One Lens Challenge: 70-200mm Edition | Master Your Craft

[@slrlounge]

Thanks for watching! Let us know what lens we should try next!

[@WolfQuantum]

I find even in landscape photography I use the 70-200 a lot to go in for detail in a scene. Instead of a sweeping vista, it's the small slices of what makes up the scene that intrigue me. In the film days my favorite lens for personal work was a Nikon 300mm F4. I couldn't afford the 2.8. Today my go to lenses for my Canon bodies (6D and 7D) are the Tamron SP 24-70mm and 70-200mm F2.8 Di VC USD G2 lenses. The 24-70mm f2.8 and 70-200mm f2.8 be it native or good third party is a great lens combo for a variety of subjects. Appreciate how you were using the backlight as rim lighting and bringing the rest in balance in post. My old film mind still goes to the idea of needing fill flash. It's good to see and be reminded that we can use in camera and post in tandem to produce images without the flash we couldn't have done before. Like anything else, you have to have that in mind and part of planning and setting your shot. Already know what you mean to do in post while you are shooting. Not just, "Eh, I'll fix it in post." As an old fart I do need reminding of these things and need to change up that workflow.

[@newyeardayone]

Amazing tips as always but not a fan of the background music while you talking, can not focus on your info.

[@ajbid805]

Great images. My favorite image is the red fence from above her! I'd love to see a night shoot in the city!!

[@StevenSmith-nq5xe]

Fantastic, inspiring video, presented with your usual warmth. Thank you!

[@brianc5581]

Not really a challenge to capture portraits with a 70-200 though :/

[@808islandlife_HI]

Which backpack are you using in this video?

[@old4004]

Very informative video, Pye, but it seems that the hero here is the Visual Flow Presets package. Can you show us some post processing with them?

[@thats_mr_b_]

Pye man love this stuff

[@dennisbicksler1485]

Why not use a fill flash and save yourself a lot of work in post processing?

[@lenzyruffin]

To use a flash to shoot these images exactly as he did (same distances, etc) would mean carrying a light stand, a light, a softbox, and a sandbag. And an assistant if he wanted this session to go smoothly and not take forever. And he’d then have to worry about getting permits, depending on where the session was conducted. Adding just one light to an outdoor photo shoot means going from walking around with a backpack or a shoulder bag to hauling a bunch of equipment that has to be set up and broken down every time you change locations. It would have been way more work to light these images with a flash than it was to select all the images and boost the shadows by two stops in post.

[@omarlistills]

Do you prefer to under expose when shooting back lit?

[@BigAntTVMedia]

I love this lens since I go it months ago its so light and fast

[@rameezusmani1294]

some pictures you take come out dark from the camera but your preset fix them....are you underexposing intentionally ? @3.29

[@eddieteabagify]

I couldnt agree more. Whats up with that.

[@stephengatley8144]

What he is doing is exposing for the background using the Histogram protecting most of the highlights, then editing (lifting) the shadows in post.

[@jeremydrakeford3124]

If he went any brighter overall then the background would blow out. Another way to do it would be to use a reflector to bounce light onto her face, but it's just as easy to do it in post like he did.

[@KidsOnBeats]

it is easier to recover the shadows in an image, than it is to recover blown out highlights. This is photography 101. If you have a scene with lots of dynamic range (lots of really bright areas, and lots of really dark areas), you typically want to try to expose for your highlights so that those bright areas are properly exposed. Of course, the dark areas will be really dark, but given that you shoot in RAW, and you have a good camera and lens combination, you can recover those shadows in post.

[@rameezusmani1294]

interesting and very helpful video...halfway done ...still watching....can u please try 35mm next...it will be nice to see how you compose your model using that lens

[@randyfox5317]

Well, between having a great lens (with tons of options for shots) and having a model with eyes for days...how can you go wrong?! I get the feeling that even hacks like me could get a good capture or two with that combination. ;)

[@johnnosacka9556]

I’d love to see one lens challenge for 70-200 doing landscapes

[@CarltheRiver]

I'm absolutely loving this series of videos! I would love to see you cover the rest of what I consider to be the classic prime trifecta (35mm, 50mm, 85mm) and maybe also the 15-35mm. What if you used some of those lenses to shoot non-human subjects like flowers and dogs?

[@chriswilcockson8595]

Really interesting video. For me a 70-200 is not one lens, it's an infinite number of focal lengths. It would be good to see a similar video, with, say, a prime 135mm or 80mm and the need to zoom with your feet. Still a very informative video, thank you

[@saudihermawan6599]

🤩👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@anonymousBD455]

I bet Bushra is a Bangladeshi origin.

[@BKhanfident]

You bet right!

[@jonpremosch9544]

This is more like 130 lenses

[@chazM6116]

why are you underexposing? it's better to not lift an image in post as it will produce noise. shoot to the right is much better is it not?

[@lenzyruffin]

He’s not underexposing, Chaz, he’s exposing to the right (ETTR) to protect the highlights. When shooting raw, you have lots of latitude to recover shadows in post. But if you blow out the highlights, there’s just nothing there to recover. If you’re not using a flash, the way he shot these images is the way you have to do it to have a balanced final image where the highlights are highlights and not just pure white. Shooting to the right, as you put it, means shooting to protect the right side of the histogram. That’s going to produce darker shadows that can easily be lifted in editing. That’s the workflow for a lot of natural light photographers.

[@kdogbigdog]

My workhorse lens for senior portraits. Like in your video I can get two to three different looks without having to move around like with my primes. I hope to see a follow up to learn how you edited Scenes #3 & #6. I typically would throw a strobe into the mix to keep the ISO low and not have to pump up exposure in post.

[@alinus4techno]

Rookie question...in this cases is better to use face tracking+one single shot or one Af point?thanks

[@rikozleigh1218]

How did you edit them?

[@bjstirling]

Great composition and lighting inspiration here. Love the videos, thanks!

[@kavanlake871]

Nice one Pye, and great job to Bushra as well ( I hope I spelled that correctly). I have had a 70-200 lens and it spent years on the shelf, the I saw Peter Lindbergh, one of the masters, use one for an entire shoot. I dusted mine off, and experimented with it. Now it’s always with me on shoots. 👌🏾

[@BKhanfident]

Thank you! And yes you did :)

[@wdhale14094]

Great model and shots. You did good too Pye.

[@brianasealy6257]

“Craptastic” hahahah plastic cracking me up Pi!!! Great images as always. That 70-200 is amazing!!!!

[@blackmike79]

You are the best Pye. You did it again. I just got the R6 with the RF 70-200 2.8!

[@nipeshshah4694]

Love the 70-200mm .. its def one of my favourites:)

[@haiderhusain9964]

lovely presentation

[@Zacheldridge]

Pye is the MAN!