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Lesson 8 from: Photography 101 for Moms

Jules and Joy Bianchi

Wrap Up and Q&A

Lesson 8 from: Photography 101 for Moms

Jules and Joy Bianchi

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8. Wrap Up and Q&A

Lesson Info

Wrap Up and Q&A

were there any other last minute questions that people had? There were a couple of weaken take a couple questions. So one of one of the questions from Erica J. If he only lens you have is the standard lens the camera came with. What do you recommend? The next lens should be a good question. Um, I, my people that often after the like, if you're stranded on a desert island, what led you? To be honest, my favorite favorite lens is the 51.2 and part of the reason when you had asked earlier why the picture so much better. I'm sure that's a very expensive lens, and it's got really, really good glass a lot of times like the actual glass. And it makes a huge difference. And the fact that you can go down F 1.2 and it's just have like that, that super shell. Oh, okay. I just like I like the way that that that views the world like that very clean sort of standard look. But I also like the ability to be ableto open up really wide toe 1.2 and them I think it goes to What is it? The other one that l...

ike it's a lot of kids to where you're running around, especially indoors, because you're not Zuma's like you're not thinking about Zoom just that's true. One less very, but the other. There's a there's a less expensive version of that which I think is what you're talking about. It's the cannon 1.4, and I know Nikon, I believe, has the same. And the one point I had that lens for a really, really long time. It's also a great lens, and I think it's under $300 or something like it's That's a great lens. And I think that most camera kits come with a zoom often assume with variable f stop. So it's fun to get something that's a prime lens or just one vocal length as your companion piece and the 50 something that you can use really easily indoors in the right one. So, like just to ask one final question, right? And that is from J. Mark Star 65 which is from a little earlier. But when you have photographed the same subject over and over, it is your Children or all of your dog. How do you think? How do you keep things incredibly fresh? You know, we talked about that a little bit earlier, But do you look for inspiration elsewhere or just come up with the project? It's something I did a little talk on inspiration for that very reason. I think a lot of people really do get burned out and part of it when it's a project like with Olive, when you're photographing something genuinely love, there's that element of it, too. So it's not just work. You're trying to capture that special something about that particular subject that is meaningful for you and socially with Children because they're changing a lot. Then the project changes along with it. So I think that is having a daily project is like has that little moment if it's something that you generally love, if you're talking about like I'm a portrait photographer and I'm always shooting kids and they're not my cage like, how do you make that fresh and interesting? That's a little bit of a tougher question, but I think that as most photographers are at their very heart artist, so it's one thing that I have found and this is gonna sound weird has nothing to do with photography. But I've been playing guitar immediately, and I think it's really fun to have a different creative outlet that is, that allows you to, like, again, view the world in a different way. That isn't photography related. That helps you stretch other parts of yourself so that it's not always about like language. I think sometimes people like learn one language really well. The next thing to do, like learning the language. You know, I think it's like having having another place. But like studying other visual artist, really fun to like going to movies are making them like movies that are big blockbusters, like maybe foreign films or things are, you know, or going to a museum and trying to, like, study art. A lot of times I like to do that, like study, other forms of art that are visual. But they're not photography, like drawing, painting or other things that are not necessarily the same medium that we're using help, real inspiration because suddenly noticed color blocking your solely noticed like like wow, this artist really emphasizes that part of the body a lot and make you think about how many of you that haven't got away that I could do that? Are you know I have a one time friend who be like, Well, today, I'm only gonna sheet horizontally. I'm not gonna shoot a single vertical picture. I'm only going to shoot with. I remember once we went to bear rally. My mom has a cabin up there, and the only lens I brought with me with that tilt ship blends the one that has all of the full. And that was really fun, because then your forces, a 45 millimeter tilt shift lens like that's the focal plane. And then all I could do was like shift. And I got really good at it, too. And it's fun. Like maybe get a fish eye or buy yourself a toy lens like that. Something that makes it more fun for you, Or were like, you download some presets or some action there, maybe make it more fun. I'm the images you have shot. What are ways that you could make them more interesting in post production so that they resonate with you in a different way? Or make it something that like where We're shooting black and white all day. Things like that. Like like No, just I have an answer for that question. Question, actually. So it's faras programs for editing. Is there a user friendly one that you guys have used? Whether it's in I photo or Adobe Year, something that's, you know, if you're not that familiar with voting at a change. Still like a hard core voter shop person. But I think that there are Photoshopped elements, right, which is sort of like a photo shop late version. And I know that people love light room and aperture is another program that add it in, and I think that I photo. It's kind of limiting. I'm not a fan of that. I really and the other thing that no one ever talks about, for some reason are like every camera comes with software to Oh, yeah, so I mean, even your own camera has editing software. And again, I think it's like driving a car something. Love light rooms, people love apertures. Some people like I was totally old school. Nice. Please. Bridge, like just thinking sort of matter what you're comfortable with and like where the pieces are and you know what? What you're doing with images continually, like maybe some. I think that that's another thing where I don't have a definite like. This is what you should use kind of answer that what other people use for anything's up for, like, tip. Sometimes that's another thing to there's a fewer needs for editing software. If you're shooting J, peg in camera and you're and you're a lot of cameras to like I know can. It has parameters in the back where you can cheat in black and white. You can tweak the colors that have different modes. They have a couple of creative moods, like I have a lot of fun with those where you can, like, choose a black and white and make it super saturate like really Conrad Contrast E Or Or you can choose one of the color modes and, like took the color a little bit. And if you're just shooting JPEG, however you shoot that image, that's how we'll come out. So it's process for you already. But in terms of actually editing, like calling down images, you mean we're just anything need to dio were were fading out or changing you know, 20 their color tones are cropping out. One. Yeah, I'm still a big like a senior person like that. The adobe camera raw Enbridge. And that's pretty much all I ever you. So I'm not facsimile or that many of them. And that's actually a huge question. That's probably another whole class in and of itself, different kinds of processes. For instance, on the wall. Um, did you shoot that in black and white or did you modify it? Yeah, I shot it raw. I made a blocking way. Actually, you sort of my presets on it. To be honest, I shoot everything in raw, which is when I remember I said earlier. Raw is basically where you what Rod doesn't like. It captures all of the information in a scene. So if you shoot a new image outside in tungsten white balance and you shot J Peg, it thinks, okay, we're inside, and your image will look really blue. And there are things you can do to fix J pegs. But But if you shouldn't raw, it's very simple. You just say, Oh, no, no. I meant I met daylight and then it's changed it basically like takes in all the information, like if it were white balance, daylight or shady or tungsten, and it's all there in that information out there what you want, then you can change your mind later, right? And also is a lot more range. So if it's a little overexposed or a little under exposed, it's really easy to fix those things and the presets that we mentioned earlier. A lot of them are for Kamerad or like room, so that you could tell it like I have sprints and six black and white modes so you could just choose and some are more contrast in, and some are less contracting. And then and then you can just see what they look like. But when you when your camera took that picture, it was together. Any color information or just will be kind of seeing raw gathered all the time, and then you choose it just to only select, you know, great tones or whatever when you're later. When I was present later and then and then converted it into a J peg to make it a printable for that family had said, Hey, you know what actually want that color then I could have given us Okay. Yeah, but if you shoot it in JPEG in black and white, then you send it in there. Yeah, that's a good point. If you get all of our cameras have lucky modes. And if you shoot it in black and white moat in J peg, then it's black and it's black and white. It could be Christmas. Yeah, if you can't keep it in the black and white, Do you think that images crisper for black and white mean having your camera process it? Yeah. Is there a difference, though? If you if you're shooting a black and white versus the color changing into black boy not really, because there's so many different parameter and things that you can change when you're. If you could bring yourself later, you can change the sharpness. You can change the contrast and in camera you can also change the sharpness and changing the conscious or distribute hands so we do have to wrap up right now. But we want to say thank you to the mums and around the world and everyone who has been joining us here in our virtual creative life classroom for Jules enjoys photo Wanna one workshop for Mom's new to photography, said Jules, Enjoy. Thank you so much for being here and all you moms who were with us in the studio. We hope you go home and practice in your skills and come up with some great projects for your cameras. So thank you for

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