5 Tips for Transforming Ugly Locations into Beautiful Portraits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video I'm sharing 5 tips that will help you transform ugly locations full of distractions and unwanted elements into beautiful portrait locations where you can create images you're proud of!
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Timestamps
0:00- Intro
2:08- Point 1- Get Creative with Your Crop
4:20- Point 2- Use High Compression Lenses
6:03- Tip 3- Shoot Vertically
6:39- Tip 4- Create Foreground
9:06- Tip 5- Use Bodies to Block Distractions
10:13- Wrap Up
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This is my favorite thing to do; finding those little pockets of great places to shoot most people would overlook. I used a worn out green wall in a back alley for a senior session and it turned out amazing.
I'm not a professional, just a hobbyist, and my photography style is totally, totally different. And I still learn so much from all of your videos, thanks! Really appreciate these videos - clear, to the point, and most of all you really know your stuff!
Awesome! Yes! You don't have to do exactly what I do! Take the information and mold it to your business and your style! Thanks for watching!
I do most of these suggestions intuitively as a photographer, but I think it's so great to have a refresher!
Nice video KJ!
Me too! It’s actually not second nature to a lot of people so you’re lucky it comes natural to you!
Thank you Katelyn! I just purchased your Consistency course and am a new monthly subscribing student of yours! I just love you and your family so much! God bless you all from the Larsen family in northern Minnesota! 😊
Cheryl welcome!!!! We are so glad you found us!!!
This is my current struggle. Love that this came up as I faced this problem after going to Little Rock for the weekend
Glad it was helpful!!
I think I naturally do this as well, but still learned something. I've had friends say sure, but my yard is ugly and I'll tell them I can find the beauty in it and work around it.
Thanks for watching!
One of the best videos out there and it came just in time when I was struggling with how my work was dissatisfying in bawdy locations. Thanks
Glad it helped!
nice work Katelyn
Thank you!
Great tips! I've been doing these same things for years and still sometimes have to remind myself to use them when the pressure is on. Literally just hid tourists on a trail with my bride & groom's bodies during a mountain elopement at a popular location yesterday!!
So awesome! Thanks for watching!
Never heard of you but glad you popped up. I know most of this stuff but I liked your energy and video so I’m subbing now. 👍🏽 one more for ya lady.
Awesome! Thank you!
You are the best teacher, I've learned so much from your videos! Thank you so much :)
You're very welcome!
This is why I love zooms so much because I can manipulate my backgrounds and foreground perfectly, though I know you use primes… 😍 I took a photographer friend of mine out to the lake with my 70-200 2.8 to take photos of her, and she was just mindblown at what a high compression lens could do. She shoots everything on a nifty fifty. Feel like if I could ever get ahold of that 28-70 f/2 (backorder just plain sucks), it and my RF 70-200 will make me unstoppable! 😛😈
So exciting! Thanks for watching!
😩 It was on backorder a year ago too
I absolutely needed this video! Thank you so much for sharing! :)
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you
You’re welcome!
I love you KJ! 🥰 Awesome tips. Very Helpful and Useful. 👍🏾
Glad it was helpful!
Always love your content ♥️♥️♥️
Thanks so much!
Anytime I have the room to shoot the 135mm even for full body photos that is what comes out of the bag and gets used. The 85 and the 50 is for when I don't have the space to shoot the 135. Out of all the lenses I have used that is my favorite since I love compressed telephoto looks (if I could afford the 200mm f/2 prime I would shoot that but that is definitely not in my budget). These are all great tips and things I still forget or overlook sometimes when I am shooting in locations that are too busy or have too many distracting background elements so this video was great as a refresher to keep these things in mind.
Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
Thank you katelyn 🙏🏼
Thanks for watching Clay!
Very nice! keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Love your videos and many thanks for the tips. Now that it's getting warmer, I can try these tips in some of my locations that I was avoiding and use my new 50mm lens.
Thanks for watching!!
thanks. downloaded... beautiful family
Thanks!
Great video thank you for the great information keep up the great work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is very helpful!! I struggle a lot with this
Glad it was helpful!
Ty at the end! LoL 😆
He's crazy!
Love this! I actually implemented creative cropping for my wedding this past weekend 😊
That is awesome!
@@KatelynJames thank you so much for replying! It did make post editing so much easier so I appreciate your tips 💛
awesome suggestions
Glad you like them!
You are amazing
Thx for your tips:)
You’re welcome!!
Thank you for these great tips! I do t shoot weddings but will be good to use for seniors and families. Off the subject, what paint color is on your walls? It’s exactly what I’m looking for. Not to warm and not to cool. Lol
We LOVE Reserved White by Sherwin Williams!!!
I have a 35 and a 135 lens for now, what don’t you recommend about the 135? I’ve actually enjoyed shooting portraits of me and my wife for practice and development
You just have to be so far away from the client. It can be hard to interact and can be limiting in certain situations! But I do think it is a great lens.
Is a 28 - 70 mm rf lense a high compression lense?
You can get high compression at 70mm!
What aperture do you shoot these videos at Tyler?
Usually around f/2.2 on my C70 which is a super 35mm sensor soooo it’s closer to a 2.8 on FF
I never realized the frame effected aperture like lens length.
Thanks for watching!!
As of 5-16-22 none of the free downloads are available :-(. Message states "You cannot add another "5 Ways to Transform Lousy Portrait Locations" to your cart." You MUST fill out all the info and then the items are available. Sorry, I was confused.
Hi Debbie! Sorry you're having trouble! Make sure there is only 1 of each product in your cart before heading to checkout. Email us katelyn@katelynjames.com if you're still having trouble!
Why don't you recommend the 135? Shouting to the couple what to do? 😂 It's my dream long focal length 😂
Thanks for watching!!
I was wondering the same thing... I want a 135 too. I hate that you just got an auto generated response 😂
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Thanks for watching!
When you realize that Kately has a Blakelymade painting hanging over her fireplace
haha! Yes! Love her!!
Weird question did you mean $1,000 dollars or actually 10,000$ I was surprised because I would of thought that $1000 would be shooting in the locations you just mentioned and I would assume that if your client is able to pay $10,000 the better the location.
We have found some of our clients spend a majority of their budget on photography so sometimes other areas of the day aren’t “high end”, but the way we shoot we are able to make things look high end! Hope that makes sense
are you still loving your 28-70?
We love it!!
But…what if there’s literally no trees to pull branches from…? And even then it’s just one photo….?
Liked the video but this stuff is pretty obvious for anyone whose been a photographer for more than a year. Good for beginners
Thanks for watching!
The colors look too orange in the video, distracting to the watcher.
Thanks for watching!!
Wow 😂 not at all ! great video !
How we can make confortable the couple, like the couple are not confortable doing poses they are not really photogenique. 🥲 and i have a canon r6 with only 24-105mm STM Lens. its a good for a marriage photographie ?
That would be fine! I would recommend this free class for helping people be comfortable! katelynjames.com/free-class-posing
@@KatelynJames thank you !