How To Pose and Direct Lifestyle Family Photography with Elena S Blair | CreativeLive
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When you step into a lifestyle family session you need go-to poses and the ability to guide your families into genuine emotion and interactions, all while keeping the session under control. Self taught and 6 figure photographer, Elena S Blair, shares her top tips for emotive family posing as well as give you step by step instruction for some of her favorite family poses.
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I really like your attitude and art. I really got you with, 'something meaningful to you and the client.' That's your drive, your Passion, coming out in your work. What a great combination of artistry and creating a living. 🌞
“Think about what you want your work to feel like”. Best. Tip. Ever. !!! This was such an eye opener. Thank you so much.
Your end summary (feels vs looks) is spot on!
I come back to this every time I have a family shoot 🖤
I’m not even just saying this but when you told mom to breathe her in and got that shot of the youngest one and mom, I teared up. It was such a beautiful moment in time that we never get back and I loved the result of mom “breathing her in”
Out of like ten videos on family photography this is hands down easily the best I have seen so far. Thank you for taking the time and also for being an awesome photography and human!
What a fantastic video. "Breathe your child in". What a brilliant approach to get mom relaxed.
Thank you, thank you so much, Elena!
If you "thumbs down" this, you're what's wrong with the Internet.
GREAT video! Thanks for putting it together!
Right?! like what?!
wow, the actual tips with real-time demo of them made the video so good. Thanks for sharing this!
great tips, thanks!
Awesome information
You're amazing!
How do you manage to get so many up close and all in focus shots being indoors and with no lights and with all the movement happening?
what do you mean no lights? even indoor seems to be very a lightful room, those big windows works as a "difusser" thats all you need to keep your shutter speed a bit high so you can easly catch all the movement and in the postproduction you can easily finish the job raising up the exposure, whites, highlights or whatever you need.
My goodness thank you so, so much. You’re a beautiful gem for sharing this video!! I’m in tears of excitement as I prep mentally for a photoshoot today and tomorrow (and I ponder yesterday’s - busy season for me!). I’m definitely still in the learning process and insight, wisdom like yours is so appreciated and taken to heart. Thank you.
Me too!!
Really great walkthrough of the actual praxis of portraits
Your studio space is ridonculous! Love it!
This was very helpful as I have trouble engaging the children
Put FEELING into your work! Plus I Love the tip on letting the kids move and dance. Definitely run into high energy kids on a lot of family shoots. Great way to navigate that. Thanks for the tips!!
Excellent, excellent. Thanks for sharing this!
Absolutely adore this... great job and thank you!
This was EXTREMELY helpful! Thank you!
some great tips and ideas ....thank you for posting !
You must go through so many images. Love your perspective on the art of photography. Best to you
SoonI will probably my first family shoot, and I cant believe how good the timing of this was! Huge thanks!
Those pictures are beathtaking!!! I loved them all and I even felt part of what's going on just by watching! good job
This was SOOOO helpful to me. Thank you so much! And the photos are absolutely gorgeous.
Excellent, thank you. Awesome studio space, by the way.
Good job!!! Love it
Thank you so much for this video! I'm inspired quite a lot. You really spoke out the spirit I felt from the stunning family photos. Not how you want your works to look like, but how you want them to feel like.
This is very inspirational. I want to make this pictures now!
I watched a couple of your teachings on Creative Live and it has totally changed how I photograph! It gave me soo much freedom to be me. Thank you !
Excellent! Great ideas and well presented!!!
i like the information overload in this video. thank you!
what a great video, thanks for sharing so many valuable informations!!
WOW!! This video could not have popped up in my news feed at a better time! I am so thankful for all these tips!! I have my first multi family lifestyle holiday shoot tomorrow and I was lost for how to direct my vision for them. So, thank you 🙏
Great tips! I really enjoyed this video!
LOVE THIS!
this is great, thank you so much!!
Amazing energy and skill! Thank you for sharing your insight!
Elena you are fantastic! Brilliant teacher, get your ideas across in plain English - love, love, love!
Loved your video! Thank you so much!!!
I love this! Thinking about how I want my photos to FEEL is something that really resonates. Thanks for all your tips! I love how the most awesome family photos are often not the pose, but rather the relationship and the organic and authentic interaction between family members. Thanks so much!
Good photos!
Thanks for the tips. I will incorporate them in my next shoot. Great video.
Thanks for sharing those tips and pictures for references. Really help for inspiration. (thumbs up).
Greeting from Indonesia
I really liked this video! So much so that I've gone and bought your class on Creative Live. Thank you for the video :D
Love your video..tq for sharing..
Be interested to know what settings your camera is on. Its interesting you manage to have no artificial light on an indoor shoot.
Telltale sign of someone who needs more time behind the camera is asking "what are your settings"...
That room is full of light she definitely needed no additional lighting the ambient was more then enough. Those type of windows even act as a natural modifier. Just bumb up the ISO if needed open up the aperture and your good to go.
@@spammaster2740 not really. no strobes no Flash. id wonder myself and am fluent in all makes and ui
Awesome video!!
I'd love to know how you get all that energy and enthusiasm both in your voice and general being, and is it essensial for family shoots? I'm a pretty calm human bean who's used to shooting cars and fashion style portraits in my own tempo, and the way you handle the family shoots both fascinates me and freaks me out at the same time! :-))
Your photos are so stunning! And you make it look so EASY!! Beautiful lighting makes such a crazy difference. I am trying to learn how to use flashes now. What lens are you using here? Do you have certain lenses you always use for family portraits? I just got a 35 mm but I feel like I am struggling with the learning curve of not having zoom and also having to stand way back for bigger frames. Your studio is total GOALS by the way!
Be nice to have extra person blowing bubbles at the end?
Thank you so much to share these great tips! I'm a family photographer base in New Jersey, definitely learn a lot from you!
Thank you for sharing your ideas, producing and posting this.
i love the lighting in the studio. Im also curious as to the camera exposure settings
Love it! I need to try this..family posing always intimidates me...
Veronique Leduc me too
great and awesome videos
one word.. wow ! learnt so many things in one video. thanks.. subscribed for more !!
Great!
Awesome
great video, Elena is amazing!! Wondering if she moved to shutter priority filming the kids in movement, or was able to do that on AP priority??
Thank you.
you're very welcome!!
thank you
I have my first (practice) family shoot in two weeks and I'm so nervous but this video really helped me out in terms of posing - thank you!! Do you have any recommendations in terms of how to connect with as well as direct clients during covid?
which camera is that? perfect video and shots
Wonderful !!!! Is there any video showing a similar thing for portraits of single person?
Hello, great video and beautiful light - windows you have there in your studio. May I ask bout your cammera settings? Your photos seems to be so nice and sharp. I would say you used something as 35/1,2 but not sure, but for having everything in focus, you had to step down to aperture. How about the shutter speed considering your subjects were constantly moving and quit a lot in case of the little gals. Thank you. :-)
Nice...
Thanks for the tips.
On average, what is the ratio between the actual number of photos you take and how many you keep in the end or even deliver to the client?
great ananlogy
My daughter put her hands on her hips and gave me an attitude. I had my camera and I snapped a picture. She hated the picture when I printed it out. We chatted about it and I told her this is the way I see you, attitude and a smirk. (She ended up like it, but still preferred others.) She has since grown and I have other and better pictures, and she has learned to mind her manners a bit when I have the camera.
My mother gets the school pictures, my wife and I get everything else.
Hi, I would like to know how long a shoot like this normally takes you
Ma, what lens did you use?
I’d love to know the fstop you like to shoot families with. I love to shoot wide open but always worry about not having everyone in focus. I know if they are on the same focal plane they will be, but when moving around constantly that can be an issue
Hi There, it sure can be! A safe f/stop is 5.6 if you have an active session with subjects at a varying distances to the lens. We'd also suggest checking out Elena's full class where she covers very common instances like the one you are referring to. You can find the link in description to watch a free lesson.
Where did you get the backdrop with the light bulbs
What were your settings? :)
what lens did you use
what lens u used ?
Best video ive seen yet
Thank you ❤
May i ask what shutter speed you like to work with? Thank you
To freeze the motion moving subjects you need higher shutter Speed...
Very nice. Quick question: Are we hearing actual shutter clicks, or was that added as a sound effect? RE your session, when I was a younger pro in the 1980s, precision posing was the name of the game. Problem was, many photogs could not pull off a relaxed look with precise posing of body angles and head tilts, so the pictures often looked stiff, uncomfortable and artificial. Later in my career (1990s) my style was very reminiscent of what you're doing here, where warmth and happy expressions trump just about everything else, including the technicals of composition, focus accuracy, exposure, etc. Of course, as pros we want to check all boxes, so everything from composition to technically correct exposure and focus are still critical. (BTW am no longer a pro; out of the business going on 15 years.)
Anyway, I asked about shutter clicks, because as a film user, every click of the shutter cost more than a dollar. (I.e., using pro labs, not Costco, etc.) Today, though I have 256 GB cards in all my cameras, I still tend to compose every frame, including trying to nail focus, either though AF or manual. So it looked (actually sounded) like hundreds of frames were taken; was curious about that. Fun stuff!
Hey there! Thanks for sharing your experience. No, the shutter clicks are a part of the experience :)
aperture settings??
Loved this :)
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What setting do you use to keep things sharp while capturing the movement at the same time? This, in order not to miss any cool detail from people's interactions with each other
Great video! Is she shooting with aperture priority so she doesn't have to change settings between locations and different light?
Correct - this help her be more nimble and still get a very close exposure.
Remember watching this 5 months ago...forgot to subscribe....anyway fixed that today.
What lens are you using please x
Lorraine Coulson I want to know what lens it it also!!
Elena is shooting with an 85mm portrait lens :)
Was the family into Steampunk? The background used looks like they were.
Beautiful! Def will try out ypur creative live! Btw, what lens are you using for these? Everything comes out so amazingly.
What lens you use in this video?
I wanna know too!
@@meningherme I read in the comments above that she is shooting with an 85 which didn't look like that
Were those phots edited? Seemed extremely contrasty.
Wow I need take my camera out
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Please help me
Camera white balance
feeling over look
I thought lifestyle was not posed and all natural. It's great for commercial I suppose.
Nice video, nice tips. Horrible background though.
Good techniques but pictures are all badly exposed. DO you even use your histogram??
That shutter is in pain.
I am not a fan of photographer who takes 1million shoots, hoping for few good ones and most of the photos is blur or one of the family member face is not shown/hidden, and she keeps asking about the kids need a break after 3 mins of photos ! just get the shoot done, good tips but the photos quality is poor,
nazgullllll1 This is not your style so move on Sir!
The composition is not pro level. She has some good tips on interacting with clients but that's about it for this video. There are a lot of pro level videos on TH-cam for free that demonstrate a higher level of composition.
If you can get 3 little ones to stay still long enough for "pro composition" more power to you!
Im not gonna say pro or not pro composition, but I was super confused about the first background being so dominant and sharp, actually the depth of field was missing in a lot of wider shots. And why were so many of the pictures lopsided? Maybe their unedited?
the good: she interacts well with her subjects, is friendly and professional and organized. But if she would have only brought the family 10ft or so away from the wall, the look would have been improved with the background blurred a bit. The other shots where I can see the electrical conduit and receptacles also bothers me - they have no place in a professional portrait shot.