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Hi, I’m Joe. I teach photography at the School of Visual Arts. Today we’re going to do an indoor family portrait.
I set up very, very simple lighting here. I used relatively inexpensive battery powered flash units bouncing off of umbrellas to keep the lights soft and very diffuse. Although you could use very simple, cheap tungsten lights that you can find even in a pet store. Clamp reflectors with big dishes and you could spin a could of 500-watt tungsten bulbs in there and do basically the same thing.
Now I have the lights criss-crossing like this so I don’t get a harsh shadow on one side or the other, and the lights tend to fill each other in, in the backgrounds.
Get everybody sitting close together and it helps if you’ve got somebody standing behind you to amuse the small people who are very easily distracted.
Hey. Hello. Everybody looking at Joe. That’s great, that’s great, that’s great, that’s great. Look at you. I can’t believe that this is actually working. Yay. Mom, move the child. There you go. That’s great, that’s great. Everybody looks fabulous.
Don’t try to photograph everybody from way up in the air. Get down where their eyes are.
That’s terrific. Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Everybody put your finger in your mouth. There we go. Everybody put your finger in your mouth without choking the children. Very nice. Okay, take the fingers out of the mouth.
Whenever you’re photographing small children, the best advice in the world is surrender the illusion of control. Just keep shooting and shooting and shooting because it’s the only way you’re going to make sure you get everybody with their eyes open and you get that one moment when everybody’s kind of looking at your and smiling.
Small children don’t always need to smile but it’s better if they’re looking at you than away from you.
Hello. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Look at you. Absolutely fabulous.
And that’s how you shoot a family portrait indoors.
Was this a joke?
That is NOT how you shoot a family photo indoors! Why were you yelling? Jesus!
I really think this video is like click bate, I believe that the people made this video to be basically a joke trying to get people to comment (which worked) on how horrifying this tutorial is, sad that this channel has so many subscribers of making content like this.. Total wast of time lol…
I hope no one is pay to learn from this loud mouth idiot!
Oh dear. This is not good. Please let this be a parody.
haahahahaha wtf is this….
FLAT Lighting. Horrible photographer
omg… wtf is this?
Parody!
Your lighting is directly proportional to your shouting
Thank you for the video, I appreciate that.
Yeah, too much caffeine? And you can't see the light set up and position when you told us about it. Also, the lighting isn't great…and neither isn't the end result. Sorry…
One word for you “NUB”
lol
the worst tutorial I've ever seen
Is this a skit from SNL? This can’t be real?
Bad light, annoying guy…
Which lense are u using ?
Wow haters be hatin!
hahhha i liked that !!:) indeed
OOOOOkkkkkkkkk
You definitely do NOT need to be as aggressive as this guy, especially with young children who can easily scare, and then you've got a bunch of screaming crying children on your hand and your shoot is o-v-e-r. DO absolutely have someone doing as the lady behind him was doing, by having him/her wave their arms, play with a toy, blow bubbles, jingle keys, dance around, play peak-a-boo whatever. Also the lighting was a no go. With family portraits you want a soft glow about them created through use of a soft box or natural lighting. This was not that.
this is hilarious…lmao
um no, sorry. It looked too exposed and you hardly explained anything. but this is howcast. I shouldn't expect much.
umpeenth time! maybe! . . hey joe! where you goin with that camera in your hand??
Lights from a pet store.. right. Dear Joe, why the F don't you actually use those freakin pet store lights and demonstrate how to take pictures?
Howcast telling us how to take pictures. LOL.
Horrible lighting
as simple as, dafuq?????
Oh hell no. Put your finger in your mouth? I cringed, so did the mother.
dude your lighting is way too over expose. i think you should discover more about light composition.
I'm sorry.. "that's how you shot a family potrait indoors (badly)"
Basically shout really loud at your clients, good job you mug xD
Yikes, that was harsh and probably not going to get any repeat business there. Sorry. "put your finger in your mouth"?
Hopefully you do not do this professionally?
This is satire right?