Welcome and welcome back to another YouTube video with me Jessica McGovern international
multi-awarding portrait photographer and little Pippi here although we will have the whole fam out
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really really helps us out in today's shoot we're going to be looking at how to photograph
lick shots with a lizard tongue like Nimi's with perspex sheets so acrylic sheets and there's a
few things i'm going to discuss in this one we've got five minutes so let's get stuck in
so we're going to show you some of the behind the scenes from today our perspex sheet is about this
big it's cleaned in the middle the sides always have fingerprints on and we're going to just
basically show you a little bit more about what it's like so i'm going to use peanut butter the
main thing to know about peanut butter is that you want to make sure that you have a brand where the
ingredients don't include a sweetener that i can never pronounce i'm going to put it
on the screen right now but it's extremely toxic to dogs Nimi's a bit of a strange one
she kind of does her own thing which is also absolutely fine we're not going to force a dog
to do anything and we do do desensitisation with Pippi i'll link a video about that
above so we won't make it scary for Nim we'll make it really fun so that she can eat peanut
butter i'm using a Sigma 20ml 1.4 lens and at this point a Sony A92 but it doesn't really
matter what you want to use a macro lens is really useful but again not required
so Alfie likes peanut butter it's one of his favourite snacks so he's going to be super
happy to help us with this and also i've got a little bit more freedom of time with him what i
need to try and make sure though is that he's somewhat central between these lights so he's
maybe a tiny bit far forwards here but that is fine if you need a helper then get a helper
so he's in the perfect spot leave it i put my peanut butter down i have an amazing dog i have
my perspex pop a little tiny bit of peanut butter so like a smaller than a pea i would say and you
want to put that in like a little globule on the front of your perspex wait good boy okay
good boy
Pippi can we come sit sit yes good girl so we have lots and lots of rewards for Nim Nim
she's in that perfect spot now so i will put that peanut butter down have it on my
finger i'm gonna load my acrylic popping a little blob right in the middle okay
she's going to town
my reflection is relatively strong in it so that means that i'm being lit
too much by the light so i'm going to rotate both sides thank you very much
my glamorous assistant so Alfie's a good boy he thinks this is the best game literally ever
put a globule in the middle wait he's like it's calling me it's calling me mum okay
he licks up which makes it a bit more difficult good boy buddy good boy i want to try and get
him to eat to like lick lower so i'm gonna dot a little bit lower down leave
okay
i feel like that was really successful actually good boy you know he's like i
know i get to eat it already we've got a fair amount of dribble all over the place
but the focus is where i wanted it to be so that's super
and the light looks great so i feel like we've nailed the light on that one that's super
okay so Beanie's being typical sprout
extremely adorable but also a manic lunatic she's a lot smaller so i might struggle with this one
actually Beanie a little blob and wait for her to find it good girl sit she's got it come on
i mean i don't think it's going very well for her it's just
she sort of breathes and smears it everywhere
so in summary we can just go ahead and use a piece of perspex to make some studio shots a little bit
more interesting yes there's a little bit more editing because you've got dribble and dribble and
goopy bits and pieces all over the place but the dogs absolutely love it it's a lot of fun
and you create some really interesting shots in the end
thanks Bean see you next week for another five minute Friday