four essentials for today's video guys please make sure to remember the steps that we covered
in previous videos a how to take a portrait and b the other video of 10 ways to improve
your portraits both are relevant here hi guys welcome or welcome back thanks so much for
joining me today we're in york city center and we're going to shoot some urban portraits of
bryt because a she's adorable and b she's got no fear in life so it's going to be great
we have arrived super early in the morning so people are still coming to and from work
we have not got the evf recorder today because dan forgot to pack the cable so we're just going
to have to deal without you guys be able to see through the lens but for most of the shots we're
going to be using the sigma 105 1.4 sigma art lens which is hopefully going to do wonders because
bryt is quite small but i'm also probably going to interchange with the 85mm 1.4 too because it is
a brilliant lens for any kind of situation where you've got a distracting background so
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so we're just gonna shoot and if there's anything important i need to tell you i'll tell you now
and if not i'll voice over it afterwards so we basically started this session by discussing
with josh who is dan's brother how to hold the lead so keep tension on the lead hold it
upright don't pull it just keep some tension there so we're not holding her head up we've
just got tension on it little b being a little superstar having done all of her wait training
did a perfect wait for dan wrong person so essentially normal stuff guys get super low
as i've mentioned in previous videos and using some interesting noises to get the dog's attention
that's kind of the basics of everything that we're going to go through today and
i'm going to intersperse the images the location and the settings too
a perfect shot this is absolutely amazing so
what we will do yeah if we put her
um she can just stand there for now but we'll probably do yeah we'll probably do a sit or a down
good girl reward that josh perfect ask her to sit right sit sit
flat flat flat you can do it baby i mean to be fair that was pretty impressive
flat give a little bit more she has to put head down there wait
good girl reward i mean to be fair that's amazing
so we're outside of the minster here so this is york minster which is a beautiful
building absolutely beautiful we don't have a wide angle lens with us today but
we are going to try and shoot something over the front of it so one thing that's really important
to note is when you're doing urban photography try not to shoot everything straight on
shoot along the lines like we just did on this little step here so we're shooting along the lines
not at the step front which will give you much more dynamic shots and that's why a super shallow
depth of field is really useful so let's set her up and see what we can get move out the way dan
reward move on
do you know what we're never going to get that open and clear again are we
ever genuinely never dan i need the 85 i'm going to switch lenses
ready
it's so wet my hair's gonna get covered
and you don't need to sit you're all right so switch to the 85 mil
for right now um because it just gives us a little bit more freedom in terms of the angle of view
because we're in the shambles right now which is a historic street in york and it's super useful
ready ready dan you're in short ready wowie good girl reward josh i need her
slightly over towards the middle that's it oops and she's back that's distracting i
think
ready okay sit sit okay sit ready good girl wowie
soggy soggy that was cool that was nice these are good shots look at that
can they see that can you see that can they see it
i saw a cool little wall with a nice building behind it so i figured you
know why not pop bryt over on the wall there in this situation we actually got
josh to make some noises because she'd got bored of me which is fine super quick shot
remove the dog empty shot job done nice and simple we keep it simple here guys
again i found these railings outside the minster as we were walking back round and i figured i want
to use the railings as a leading line round yes if i'd have had a more reliable dog i'd
put them to the left of this but for her it was absolutely fine to keep it to the right so again
cool little noises using other distractions in the area to get some beautiful photos
and i think realistically this lens just rocked it absolutely rocked it
where did we go next let's find out
heading up now basically going up onto the walls dogs aren't normally allowed on the walls guys
just a heads up there so going onto the walls here historic walls that did circle around york and
it was super bright behind as you can see so we were only really in this little section here i
wanted to get a kind of a shot that showed the scale of the wall um little b just wanted to sit
there and that's cool she did eventually stand up and we got the most beautiful little photo
again as normal i asked dan to remove her from the shot and then take an empty shot
which makes compositing so so much easier at this point basically we bought bryt a little towel
um because she was getting really chilly so instead of just being wrapped in a coat
we wrapped her in her new little scarf thing that she had and we headed on and down to the riverside
cold we've headed it down to the riverbank because york city centre's got a little bit busy at the
moment so what we're going to do is we're just going to warm up puppy cause she's a little bit chilly
and then we're going to shoot somewhere around the riverbank for a little bit and then we'll probably
head home we've managed to get some really cool shots in the city but obviously working
with a 12 week old puppy is you only have a short amount of time and you've got to do loads of break
and keep them warm keep them comfortable so that they are quite happy little things she
will need to go to bed soon though so we won't have much longer but we're going to try and shoot
on these steps and on the riverbank and create some nice little pieces and then we'll probably
head back my concern is that she's going to want to get the geese
why is she so cute though are you guys ready just give us a second already
right okay so we're gonna shoot her so she's stood just on this side of the cobbles
does that make sense to do you need some more
so little b is super tired at the moment so we're going to call it a day because
she's just just so much to look at which is absolutely fine so i'm going to go home edit
these pictures and i will show you them on the screen right now the main things tonight really
with the urban photography basically is to use the natural lines in the scenes go early in the
morning when it's quieter because as soon as it gets busy you will struggle and try to look for
things that are a little bit unusual or are really important features in the city that you live near
and always always always make sure that the dog is super safe so we'll keep them on lead
keep using a thin lead usually and train your models to uh be held from a side which is super
important and train the handlers that too because that would make sense if you haven't
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