so as you guys can see i'm obviously in the studio space and um excuse the echo because the room is
practically empty um what i'm doing today is that i'm shooting digitals for a model swad
so i do sorry um i'm shooting uh digital's for Souadou and i'm going to introduce you
guys to her in a second again digitals are one of the most important set of pictures
that you guys can present to your agencies your agencies then present it to the clients because
this is like your most natural look and this is how the clients can actually tell
what the model looks like right without the makeup without the retouching and all that kind of stuff
so let me introduce you guys to suwadu take two take two let me introduce you guys to sawadu
can you tell us um where you're from and like what your goal is here today hello everyone
my name is suado i'm from new york i'm here in california to shoot my digitals with fresh pepper
great and as you guys can see i had her wear black let me just show you guys what she's wearing
i had her wear black for several reasons one because
black is really slimming and it complements the the physique and also when you look at
model digitals a lot of models just tend to usually just wear white and black so sawadu
is wearing all black today and i'm going to be shooting her against the wall next to the window
so as i said i'm going to be shooting Souadou next to the wall close to the window
um couple of tips one you want to try shooting your subject or shooting your digitals
close to a window because the window is going to give you a really nice natural lighting
it's going to fall nice on your cheekbones on your face and just make everything look really nice
um if you can it's best to avoid using uh flash because flash is gonna create
harsh shadows and it's gonna make it look a little bit artificial where your digitals
are supposed to look really natural like it could have been taken from a cell phone even
i do have a flash setup here just because i want to kind of play with the lighting a little bit
i have it pointed up to the ceiling because it's going to bounce the flash is going to bounce down
and uh created nice soft even feel on her face but i'm gonna start off not using it because i don't
think we're gonna need it with all these um with all the windows and natural lighting that we're
getting in here so we're gonna start without it at first um so i do is you're not wearing makeup or
if you are it looks like you're not wearing anything are you wearing makeup yes or no
no i'm just wearing a little bit of foundation okay so she has just a little bit of foundation
as you guys can see is very clean very natural not over the top and that's how it should be
for your digitals so for the digitals there are four types of shots that i'm going to get
one is a beauty close-up of sawadu the next is going to be sort of like a side portrait
a side portrait shot and then you look to it towards the camera like right there and then
i'm going to get a full body shot and then a three-quarter shot which is just going to be um
from her head to about her thighs so those are the four shots that make up your digitals
and let's get started okay so i'm going to have you come just a little bit this way
so now this is going to be the full body shot that's what we're going to get first
so just be relaxed um don't stand there like it's like a like a mug shot or anything still you know
you're still a model right so just kind of like just relax switch the balance in your hips so
you can go from left to right and just make it really natural and then direct to the camera
okay it's a little stiff
and as you guys can see i'm shooting from a low angle because shooting from a low angle
and shooting up that's going to make her legs look a lot longer than it actually is
and it's going to make her look tall you're actually tall right you're what 5 10.
five nine so she's five nine already she's pretty tall but i want to even exaggerate that even
more so that's why i'm shooting from a lower angle yeah so now that was a full body shot um
let's move to the three quarters so for yeah so for the three quarters you can even you can
fold your arms if you want to yeah there you go nice make sure that's looking good looks fire
so we did the full body shot
we did the three quarter shot now we're going to do the profile before we move to the beauty shot
right the beauty portraits so the for the profile it doesn't have to be like directly profile
it's a little bit like almost in between right you split the difference between
straight to the camera and uh at a 90 degree angle right so just find that 45 degree angle
so so guys as i said um i had the flats i had the flash set up i don't even need the flash um
these pictures look really nice with the natural light that's coming in right now it's about 4 30
in the afternoon we're in los angeles um sunset i believe is probably around like 6 45 or something
so the lighting right now is perfect it's not too harsh um it's just giving you that nice even um
feel i guess right we got the full body we got the three quarters we got the portrait shot now we're
going to move to the close-up beauty shot so for this i'm going to move much closer to the subject
and again what's important to remember is it's all about the eyes right when
the camera is so close up on your face it's all about the eyes be fierce smiles if you must um
you know you do know how to smile right cool she knows how to smile so be fierce smiles if you will
and just work your angles and almost seduce the camera
for this one i'm actually going to change my lens because i want to get close without
being too close right so i'm going to zoom in punch in and get that really tight beauty shot
without being invasive to the subject so this is a 50 i'm going to change into a telephoto lens
so guys that's how you shoot digital so i'm going to upload these photos to the
computer and slice them into the video so you guys can see what we've done here
again this is Souadou thank you she's a commercial current model in new york currently looking for
representation at the moment correct yes in LA, Miami, New York wherever you guys are if you're
an agent watching this video and you like her look do free feel free to hit her up i'm going to leave
her instagram handle in the description box down below um if you guys have questions drop them in
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