Portrait PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE with Ted Forbes (Art of Photography)

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Ted Forbes and I got together in SF and challenged each other to a 5 minute photography challenge where the objective was to photograph 5 locations in 5 minutes!

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26 Comments
  1. Manny Ortiz says

    I'm a dummy! I forgot to include my favorite shot in the video which was the one by the flowers. I posted that one on my Instagram. Check it out here: http://geni.us/MannyIG

  2. spanish. ink says

    Love Ted Forbes, he looks like Jack Nicholson

  3. Kevin Bruff says

    Heavenly model — XXX

  4. Kevin Bruff says

    Siiiick Collabo – man!

  5. AllThingsExciting says

    I really loved this challenge. I feel totally inspired to go out and do this!!!!

  6. sha Yu says

    Really great video. Some photos strike me as being poor compostiion, though, some unnecessary objects might ve been removed

  7. Flary Fox says

    I'm shocked Ted didn't show up shooting a 100 yr old glass plate camera on a tripod with a huge bellows, cape and magnesium powder flash.

  8. Damien J says

    You should do more of these kind of photography challenges. Like make it a series with a guest challenger. 🤘

  9. Damien J says

    This model's a champ lol. Even w all that rushing around and being flustered she isn't phased at all. Such a professional.

  10. StevieRayPhoto says

    This looks like a hard area to shoot in. Not really any great locations. Manny got better shots.

  11. sanch Sanchayan says

    The shot with the car is so awful in my opinion. Bad composition

  12. sanch Sanchayan says

    Honestly I just don't like shooting with models . I don't know who invented this procedure.

  13. sanch Sanchayan says

    I don't like any of the photos to be honest. Somehow I don't like the full body portraits.

  14. Eric Jackson says

    She looks really distorted in a lot of shots.

  15. areen khachadouri says

    I'm here for the tips..

  16. Jonathan Clarke says

    im not sure if anyone talks about this with Sony cameras. But when I wanna change lenses with my a7xx I turn on the aps-c crop sensor mode to turn my 35mm into a 50-ish, or my 85mm into a 120-ish. I don't use this for video, it works well for photos as well.

  17. Cameron says

    that model knows her thing

  18. Sándor Ács says

    Ted is the best 🙂 i love him

  19. Edwin Jansen says

    5:00 did Ted missed that great Penske background while talking??..?😳

  20. Vasia Pupkin says

    Manny did better job! 5 Stars ✨ Thanks Manny, you're the best! 😆

  21. Vasia Pupkin says

    6.17 feets aren't in the frame?! Why? 😁

  22. Vasia Pupkin says

    Olga from Russia 🙂 Russian girls are the best!! 😆

  23. Henry Taylor says

    I love how unselfish this man is with his gear, Thanks bro. PS you killed these

  24. Seamus Dobbs says

    That girl is stunning!!

  25. Rob O says

    Loved that long-legged model. She had the moves. She could even make my work look good. I live near to S.F. And might call this girl for a shoot soon!

  26. Schroooom says

    The model was very good!
    Your Photos were very nice as well.
    You could literally see that you had a plan on how the final photo should look like.
    Teds Photos except the third looked like amateur pictures to me.

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