5 Portrait HACKS Everyone Wishes They Knew Sooner! 📸
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- In today's video, I'll share my top five portrait hacks that everyone wishes they knew sooner to get great portraits! This video was sponsored by Skillshare. The first 500 people to sign up via my link will get two FREE months of Skillshare Premium! skl.sh/miguelquiles6
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I thought I knew everything about portrait work but you really added enough to make this a great video.
Subscribed... And Juliana has a great pair of eyes.
there is something to be learnt
Ken Konard thinking you know everything automatically means you suck
Amazing MAKE person laugh
Tip 6: ask sitter to look at a point behind you. Tip 7: ask sitter to think of someone that they love.
Think about someone they love? That's a thing?
@@elliottdavies3528 Yes, try it.
@@simmo303 Interesting.
Facts
What if they don't have someone they love, or the one they did just died in a horrible accident? Now you have a picture of someone crying. I hope you feel real happy with yourself for making them cry you big jerk
I am an Industrial photographer, and the most important technique I use is an on-camera flash set for about 1 f-stop less than the available light to highlight the subject eyes and put a white highlight in them. It makes a world of difference when the editor chooses photos for publication. The ones with the flash almost always get chosen over ones without the flash.
How it is done sir. I am new to photography
That was 5 minutes well spent, a few tips from someone who is willing to share his knowledge, no annoying music or intros, keep up the good work.
Nick Brown the 1st 20% was an annoying ad... Try being truthful kthx
3 minutes spent okay. Skillshare and "Like/subscribe/comment" ate the rest. I was actually looking for something more related to the thumbnail. That wasn't just a lighting change.
What are you talking about man it was 1:30 before he even started talking anything about portrait tips
@@70mjc hell yeah brother speak that truth
My personal tip as a commercial printer,as opposed to your first tip:
ALWAYS have headroom on all sides. You need them for both cropping to your required aspect ratio and for filling your bleeds. This works for personal 4R prints up to professional publications like magazines with sizes/ratios ranging from 8x10, 8.5x11, to A4s and 9x12s. Bleeds is where you lay out your photo in a full-page with the intentions that your sides will be cut intentionally but is there since printing and cutting is never perfect. You allow the printer up to 3mm usually to have this margin of error for the trim. So if you don't have this, the printer will either just print a shade of rich black, white, a mirrored version for you edges, or zoom in your photo even more so we can fill your bleed gaps. Think of yourself as a videographer -- Cinema cameras always have these rectangular crop guides with margins that still capture footage outside these guides knowing they will intentionally be crop out or be used by editors for leeway in editing.
Tip2:
Most commercial presses use FOGRA39 as a baseline for CMYK color profiles. To predict and more or less control the final outcome of your print, always put down the brightness of your monitor to match a white piece of paper at the base of your monitor. Then use Photoshop's softproof mode in FOGRA39 with black ink and paper simulation. Depending on your printer, they may or may not use Black Point Compensation -- in our case as a printer, we don't turn it on so we can maintain the vibrance of your colors. Turning it on preserves the details in your deep blacks at the expense of washing out your colors (which is print's way of increasing brightness).
You can work while in this mode to create a "print" version of your work to recover unprintable colors or flattened details. As a person inside whose job used to be to match our clients' monitors who know squat about optimizing and designing for print, I notice that with people with normal monitors, I at least have to add Brightness+20 to 25; For bright monitors, I at least have to add Brightness+40 to 50. I might then remap certain unprintable colors that become "flat" like reflex blue to closer to cyan-ish (C100M60) and fruit orange to closer to vermillion (M40Y100).
If you have your printer's go ahead, you can also convert your work to CMYK using Photoshop's Convert To Profile command and using FOGRA39 as your target CMYK profile. You may also use whatever profile your printer uses or if they provide you with one. If working with uncoated papers, FOGRA29 is a good reference point. You can play around with Black Point Compensation and a host of rendering techniques to preserve your RGB work. Usually its Relative Colorimetric, but my favorite is Perceptual for photos. It is less accurate color-wise, but it preserves the impact of a photo and usually a good perception of your photo in print.
Be advised though that printers still have color delta margins and will not be always the same. Mass-produced publications also will have prints that range from dark to washed out as the print machine stabilized per signature/face.
Tip3:
If you are printing black and white, do the same above to convert to FOGRA39 or your target profile but make sure your CMY values are not equal or too close to each other. Having them perfectly equal or close will yield prints or spreads that don't have the same shade of rich gray. Control this by using Selective Color > Blacks and make sure you have a healthy margin where each CMY ink is more or less 10% ahead of each other at around the 50% grays. I usually go for cool grays as a bluish gray (Cyan+Magenta) tends to look neutral in human perception, so I will go for something like Cyan 60, Magenta 50, Yellow 40 as a reference point for midtone grays. If you want a warmer print with a tendency to go yellowish/red, then you make Magenta 60 Yellow 50, Cyan 40.
Tip4:
A competent printer will always respects your RGB profile so always attach your color profile. Some disregard your CMYK profile but thats fine as most people really don't know how to use CMYK and you will pass on your file in a press-ready CMYK PDF anyway if you do know what you're doing.
Tip5:
Finally, even after all you could do, always remember its not about color accuracy -- its about how the viewer sees it. The viewer doesn't know that the sky was originally this shade of teal but if it looks great and the impact is preserved, leave it at that. Printing is an art in and of itself and we should learn to let go. Our prints look different in every situation ranging from outdoor lights to indoor 6500K lights to professional 5000K lights to LED lights to flickering bulbs. Heck, even 50 and 60Hz lights will make colors and print look differently. Knowing that, you learn to just admire the beauty.
This is the most informative youtube comment I've ever read. Thank you.
I wish comments could get bookmarked… you should turn this into a medium post or something and let us know!
Yeah..I was totally perplexed by his tip here too, so much so, that I couldn't even tell from his example, which one was the goodie!
Only those who are in both industries understand this more. From Photography - Design & Layout - Print & Finishing, once you get those right you will be able to comprehend the info above.
Liking this to bookmark.
1/ fill the frame (remove the headroom)
2/ Catchlights (get a good reflection from the eyes)
3/ Eye placement (shy people look away showing less iris) instruct them to look in same direction of their nose
4/ Lighting (golden hour nice soft light / midday harsh light)
5/ Draw a great expression - get them to perform a pose etc link in the flash card
Thank you so much. You really helped me a lot.
Tell the subject to do a powerful pose with their feet, even if you can’t see their feet in the photo when you are just starting the session with them. You may have to demonstrate. I find telling girls to give a sassy pose (whatever their interpretation of that is) empowers them to feel confident in the photos. Even if you don’t use these photos in final product - it’s about getting them confident and getting expressions
Yeah that’s very important
The direction of the subjects eyes is paramount, thanks for that tip!!
Love the way how he rocks backwards & forwards like a giddy little school boy talking to the rest of the class 😘
About the headroom tip, it only applies if you're shooting beauty/fashion/standard portraits. But in a more author/artistic portrait there're infinite bizarre ways of composing your shot to give a certain feel. Exemple: a lot of head room may leave your subject like he's feeling alone or distant (used a lot in drama films).
Before you can break the rules you need to understand the rules and have a good foundation
Hey Miguel. I found tips 2 and 3 about the eyes extremely helpful. I followed so many Utubers over the years, but no one has mentioned and explained those ideas so simple as you have. Thanks, Bro, I will definitely use them. Bookmarking this vid too.
As a guy who is trying to learn Portraits, these were helpful tips! The eyes tip was very helpful
Tip #1 Shoot wide and crop. This is so underrated and something I’ve started doing regularly. The extra space allows you to play with the print aspect ratios in post and gives bleed room for printing. Anything over 24MP will have plenty of resolution to leave 10% extra room around the subject, and it will be needed when the client is deciding what sizes they want to print, as the ratios change for different sizes.
Longer focal lengths tend to flatter human faces. Shooting wide just to crop later is frankly counterproductive. You're not in any rush so compose what you'd like to capture. Don't use some 35mm lens and crop 100% in post.
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By shoot wide I mean take a step back. I'm not referring to using a wide angle lens. Typically I shoot 80-120mm for portrait shoots and just make sure I have enough room around the subject to recompose in post if I have to.
I love your playing a character tip for portraits, one of the most useful things I have heard in a long time. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas with us
Some awesome advice I haven’t heard anybody else about! Thanks Miguel. And yes, put her in the videos more.. she hasn’t said a word.
Thank you for not talking too fast. Easy to get what you say, and you also had a smile on your face. That is respect. Well done. The details of the eyes was nice !! Thanks
Hi Miguel
Thanks for sharing these good easy to recall tips. Eye placement wasn't something I always did (usually I just directed where to look, often to camera) and never considered relative iris to white size. Love your idea for playing a role or character - I still find getting novice subjects to give me the expression I want the hardest part of portraiture, often I just get them laughing when I encourage them to adopt a particular look and time isn't always on your side to go through the whole ...."I want you to imagine that..... etc".
Really helpful video, Miguel! Helpful tips for portraits, and I loved the character playing idea. Yes to Juliana in more shoots! I'm finding joy in creating alternate head angles, and eyes looking at me without always having the head "aimed" at me. Basic stuff, I know, but fun experimenting to create unique "moods!" Thanks so much!
Hi Miguel
Good tips and thanks for sharing. One thought I had about tip 1 was 'framing to suit' your end need. I first encountered a version of your tip 1 as 'fill the frame' but sometimes it can get a little tight to one edge. I now like to shoot hi-res then crop to suit. I particularly like the concepts of having 'negative space', some space for the subjects direction of look to take you into i.e. looking into and not out of frame and space for environmental elements - often out of focus and/or dark so as not to compete tt strongly with eyes/face.
Good vid and I appreciate you can't do a short vid with 99 different insights etc etc so 5 tips is a lot more accessible than a full on masterclass.
I was always applying tip 1 but for certain of my younger models including my wife, it is important that I let a decent gap above their heads on every shot, bc of instagram format (4:5) and feed aesthetics purposes. (Basically if you look at the feed they want every pic to be centered, and the head not being cropped. I had alot of difficulties doing it on purpose at the beginning and I was never letting enough space above the models 😂.
This video is so well done. Super soft...nothing crazy. Love this guy. Thanks man you are awesome!
On the last note its very true. This past Sat I worked with a model that knew her poses. It was like magic. Its important for models to learn it.
Thank you for these helpful tips, as an actress it's always so fascinating to learn how photographers set up the process and how to best help them get that great shot by following their wisdom. I have a headshot session coming up and I wanted to learn more about how to ideally position myself and help the process flow. This video has valuable information I will definitely be incorporating so I am lucky I found it. Thank you.
Awesome and informative video. Great job. And I love your shirt.
Thank you! I just signed up for the 2 free months on skillshare. Awesome! Can’t wait to learn new things 😍 your tips are a very good start for me too 😊
Your model has the most beautiful eyes! I love photographing people with intense eyes.
You are so nice, Miguel, to share these tips! Thank you.
Dude! What a great video... Thank you for mentioning the eye composition and your model has beautiful eyes!
Thanks 🙏 these tips are really great I guess getting the right expression is important
I love using catch light even if a mini led torch in hand or on side.
I use the relaxing techniques as well & will have them tell me a fun story or talk about something they're passionate about the when ready "say froggy"
Long introduction but your information was crucial and well explained; thanks. BTW, your model's eyes are awesome!
Love the last top, that will make them give you all types of expressions, confused, questioning, elated because they want to be that character, embarrassed, happy, laughing, intense, inquisitive, the beat goes on, demure. DG 71 and still learning.
One thing I would say about filling the frame, is that if you are using older/vintage glass, it often won't perform well near edges when shooting wide open. So if you are shooting character lenses wide open, I would actually advocate for putting your subjects face in the dead middle of the frame, and backing up if you need to. Modern digital cameras have plenty of resolution already - it's easy enough to crop in post IMO
I go back and watch your tutorials because you have the most amazing and helpful information. I've been using your tips to improve my portrait photography. Thanks so much!
I like this unique photographer a lot. th-cam.com/video/6XGETo4YxM4/w-d-xo.html
Excelente video
1. Fill the frame
2. Catch light
3. Eye placement
4. Expression
5. Time of day
Great video! Appreciate the awareness, look forward to applying these techniques!
Really love the short but fully packed format here! Thanks! :)
So helpful! Thank you. Will use all of these tips immediately.
Maaaan, thanks for those tips, even though I’ve been shooting for a few years and thought I knew a lot but wow! All those points really made a huge difference, thanks man. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😎
The lighting is one of my favourite things I try to do (try😁) And talking to your subject to calm their nerves is a great point👍
P.s. I am just trying to venture into finding subjects other than myself 😅 I take a long time to set up my "scene" - and more often than not, I find that my composition actually changes (for the better) from my original plan. Self portraits for me means alot of time getting the focus right. Walking to and from the camera to make micro adjustments is time consuming. I also find that my focus is out at the start, when I expected it to be on-point 😑 (thus the micro adjustment effort) I've followed your insta.
Do the lemon face! when working for the first time with a model I'd recommend to do just that, act as if you were reacting to eating a lemon and keep the expression for a couple seconds, it helps to release a lot of tension, plus it's always awesome to start a session with a good laugh :)! and same as other people here, more of you with Juliana for sure.
Great tip Alex! Thanks!
Extremely helpful, thank you! And Juliana is GORGEOUS!!
Thank you for sharing, Miquel. Very helpful.
These types of more subtle yet very practical tips are extremely useful, thank you for the great video Miguel!
I appreciate the feedback! I try to teach the subtle stuff since it often makes the biggest impact :)
@@MiguelQuilesJr Exactly, plus it's this stuff that you don't hear from the other 11 million photography instructors on TH-cam that helps separate your pictures from the crowd. Like the f11 aperture video changed my work drastically, all thanks to you!
Thanks for a great video and tips, your personality was awesome. My fav tip was about lighting, no matter how great everything else is lighting needs to work with you.
loved how informative, interesting and short this video was. just subscribed :)
Great video, and you are an amazing teacher. One of the best!
Great video... On head room, I'd add if it's vertical & you plan on printing you may want excess head room to crop for print (since most standard frames aren't full frame ratio)
Thanks Miguel for the tips and Julia is a gorgeous model to shoot it ! It helps a lot
Good video Miguel. Your videos are always very informative. And, with respect to Juliana, use her IN ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS !!! (Enough said?)
A very enjoyable tips video. Thank you. I’m taking portraits today so will try to use these tips.
Miguel I always like that you are willing to share what you know and helping other take better photos. I know they have always help me.
I try my best to help out, so happy the tips are helping!!
Awesome video! Thank you! Model is STUNNING!!!!!!!
It was great and simple way to explain what’s to take a portrait picture.
Thank you for the tips it was plain and simple.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
all your tips are excellent Miguel - many thanks
Yes I’ve been paying more attention to eyes & hand gesture that also can greatly impact a photo so I been trying show my models what I want more less by striking the pose Lol,I look probably stupid but they get it and of course do better than me..mission accomplished.
So cool great advice will certainly use it thanks 😊
Great video. Short, precise and loaded with beneficial tips. BTW your subject is lights out beautiful 😍😍
Fantastic info Miquel.. Thank you !
All great tips, but going into character was quite helpful. ty
Dope video. Very helpful and I can’t wait to try these out!
Great , crisp video. Great points. Useful for a beginner.
That's interesting. I tend to have the gap above head due to auto focusing on the eye and not panning down for the shot. It works out sometimes because I crop most of my social media and photos that are going to phones to 16:9. . I watched this some time ago and glad to have been reminded of your helpful tips :)
Thanks for sharing a simply explained valuable tips, Juliana is a great model with beautiful expession
GREAT tips! Keep up the AWESOME work!
Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
All good ideas, this unlike others on TH-cam, makes some good points grounded in real photography.
Simply stunning
Thanks for sharing!!!, this is really helpful for me!!!
Great contribution. There are two types of portrait techniques. One is used by those who use models as a focal point that leads the viewers into the picture of a great landscape.
Others are shooting models with the intent to capture the inner beauty" of a model and the landscape is merely used as a non-distracting out-of-focus frame.
Thanks for sharing! Great simple explanations :)
I love this! I'm a beginner and watching your videos, along with numerous others, have helped me tremendously!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you Miguel just made a folder to catch up on all your great tips and help
Love the tips man , I see the difference in my shoots already
Nice and concise video Miguel! You also forgot to mention that shooting stunning models is also a great start! 😆Thanks for the video! :)
I’m a newbie photographer and I truly learning every single day from your videos!! Thank you very much for sharing such a informative content!!!
So happy to hear it! 🙏
Great video dude, I like the way you explain things. Nicely done.
Love Juliana, I always go for catchlights. An instructor in a class I took told of taking morgue photos, how there was no reflection in a dead persons eyes. So it's a simple way to check for vampires and zombies.... While it might not be the best light I sometimes use just a kiss of light from the pop up camera flash if needed.
Thats not true. If you put some water, saliva, or other liquid in the eyes they still sparkle like they are alive.
Thank you for your tips, I decided to learn how to photograph myself and this helps me a lot
Thank you for all you do for the community, Great video and great suggestions. Juliana is a beautiful model.
My pleasure! Thank you for the kind words and support!!
Brief and educating. Thank you
Ty about the space above the head . I kept wondering why one was great and the next one was blah
That was the first time I ever enjoyed haring about a sponsorship. Your voice is soothing and nice to listen to.
Could not keep my eyes off the model and don't think is was your awesome photography techniques. No "dis" intended by the way, you are a great photographer and teacher and I appreciate your tips. Thank You and keep it up,
Simple but effective advice 👍
Hi
Do u hv a video for using a light meter?
Thanku
William
Thank you sooo much! I've been needing this for so long!
My pleasure! Happy to hear you liked it :)
Great tips the ones regarding the eyes. Cheers!
thank you, great tips!
Great tips Miguel! Solid content !
Thanks Roberto! I appreciate that 😀✌️
Really great tips !! Good job !
Thanks bro great tips
Thanks a lot, Miguel. Very practical, easy to recall and apply. The Catch Light tip is my favorite. Catch light I find adds more life and dynamics to the subject.
Great tips. For #1, I would explain not to center the face as it leaves a lot empty space above the head and it’s not great composition.
Side note: the video could do without the echoing ping at the beginning of every tip. I’m watching with headphones on and keep thinking I’m getting some sort of notification every time it goes off.
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70mjc Do you not understand how the internet works?
Very useful great tips. And gorgeous model.
Great tips, Miguel!
Some good advice, thanks!
Great advice!!
In regards to catchlights in the eyes, i definitely have to thank you for that one since i took your class at WPPI a few years back. Now, i am always looking for the catchlights in the eyes whether it be a reflection, reflector, strobe, MagSphere, etc.
The lighting is very important and knowing where the lighting is coming from. In outdoor shots i use flash to give my outdoor portraits some "Pop" to eliminate any harsh shadows in the mid-day sun. I try to schedule my shoots early in the morning or later in the afternoon a few hours before sunset.
I just recently did a rooftop shoot and used these same tips you mentioned.
For me Tip #2, Tip #4, and Tip #5 are the most important in dance photography.
Take Bobby pins to photoshoots, in case the subjects hair starts to get messy because if the wind or whatever factor, she can just use some boby pins to keep it in place.
Very useful tips! Thank you!