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- Well, hey everyone, it's me, Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere as always.
If you're new here, I make videos
about my chaotic good life.
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So for this video, I'm partnering with Ana Luisa.
I want to try to create
just like a stylized jewelry look, you know what I'm saying?
Like, just to have fun with it, you know?
I feel like I haven't really gotten to play
on this channel in the last few months.
Always gotta shake things up a little bit for y'all.
I'm saying don't ever get, I'm an enigma.
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So if you don't know who Ana Luisa is
they are a online jewelry store
that creates these beautifully crafted pieces.
I actually own quite a few of their pieces already.
Shout out to them for sending me a few more.
But I already own a lot of Ana Louisa jewelry.
So this shoot is very easy for me to do.
And what I really love
about them is they're also carbon neutral
from their packaging to how they create the jewelry itself
which I think is really awesome.
So if by the end of this video
you like some of the pieces you see,
I will link to a little fun little percentage off code
in the description box and or floating around me
for you to check it out.
But let's get into this, all right?
One thing I do love about this studio
is the owner has given you a lot of different fun areas,
backdrops to experiment with, with your photography,
with your video, whatever you wanna do.
I don't know why, but I really like the texture.
And I feel like even though I love the pink and blue combo
over on that side of the wall,
I feel like it's a smidge too busy because, you know,
remember this is supposed to be a jewelry ad.
We're supposed to be focusing
on the pieces and not necessarily the background
or the person in them, even.
Like it's actually not really about me.
With this setup
I think I'm gonna go like, boss business lady
but like, still in tune with mother earth.
That's the vibe I'm trying to get for this.
I may or may not be reusing props and wardrobe
from This Could Have Been An Email.
For those of y'all who don't know
This Could Have Been An Email
is the web series that I have on my channel.
I had to buy all of the HR director's wardrobe
and I couldn't take it back, so.
So a few notes about how I'm going to shoot this.
So I am gonna create like a look for video
and then also a photo look as well.
And so for the video side of this
I'm definitely gonna try to shoot 60 FPS, frames per second.
So that way I can slow it down just a little bit in post
and give, you know, again, ethereal vibes
giving you slight slowmo but not so slow that you're bored.
So for the photo side of this,
definitely gonna shoot RAW, sure.
But instead of having my aperture open, like all the way
like 2.8 or something ridiculous,
I'll probably actually have an aperture
that's pretty closed off so I need quite a bit of light.
Because what I don't want to happen
is since I'm filming by myself,
the camera is gonna want to focus in on me and my eye.
That's actually one of the really neat things about Sony
is its auto focus features are amazeballs.
Gonna do that so that way it doesn't matter
if the camera decides to focus on my eye.
Most of everything
in the field of plane of me should be in focus.
So that way I can enhance,
zoom and enhance in the photos if I want to.
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So right now I'm moving the couch forward
so that way we can get a little bit more depth
from the background and have it be a little softer focus.
Since, like I said, I'm gonna have my aperture
maybe at like four or five,
I wanna try to get the couch forward
so that way there's just a little bit
of softness happening in the background.
I'm actually also debating
if I even want this couch altogether.
I just saw a chair
off to the side that I actually really like, so.
(couch scraping)
I think I like that.
Oh man, this would be actually
like a super cute YouTube video background.
It'd be nice to have my own studio space one of these days.
So I don't have to keep renting, you know?
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Oh my gosh, running out of time.
But I think I think I definitely got enough to work with
but I do need to maybe reschedule
and come back to get the other stuff I want to get.
So I'm back day two of messing around and filming.
I want to get right into it this time.
And I wanna try to do some interesting just hand.
I did end up investing in a Pro-Mist filter.
I know everyone has Pro-Mist filters on now.
Like, that's just a thing that everybody's doing
but I think it'll work for this.
Actually think it'll be really good for this
because it'll just soften everything that much more,
just give that high glam look, you know?
That like soft glam glossy look.
So I'm gonna play around with it
and just see if it adds anything.
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All right, so I was just doing,
I'm super backlit, but that's fine.
I was just doing some test ideas
just to see what it would look like for placement.
The first one I'm gonna do is the ring.
And then I'm gonna start messing around
with placing the jewelry, like just sort of
hanging in the frame and just to see what that does.
Ooh, think I got it!
I actually really like this ring.
It's their Chloe ring.
It's really pretty.
I actually wanted this ring because I thought
it would make a really nice wedding band ring.
This is their Lucy chain that they sent.
And y'all have probably been seeing
this chain in my videos for the last couple weeks actually
before this official video.
But I love this chain.
It's just like, really bold.
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Ooh, y'all, this the shot right here.
Y'all see that?
All right, I think we definitely got our still shots.
Let's move to our video portion now.
All right, so I officially got all of our slowmo shots
with our beautiful, beautiful necklaces, as you can see.
And then also our ring as well.
So now that I've gotten that, I need to pack up anyway
'cause I gotta be out here in nowish.
And let's go ahead and hop onto my computer now
and let's start color correcting, color grading,
and editing this piece.
I am so excited to just bring stuff back
'cause it looks really good in camera.
Let's see how good it does or does not look on my computer.
Hello and welcome to my very messy office.
Sorry in advance.
And also Mr. Hallease is here too.
As you saw at the beginning of the video
I included this fun opener that I had created.
And I'm gonna show you a few easy things you can do
in Premiere to color correct for, I feel, my skin tone
which I think this can be translated
to skin tones in general.
And it's pretty straightforward.
I'm gonna leave one in the color correction
and color grading that I've already established for this.
And then we're gonna make the other one be nothing
and show you how I got there.
So here it is and we're gonna boop, delete it.
So first off, this is where we started.
That's our original picture, that's our original image.
And something that I have started to use a lot
in Premiere and actually really enjoy
is their new auto color feature,
which is right here at the top.
If you have the latest version
of Adobe Premiere Pro, it's up here at the top.
You remember this auto thing used to actually be below it
like in this area.
Now it's up there.
So I'm gonna just hit auto and show you what it does.
And you see what it just did?
It just took a best guess
of figuring out how to color balance everything.
Now again, let's turn this off
so you can see what it looked like before.
So from there to here, that's where we're at.
That's where we're starting off so far, okay?
I don't hate that actually.
I actually think it's really good.
I'm just gonna tweak a couple of things.
But one thing you can do with this auto feature
that's also really cool is you can just intensify it
and see what it does, so you can take it away and add it.
And as you see, as I do that
you see how the image actually changes.
And you also see what it's doing to adjust your image.
So this can also be really cool
if you don't really know a lot about color correction
and color grading,
but you just wanna try, you know, and just see what happens.
I really enjoy the new auto color feature because of that.
But I think this is good, I don't hate this.
I do wanna up the exposure just a smidge.
And so I'm gonna look at my Lumetri scopes when I do this.
So you can see the bars of color are represented right there
in my scopes.
And then this, all of this,
and you can see red is the prominent color
which makes sense 'cause of my blazer.
That's fine.
But so since I am probably represented right around here,
so I in here, am right around there.
So I want to bump the exposure up just a little bit.
Yes.
And from there let's see what the original was.
Okay, like we're still not that far off.
And you see I've done this incredibly quickly.
So my secret sauce when color correcting my skin,
and I think a lot of y'all have started to notice this
in other videos, one, I've upped my lighting game for sure.
Like definitely work on lighting.
But also in post here is what I do
to make the melanin be melanin.
You know what I'm saying?
Here's what I do.
All right.
So I keep my auto features the way I want.
Maybe I make a couple tweaks, who knows?
Cool.
Then I come down to my curves.
And I know like, if you're new to filmmaking
and color correction in general, curves are scary.
I get that.
But I only focus on two aspects of the curves,
hue versus saturation and hue versus luma.
You can do so much with these so simply.
So okay, hue versus saturation.
So this is like taking whatever color you reference
and then saturating it,
so making it more like, vibrant is not the right word
'cause vibrancy is its own thing.
But to help you understand, vibrancy, okay?
So click, and I'm gonna click right around here.
And so it shows me where those colors are represented
in this hue.
And then I'm gonna add a couple more dots.
And I'm just gonna bump me up a little bit.
Okay, just a little bit.
And it's subtle, it's so subtle,
but I think it really adds a lot.
There is a bit, if you look really closely
there's a bit more of a vibrancy all over,
like a saturation on my face and my skin overall.
The next thing I do though
is I go down to my hue versus luma.
And this is how the light is reflected on the skin
or on any object or any color for that matter.
And so what I usually do is I go to the hue versus luma
and I click right where I can see how the light
is just hitting my face, just strongly, you know?
So I hit that and then I just dip it down a little bit.
I just calm it down.
Do you see how that just happened?
Like it just, boop.
And I love doing this for a few reasons.
I'm still learning how to light myself well.
And I feel like I'm learning how to just
not have too much harshness or too much this or that.
And I feel like just by dropping the luma,
dropping the representation of light
in my image on a certain hue balances my face's,
like balances the way my face is lit overall
and evens it out.
And it, to me, it replicates when I'm in the sun.
I feel like melanin looks best when it's in full sun
because we like, our melanin just like absorbs the light
and it doesn't reflect it in like, a weird way.
I don't know, I feel like studio lights on melanin, just,
it hits different.
And so I find that in post, I'm always trying to
mimic the type of lighting I love, which is sun.
And so those two things is what I do when I am color,
I would still consider this color correcting,
not color grading myself.
So here they are off.
Okay, so there they are off, the two things I did.
Which again, you see here versus there?
This is where we ended up originally.
It's not bad.
And then boom, witchcraft.
Anyway, I just wanted to show y'all that that's what I do.
Again, a big thank you to Ana Luisa
for sending me these lovely, lovely pieces of jewelry.
Thank you so much.
If y'all are interested in purchasing
any of Ana Luisa's jewelry, not just these pieces,
check out the link in my description box.
And let me know in the comments below,
if you enjoyed this type of video,
you would like to see more stuff like this let me know.
'Cause I had a lot of fun making this actually.
So big shout out to my Patreon producers,
patreon.com/hallease.
There you get early access
to these videos as well as private weekly vlogs from me.
It's a good time.
I also now have YouTube Join available
on this channel as well.
Check that out if you're interested.
I'll see you when I see you.
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