Outdoor GOLDEN HOUR Portrait Photography Tips – Using Natural Light

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Shooting backlit and in sunlight tutorial I made a few months back, and finally got to upload now. Different ways to shoot in different types of light 🙂

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I made this tutorial LAST MINUTE because I was going out to test shoot anyway, I figured I would videotape and do a tutorial for it. This isn’t an award winning tutorial – I know – but I tried my absolute best. I had my sister shoot this with a camera that I borrowed from my other sibling, and I also used the camera I shot with.
Lenses used are 35mm 1.4 and 50mm 1.2. Hope you like it anyway or find it useful, I WILL be making more soon…hopefully with better video quality and better overall presentation.

25 Comments
  1. Nayrb says

    what camera did you use here jessica ? 🙂

  2. Meyase says

    i like the way you speak❤

  3. King Of India says

    Which Metering mode are you useing for this shoot?

  4. Abi Bil says

    I loved the idea of the white dress and black glasses! This is so stupidddd maybe the stupidest ive ever seen

  5. A Drone's Eye View says

    Wait! Have the model right behind the sun?! Do you have any idea how expensive that would be to shoot!?

  6. Aaron Aswegan says

    how do you open raw canon files 🙁

  7. Jp Madison says

    I like your style

  8. Dennis Le says

    2:26 the person recording is really into the lesson

  9. Brian Dunkel says

    Why was your ISO at 250 when your shutter speed was already so fast at 1/6400?

  10. Gio Santos says

    Omg what am I doing here

  11. jahangir hussain says

    v nice w

  12. Zaid Alamiri says

    You need a flash

  13. smalltalk.productions says

    still relevant. thanks for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.

  14. cook2030 says

    Awesome thank you for the tips!

  15. cgtalk ! says

    Nice vid, i just disagree with side lite pics. Done right, they are amazing.

  16. Dhiman Mandal says

    What metering technic were you using when against sunlight?

  17. Forster Stewart says

    Digital newbies beware.

  18. Shibashis Nath says

    I use 18-105mm( Nikon kit), with which I tried to use this trick a lot of time but I failed to get clear picture due to a lo of lens flare…what am I doing wrong? Is it the lens responsible?

  19. Yashwith Ninnikal says

    Mam , can you please tell me what to do when the models face appears dark due to bright sun in the back ? Increasing the ISO would brighten the sky much more or decreasing the ISO will darken the face even more. Please help

  20. THE CORFU GAMER says

    Why did you use iso 200 when you could easily use iso 100 and not use such a fast shutter speed?

  21. Nancy Wijangco says

    beautiful model

  22. Mario Vaden says

    What this video is saying in other words, is that she doesn't understand supplemental lighting. This is a typical path-of-least-resistance method. In many ways, little better than cell phone photography.

  23. Long Tóc Dài says

    Love your works jess

  24. David Fleet says

    Surely a touch of fill flash or at least a reflector would balance the exposure on the models face out. Obviously this can be brightened in post but why not start out with the correct technique. I only saw one shot where the models face was nicely exposed.

    This is personal preference and depends upon what you're vision is but for me sidelighting gives much more depth and visual interest if you have the choice.

  25. Lewis Nchotindoh says

    The model's face was under-exposed. You'd get way better exposure on your model's face if you used spot metering and slowed down your shutter speed. Good job though!

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