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This one…
So, what am I going to say…
I love colours.
CRAZY COLORS
It’s such a rich world, open for experiment.
I can only recommend it.
I shoot in colour from the very beginning. I guess it’s because I see the world in colours.
When I’m planning a shooting, I think in terms of colours.
Colours are great for experimentation, they symbolize tons of things.
Or you can undertone a certain feeling with colours.
The possibilities are endless.
WHITE SCENE
So, we have the white scene. We’re going to shoot white makeup, everything is in light, white tones.
We’re going to use coloured filters.
This will add colours and depth.
It’s a good way to show the strength of the coloured filters.
It’s great to use them.
People are often afraid to use them, but it’s really fun.
Well this is really cool!
You’re red and green.
With the filter, you can support the current reality, you can add some juice to it.
Then, you can prepare a scene that goes beyond the borders of reality and you can pick any colour you like.
The face can be green and pink if you like.
COLOURED SCENE
Now, we’ll shoot crazy colours.
I feel like a fairground candy.
So, the background is full of colours, makeup is really colourful, so are the clothes.
The clothes contrast the background.
The best thing about this set is that it lets you set the colours
of each part in the moment you are shooting it.
It gives you absolute freedom.
Let’s do a suicide. Let’s make it Shakespearean.
It needs to be prepared well.
You can’t improvise on set, but when you do the prep properly, it’s a blast.
You don’t need to deal with anything.
You don’t need to do any additional coloured lighting. You don’t need to add colours in postproduction.
Open your eyes.
It’s a coloured hyperbole.
Moire is a phenomenon when some patterns, for example on clothing, begin to mess things up.
All of these DSLRs have low-pass filter.
But this camera, Canon EOS 5DS R, can deal with it quite nicely.
It has great resolution, so there’s no moire to speak of.
I really like contrast, both in colours and in the message of the photo.
For example the contrast between organization and mess,
that’s one of my themes.
In life, contrasts are good, too. Because then it’s not boring.
COLOUR IN COLOUR
Now, we’ll shoot a jungle in the studio.
Here, we’ve got a green palm tree.
This solid green on the leaves is great for changing in postproduction.
It’s impressive and easy.
Come on here, behind that leaf here.
You can hold it.
Like this.
You change the shade of this one colour with a single swipe.
Everything else stays the same, just the green goes over purple.
I’ll do this take and then give me another look.
I shoot only in RAW, because it lets me work with the image as I need.
Nice.
You don’t need to worry that when you shoot in RAW, it will be bland, flat, colourless.
That’s the key to RAW – it’s ready for the postproduction, you add saturation and modify it as you need.
The colours that we selected today – it’s not like these are the only options.
You can combine it as you wish. It’s great to experiment with it.
And you don’t need to be afraid at all.