welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining
me today we're in the woods and we're going to take some pictures
so like I've just said basically we're in the woods we've got Alfie with us and we're going to
be taking some pictures today I have got a cool new little tool which will let you see exactly
what I'm seeing through the camera lens I can also show you the pictures that I've taken so what
we're gonna do is we're at this woodland that's really actually quite busy as in there's loads
of stuff in it not people just stuff there's loads and loads of fallen trees fallen logs some of them
have got quite busy backgrounds so we're going to look today at getting great pictures in camera not
after editing not at the end of everything we want to make sure that coming out of the camera they
are as solid as they can be so that when we edit them we just have to finish them off for today
I'm going to be using the 70-200 2.8 lens because it gives you guys a better view of what I'm doing
I can zoom out and then zoom in to get the shot for you which should help to make it as stable as
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it please also share this video with your friends because that would be nice so we're just going to
walk around find a object that we can shoot on and then we will begin at this session today I hope
you like it at the moment my settings are as they are on the screen so at the moment we can't see
anything but our shutter speed is super high so we'll bring that right down we've got a 70 to 200
lens with us which has image stabilization so I can go quite low on that I want to be down at 2.8
and then probably will increase my ISO to make up the middle difference that we need so let me just
go ahead and push that up a bit that should give us a pretty good exposure and if you're ever in
doubt on the Sony cameras you can always have your histogram showing so at the moment you can see
that it's more in the underexposed region but it is still not pressed up against the left hand side
if our shutter speed was higher the data then gets pressed to the left and therefore we're
completely underexposed if we go the other way we're now super overexposed although the
perfect is in the middle for us it's not going to be realistic to get that in this woodland
and therefore we just do the best we can let's get a ball get a dog and shoot up steady down
down good wait lie down so we've got him in position and then it's up to me to frame this
lie down puppy so I'm going to be on the floor getting very muddy very wet I'm very cold oh it's
very squidgy so what I'm doing is I'm making sure that we do have the foreground interest in the
shot but I'm going to frame it up so that he is in one side rule of thirds right and then I make sure
that my focus point is activated and I just want to wait in puppy just want to make sure I've got
a good setup down down good so I'm okay with this do you see how the light is really bright behind
we have to be careful that we don't over expose that so I'd rather go slightly under and be able
to pull that back if you notice how the IAF is grabbing his eye I'm going to zoom out a little
bit because this is actually too tight for me ideally I should just move back but never mind
nice down good down wow good okay good boy
thank you I should have said guys beforehand that squeaky ball warning because there's going to be
squeaks in this video so if you've got a dog that's sensitive to noise protect their ears
so let's look at some of the pictures that we've just taken there so if you see these pictures of
Alf we check the focus make sure that the focus is good and the focus is fine let's see even more
so we can see super super sharp everything looks beautiful and yeah those images are absolutely
fine I'm really happy with those let's go find a new location and we'll do it all over again wait
so I might need to move his feet further to the left right further to the right but we will see
what we get lie down good he's not used to me having my head up so it's very strange for him
so if you see my focus point he's over to the upper right third good boy wait
and it's a bit too bright for me behind so I'm just going to take a couple with a slightly
lower exposure but that's fine so I've got this full ground interest in I've got all of the ivy
working with it not against it and we've got my little onion in there so that's a pretty good shot
so in terms of these images that we've got here that's great so that's framed on all three sides
we'll check the focus because it's important it's on the closest eye which it absolutely definitely
is so that is absolutely fantastic and we'll go find somewhere else so we've just found this log
which is going to get squished at some point by other trees that we've got in here
it's got a good end on it that's really quite interesting I might just clean up that a little
bit by moving some of the ivy vines it'll probably break quite easily so I'll have to be careful
but actually it's a really nice line so in terms of this log well what I'm actually
looking at specifically is this tree here because I don't want to have that straight behind like a
dog's head and then this tree here is also a concern because it's quite close in shot so
try and keep them to an absolute minimum but we'll see what we can do with this log
shooting from that direction and then we might switch around and face the other way because it's
a different light on the different directions so yeah we'll put him on and we'll see how it looks
good wait so I need to be careful that my lines are good good
I'll go that way so it's too dark
ready
ready ready
so much then let's have a quick look leave a quick check beautiful oh that's so nice let's
zoom in so he avoided any trees behind his head made sure the focus point was on his eye beautiful
he's such a good model let's go the other way around and shoot the other way and I can get
some foreground interest in let's make sure I'm staying nice and low Alfie ready good waiting
ready lie down ready down there's runners behind us so he's looking at all sorts of
interesting things so just trying to keep foreground interest in rule of thirds
making sure he's up the eyes always up at the upper
right or upper left of the shot upper left upper right sorry works better hide
wait bad composition from me good lad ready hide hide good
okay wow good boy we got some super cute shots that was adorable so check the focus because
this could have got his paw really easily but now it's perfect on his eye beautiful so composition
of that is much weaker too compared to some of the other shots that we took so I'll go back to
just the standard portraits so his ears also shot there that's rubbish but that
is a much stronger composition much much stronger composition on that one so you can see that he is
absolutely definitely up to that right hand side lots of lovely foreground background interest
the mid ground is great and he's super super sharp solid photos easy to edit will be perfect
perfect to finish up today basically we're going to do one more shot which is a nice
straightforward simple one a nice portrait of a dog so what we've found is a long straight
reasonably open pathway and we're basically going to put him slap back in the centre of the path to
get a nice portrait this is a super simple shot anybody can do this but it's important to get the
angle of it correct so what we'll do is we'll put him in the right position and then we will
show you exactly what I'm seeing through the camera okay so basically I've left Dan and
I'm gonna go ahead and put him in a bit of this path that I think is gonna look nice
all right we might move you up a little bit further up here because actually I'd rather not
have this too close so we'll put him back good boy and then I'm looking at the floor so you need to
make sure that the floor isn't too distracting you've not got lots of sticks and stuff and
then when you're quite happy with everything else you put the dog in the middle of the path now for
him it's probably easier Alfie round under to go into his start line wait and then down
good boy wait so they will move quite far back because we're going to be on
200mm and we will shoot this shot so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to get into position
which is a full flat on the floor lie down good boy wait and I want to be at 200 mil on this lens
and we need to be on literally on the floor so I want the lens on the floor
and we have full grand interest and background interest in shot
walk on walk on back up go back go back down lie down good I just wanted his tail straight
so I'm just keeping those trees behind him lined up ready down nice
so it's just a nice standard portrait nothing fancy and it just does the job you can see his
breath if I could I would get the camera lower down but it's not going to happen
and just make sure your focus point is over the eye and you take your shot the histogram is
looking good settings are fine so we will call that I think a day okay good get it good boy
so if we look like that's a weaker composition than that one because that one is pretty more
much more even top and bottom the foreground interest is great the background interest is great
the focus is fine we've got no clipped highlights no clipped shadows and the shot is pretty
pretty solid so I'm quite happy with that I'm happy with them okay right I'm gonna get up
I hope that this video has been helpful for you I'm gonna add the afters into this video too
I want you guys to look at locations slightly differently and look at the lines and look at
the shapes and look at all of the things that are happening within the scene look for things off of
the path because the path's fine but it's pretty boring so always look for something different move
your focus point and make sure the composition is right in camera not afterwards so you shouldn't
really need to crop much at all aside from maybe a bit of a straightening so yeah try
and always get your images right in camera nice and sharp well exposed everything needs to be
a good base for you to then edit on forwards if you have any questions please do drop them in
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