- Hi, YouTube.
I'm Jeremy Cohen.
And a lot of photographers ask me
how I connect with my subjects.
And it's all about building chemistry.
So my Skillshare class just launched
and it's all about portrait photography
and how to build photo series.
And guess what, I'm going to share
sneak peak with you.
So we just touched down here in Prospect park,
and we're going to photograph people
doing their thing,
whether it's fishing or on a jog,
or maybe playing some volleyball
or something along these lines,
anything that brings people joy.
I want to interview them
and talk to them about why
and photograph them and tell their story.
So let's get to it.
So there's this guy over there
taking some videos on a Super 8 camera,
and I want to ask him more about it.
So I'm going to ask to take his portrait.
Hey, how's it going?
- Hey, how's it going?
- Can I take a photo of you
for a project I'm doing?
- Yeah, sure. What's it for? - This is what I normally do
is like meet people in the park
and photograph them.
- It's awesome. That's great.
How long will it take?
- Probably 10 minutes, maybe less,
maybe a little bit more.
Thanks for being so kind and open to this.
- Of course.
- All right. So here we go.
Okay.
And I'm going to come back here
to get a different perspective.
Can I get you leaning over shooting this one?
Let me just move this a little bit.
Awesome.
And then can I have one of you just
looking up slightly from your camera
and just looking into camera for one?
and maybe one just to lower the camera a little bit more
so I can see your face a little more.
Amazing. And then let me just get one more,
just like in the shade, just to have,
let me get you standing right over here.
And then I also want to get
one detail shots and maybe just
like up closer to your hands.
Yeah, this is great.
And then looking off
to the side this way for the last shot.
Great. Cool.
I think that's it.
I would love to something
I do when I photograph people is
I love to send them the photos. So I'd love to get your info
so I can send you these.
- Of course. I just took a couple of portraits
and I want to take some more portraits, so let's keep going.
So there's this guy over here
taking photos on a classic Polaroid camera,
and I'm going to ask him about it.
- Hey, how's it going?
I'm doing a project where I photograph people
in the park with things that bring them joy.
And I just saw you taking photos
and feel like it might bring you joy.
So I wanted to ask you about it
and maybe take your portrait.
- I'm a singer and I'm just actually
working on a video here for one of my songs.
- Awesome.
And I'm just having this camera
trying to caption nature,
caption movement. - Can I see the photo?
- Yeah.
- Oh, that's awesome.
- And I think it's going to be the single cover.
- I think it's a great color for your single,
I would love to take your portrait.
Maybe it could be your next single cover.
No pressure.
If you like it, you can use it in your next thing.
Yeah. I really liked this
bridge tunnel thing over here.
Let's make for interesting background.
Let's just like,
want to walk down here? Cool.
Awesome. Let's do some
looking off camera this way.
And then,
I had a close up of the Polaroid.
That's awesome.
So I'm going to frame you
right in the opening of the end of the tunnel.
Oh, wait, this is a way better angle.
Sometimes I just got to experiment a little bit.
Oh, switch the panel on accident.
And now for the last couple of ones,
I'm just going to switch to wide angle.
- Okay.
And maybe even, this is actually way cooler.
Let's have you walk towards me
and maybe start like.
Let's do starting here
and just a little run that way
and then walk back
and then we'll be done.
And then look back at me.
Amazing.
Cool.
And now you can come towards me
and now just let's just do walk towards me.
You know, it's a little bit, you know,
pop in your step.
Amazing.
Yup. I love it.
I love it.
And look to the side.
Oh, that's incredible.
More of that. Yes.
I think we got it in there. - Cool.
Thanks so much.
- Hey, how's it going?
- What's up?
- I was wondering if I could take your photograph
for a project I'm doing.
- Why not, sure.
- Oh, cool. I'm Jeremy.
- Rio.
- Nice to meet you.
I'm just going to to do a portrait.
I like this one to be simple.
- Should I take this?
- I like that.
It's part of the whole fit.
Oh, that's great.
Hold that. Ooh, Rio crushing it right now.
And then I'm just going to take a photo
of this pose right here.
This pose is great.
Now we're done.
Now we got it.
Cool.
Okay, so we photographed seven people so far.
I just tried to photograph the eighth person,
which was this guy working out in the park.
I walked up to him and asked him
if I could photograph him.
And he politely declined
and that's a part of the process.
It's all good.
So let's get our next portrait.
There's this person over here,
chilling under this gigantic beautiful tree.
Having a nice little picnic.
And I'm going to ask the photograph her.
Let's see if she says yes, hopefully yes.
I was wondering if I could photograph you.
I'm photographing people, doing things in the park
that bring them joy.
And I saw you at a moment,
before you were chilling
and I was wondering if I could take a portrait of you.
It's all good, if you're not interested.
Yeah. Cool.
And now just looking back into camera.
Amazing.
Are you familiar with portrait mode?
- Yes.
So these ones will be in portrait mode.
Let's set this up a little bit different,
maybe like your legs facing out this way
and cool.
I like seeing the Frisbee to the side too.
I'm going to switch back to wide angle,
really get tree in the shot.
Let's try an action shot
throwing the Frisbee.
Let's do a little bit forward
maybe in the sunlight a little bit.
Okay. This is great.
Yeah. This is the frame.
So whenever you're ready, throw that Frisbee.
Let's just wrap it up.
I just want to do just a still portrait
with you holding the Frisbee, just like that.
Kind of like that.
Maybe looking off this way a little bit.
Amazing.
Awesome. And then I think just the lighting's
pretty harsh right now. So let's just do one of that
in the shade over here.
Right here is nice.
Yeah, this is great.
And let's just do slightly looking off camera.
Amazing.
Maybe I'll just photograph you
while you kind of tinker with it.
Just like roll it around.
Whatever feels natural.
Oh, that was cool.
Wait. Ooh, I got to get that.
So let's just, just toss it up like that a couple of times.
And then while you toss it,
look into camera if you could do that.
So, yeah.
And then just like, hold it like that.
So in that position right there, hold that.
And maybe look slightly off camera
as if you were like throwing it,
like right over here.
So like,
that's great.
I think we got it.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
- Yeah, no problem.
- Woo. It's been a scorching hot day.
We just got finished shooting.
I'm really excited about how the photos came out.
We tried to photograph about 11 people
and I think we photograph nine or 10 total
and let's go back to the studio
and start editing.
And that's it.
You did it. So I want to see what you made now.
So join me in my brand new class on Skillshare,
where we'll go over,
how to take better portraits
and how to build a photo series.
Click the link in the description below
and I'll see you there.
- Thanks for watching.
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