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Shoot: Sisters Part 3

So what? I'm gonna have you dio You're gonna sit right on this part with your back against their honey. Is that right there on the corner? Perfect. You can leave right on there. That's what I wanted. Good job. So what greater you're gonna be in the sherry's. You're gonna be in first grade. Are you excited? Did you go all day last year or did you school part days? Whole day. So it will be the same again this year. Have you met your teacher yet? Not yet. Yeah. Do you have a boy or girl? Teacher? Do you know you don't know? What's your favorite thing about school? Do you like to call? Do you do have art classes? I heard that you draw. Is that true? And paint? Do you get to do that at school? Very much. Oh, wait. Oh, that's fine. What's your favorite drawing or painting? Painting like this for me, Honey Her? What was the last picture you painted? Do you remember? I can remember. You paint too many. It's all a blur. Could look right here in the camera. Good job, sweetheart. Do you know what...

you could do for me? could I hire you to paint me a picture of a Chihuahua? You think you could do that? Do you do many jobs for hire like that? Not very much. You're still young. You have time. Okay. I'm gonna have you stand up. Okay, sweetheart. And let's put you right here with your back. I get a little bit. Yep. Right over here. Good jobs. Perfect. And you're gonna put your job. You're a good little poser. Do you pose a lot? You practiced with your mama? Yeah, sometimes. Does Mom take pictures of you every single day? No, not every day. Can't get a little giggle from you. Good job. Perfect. That was perfect. I'm gonna have you do one where you're standing right here. Oh, actually, see that little about right there? Can you cover it with your shoe? Perfect. And what if we did your little toe thing where you touch your toes? Keep like this for me? You're very good at following directions. Go and look up up the window for me. Honey, did you want to take any pictures with your glasses off where you want to leave him on the whole time? Leave him on. I think that's a good idea. Do you get to pick him? Do you get to pick the color? Does Mommy pick it for you? Do you have more than just blue? You have other colors too. What colors do you have? So you get to wear different ones depending on your outfit. You don't really wear the pink ones. You want to cross your arms. You can cross your arms if you want. Teoh, you don't look down right there. The just look right down right there. Perfect. On the count of three, you're gonna look at me and give me a little giggle. Are you ready? Good to have. Do you want to take a break and let logo for a little while? Okay. How are you doing here? Holding up. Okay. You still got energy to keep going? Yeah, E, if I throw in a few questions would be great. And maybe you guys, since we're at a source, switch up our models. Maybe you guys as well feel free to ask a couple questions. Um, a lot of folks in the chat rooms are wondering how you determine your subjects. Proximity to your backgrounds. Do you have a certain distance you like? Do you ever work on the backgrounds and post, or how do you feel about that? I use my backgrounds and all different depths with the model. Like you see us. Sometimes I lean him against it if I'm focusing like so if I want to do a shot that was really focused on her, I would probably pull her since I shoot such low apertures maybe five or six feet from the wall. But, um, I varied a lot. I don't have, like, a standard. It just depends on what? Look what Look I'm going for, okay. And so, uh, this is another one just for clarification. I'm a mom and aspiring family photographer. This is from photo Mom, and she says I have a 50 millimeter and with love to notions, suggestions for the next lens that she should consider purchasing. I love the 50 Greenland's. I should all prime lenses. I'm shooting 85 today. I have a 35 to, um you know what? I'm gonna talk. I will talk more about gear and all of that kind of fun stuff tomorrow and my reasoning behind picking different lenses. Um, so it's hard for me to just say, Oh, you should get this lens next because it really I feel like, depends on your style because I feel like each lens lends itself to a different. Like I choose the 85 because it's a great portrait lens and it great compression, just beautiful, beautiful backgrounds with it with 85. And I also feel like it's I was caught like a hugging hug England's because it brings your back your background in and just like, envelopes. Your, um, your subject and that's kind of the field I want in my images is just like a warm, cozy, like enveloping you type. But amazing images were taken with a 24 or 35. It really just it. So it's a hard question for me to answer. I think maybe it's something what images of she drawn drawn to and then pick your lens based on on that field because, like 24 35 I feel like they're more lifestyle and more environmental. Yeah, sorry, I can't come out and say No, that's great, That's great. And we are gonna do equipment segments will be Yeah, about. We'll talk more about that. I'm and I live on. I'd love to know. Last question before we keep moving from a time standpoint, in general, how long do you spend with the kids That with your with your golden time. So, like, these two girls are super easy. Amazing. Like do exactly what? I asked for it, but ask. So they might only need, like, an hour. Um, I would say I'm usually an hour to two hours. I usually don't go over two hours, but at least an hour. Like if I'm wanting to get individual individual group. Yeah. Cool. Thank you. Right. Oh, yes, please. You were saying you shoot wide open a lot of times. Is that what you said? Do you ever struggle with, especially with kiddos? And I know you said you, like sometimes this swirling of the movement that are there ever times when you want it crystal clear and you struggle, shooting wide open and getting a picture. Well, yeah, especially the 85. The slow Olin's to begin with. It's it's not super fast to focus. So that is an issue with little or ones my like kind of ballpark ages. I shoot is really like the 6 to 12. So I don't have a ton of issue with them being too squirmy Usually, um, And when they are, I find it's more just about me not nailing it. Still focusing its just making sure I'm nail like right where the Ebola. So I put it more record on me. I guess I don't I wouldn't up my aperture. Normally, I just work harder to get it. Yeah. Then I Yeah, the more kids have, the farther up I go, But even when I'm working with the group, I don't really don't go above the 4 to 5 ish range. I mean, I never go back. So, you know, this is a classroom setting. Is this the frequency in which you shoot images? Are you shooting a lot more? If you were just kind of go, go going or you just kind of get the post there and then say this is probably pretty similar to how I mean, I do a lot of interacting with the kids. We do a lot of like, pausing. Just have a conversation or, um, Michael asking question will show me stuff. Stuff like that. I feel like even though it takes up, it might take five minutes. It gets the next five minutes. I'm shooting to be, like, way more amazing images. So I'm not. Does that make sense? Like I feel like it's worth the time investment, but yeah, I would say this is probably pretty accurate other than when I'm stopping right now. Is that anybody else? We're good. All right. Back to you. You're so patient ways. So good. All right. So let's dio get rid of these again. Um, how about if I have you sit? So I'm gonna have you do because you're gonna go down just like this, and you're gonna be in on this, and you're just gonna I'm too tall. You're gonna come down and lean on your on your the top of your hand for me, Okay? So hurt. Yeah. Okay. Is it comfortable to come down a little bit lower or is that uncomfortable? Is it too uncomfortable? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, just like that other hand. Maybe bring it up and then go ahead. Actually, it won't happen. Have you Just go ahead and grab like that, and then you're gonna kind of lean that little smile. Perfect. And then let's go ahead and turn you sideways. Like this actually is gonna have you kind of grab your toes. There you go. And I'm gonna have you look over your shoulder. You're gonna laugh right there. She told likes it when you left. Perfect. And a lot of me, because I like it dio Good job. And then the pose that you're in, Steve, just like that, Except for your going to come down and just very perfect. Beautiful good jobs were behind with your chins. Have you kind of lean? Let this other hand kind of dangle off the front, The one with the bracelets, and, uh, Okay, go ahead and stand up for me. Have you read about here? So, like, this would be a good example of when I'm doing when we're out 100 kind of far. Pack far away from the backdrop just to bring a little more focused. I'm gonna concentrate on her in the dress. What's the hair of a little bit? Um, so just kind of maybe kind of grabbed the dress a little bit on one side. There you go. Just give me a slight little smile. Beautiful. Good job. And then this Maybe a little bit of that foot turn like Olivia does. There you would. She learned that from watching you. Uh, then give me a good giggle. Coming like, good job, perfect. Sweet hurt. And then go to get back against long Have you put one foot up on it? Drop it a little bit so I can still see your foot very ago. And you just gonna go like this and just kind of looked down her figs. Oh, yeah. Hold your hair back for me. That was cute. Here you go. And look right over your at me. Beautiful, beautiful. Good job. Um, I guess at this point, Is there, like any questions or anything? You let anything you would like to see me like that. We've talked about this morning, use with the girls, or do in real life so that you can see it in action. Or is there any questions coming through it all in the chat rooms? That would kind of help show more of what I talked about this morning. Um, so far, Limit. Let me take a peek, but let's go to the audience first. Okay. Like like if you were doing this for the dress, would there be other shops that you would be taking? Yeah. So I would probably do things like so she does. She did this as a like, fun little embellishments to see her pose right now. Go and do that again, honey, and put the dress out like you did. So instead of focusing on her face, go ahead and look down, sweetheart. Um, head against the wall, though. So your hairs. And there you go. I would shoot it so that I don't know if you're able to tell when it comes up, but the focus is all on that little blue piece. So then when I got and I One thing to keep in mind to when you're looking at the images is I crop in photo shop. Um, because I just switched my foot, my focal points in the camera. There's always that, like, blank area. There's no focal point for, so I usually try. And plus, I like to be able to play special since I don't do a ton of editorial and sometimes you need more space. Um, I like to make my cropping decision after. So like a lot of the stuff you'll see, it's not how the final image is going to look, because I could use that same image a couple different ways, like I could come in and, you know, crop it just so that Blue is really showing or leave it bigger and maybe even cloning a little more white up here and, like, put their the dress name or stuff like that. So So, yeah, I would focus more on details of what they were wearing, rather than when it's a portrait shoot. It's details of the girl. Largest megapixel. Yeah, and I shoot raw plus J. Peg. Um, I tend to if I'm just doing quick stuff from you, just edit my J pegs. But commercial clients always went wrong. So so how many images that this was for the two dresses? Would you end up giving your client that hired you for this shoot? It was that commercial, so it depends on the line. If it's like this, this line she's doing is like, um, it's a one time run, so she's doing with specialized run just in the clothes will see today so I would spend more time because it specialized in really want everybody to see the details in a normal like commercial shoot. Be like five or six. So you'd want to show like the front beside the back. I always watch for, like, special little details that I think that they would want, because sometimes sometimes it's on the back of the dress. Still, you know, do acute cut out our little bow or whatever. Um, so in this instance, I would probably give her 2025 images of the dress because it's a special run. But, um, normally, I'd say, like, 5 to 6. It's not a ton just toe, but you're talking lines that have, you know, 80 dresses. Did you see your hand go up? Oh, so, um, star would love to see a shot of Lola with her leg up against the law. Put your foot up against the wall. Okay. Yeah, which and one thing I watch for when we do stuff like this since she's wearing a dress, can you put your foot up? Pretty far? Like put it up. Do you see if I take the shot now? Um, that when it comes up. She doesn't have a leg on the right side. So you have to be really careful when you're doing stuff like that. So I always make sure like before. I don't know if you noticed when I took that shot, can you drop your foot just a little bit? So I always work, and I watch hands to I don't I'll go over a little bit more when we talk about posing. But I don't know if you noticed when, like Olivia used her pocket. I was like, Oh, keep a thumb out because you just don't want any limbs severed in the in the making of an image. Can you give me a four like, perfect good job? Was there a specific question she had with that shot that she? No, they thought it would just make a cool shot. Perfect. Bring more war. It is. Yeah. Great. So I think we're ready to start moving into talking about our next segment. Perfect. Awesome. So this was great. You know, I love getting the backbone during our first segment on. Then we then you showed it here, and then we're going back to some backbone, right? Yes. Great with before we hit the family, Hit the family. Shoot. Yeah, I'm just gonna cover. It's gonna be similar to this morning, but then more focused at when you have different age groups. More people, Um, those kind of things. How to make it special for everybody involved as well.