonea video is so funny, but helpful...lol
Your videos are so helpful! Thank you!!
This is a god challenge to practice.
Very pretty portraits
Good tutorial to understand f stops whatsoever there is many of us who shut digital and film and with digital you can play all u want but with film u only have 1 ISO u really have to understand lighting not as easy as digital good work keep up with it
thanks a lot, I do learn everthing about aperture now
Thank you, this was very interesting for me. I want to increase my Portrait-skills.
I love my 45mm f/1.8 with an APS-C sensor camera - that performs like a 70mm f/2.8 on full frame. With my 50mm f/1.4 I mostly "stop down" to f/2 (roughly 75mm f/2.8).
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awesome video, great photos!!
Very educational- thanx for taking The time to make it☺️
Очень круто! Thank you!
Thank you.
nice concept! imma try this.
juliaa ur the best
Great video! I think everything between 1.4 and 5.6 was excellent. Beyond that I think it's still very much possible to have great shots, but as you said, you really need to compose the background with the subject more in order for it to work better. I would also hazard a guess that at the smaller apertures above 5.6, a wider focal length (say 28mm or 35mm) might be better if you're already in environmental portrait territory.
Lens aperture selection also affects sharpness. Lens resolution often suffers at both end of aperture. Sensor size and resolution will affect diffraction. My late friend told me instead of using max aperture, close down a bit like f2 shown in video really help bringing the sharpness to the subject.
Also the trouble focusing at f13 mentioned in the video, I also recently got a Sony mirrorless, it seems that the camera closes down the aperture to simulate exposure even during focusing, less light coming in to focus.
It wasn't a problem for DSLR due to AF system that let the lens aperture open wide when not doing rhe exposure. So the AF is not too affected by aperture.
Heck even m42 auto lenses has some kind of auto closing aperture system back then!
Loving these vids
Thank you
Nice video! I shoot a lot with a 50mm 1.8 lens and not too often wide open outside, mostly at 2.8 or F4, but I LOVE my nifty 50!
i'm bit late today because of a video shooting!!! happy new year Julia 🥰
Thanks Julia - always clear, upbeat and useful videos. I really found it visually helpful when you'd do a side by side at wide open vs the higher apertures plus guidelines for portrait/fashion/landscape aperture ranges. Having all the aperture shots together would have been useful too! 🙂 thanks again.
It sounds crazy but I just realized through this video that I'm not that big of a fan of Bokeh. I Mean in certain situations it does look great no doubt. But I think I prefer anything between 3.5-8 over the wider apertures. This video was truly eye opening for me.
Same. I prefer f2.8 and f4. F8 is beautiful too. I like to see the photo and the details.
50mm is actually goated
Please do one with most possible focal lengths too! We need a well produce and modern videos like your!
Amazing
Cool. Thank you.
Amazing 😻
Very interesting to see. A tip for you: best is to not have tree branches and other objects grow out of peoples heads.
Thank you 💙💙💙
I love your videos. I think for a small aperture I would play more with the landscape and not so much with close up shots. For those I prefer thewide aperture.
Really helpful 👍👍
good and super informative video, but would suggest you make a slideshow of all the pictures in end of it, so its easier to actually compare and see difference between all the apartures in cronologic order. im long time stalker on your facebook page, and gotta say im impressed by the amazing work you doing, keep it up:)
enjoyed the video, thanks
Hi Julia! I love your videos!! Thank you for producing consistent quality content! I recently got a new canon 6d mark ii. I use it with 50mm 1.4 lens. Would you recommend I use single shot or al servo focus for portraits? Since 1.4 has such a shallow DOF, which focusing method would help produce sharper photos in your opinion?
I'd be interested in a video explaining why and when you go for high ISO. In one, for example, shutter speed is 1/640 and ISO is 1250. But the model was posing, so I would have thought slower shutter speed and lower ISO would give better image quality on a very sunny day.
I'm just ameture, so I probably won't explain it the best.
But my guess and assumption, is when she had the 1250 ISO, is when she had the larger number f stop
The bigger the number of f stop, the smaller the hole of the lens is (I forget the technical terms)
So when she uses the bigger number, alot less light gets into the photo, so she has to up the ISO, as in the beginning, first photo was 1/1000 shutter and F1.4 and only ISO 100
And because of the F1.4 ALOT more light is exposed in the photo
Which is why by the end with the F16, she has 5000 ISO to compensate on the loss of lighting.
If that makes sense, I'm not the best at explaining but hope that helps.
j'adore votre travail ;)
Thank you ❤
Its a good thing that your camera handles noise very well when you step down to a tight aperture and gotta bump the ISO up to 5,000. Once upon a time that would have been unthinkable to have to shoot at that high of ISO in the daytime! LOL
Thank you, ma'am!
Thanks!
Very nice 👌
f/11 avec du flou de mouvement en arrière plan. Bonne année 2022
Hey Julia, long time fan, first time caller! Absolutely love all the information you’ve been sharing! You’ve been pivotal in learning the ins and outs of my last two camera (a7iii & a7iv) and a huge reason I’ve invested in certain lenses (I.e. zeiss 35mm 1.4). I was curious as to what device you use to record your camera while taking pictures, really love the idea, and think it would be very beneficial for me, and my UA-cam channel!
She recently got 2 a7iv so most probably she use those. Check a few old videos and you will see it
@@charruaporelmundo Hey Gustavo, I know she records her actual videos with her Sony A7SIII, but I mean what she records her screen with when taking photos! Thanks for trying to help! Appreciate you!
I enjoyed this comparison. I also like open to medium aptueres for portraitture. In this video the face of the model was lightened in post and therefore got an unnatural yellow color cast. To me using a flash would have been an good idea.
The yellow colour cast is due to our extremely green location. And thank you!
Further proof that while yes wider apertures produce that dreamy "pro" look so many aspire towards, it is not the thing that will make you a great photographer. One really neat trick if you do find yourself in super tight f stops like 16 is that they tend to start softening the image due to diffraction. So what I like to do is simulate in editing some disposable film looks which are usually quite high in apertures as well. Helps make it look intentional!
Cutieee 🥰❤
Thanks for the video, it was extremely helpful. I usually shoot between 2.8 and 3.6 as I often have couples in front of the lease and I want both to be in focus. But I am not completely satisfied with the look. Now with this comparison I can see, that I need to open the lease even further. But how do you get both eyes so sharp while shooting with 1.4?
I liked the 7.1 shots a lot actually, the background was beautiful
Thank you!
Can you please tell us what is mounted next to you cable ports on the left hand side?
Thank you! Love your content!
9:07 favorite pic by far
Hi Julia! Great video! I can't figure it out how you were recording your viewfinder? Doesn't look like an atomos 5 there. Thank you!
I would also like to know, what is the EVF recording? Thanks Julia, you are fantastic :)
Is that the Benbox attached to your camera? I have a Benbox haven't used it in awhile never thought to strap it to the side of my camera what do you use to capture the signal?
I liked the 5.6 shots a lot, actually.
Love the presets used here. You got any discount codes for your lightroom presets?
Hi Julia! Can i know what you used to record the evf in this video please?
Hey Julia. What are you using to record your cameras viewfinder? It doesn't look like you have a atomos ninja 5 monitor or anything.
@julia - by any chance can we get the images for pixelpeeing and playing around. If you want, please add a watermark to protect your copyright. It will be great to look into the images by downloading and zooming to 100% on laptop.
I love you vedios
Do you shoot in Manual or Aperture priority and let the camera select the shutter speed and ISO?
This was a very interesting comparison. It looks like close ups are better shot wide open, but body shots with pretty background & foreground seem better between f4-f12. The shot where she's laying down at f10 is my favorite. F7.1 with the purple tree is also very nice. & F1.4 is super dreamy!
Thank you!
I defiantly like to shoot wide open most of the time. ill go up to 4.0 at the MOST if i have to.
hank you so much for your amazing videos
Thank you! I always share the unedited photos just before the edited ones, including in this video. The raws are the ones I show at 100% crop so you can also see the sharpness/more detail.
@@juliatrotti thank you! by the way, how do you record what you see in your camera's screen and then show it on the side? I love that detail in your videos
I honestly love 2.8 to 10 the most. Didn't tried anything lower though. After that its a bit kinda boring. I do videos though
I like f 2.8 the best
Great video. Do you have a contract you use for the models so they can appear on monetized video? Looking for one.
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