How to AVOID Washed Out Skies in Epic Locations

[@lindah5324]

Loved this difference of heavy cloud cover and wispy cloud cover. I'm starting to notice people's faces everywhere I go and what the light is doing to their faces and why. Thank you, Katelyn.

[@enrico8730]

KJ: “Least impression image” Me: “that’s impressive”

[@KatelynJames]

Haha, it’s all relative I suppose!

[@kellyturnerphotography]

I was just last night watching the Location example 5- Fog & Harsh Light in the Lighting & Location course where you showed the same thing, turning them to face the sun when the light was diffused through the fog!

[@raquelcook8429]

I love that you break down these types of photos! Thanks so much!!

[@nataliecade73]

Love it!!!!!! Amazing content. Always love this type of content. Keep it coming pls.

[@LuciaHewitt]

Amazing photography and content as always. Learning light from you is always top of my list so more light related content is a huge bonus :)

[@lorim2000]

I love this, I just struggled with an outdoor elopement in a beautiful area but the light was changing from bright overhead sun to dark clouds. Very fast. Over and over. I’m used to shooting outside in all weather but never had anything like that before. I was moving people around like crazy to catch the light, the sky is different in every photo but I had to make it work.

[@jessicatropiano6883]

Could you possibly make a video of what you mean when you expose your image in camera for correct skin tone ☺️ please and thank you!!!

[@rjlangley1]

Love this one. You explained it so well making it easy to understand

[@lizzasue9546]

This was a great teaching moment! Love it! You're always so helpful and you make it easy to understand. Appreciate all you do.

[@allisonreber5857]

very interesting to study the light with that level of precision. Thanks a lot ;)

[@petermcginty3636]

Thank you Katelyn, great video. Question for you, as you are focused on the skin tones of your clients, do you use spot metering? Many thanks 🎉🎉🎉

[@RonnieRoss]

Great post! Thank you for sharing. Would you retouch the sky using the adaptive presets that are available in LR?

[@Nadiya3494]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[@krystalbrewer3914]

Love this video! Very helpful, thank you!

[@Martin-h1x3g]

Good morning Katelyn, you mentioned that you set your exposure to your customer's skin, I am wondering if you can teach us all how you do that?

[@ecitizenmichael]

Couldn't you just bracket so you have the couple in 1 and the sky/ landscape in the other & then blend?

[@royaltykidstv]

What should my settings be if I plan to leave my Mark2 alone on a tripod for a wedding? Should I do Manual Focus or AF? F/4 and above? Whole area AF or a different one?

[@michaelmottlau5941]

Very well done video. Thanks.

[@williamc4353]

Expose for the background and use fill light to expose the couple, in wide shots the softbox will be in the picture but you can photoshop that out.

[@markwillride]

And it's the difference isn't too extreme, you can expose to save the highlights of the sky and bring up the shadows *a long way* in the R5/6 files and those produced by other recent cameras. You do lose some color quality like Katelyn is know for. Her fix is the best but sometimes you can't get the best.

[@deadreckoningoutdoors]

For some reason in my area every wedding photographer blows out the sky and calls it dreamy and charges more for it 😂

[@BrianKilgoreCanada]

It was lots of fun watching your ands. Good show, too -- BAK --

[@Nawanga2]

love this lesson

[@moidutoiphotography8427]

Brilliant! I love your videos Katelyn

[@KatelynJames]

Aww thank you!!

[@kore996]

Will you be doing a video showing the process of taking these from RAW photos to the finished product?

[@Garbid]

What if take a second photo with exposing for skies. Later layers in Photoshop.

[@serz1885]

i would be so easy to edith in lightroom this photos to make it even better

[@L.Spencer]

that's what I'm thinking, it's not hard at all

[@markwillride]

Making it look good and making it good while matching her light style might be two different things. But yeah, for my work I'd expose to just barely save the sky and work from there. Sometimes the difference is too great though. I occasionally use the HDR feature in the Canon to capture 3 bracketed shots and use them as layers layer in PS. I don't use the actual HDR file the camera creates. It can lead to nice results but it's inefficient. @@L.Spencer

[@Moonwynd5]

I do not want to sound hyper-critical as I just want to offer feedback and suggestions. The best photo in this session is a really good photo - it could be even better and you can fix all of these issues in post in Lightroom and Photoshop. You can mask and expose different areas and separate your highlights/midtones, etc and expose this perfect with more depth.

[@annafroese7562]

Love videos like this!

[@L.Spencer]

I've found it's always almost impossible to expose for foreground and sky equally, in landscape photography. I would just expect to bring back the sky in post processing.

[@proteincheese]

28-70?

[@KatelynJames]

You know it!

[@SkullysPlace]

Love the outro! Bye:)

[@lifesbeautiful3024]

How about using a circular polarizer or variable nd? Or master nd, say 3 stop?

[@markwillride]

A polarizer might bring a little detail to the sky. But whatever you put on the lens that reduces exposure will reduce it everywhere. A 3 stop ND will force you to open the aperture, slow the shutter, or increase ISO by 3 stops and will not help the difference between the light on the subject and sky in the examples where it wasn't good.

[@TheMaddman187]

How do you expose for client skin ? do you take a meter reading from the skin up close ?

[@Garbid]

Spot metering mode. Small af mark.

[@markwillride]

I often use the brightest part of the dress that's visible from the camera side and aim for it to be about 1 2/3 stops above zero. Any higher can blow out detail. If you use that for the limit, it usually works well for most skin. Really dark skin can require you to be even more precise so you don't kill detail in the shadows.

[@rogalaphotography]

I wish our wedding photographer knew how not to wash out the sky! He was supposed to be highly recommended by several well know photographers in my area. He completely washed out the sky in several of our photos that he did SKY REPLACEMENTS in post! Mind you...he didn't go to the same location a few days later and retake the sky to do the replacement. He used GENERIC SKIES!!! PLUS he brought a flash with him and could have done high speed sync to get at least some of the photos! Being a photographer myself I knew what I wanted and his portfolio has many HSS photos which is what I wanted for at lease some photos!

[@nestorguerrero6811]

What about using high speed sink flash?

[@natashaholmes7735]

What was the settings

[@Sunshine-vz2on]

What would have happened if you had shot in automatic?

[@noseyparker6622]

Were the couple Scottish or did all of you fly over from the States?

[@youthamplifiedskin]

Why not HDR it? 😅😇

[@williamgollatz1911]

I know right.

[@mindyken12]

❤

[@Karatesnigel]

You are truly brilliant. I think so many focus on the editing and less on the technique on set :) I want to be a photographer, not a photoshopper 😁 But of course you have to do some editing and there is where I lose confidence. I dont really know my style. I like quite bright colours but it feels like everyone want the pale IG-look....

[@jhoang861]

you won’t know your style when you don’t keep shooting and doubting! style is an evolution of what you shoot, learned, mastered and practiced. it is a process which evolves over time. pick up a book on any artists and look at their early beginnings to their later years and observe. for example, check out Picasso’s work when he was a very young boy til his later years. He kept working on his craft and over time, it evolved into a original style of his doing!

[@Karatesnigel]

@jhoang861 thank you so much for your reply ❤️ I know you're right, I have to get out of my head

[@prophoto4979]

How about using an off camera flash instead of having your client facing the sun?

[@KatelynJames]

That would work if that fits your style!

[@robigerovasilisphotography]

You mention that you shot 'the epic shot at the beginning of the session' then you say you spent the rest of the session trying to capture more epic shots and couldn’t..I'm thinking if I was the client listening to this I'd be pretty disappointed if my photographer I paid so much for was disappointed with the rest of the shoot 🤷🏼‍♀️ I tune in every new KZbin video you do but seriously lately I feel they're all just marketing for KJ All Access. Feeling a little disappointed had higher expectations with your KZbin. Loved watching in the past but less and less now! Sorry 😞

[@tiffanywu8333]

I'm the client in this video and actually loved watching this :) The light was rapidly changing, so we would've left happy if all that was delivered was the epic shots in the beginning as the sun was rising. Those are the photos we are going to print and every other shot after that was just a bonus for us. If anything, this video makes us even more happy about booking KJ as our wedding photographer! This video shows me how much thought and care went into all the locations while facing the challenge of the sun and clouds that kept moving. I'm a former wedding photographer, and KJ All Access is part of the reason we booked her. We love hearing her BTS and think she's doing an amazing job with this education :)

[@robigerovasilisphotography]

@@tiffanywu8333 good for you, glad you were happy 🤷‍♀️

[@KatelynJames]

@robigerovasilisphotography did we say we were disappointed with every other image from the shoot? Did you see the rest of the shoot? Like the images shot in the 007 location? This couple received more images from their eshoot than most photographers deliver for a wedding day! I think you missed the part where we explained that the first set of images were shot in IDEAL (honestly very lucky!) light. Also, I’m thrilled that you have enjoyed so much free content from us. If you don’t like me sharing our membership that supports our family and our team’s families, you can stop watching the free content whenever you like. We’re glad you’re here despite the disappointment you’re experiencing.

[@t.w.892]

​@robigerovasilisphotography thanks I am happy and will be excited to see the KJ All Access episode for our eshoot and wedding day! 😊

[@t.w.892]

​@@KatelynJameskeep up the amazing work as always! Loved this free KZbin education and can't wait to see the final all access video! :) the gallery for this shoot was AMAZING!