BTS #34 - Dramatic Night Portrait

Been a while, but here's another episode of Building the Shot! This time going over a photo I took during a photo walk I did for WPPI over in Vegas.😊
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[@maxito147]

Outstanding Francisco! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!

[@shibbyphotography]

Excited to check this out, Francisco.

[@AlSo-Fotografie]

7:37 thanks for this info!! my workaround was a nd-filter. but ttl is much more practical:)

[@kennethehizojie2078]

This is educative and beautiful to view❤️❤️

[@FinestPhoto1]

More of these!! Thank bro really helping out… love the start to finish

[@Cobycom1]

Great video. Thanks

[@4babyface]

I missed your videos, thank you for sharing!

[@TateNations]

Love this!

[@KaptinFathead]

That TTL tip is something I didn't think to try with my ad200 pro. Great video as always!

[@fjhphoto]

Thanks! Actually about to make a video explaining this tip. Should be a quick one.😊

[@chiwilanjabulosikwila3487]

@@fjhphoto Please do so...

[@Tht_f30]

Amazon shot as always. You never disappoint

[@johnyoung1606]

You are an Amazing Photographic Artist !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From beginning to end :) :) :)

[@ScoTreVan]

Great to see you doing what you do best, keep up the good work

[@BrotherJLG]

As a beginner, it is helpful to just hear you talk through assembling the shot.

[@temesgenmenghis5523]

Thanks for sharing as .

[@phelix920]

👍🏾Great work

[@hariprastyo6854]

Amazing, learning a lot from your channel. Thank you so much!

[@JamesBrownPhotographics]

Thanks for the BTS, nice shot! Rosco makes ND gels in various densities which can be used to knock back your strobe output when you can't go below 1/256.

[@fjhphoto]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention those. I actually have a ND gel from MagMod always in my bag. Definitely great to have especially since TTL is usually a bit of a price increase.

[@John_1033]

Francisco, I attended this class and it was outstanding. It was nice to see how you did the final edits. Thanks for all of your help.

[@fjhphoto]

Thank you so much for attending!😊

[@nathanmontalvo4234]

Fantastic video Patron. Ya sabes…!! ❤

[@fjhphoto]

Thanks, man! So so happy I got to hang with you and Heidi over there. I gotta buy Ashley her vest soon!😊

[@nathanmontalvo4234]

@@fjhphoto bruh….we had a Great time hanging out with you and Ashley!! We really felt privileged that you agreed to dinner and THEN to the little shoot we put together with Sydney….AND THEN TO LUNCH AFTER!!! Man…..we hit the JACKPOT with you guys!!!!❤️❤️💕💕😁😁😎😎 can’t wait to see you two again! Oh, and yeah….we should get an Afiliate link for those vests!!! Hahahaha!!

[@jdgarcia333]

Very awesome that you were a speaker for a class @ WPPI, if you ever do any classes like that when in Texas, I will be glad to pay and attend one at your location.

[@fjhphoto]

Thanks! I do plan to travel a bit this summer to teach in Texas. What area are you in? I'm based in South Texas.

[@jdgarcia333]

@@fjhphoto Hey Francisco, I'm the one that reached out to you on another one of your videos, I am in Corpus Christi, Texas. I know you are busy but I just thought I would reach out and see what your situation is. I can travel to Mission or if you are ever in Corpus, hit me up.

[@JosephCowdell]

It was great to meet you! I hope the NFC tag was helpful.

[@fjhphoto]

It was! Might have to order some for Shutterfest!😊

[@chiwilanjabulosikwila3487]

Hey Francisco.- It would be great if you did a full blown Lightroom - - > Photoshop edit that demonstrates the approach and various techniques you apply when editing. It could be an hour+ vid or maybe a series of videos where you demonstrate all the techniques you refer to. I think that would be quite valuable to learn about the great techniques you apply in a more practical and visual way. Just a suggestion... Thanks and great content as always!

[@FerdinandTerreros]

Can you do an actual bts filming these type of portraits? I think they’d be a little more useful

[@timrosenthal46]

That was great , thank you for sharing. I have a question regarding modeling lamps, do you leave them on and then just fire your strobes and the strobes cancel out the light from the modeling lamps in the image ? I hope that makes sense. I just bought a AD300 and have only used it in daylight so far.

[@fjhphoto]

Yes, I tend to leave the lamp on in low light settings even with the flash firing because the flash cancels out the lamp output. The lamp allows me to focus better, have more iris in the eye, and makes for nice BTS video as the subject is lit up. Sometimes I don't even use the flash when the light gets really low which was actually the case for this photoshoot after I finished this set of photos.

[@timrosenthal46]

@@fjhphoto Thank you so much for the reply mate, very helpful. Love your work btw ...

[@ralphfrank1984]

Thanks for sharing all the techniques. Where could i go to a PS class to learn all of those type of edits? Thanks

[@DanielKhuu]

Great work sir! Did you just get the one photo? I feel like this approach would be tough to get variety, because you perfected so many things throughout. Either way looks like it was worth it for this image and video!

[@fjhphoto]

I was actually teaching a group of 12 people while I took these photos so I didn't take many images. I was happy with this final one and then let the students start taking photos.😊

[@mayurchavan9453]

Sir You missed one thing last time you didn't show before and after photo with edit and without edit

[@fjhphoto]

Ah, very true. Sorry about that. I'll be sure to show that in future videos.

[@boatkid888]

This is a fantastic shot! I do have a question… When you do these on location shoots, do you have to get permission from the city/town ahead of time? Or do you find it’s not an issue?

[@mr.tastetechtravel]

Do you have any in depth videos on how you did each other the items you edited? Great job!!! Looks amazing!

[@fjhphoto]

You mean like the different steps I did in photoshop, lightroom, or both? I'm actually going to focus so much on my channel going forward so I'll have plenty of videos coming talking about different things I do in editing.

[@mr.tastetechtravel]

@@fjhphoto yeah how you achieved each layer… each mask… color edit… etc. I have seen a few of your videos I just really like the finish look on this picture quite a bit

[@fjhphoto]

@@mr.tastetechtravel I think an edit breakdown would make for a good video. I did that just once before. Going over each step and explaining why.

[@mr.tastetechtravel]

@@fjhphoto would it be too much if you could link that one on here? I would totally like to see what you are saying. I’m at work at the moment so it would help me to be able to hear it at least and watch it later

[@fjhphoto]

Here's one edit breakdown. I can try to make more soon. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXSUXomgpsmeock

[@suryasathiya9820]

Please post one speedlite flash photography tutorial video

[@fjhphoto]

Definitely gonna make that!😁

[@suryasathiya9820]

Thank you so much

[@readitoutloud]

Great commentary! I find the tree/bush lighting, in the background, really distracting. It doesn't provide any context to the image.

[@MO-ss7qt]

You have great and interesting content. But... the audio. I would imagine like me, most have to turn up the volume for your videos, then back down again when moving on to other channels. But, even that doesn't solve the problem when ads jump into the middle of your videos. Then I'm impatiently waiting for the "Skip" button to spare my hearing. Seriously, all good. But at least give us just a little bit of a break chasing a comfortable and "useful" volume. I never hear the beginning of your videos. As a reference, I'm on KZbin at setting 30 on my volume, and have to jump to 70 to not be struggling to hear you. Then *BAM* the ad hits.

[@erickennett]

Any reason not to go to ISO 400 and shutter speed 1/200?

[@fjhphoto]

Those settings would have resulted in 2 stops darker for the background. My goal was to do the opposite; I wanted the background to be brighter without overexposing the highlights. It's why I brought up the background exposure a little by raising the shadows in lightroom.

[@rexkonopelski]

Thanks, I needed this!! Your content deserves a service like SMZeus!