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Jim Garner: Photographing in the Bright Sun

Let's take a look at what we're dealing with right now we have a ton of light coming in we've had this wonderful indoor window light look for the last two shooting sessions but now we're forced to go outside I've switched my lenses into my daylight shooting lenses and normally carol would have these in her bx to pro shooter I would have the lenses I was using in lower light conditions we're mostly prime actually the last portion we were shooting seventy two hundred a lot which is always like I'm telling you it's got to be one of the first investments you guys make that I s seventy two hundred it's really good in low light and in daylight as well if you create that s o up sixteen hundred unless I'm always comfortable with even thirty two hundred with the new technology the new york cameras they just have this wonderful grain reducing and noise reduction settings that film could never even approach so it's very exciting we do have to always consider thie how much exposure are the latitud...

es excuse me that our chip on our cameras can can handle right now we have a full blown son and full blown shade it's never ideal but we as wedding for tarver's was you practice we must practice what we do and so we could get good using even the bryce of lights okay think reflection think the opposite side of the of the building where the light is bouncing off in this case wait till you see this building it is blue, green and red so it bounces blue light right on your subject it's hilarious or green light right on your subject we might need to turn some of these black and white probably not we're just gonna let it go. I'm going to let the light guide us. I have nothing planned once again except that I know I'm supposed to start in this hallway right here so let's, take a look and speak over to that hallway and there's my lovely bride and groom hi guys, how are you? Thanks for hanging out for me so I love I love this scene and I plan on shooting here, but I don't want to be too crazy, but even though I have bright light coming through, we can utilize the light through her veil. I'm just seeing an opportunity right now and this is going to be storytelling moment. Guys, forget about me for a second, okay, I took my first shot and I noticed it's bright now I'm going to set my exposure. I'm now eyes oh, eight hundred okay, I like eight hundred, four hundred I can okay, here we go and I'm going to test it s o eight hundred perfect now that'll balance I get a little bit more highlights so I am going to close it down teo s o eight hundred eight hundredth of a second to a sound good all right and I have a plenty of details I looked at my history graham I would see detail throughout I think this could work perfectly so let's have a moment here we found the light the subject in a light let's give a reason for being there maybe they're having a loving moment may be your kissing that hand mr groom kiss that him love each other I am using a long lens and I'm compressing them into the city park sign because this is going to be a story about this now normally I get down there we just keep walking keep continue but for the camera here I'm gonna have a walk down and come back I never would do that I would say I'm one chance to shoot them walking away and then I will have one chance I'm gonna get in front of him shooting down the way but for the camera today we're locked in this position let's just haven't go both directions so you see how that looks hey guys hold hands walk right under the sign when you get under the sun do something natural looking that wait a second I just saw a moment coming in with the seventy two hundred look at how pretty that light is on a broad I could take a quick shots you could see it now going to kiss your cheek mister to said cheek gorgeous arms around his neck grab him I'm gonna turn open up my exposure and here we go beautiful love it forget about me hey guys baby step this way blues got too much light on and now hi guys go nice and I'm gonna blur sotto park away with the depth of field because I'm in the seventy one all the way out at two eight let's see for how my settings right ay dio and guys look towards me perfect good good okay so there's the shade version of this let me show you full sun guys go right into that sun okay, this is less than ideal. Okay it's blasting we have a huge highlights they're in horrible locations however I see on blues handsome chiseled face that has a rim light around him okay, so that means I want tea it's good on the groom not so great on our bride let's switch you two were going to sacrifice the groom for the bride. Yeah, okay and look at that I'm gonna turn her face away from the light there actually go four heads together, see if that yep okay so foreheads together look what happened the light is bouncing off of what was beautiful actually it's bouncing off of heidi and onto blue let's take a look at that she's rimmed he's letta's well really pretty so now I see an opportunity I'm with I'm good with the tether here let's pass light through the veil here put that over your head what the heck you can't uh beautiful noxious jim here you love it love it love it I'm gonna leave that right there second photograph given also pretty now you had a background that's beautiful so we have horrible lighting here yet we can isolate it into something special right so and this is the moment that they gave us and it's guys how about road toward me I'm gonna put the sun almost behind you so rotate this shoulder that there we go let's do one more here we go gorgeous george is a kiss and I know you want to be beautiful lovely guys gorgeous moment and I want to get close with this blue theme here we go forget about me guys there is awesome it's going to such a nice photo let me oh my exposure's jacked one more keep doing that like the tether keeps crossing with ex jacked my exposure okay I'm gonna get my exposure back I'm schooling to the right it was eight hundred, eight hundred eight hundred remember my rule is have twice your focal length when you're moving quickly your shutter speech to be twice your focal length to assure you're not getting too much motion blur so that's why I had it at least two stops brought are faster so two hundred millimeters all the way out that four hundred seconds eight hundred pretty safe for really jamming and doing some fast attire for you so let's get this shot off normally be really quickly be continue moving let's take a look all right one two three beautiful beautiful beautiful and I've got the blues part of this and now guys go for what cold hands you gonna pull that off you yeah over the top of that there's a moment it's it's happening naturally kissed the gallo dipper straight back beautiful that happened naturally go for walk right down the hall hey heidi pete cook here beautiful guys beautiful butt kiss with a fist lovely jump in his arms were wrapped up tio so cute and can you spare not enough to just keep making two spins around georges oh that's horrible light when the light's on her dress but when she still good dipper right towards me pretty guys and then I'm going to shoot a long lead shot of that gorgeous so cue lovely ok go right under that sign will you? I'm having fun and you guys okay ooh right there that's what I love oh my god it's not the moment that they made with that the firing the shot did you guys see that are you looking at images it was cool they gave the they gave me the gun side and then afterwards they built chuckle they both laughed and that became the shot that I really love that's had the most expression ever if you if you get the sun slightly off your shoulder I've got a really good natural right there perfect beautiful guys and I'm gonna show you how depth crunches things and makes a beautiful and makes it a beautiful boca with this lens I'm at seventy two hundred to eight s o now is six forty okay and I'm at all the way out two hundred millimeters I'm going to I've got my camera shot the shot's ready the subjects in the focus point and now we're gonna get him to do something that makes him smile grab arms legs just a little depth perfect gotta go so cute there it is now they're playing with the camera this is exactly what we want them to do we want them to encourage to play out look oh my gosh dig it okay so here I am down the hall here they are way down the hall this is such an opportunity to motion pose him but guys I'm gonna have you walk towards me but make it special make fun sassy cool where get yes all right so funny blue there's a moment several okay how do you mean turning hug I wanna see your back towards me ke exact beautiful and looked back towards me both of you beautiful coming closer in the shade just a little further sorry that didn't work so it's there right the bright light I didn't time it right but here we go in the shade now again and then she's gonna look back towards me so cute kiss kiss her right on the forehead get beautiful gorgeous gorgeous lord if you guys are low thie kids very beautiful I'll tell you that yes they will there's no chance they will be oh uh I got a busy signal the tethers of shooting too much give me a second and one two three there's a show that last shot was hilarious so happy wait okay, how we doing? Good tether coming through killer cool. All right, how about we take it out? Two words really difficult. We're going to go in the full sun you guys up for ready team? Yeah, all of you let's do it way got here it was particularly this scenario. I mean a real slow because I got a leash on me hey, look at that I already see a good shot beautiful hey guys so I get a camera pan I want to show I won't show this blue wall I want to show this red wall it was black over there. More blue. We've got to be careful, though. The light is bouncing off this and I don't know if you could see on me. I look at my hand and it's attorney it's kind of blue cast that's what we're going to fix later you don't want a bride skin look blue all right, but I'll tell you what, there's, nothing better than putting a beautiful dress and a beautiful broad against a blue background when the light is fantastic. Okay, so we're going to definitely do that. Let me see. I've got ability to go about fifteen, twenty feet that way. Um, not ideal, but let's work with it with the heck challenge. We'll call it a challenge so full sun, full shade never idea work with shade if you have it, use it. I've got this wonderful space I could photograph the bridal party with and I love that if I had built blue and and this red color in the shade, I could photograph the groomsmen against this blue and the bride's maid against this red and then put it together in one of those spreads that has alternating blue and red. It could be really cool should we do that, actually? What the heck? Let's, let's pretend we have the space to pull it off. What do you say? I might just do with the two of you just because we don't have a lot of time and then I'll pretend we've got one of each bridal brought a party member shot as well. How's that sound okay? I'm gonna actually switch to the twenty four. Seventy. I'm instantly like, do you notice while I'm even talking, my mind goes to the lens automatic I didn't think I'm thinking I have that much distance I need to change my lands I just went ahead and changed automatically that started happening about five years ago and now I don't even think I always naturally have the lens the right lens on it's automatic be kind of fun process okay, my friend. You ready? You want to go first against the blue? I'm gonna have you step right over there. Okay? Here blocked out that thing. There we go. Pretty good light too. Okay. And look that way. Wait for me. This is just hilarious, all right? I not change my shade mounds at all. Not even a bit. Well, let's, just play with this a little I'm gonna get down low, I'm just seeing things as I go, okay? Okay I'm not even looking through the camera chin down towards here look right there. Wait right cool, cool, cool, cool. I just used the lens distortion just cause I had a thought about moving the subject in using this line to kind of make a cool composition and up into the rest of this texture blue because I can't necessarily I can't I can't get low like this just do one more and that's that's the problem isn't manual focus whatthe let's use the distortion to do some funny like this I shut the ringer here real big using distortion wide angle distortion you can really play here hold it like that now what the heck? Just making the best of it okay bright gnarly light on our bride right let's go down here and try to make use of it full sun ok here's a moment so I'm gonna change my settings quick I'm still emmanuel I should goto aperture priorities which I'm going to do now quickly aperture priority and they're going down now it could shoot freely it's hard because it's hard light yeah okay so gnarly light like this it's the same concept using exactly the same way sound we got sound issues because we got trains going by but you really use it the same way if the direction of light you steer the body away from that direction and put and move the face steer the body back in towards the lights so let's move your feet this way face me sorry here we go shoulder against their on then turned on him oh you know it all right all right I'ma switch lands I'm going compressor into that background utilize the shadow and now this is hard light so we're gonna have to do work usually hard light really makes any skin blemishes we have a beautiful russians have any blemishes but this is not something you want to use with an elderly person or whatever we're going to fix this I'ma show you how to do it in post production tomorrow but let's take a look chin up down that way ok and then shut up okay let me get the city's I'm gonna bring down everything he's getting all right mister you want to be in there get in there his energy is so wonderful and you know what we'd always get great energy like this way don't often get great energy like this but if it's there you gotta utilize it or you got to help create it motion and movement use the energy rationing techniques we talked about all right good had this a little bit more you wanna spread style shop okay that's just a set up now you could go hands down a little for dairy girl perfect perfect and look at way turned down and up up teo studio and do it now mr go get our keeping out just like that kiss your shoulder love that girl you're gonna go behind her armor behind her and shoulder ride against back here perfect perfect and then you're gonna come out for the life head out this way yeah you got there you leaned forward and it is perfect okay hard light shot here so if we get a position is just about changing hands out or whatever here's what I want you to do if you're going out under grab a shoulder that's another one and in turn you continue your chin up out of it perfect on the katherine squeeze one two three squeeze squeeze so you're god so cute there you anyone more I want you to grab around stomach sweet tea so beautiful all right turning hug him now back with this posing stuff I always try to end this way even if I'm not really after shot chin a pro hi goods long she's up like that lights ok he is all right less than ideal I know I know we're just pulling it out you know we're just getting it done but we're going to continue we've got we've got fantastic light right here I want to start with a difficult now gonna move to the easy let's to foreground background work care or something like that let's tell a little story all right first the groom's gonna set the energy are you ready so blue since he's got it going on there's no excuse but to repeat the same energy when we bring in a writing this is how you do it so he's first for a reason all right so go right about there so I put on my sixteen two thirty five my settings are the following I did a test shot at I mean after priority right now I'm going to manual just so each exposure is exactly the same and I'm predicting two thousandth of a second so eight hundred is not enough we're going to go to and I should be so four hundred outside here right now so let's do that alright so four hundred and then I bet you it's about three twenty two okay I'm gonna go to f for now so I have a lot of that the field teo play around with we're just going to screw around I just want to be able to spray and pray we go come brother you are silly but it's alright work the camera work the camera on it good good good good good so telling a story swing around like this spin it spin it spin it spin it okay brian we need you in here come on heidi get him smashing against the wall motion posing right into the shot smashes smashy lovely beautiful okay heidi what I want you to do all you guys are so cute can you swing hit me with that veil throat right over the top of me and just to spin go back and hug your man ready okay yeah arrives I want you to hit it so cute beautiful and I see a moment with the veil wide angle lens beautiful ok, forget about the camera love the man okay tether hold one second beautiful, beautiful, beautiful and I could use a care out here yeah, just a quick moment with the failed closed that shot that goofy fun shot first actually you know what theo hugus fast you can go go go here go there kind of let it dip in front of it like that and that okay, so I'm gonna get the two of them and then she's going to stay for some playful shots we're gonna put it all together at the end but since they're together right now get up love it how you want to see mostly your back okay, there you go yeah pulled that way look towards me how do you pick over so hugh god okay, here we go. No it's good one, two, three two hot I'm exposing down care on three one two three beautiful guys and then I'm gonna take a different angle of it to close the store because this will be an album spread beautiful guys one for me and one more okay let's bring that veil around it would be my foreground elements that is nick shot god's hands all over each other's faces ee aah it's great because I was just saying hands off of each other's faces to crack him up there first like we're like the kiss plunges and then it went tio laughter and that's the money shot that's the stuff that we want here it is okay you're going to see foreground element being the vill not shot okay now we're going to finish up this spread this story with heidi playing with the camera because we started with blue so how do you ready? Okay let's get that veil eastside these shoulders so I'm switching back to the sixteen and a vertical orientation and dismember it stretches people out so actually let me demonstrate okay there's horizontal all do better here is vertical show those too all right ready play hold that camera chicken chicken chicken good, good good work oh my gosh. You too yeah so cute I want that I want out of the different let's do that again don't move one more time do that again oh my gosh put this veil all there let's just make it let's just make a cocoon for let me see it okay hold on arthur could cook your shoulders here blue cracker out hey, drop your hands li'l lisa's even beautiful so nice oh my gosh and when we're time okay, playing with they'll play with bill so pretty beautiful okay sorry got distracted let's finish up with a wide angle shot you just and turn around come back like that here you go you're gonna throw the veil on me, okay? Work it work it we're going to be with you. Oh, I stalled out over the best shot that was circle all right, no problem we're going to do to get it. What happened was you threw it over the camera. Really? Good image throw it over the top of me again. We're going to get in here together actually blue coming into that, get it let's build a tent for more snuggle up. I'm in here with you guys look towards me. K e o photographer missed I'm not even looking through we're just gonna play forget about it here's all day I don't need to be in there with you how about heads together? Clothes looked like they're right there close your eyes and just forget about me for one second I'm gonna close up with a single image spread there's going to be on and heidi grab face well, okay, I'm leaving a little negative space to stretch over later waiting for my karen each other good pulling a little kiss never love good, go all the way to his hair, back to back of his head, poor women from good, gorgeous guys. Yeah, like a baby cheeks together. Close. Call this the last shot. Yeah, and take it off. Take it off, let's. See you guys, one for the camera, one last shop. Just throw it on the ground, doesn't matter where we go so good, and one, two and three, you guys, I just love you. Thank you so much for the fine. Gosh, what a great time!