15 minute bride and groom portrait shoot - wedding photography behind the scenes
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A full behind the scenes video of a 15 minute portrait shoot of a bride and groom at Eaves Hall in Lancashire, all filmed in one take. For this shoot I used two cameras (a Sony A9 and a Nikon D810) and two lenses (Samyang 35mm 1.4 and Nikon 85mm 1.8) and only used natural light. In this video you will see how I pose the bride and groom using natural light and also see the edited photographs and the settings which I used.
On a normal wedding day I would usually have two 15 minute portrait sessions with my bride and grooms, one in the natural light in the middle of the day and one as the sun is setting in the evening - this video is an example of how I would work in the natural light portrait session. I work quickly to try and give my couples a nice variety of wedding photographs but the key is to make the portrait session fun.
A huge thank you to Demi and James for being such awesome models and also to my friend and amazing wedding videographer Jonathan Anelli for filming this video for me. Check out Jon's work here: redseats.co.uk/
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This is gold dust mate!! Lot's of people show bts for shoots but this is actually as close to real wedding day portraits as you can get! Well played!!
Thank you very much Martyn, very kind of you 😊
I agree! Much respect for ure efforts!
I love how you’re not afraid of the direct harsh light and play it safe with open shade. Learned so much!
Thank you very much Mette!
Nicely done!
First of all i would like to compliment you, unle Neil.😀...you look very handsome with beard shaved off...
And your work as usual is very informative and easy to follow. We all love watching you. Thank you for your kindness sharing your techniques.
This was a masterful demonstration of creative thought, excellent technique and composure. Many thanks. 🐷🐷🐷
Thank you! And great emoji use! Haha, the pig noise is a bit of an in joke between us :)
So unselfish Neil, a class professional insight into what can be done without sucking the life out of a couples day time wise! Respect mate.
Very kind of you Mark, I'm really pleased that comes across. Thank you
Neil,,, this is the first vid i look of you and your masterpeaces!!! Great work. The end result is astonishing,,, love it !!!! totaly my style. thanks
Thank you so much Marc! That is very kind 😊
This is fantastic neil welldone
Thank you very much!
That 35mm at the beginning WOW ❤️❤️
Thank you Neil for this. This is actually very insightful. 15 or 16 or 20 minutes, you slayed it with minimum time.
Thank you very much Elaine!
OMW, amazing is all I can say. I wish I get to the point where my eye is as trained as yours to be able to see the environment and know exactly what you want to do to get a certain shot.
Very kind, thank you very much 😊
Excellent work Neil, some really important tips made in that video, I especially like giving the couple some time to enjoy each other’s company and scoping out the walk before hand.
Thank you very much John!
I've just come off the phone to a couple whose wedding i'm shooting next year and had this exact conversation with them, about only wanting them for 15-20 minutes. Great to see just how much can be done in that time. I know I need to maximise it more so a video like this really does help. Cheers Neil.
Thank you so much mate, I really appreciate that. That's what I was hoping to get across, that in 15 minutes you can actually take quite a lot of shots and give them a bit or variety too. Thank you again!
very well presented Neil love how you found the light and the bokeh in these images that illuminated your subjects...thank you for sharing all of these great ideas
Wow, amazing work. It's amazing how you didn't use any flash and your pictures came out great.
Thank you very much!
Excellent tutorial with some top tips on how to ease the couple through the shoot. Loved every minute.
Thank you Mark!
This was brilliant, thank you so much for doing this - it’s pure gold for people like me who are learning. Top man!
Thank you very much Lee, really pleased you enjoyed it :)
This is fantastic Neil. Gets me excited for my next wedding. Great to see you in action!
Absolutely brilliant video here Neil... thanks for sharing
Learned so much from this video alone.. Great Job!
Nicely done. Your use of minimal time and dealing with adverse lighting to create a variety of images is very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Very kind - thank you Chuck!
Killed it!
Five Stars !!
Love this video!!
Great work Neil.....very creative...lots of love from India 😊
Thank you so much!
Amazing. Thanks so much for taking us behind the scenes on a photo shoot.
My pleasure, thank you very much Daniel!
love this video
We need more videos like this, than the ones about gears on TH-cam, great job!!
Thank you very much!
Great video mate, thanks for putting in the extra work to share with us all 🙌🏻
My pleasure, thank you Rory!
Amazing! You make it look so easy...
Great video Neil! This is one of the best and realistic tutorials I have seen.
Thank you very much Abanoub :-)
Great tips on the lit foreground bokeh and super quick short lighting set up
Thank you very much Dan!
My favourite video so far Neil :) Learning so much!
Thank you so much Rose!
Amazing shoots Neil! Love the composition and way you pose the couple keeping natural
Thank you very much!
Great video Neil, I learnt a great deal from that. The slide show of photos were brilliant at the end
Great job as always ❤️❤️❤️
Thank yoooou!
Great composition Neil.
Thank Neil, great video and the final images are awesome!
Thank you very much Chris, I really appreciate that :-)
Absolutely amazing 😊
Thank you very much Michael!
Awesome Neil!
Thank you Wes!
you are a wizard.. thanks for this free content! Its Amazing.. i Love your pics!
Very kind, thank you!
Excellent video Neil really nice to see how you work and how you get these great photos. Keep up the good work it's inspiring and so helpful to see how a top wedding photographer gets those killer shots.
Thank you very much Ralph, very kind
EXCELLENT VIDEO MR REDFERN.
Like enorme!!!! Gracias por compartir Neil.
Great work Neil. love your creative ideas, thank you for sharing your work with us. :-)
My pleasure, thank you Robert 😊
Another great video!!!!
Thank you Myron! :-)
Loved that one bro amazing. Can you please make a video on how you use the light meter. Can't wait to see that.
Thank you very much Juber! I don't use light meters
thank you for reply but what is that little thing you are using while taking photos?
Aah, that is called a loupe. It is so I can accurately check my exposure. If you watch the video on my channel about "the top 5 things in my camera bag" you will see me talking about it :)
Great video Neil!
Thank you very much David!
Great video. Well done Neil.
Thank you Steven :)
Subscribed! Thanks!
Thank you very much Angelo!
Neil, can you talk about how you're determining your exposure? It looks like you're generally shooting wide open, setting your ISO and then adjusting exposure with SS. Can you talk about how you're determining ISO? 64 is such a precise number. Thanks!
Great work Neil. Very helpful. Thanks for sharing 👍
My pleasure, thank you very much Savas
love this series, please do more 15 minutes session but for street photography, modelling, architecture and journalism.
Thank you very much!
Wow!... You make it look so easy. This is a very useful content. Thank you very much Neil. 🤗🙏
Thank you very much, I am really pleased you enjoyed it :)
Thanks again mate!!! I am catching a plane to my next wedding and you are my inspiration ;)
Thank you and good luck with your wedding!
I really enjoyed the behind the scenes video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you very much Carl!
my hero! thanks
Amazing really enjoyed watching this Neil, thanks for posting. Never heard of a Loupe but have now, thanks again
My pleasure, thank you very much Richard!
It's really a Helpful video and i love the colours in Photos (Y)
Thank you very much Kaiwalya!
wow amazing video! i will take notes, very useful thank you!!
Thank you very much!
Fantastic
Great tutorial mate thank you! Earned my sub! I’m more for wedding videos but do the odd one for photography and this is the bit I need to learn the most on for photography!
Thank you very much Simon! Welcome to the channel :)
Superb work mate......loved all ur pics.......hats off to you for bringing up such fantastic images under 16 mins.....😉
Haha, yep, you're right, I did technically fail to do it all in 15 minutes.....!
@@NeilRedfern you tried your best mate to get it completed by 15 mins......but nonetheless..... there is nothing to take away from you.....u hv done a marvelous job....... keeping shooting keep inspiring...
You're the best!
Very kind - thank you :-)
thanks alot sir 😭💕
Excellent video
Thank you Phill!
Great work thanks
Thank you Nick :)
Excellent demo Neil. Just came across your channel recently & you have some great content
Thank you very much Andrew!
Thanks for sharing Neil, great to see you work, you captured some gorgeous images. :) I’d love to see the same idea with a non-model couple as these guys are great at having their heads at great angles etc but I’d love to see how you would direct a regular couple, maybe an idea for another video ;)
Thank you very much! I would like to do that too, it's just not as easy to organise but I will try to 😊
Awesome :)
Thank you for sharing! Please do more!
Thank you! Funnily enough, I have just uploaded part 2!
@@NeilRedfern Hahaha Yes, I just watched and enjoyed it. I also love that you add a gopro to your camera to add your pov. Maybe cover a wedding event shoot with all the people and record it with just your gopro and commentary? I really liked to see your composition and editing for that kind of situation.
Very good video ! A 35mm is so versatile. You don't use 24mm at all ?
Thank you very much! Yes, I did when I was shooting Nikon, now I have a 16-35mm 2.8 on my Sony to cover wider focal lengths
Just WoW!!!!!!!!!
Wt a protrait shot u r taken!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much!
@@NeilRedfern bride is look so cute with ur clickZ....
Awesome ............ Bro
Hi Neil... I'm new to your channel and I love your "how i shot this image" vids. Just a quick question. In this vid as an example are you shooting in aperture priority or manual.. ?? Also as your ambient light is always changing do you routinely for these quick fire shots keep your WB in auto in a real wedding scenario ??? Thanks for all your time in sharing your experience.
Superb
Thank you very much Leighton
Thanks to share this. U r the best
Very kind, thank you
Good Stuff!
Awesome work.Just one question,last shot (B&W) settings are 1/32000 !!! f1.4 !!! maybe you think 1/3200 f.4.0 becouse house and threes are also sharp or i missing something :-/
Thank you very much! Nope the settings in the video were correct, the Sony A9 allows 32000 shutter speed. The building probably isn't as sharp in reality as it looks on TH-cam. Bt bear in mind the couple weren't that close to me for shot so even 1.4 won't blur the background all that much
@@NeilRedfern ok.Tnx man
Thank god I'M not the only one who feels as if I have suddenly turned blind shooting during daytime hours
Great T-shirt Neil 🤣👌🏻
Haha, thank you Michaela!
AWSOME SIR.... THANKS FOR SHARING ....
My pleasure, thank you!
I’m slowly learning from you and hopefully save enough to be able to attend one of your up coming training. I tried your trick here yesterday, did some shots in the sun and exposed to the building highlights and secondly exposed to the sky. I got some good images but my subject was underexposed. Is it better that way and then brighten the subject in photoshop? Or just expose for the subject and work the sky in post?
Thank you very much! The method I try to stick to is to the make the subject the brightest part of the image and I try to do that as best I can in camera. I then expose for the brightest part of the frame - ideally the subject. You'll notice I don't often include the sky in my images unless I'm using off camera flash and underexposing - that's because the sky will almost always be the brightest part of the frame.
Thanks Neil! A very interesting video!! This was very instructive and useful! Now I also remember why I once bought this loupe that's in my closet. I should bring it more with me, since I tend to miss it when I don't have it on me and sun is high. I wish too I had that muscle in my chest to be able to show off a moneymaker strap. My daughter says she will be my coach if I want to start working out, which I should! ;)
Thank you very much Manuel! Haha, I must be lifting too many cameras 😂
Brilliant video.. love it, love the poses to. Do you mainly use apature priority?
P.s. you just got another subscribe.
Thank you Ron! Much appreciated. No, I always shoot in manual. Nothing wrong with however you prefer to shoot but personally I've always shot in manual as I find that works best for me
@@NeilRedfern
Thanks for getting back. Keep the vids coming and great work....👍
This is absolutely on point. Perfect BTS. My question though. When you are shooting through the leaves, how are you setting your focus? Auto? Manual, single or multi point?
Hi Neil...love your style of photography...how are you metering these shots? Are you in Aperture Priority or Manual? Spot metering or evaluative? Are you metering on the shadow side of the face? Thanks for your very informative videos.!!!
Neil eres el mejor 😊😎
Eres muy amable, gracias :)
Bloody Brilliant Neil what helped me learn most from this is how well you communicate with the couple , also i noticed that you hardly use zoom's based on the amazon gear list, is the 35mm and the 85mm your staple lens for the entire wedding or do you tend to use the 70-200mm at all, debating on either 85mm, 70-200mm or the 135mm. Thanks...... May I make a suggestion for the next video on how you use the various tools like fractals, loupes, and prisms.
Thank you very much and great suggestions! Yes I use a 35mm and 85mm for 90% of the day, the only other lenses I use are a 24mm and, very rarely, a 135mm but that's it. I stopped using my 70-200 about 3 years ago now and I feel my work has improved as a result. Thank you very much again!
So you haven’t used any flash or any extra lighting
Just the ambient light?
Yes, this entire shoot was natural light only
This is interesting, thank you.
My pleasure, thank you!
Hi Neil, Thank you for sharing, not so easy when your using two systems. I have used the loupe for years, a must in hard light, but so awkward!! Freedom when you have an A9 to use.:-)
Thank you very much Jon! And yes, using two camera systems isn't ideal 😂
Amazingly educational and really cool to see your process. Wondering whether you ever use lens hoods rather than just your hand, or rather, why not use lens hoods the entire shoot? Makes your kit less cumbersome as you walk around?
Thank you very much Todd! Good question, I think I've actually lost my lens hood haha, but yes I could have done if I had one. The reason why I don't like using lens hoods is because sometimes I want the flare, using my hand just allows me to control it, plus I also like to shoot through things that, sometimes, are right up against my lens
Very nice video, definitely make more videos like this if possible 😉
Yes! Great work
Thank you very much! I definitely will do more of these, I really enjoyed it 😊
Hello thanks for This video ❤❤ great job 📷📷 wanna ask you some questions please 🙌🙌 about what you have used in 4m52 it's a device to do what ???
and I have another questions at times, I galley with the photos in full sun and I saw that you increased the speed until 1/128000 and your iso he was at 160 it is a solution
Have a good day
Top quality content. I am wondering how you menage to match colors of sony and nikon in post. Me and my coworker have nikon z7 and sony a7 III and I really had a problem matching colors in editing on our first wedding event. Subscribed :)
Thank you very much Marko! It is tricky to match the two as they each have their own colour profile - my advice would be to have an individual preset for each camera in Lightroom and change the HSL sliders in Lightroom so that they match. It is not easy though but it can be done.
This is very awesome video. I have so much trouble to get my exposure right/balances, can you give me some tips to get the best exposure for my photos? I used Sony A7ii+samyang 35mm f1.8+ Sony 85mm f1.8
I really appreciate your tips.
Thanks
Thank you very much! The biggest tip I can give you is to place the bride in the best light and always expose for the highlights. Exposing for the highlights gives you much more freedom when editing too
Nice work mate. I have the D 800 And i looking for camera nr.2 should i go D750 or D810. I have the sigma 35 And 85. art. Thank you
Thank you very much! I wouldn't like to say, the D810 though is almost identical to the D800 whereas the D750 may take a bit more getting used to
@@NeilRedfern what about low light? Weddings
Great video mate.did you set your iso or use auto
Thank you very much! In conditions like this I tend to set my ISO to 100 or 200 and then just leave it. I shoot manual everything as I find that better for consistency which makes editing easier
Love this video Neil. On another recent video you said you occasionally run wedding workshops, where would I find this information? many thanks again for the video.
Thank you very much Tony! I do indeed, you can find more information here 😊 www.neilredfern.com/off-camera-flash-workshop/
Great Video man! Perfect idea for this Kind of Video! But - the midday sun in Winter is actually ok for me :) i think 1 pm in british summer is really a lot more hard to work, Right?