Photoshoot with Christmas Lights, Behind The Scenes

[@IreneRudnyk]

Hey Guys, thank you for watching I wanted to explain my settings as i know i will get questions about it :) f1.2- I love shooting wide open, but here it's actually important to shoot high f stop if you want to achieve the "bokeh " effect ISO 500-800 and 1/250 - I prefer to go up on my ISO rather than lower on the shutter speed, because i am shooting wide open in a low light situation. I would rather avoid blurry out of focus images and stay at 1/250 and up. I don't mind a bit of noise, and because i am shooting with a full frame camera on RAW, its not that big of a deal ;) hopefully that helps !

[@SteashEdits]

How did some of the bokeh blur get deformed like that tho? That's why I came here hahah

[@11visali]

Tq irene

[@IreneRudnyk]

SteashEdits the string was in a way of some of the light

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Hi I notice that you are not using the lens shade. Is that random (like is not needed) or does it help to get the look? The results are great as always.

[@TSHERINGSAMFILMS]

awesome as always ....i love ur work

[@vickinoeske1711]

Who knew Christmas lights could make such beautiful photos? Lovely.

[@MarkSmithphotography]

That was great. Made me want to go buy a 85mm prime and some Christmas lights.

[@AmaranteMusic]

Thanks for using our cover song in here!!

[@hollyliedtke202]

Amarante Music I wish it was on Spotify...

[@gerdawg]

@Amarante Music - Very nice! What's the name of this track, and can I listen on iTunes or Amazon Music? Thanks!

[@jayvila5314]

@@gerdawg Ventura highway by America? Not sure if they changed the title tho. Hard to scroll on the mobile

[@calikristenxo]

a little tape, imagination, some good light, + Irene = great images! nicely done!

[@FrederickDunn]

Very nice quick tutorial and demonstrating lights I already have laying around. Very much appreciated, I'm so glad I found your channel today :) Happy Image Making! Thumbs UP!

[@freddylopez7536]

Love watching you create. You are so alluring. Your voice and your beauty are very intoxicating. Don't want to make this strange or creepy because I love and learn so much from you. But I think I get as much of a rush from you as I do from your work. I've been shooting for decades in the entertainment biz and primarily love to shoot beauty and fashion so I'm no stranger to beautiful women. I love the unity of this photographic community on KZbin so I have many faves but I truly feel you have a very exceptional talent and a very fresh presentation. You are a great teacher Irene and an inspiration to so many. Thank you f

[@kevinrtres]

Yeah, it's easy to fall in love (or get really infatuated) with Irene, I'm sure she gets that!

[@venusrose3734]

I always get excited when you post, I just wish your vids were longer cause I can't get enough of them lol but anyway the lights, the music, the theme, the model, the atmosphere everything just made me feel all kinds of winter vibes, warm and cozy

[@IreneRudnyk]

thank you so much!

[@billmcginty6544]

Loved the idea! I work in tv and my good friend and great photographer always tells me “manage your available light”. This is a great creative example of that! Going to share it over on my work FB WCNC Bill McGinty.

[@ViperP24]

What a great idea with the string light! Awesome job. Thank you.

[@HexZaSnaker]

It's awesome! Cool idea, good work, beautiful model and photos!

[@Hayleyblahh]

I loove when I get the notification that you have a video out!!

[@fujiapple70]

Beautiful work. That f1.2 is a dream maker.

[@natiaguero27]

I felt it so short I didn't get the chance to blink. Beautiful!!

[@evelynnlindgren9971]

Oh gosh! It looks so cozy! And I love those huge windows you have! Love you and your work! :D You truly are fantastic!

[@pedrortega]

Great! I found similar christmas lights powered by batteries and intended to do the same here. I pay atention and apreciate your style decisions too. Cheers.

[@sr71norm]

Good job and very imaginative use of props, space, lighting!

[@erwinvandenberg6055]

Your ideas are so simple but yet so great!

[@PlaidShirtTravels]

Great video - I especially like the effect produced when your model held the lights!

[@AlonzoLombardi]

Wow, besides of you technical work, you have an exquisite taste for pictures.

[@rosielove1229]

Irene you are so amazingly talented. I can't wait to try this. Thank you so much!

[@yusraal-shammary5112]

You’re so professional and the model is so beautiful

[@jona.vagabond]

Good choice of using a blonde model and only this colour of lights. Makes a really nice warm vibe without too much distraction

[@wngimageanddesign9546]

Lovely work! Airy romantic wintry feel to the portraits. Emily is a delight.

[@kathielisaphoto]

Love how the pictures turned out! 😍 Last week I though a shoot like this would be fun and now your video is up 🙊

[@LucaGimo78]

A good inspiration for some Christmas photo. Thank you

[@markschroeer9899]

I guess I got to give this a try as well,thank you for sharing

[@Jerry-kg9pr]

Love this . wonderful idea . great images , wonderful Creative work of art .

[@sadowskaphoto]

This is so beautiful Irene 😍

[@xMissMockingbird]

Hi Irene, I love your videos! They're so helpful and your images turn out beautifully! I was wondering if you alter your white balance settings often depending on the environment, such as very warm/yellow lights here in this shoot. I only have a Nikon D7000 right now and am looking into a setup like yours, so I'm not sure how different the cameras are other than mine not being a full-frame camera. I have trouble when setting my white balance with my camera.

[@jerrym8140]

Some beautiful images and awesome modeling Emily :)

[@ssuscategui]

OMG Irene I have been watching all your videos for a while now and you are mi idol! It's just amazing what you do. Congratulations on your amazing talent!

[@CaptainSallyPoo]

Thank you!! So cute for a winter photo shoot 💚 thank you for the inspiration. I'm going to try this out this weekend

[@rafikaPM]

great photo, simple explanation, and beautiful model (y)

[@00DM4]

oh my, all of it is so beautiful

[@maferoig4231]

Ver beautiful photo shoot! Loved the ligh, the model, the editing, everything! :D

[@chirag4]

acquired the Canon EF 85mm f/1.4 L IS USM yesterday for my 6D ; it is Razor-Sharp ; AF speed is good, improved over 85/1.2L but still not snappy. The AF motor makes noise, twice, and that irks me.

[@jblanc_]

Your'e portraits are so stunning, thanks for sharing!

[@isabelahart9377]

These photo are so gorgeous

[@robertosantiago5080]

Simple but so effective.....Wonderful job !! keep them coming .....

[@onai2212]

from belgium, many thanks for your videos Ireally appreciate ans Merry christmas Irene

[@IreneRudnyk]

Merry Christmas :)

[@RineshAndrews]

Merry & Bright Christmas

[@pianoboyxpp]

results came out fantastic

[@smaganas]

Irene can you talk about what focusing option you use? Do you use a single spot sensor or do you activate zone focusing?

[@kevinrtres]

She has already answered this question in another video specially dedicated to it. Please search around in her collection.

[@smaganas]

kevinr ruiters I did search. But she gets a lot of responses.....so sometimes it helps to answer it twice. Regardless I'll do a search from a desktop because I dont see that option on my phone

[@mkamelg]

She did video called "How I Get a Sharp Image at Low F Stop , 1.2" kzbin.info/www/bejne/qH_LZomApbqEsJY It has non public status so that's why you could not find him. But she doesn't talk in this video about what focusing option she use. She using focus and recompose technique photographylife.com/focus-and-recompose-technique

[@sabecarles]

Outstanding. I love your style, just brilliant.

[@bolt339]

Excellent video, very enjoyable, I'll try playing around with the Christmas lights myself & see what sort of results i can get, thanks for the inspiration.

[@francescoscaccianoce]

She's stunning! Great video Irene ;)

[@Dafookinbatsie]

Great job as usual. Love your work

[@kristenmoncada6589]

I love this 😍 your work always blows me away and continues to inspire me to keep learning and practicing the best that I can. Would love to have a meet up one day! Gonna have to go out and get more lights

[@CharreseMoniqueMusic]

Stunning! So beautiful! Thank you for sharing! God bless you! 💖

[@minorurei]

Great work! Just want to know how did you control the sharpness? Shooting at 1.2 is pretty challenging, especially when you focus and re-composition. Thanks.

[@mkamelg]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qH_LZomApbqEsJY

[@adamchen279]

I really like her outfits. She seems like a strong and sassy type and the typical soft fairytale stuff might not have been the best choice. She looks so good. There are a lot of strong and empowered type where I live in SoCal. I think photography is like cooking, we got to adapt to the models' innate personalities, like how a chef must adapt to the ingredients and their natural flavors. I think this might be something interesting to try. Rather than imposing your fairytale artistic vision on the models, maybe pick out a model with some strong and distinctive personalities and design a shoot around that. I think that would be very interesting. :D

[@daygon128]

Very good! Merry Christmas Irene!

[@katiecallahan7791]

This is a beautiful shoot

[@MasterPpv]

I really like the relaxed feel of this. Nice work! The photos all look good but the one at 3:08 is fantastic. Keep it up! ^_^

[@tushytushy62]

Thank you for this video. You've inspired me to give this a try. I hope my results will come out as good as yours.

[@dementi100]

Nicely done. Can't wait for next one

[@hubertusshandy0345]

I am so love this. Amazing. Thanks for the tutorial

[@dipalilath4736]

So gorgeous! Makes me pine for a 1.2 lens. 😍😍😭😭😂

[@Shywhisperer]

I love your voice!❤ And ofcourse the videos too😍😉... You're so lucky to have that 'Bokeh King' lens - The 85 - 1.2😥...

[@calikristenxo]

Btw did you make that Squarespace intro with that timelapse overhead shot? If so... wow! That was an awesome intro to that plug! Nicely done! Best I have seen!

[@mieamFan]

Irene is goalssss.

[@andrewn7329]

Great setup and images Irene

[@TonyGouge]

Great video. Love the idea...and images!

[@FabianoCardoso77]

Muito Lindo, parabéns Irene, você como sempre apavora!

[@naomiyura]

Beautiful as always.

[@adriancallme7170]

just saw the thumbnail and i already hit like

[@gap6133]

With the sales tag left on, makes me wonder if you were you able to return the clothes?

[@equineclover8137]

That's what I was thinking...

[@carlasalabarria-alquizar276]

*iijhtwa

[@fangli]

Irene do u have some tips how to shoot in wide open? To get sharp image?

[@Darwiiiiin__]

Really nice shoots ! I learn a lot thanks to you by bacsktages and your tutos on PS. Sorry if my English is not perfect I'm French 🙂

[@MiBackpacking]

Beautiful photos Irene!! Such a creative way to bring that winter feeling inside 🤩

[@scurki]

lovely as always ! Will try this set up on saturday ;)

[@IreneRudnyk]

awesome, tag me in the picture you come up with ;)

[@flamingfilms]

so simple yet so effective!

[@biterocco]

your editing is superb

[@theresafreeman5880]

What was the length you purchased of the garland?

[@juancarlosleivaacuna1947]

Hey Irene, very nice work! I have a question: did you make some postproduction on the pictures or are they as where taken? Thanks a lot and you work is really amazing, nice to follow and watch your videos.

[@IreneRudnyk]

I don't post unfinished images, so yes, they have been edited :)

[@nightpuella2697]

Бесподобно, очень красивый результат. Спасибо за такой понятный и интересный процесс съёмки.

[@loveandmathematics99]

This is adorable

[@TheEquinoxeHD]

Wonderful photos

[@LifewithErns]

What a great Video! I can't wait to try this.

[@joebaba]

Emily again, Yes!

[@fotomaxim9695]

I love your work ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@pfdcaw]

Great video did you just move into new house still has the stickers on glass.

[@IreneRudnyk]

just had a new window installed :)

[@mikeburch1767]

Just a note, if your using an 85f1.8 on a crop sensor camera, you will need quite a bit more space than in the video. I love the focus on inspiration and creativity instead of gear and money.

[@pd5009]

I have a crop sensor camera with 35mm/f1.8 lens. What would be your suggestions to get an image closer to as shown in the video?

[@ballamoto]

@@pd5009 get a longer lens, or move yourself and the model a lot further away from the lights.

[@Armany77777]

This is one of my favorite photo shoot videos, very inspiring :)

[@billcubitt9456]

Beautiful work.

[@jonathanderhy5865]

how did you expose your image on camera during the shoot? for example under expose? over expose, or perfectly expose?

[@IreneRudnyk]

i usually underexpose, but here i tried to get the right exposure as i didn't want to pull the shadows in post too much, to avoid as much grain as possible.

[@jonathanderhy5865]

Cool, so then you dropped the highlights in post so the left side of her face would be exposed properly?

[@AmitKumar-mt8rt]

its really great to watch u...superb...thanks for ur knowledge...

[@The22Healer]

Phenomenal work Irene!

[@canadianactionkid]

I be glad to be your assistant to hold the string lights and setup your studio for you.

[@rahulkhandelwal4161]

okay, now i have a problem. how can reduce the amount of lens flares i'm getting. (lens hood is not working)

[@UGV88]

You really are a beauty Irene! ❤

[@ZannaTheGreat]

How do you get the model's eye sharp with such a small depth of field? I struggle terribly with that :(

[@Sedifet]

I wondered the same thing. It is so easy to miss focus at f1.2 . I think she must be missing it somewhat, especially in that last image, but as we are only seeing the image in a small window on youtube it is hard to tell. In lightroom, at 1:2 mag, the focus of f1.2 shows up glaringly. I only shoot sometimes at f1.2, but always take extra safety shots at higher f-stops. Also, at f1.2 sharpness is never the best the lens can produce, and so shooting at f1.8 is almost always better, and the bokeh is not really much different. I think most people shot at f1.2 when they can because they paid the money for lens so they want their monies worth! But for me, it is mostly just a good thing to have if really needed in low light situations.

[@ZannaTheGreat]

Achoo yeah, I think you are right. So many people say, "shoot wide open" and I just wonder what they're ratio of in focus shots is, cuz it can't possibly be that great. When I'm wide open like that I take two times the amount of photos just to be sure I get one tack sharp.... sometimes it's not worth that trouble.

[@CristiTomaPhotography]

You need to hold the camera like her. But may easily fall and brake.

[@kevinrtres]

Irene has already made a video to answer exactly this question. Check thru her set of videos.

[@ZannaTheGreat]

kevinr ruiters I've looked before and couldn't find it

[@jasonfry5846]

Amazing concept. Love your ideas and photos, as always.

[@davidblagojevic91]

2:18 No no, Irene, you'll need a fedora for that. :) Majestic work and outstanding results as usual. Hugs and love

[@mikemagallon7894]

Beautiful Images Irene. :)

[@dreambig2609]

heyyy Iren can you please tell me your Focus settings

[@HiItsJonny]

Purely amazing :) thank you!

[@fennadevuyst2709]

do you shoot on manual mode or automatically ?

[@simo8x]

Just binged watched a few of your videos! I love how simple yet detailed they are and your work is fantastic! I’m only puzzled as to why you leave your lens hood on your lens backwards rather than taking it off as I find it very uncomfortable and awkward when shooting especially if I want to quickly switch to manual focus, but I guess it comes down to personal preference and style of shooting... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!