EXPERT: FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY PORTRAITS, FASHION & LIFESTYLE
Now that you've mastered the basics of portrait photography,
you've added a bit of story via lifestyle imagery.
Now we're going to step it up to fashion photography
and that involves lighting, set design and personality
and so much more.
I'm here to meet Michael, aka Kid Circus,
who is an absolute boss at this.
He's going to teach us how to put this all together.
Let's go.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
What kind of skills are we going to be covering today?
Today, we will be concentrating on directing the model,
capturing movement, and using the customisable
functions of this camera to ensure that we get
the best out of it.
All right.
Shall we get the models involved?
Yeah, absolutely.
Let's do it.
CHAPTER 2: IN THE STUDIO
We have, Heather, our model.
Hello, how you doing?
So what equipment are we going to be using today
in terms of the camera?
So we are using the R5, Canon R5
incredible 45 megapixel camera and incredibly
customisable to help you get the results that you want.
And what lens have you got on there?
We'll be using the 24-70mm lens.
Okay, and why is that?
For me, it's flexibility.
I can go between wide angles, so in my world
more fashion and editorial, and then I can go to
telephoto without having to change lenses
and disturbing the flow of the shoot.
I also see that you're hooked up to a laptop over there.
What's happening here?
Yes.
It really helps for other team members to see
what you're capturing and it's much more useful
for them to be able to zoom in and check that they're
happy with the details of the shots.
Check the clothes are looking good.
The hair is looking good.
They can see it on a big screen and
not on a very small screen that we have in the camera.
So we should get to it.
Let's get some shots.
Let's do this.
CHAPTER 2: SUMMARY
- USE VERSATILE LENSES TO GIVE YOU MORE FLEXIBILITY TO LET THE SHOOT FLOW
- USE EXTERNAL MONITORS TO GET THE CLIENT FEEDBACK
CHAPTER 3: GETTING THE SHOT
CHAPTER 3: GETTING THE SHOT So what's this mode that you're using
CHAPTER 3: GETTING THE SHOT because there's loads of rapid shots?
Yeah, so I'm on the high burst mode at the moment so
you can rattle off, it's like at 12 frames per second burst.
So it’s really is very impressive.
It just helps you ensure that you don't miss those moments when
it does involve movement, it does involve trying to keep
that person tracked...
And when you do that, how does the shutter speed come into play?
So I will combine that with a high
shutter speed because that just gives me the best
chance of freezing movement, combined with the face
tracking and the eye tracking.
All those elements help you to track and capture
those frames as she moves in and out and across the frame as well.
Amazing.
Yes, absolutely.
That's really cool.
And maybe some more swish swaying and side to side.
Swinging arms.
Absolutely.
It’s still locking on even when Heather turns her head around
and you don't see her eyes.
The tracking will still continue.
It's getting every frame, which is really good.
Yeah, it's amazing, it actually
It really does work very well.
I wonder what my life was like without
all this stuff, you know, it's kind of taking some of the hard
work out of what you do.
Which is kind of what you want out of a camera.
You want to be able to customise it.
The customisation options you have on the camera with customising
buttons, customising dials, really helps it become
an extension of you, and it just helps to keep the flow going.
So you're not doing too much fiddling with settings,
too much fiddling with menus.
You can just keep going, keep the rapport
with the model, keep the communication.
It gets to a point where it becomes more of a collaboration
rather than me just telling someone what to do.
CHAPTER 3: SUMMARY
- HIGH BURST MODE CAN MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS A MOMENT
- CUSTOMISE YOUR CAMERA SO IT BECOMES AN EXTENSION OF YOU
CHAPTER 4: FUNCTIONS AND FORMATS
CHAPTER 4: FUNCTIONS AND FORMATS So how are you making sure that you're getting this very quickly?
So how are you making sure that you're getting this very quickly?
The functions like aperture and shutter speed and
ISO mapped to different dials and buttons, so it really helps
me to adjust stuff on the fly without disturbing the flow
of what I'm shooting.
It just makes everything quicker and more efficient.
So basically getting to know your camera is important
It's key. It's key. It's key.
The customisation on this camera particularly is great.
It’s wonderful, absolutely brilliant.
Fantastic.
Oh, yeah, let me try that again.
Is there anything that you've done here that's allowing you to
have a better workflow?
Things like shooting RAW is really important
because you want all the information in that file
to then take it into post-production.
But this camera, you have dual slot, so you can shoot
RAW on one, JPEG on another.
The RAW will keep the photographer happy.
The JPEG will potentially keep the client happy because if they
want you to deliver some images to preview, then you have
got the JPEGs to send straight over to them.
That's great, that one looks really good.
And you can print that right, 45 megapixels?
You can print that, it's the quality,
if you're shooting for, say, a magazine publication and
you've got a quality that you can provide them to start printing.
You can crop in and you won't lose image quality.
You know, we've shot this in landscape but if I wanted to crop
that to make it portrait, again I'm not going to lose the quality.
And again, that is the quality of getting
45 megapixel files from this camera, it's brilliant.
You mentioned the camera being an extension of you.
How have you made it yours?
So I've customised certain dials in certain ways, so I've got
the ISO on the dial on the front of the lens.
I have got this marked as my aperture on the top
and this back dial is here controlling the shutter speed.
And another thing that I've set, this is usually
depth of field preview button, but I've actually got it changed
so I can switch between continuous focus and one-shot.
So, if I feel there's a stationary moment, I don't have to
deep dive into a menu or deep dive into the touch screen,
I can just...
I still have it here and I can just press that button and it
changes to one shot.
Make it more efficient.
Much more efficient.
CHAPTER 4: SUMMARY
- GET TO KNOW YOUR CAMERA SO YOU CAN REACT QUICKLY
- CAPTURE RAW AND JPEGS SIMULTANEOUSLY TO PROVIDE CORRECT FORMATS FOR CLIENT REVIEW AND DELIVERY
- CUSTOMISE YOUR CAMERA TO MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT FOR YOU TO USE
Michael, the final images look amazing.
CHAPTER 5: SUMMARY Michael, the final images look amazing.
CHAPTER 5: SUMMARY Look at that, I love the detail in there.
Look at that. I love the detail in there.
I can see that movement that you trying to go for.
Any final thoughts?
I would just say just get to know your camera,
get to know your camera settings so that you can get
your camera to work for you the way that you work,
so that you can just concentrate on
capturing good images of the person in front of you.
Perfect.
Well thank you, Heather.
Thank you, Michael, and we shall see you in the next one.