What's up, guys, so this is probably the first time you're actually seeing my face, unless you have
my cinematography course, but anyway, I'm going to do a walkthrough of taking my own photos and showing
you what I don't like, what I do like don't know what I'm going to take yet.
I'm just going to do it and talk about it as I go.
Not only Lake North Georgia, it's pretty beautiful.
Here we go.
All right.
Facing me.
Let's go the other way.
All right.
So just open up your camera app.
Notice I do have the grid on.
This helps a lot.
I pretty much never take it off.
So it looks pretty nice already.
A lot of people might say, oh, that's a nice ridgeline there.
You can see the reflection.
But if you notice, there's some leading lines right there and in the reflection and they point that
way.
So let's go ahead and face that way.
Same with over there.
It's leading lines all go towards the middle.
So ideally, you want to have that middle in that center box.
You could maybe play around a little bit.
But I like it in the center.
But I don't really like is the ground right now.
I think it'd be really cool to get a reflective shot.
So let's just take a base photo first.
OK, now let's do one with just the water.
So we'll walk down to the edge here, get nice and low and let's take a photo there.
So it splits the image in two, that's pretty cool, but let's try some new stuff we want to play around
a little bit.
I like to probably walk away with 20 or 30 photos of one location.
So the sky's cool.
You could do a high angle of just the water.
Let's do like that.
Raise your arms as high as you can
and see what do we have over here?
Got some branches.
Let's see if we can do some live framing in some bushes and branches around to really close in the shot.
Hmm, I don't really like that.
Let's try getting right up in them, get rid of some of these guys right there and focus on the background.
So just click.
You can also change your exposure.
I'm going to lock focus on the background.
And let's take one like that.
One more just for safety, let's take a look at that.
That's pretty nice, too, especially zooming in.
You can crop your photos, adds a nice little frame to your shot.
All right.
Now I'm going to get my lovely assistant here to step in and go stand over there.
Right there, actually, a little bit more in the sun right there, so I'm on a higher angle already
than her and it looks great.
High angles are awesome in open nature environments like this.
So go ahead and look forward.
When I get a nice high angle there, put her at the bottom of the frame, because you've got two subjects,
you've got her is one and that vantage point as another.
So let's also try a low one, get a silhouette of her.
And those vantage points lead right to her.
You see what I did, though, instead of being two subjects, now we're doing one and those leading
lines go right to her, take a picture there, OK?
And you can also do this this way, portrait mode, staying a little bit straighter.
There you go.
And do a high angle like that gets you a little bit more of the sky with her.
So we can look back at our photos.
We've got some cool options in here.
And really, you just want to play around as much as you can look back and see what you like.
So she's kind of off on that one.
Don't really like that.
She's off to the right just a little bit.
So we're going to get rid of that.
I do like that one.
And of course, the reflection shots are really cool.
So let's play a little bit with some rule of thirds, you understand, out there one more time.
So instead of being right in the center, let's try maybe adding some storytelling in here.
So she's looking out towards the vantage point.
So now we're putting the vantage point right on that left, third on that line, almost right where
the point is.
And her, she's standing on the right third.
So let's try a high angle on.
And let's try getting nice and low, get low angle, keep her on the right,
cool.
All good.
So we can look back at all these, keep the ones you like, keep the ones you don't, and we're going
to edit these two.