Behind The Scenes :: Show & Tell :: Portrait of Leigh
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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For this video I walk you through the thought process and technical stuff for some portraits I made of my friend, Leigh. This is part of my personal portrait work.
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I love this Zack.
I'd call it the 'Walking Through The Photo' series. You said it in the intro.
Thank you for talking us through your dance with light.
Behind The Shutter with Zack Arias?
I have been absolutely loving how active you've been recently, Zack. It's been difficult to find someone bringing close to your level of sober and honest expertise.
Glad to be of service, Colin!
Simultaneously inspiring and humbling. I could drink this in all day.
Thank you!
Whoa. That 180º flip created a completely different image. With the original orientation, I didn't "see" her.
Thank you for your bts video and the high educational level, Zack. As always. The world need The Zack to be back!
Loved you deconstructing how you lit this and hearing your thought process. Thank you! Would love to see more of these. Glad you are posting regularly Zack.
Thank you have a safe week end
Beautiful color pallete. Color temperature contrast always works! you definitely nailed the motel/duks-dawn look. Bravo!
Callit Thought Process. it's a very valuable teaching routine and you just ace'd it.
Loved this video! Great stuff, Zack! Also, I was happy to see that Skillshare sponsor! You deserve sponsorships for your content. Most of all though, I loved seeing you "getting to work."
Thank you!
You have inspired me my friend . Thank You for sharing busy catching up on your posts.They are Super !
Incredible photography Zack. You are a great communicator.
These are the types of videos I love, thanks.
Always a treat
I like the casual nature of your videos, going through your thoughts and decisions you make. I remember the hard light with soft light photo from your Instagram. Nice to know the thought process that goes behind it.
As far as the name goes: Show & Tell is good, but I also like the wordplay titles mentioned by others as well.
Just wanna says I get into photography because of you! Zack Arias. You're my mentor. My first photography video ever is your original one light workshop video! Thank you
Thank you, Jerry!
Whatever you call it, best video in ages with lots of take away learning points, cheers Zack
Remember kids.....photography is self-therapy, so if you want to get "better", you have to get "on the couch". AND SHOOT. Let the pixel beasts out. FREE the Creative. This video was so Heisler-ish. Been following Greg since the 1980's and his lighting philosophy. I believe what we all share is that knowing light and "the rules" is vitally important- because it also allows us to break them when needed. There's reality, and then there's "cool"....
Well said.
This is so much more than just a BTS video. Showing your creative inspiration in regards to the lighting and then watching you implement it was inspiring. It tells me I need to slow down and pay more attention to what's around me. Thanks, Zack!
Thank you , this is wonderful. You have released me from the box.
My work here is done! 🙌🙌🙌
Maybe the best BTS video I've ever seen.
What I love about this is the actual conversation about light. I've watched a hell of a lot of photography videos and everyone always talks on composition. It's refreshing to hear an emphasis on light. **Insert plug for One Light tutorials**
Thanks, Ray! I like discussing the light as well.
WOW, your creative side is blossoming. Interesting video, beauty model. Show & tell is fine.
I really appreciate the insights into how folks find inspiration. In terms of getting outside our narrow ranges of comfort, I recommend a podcast episode. The podcast is "Cautionary Tales" and the specific one to listen to is #7 "Bowie, Jazz and the Unplayable Piano" released Dec 19, 2019.
Noted. Thank you.
The upside down image looks like a painting... Beautiful
Thank you!
I learned a lot from this BTS, Zack. I admire work with a cinematic vibe. I'm mostly interested in your lighting techniques. I, for one, would really benefit from a lighting series of personal work.
Dude, that’s a really good idea to toss a hard light and soft light together from the same direction. Never seen that done! That totally sells the “setting sun through the blinds” look with that cool soft fill. Thanks for sharing. This is going in my brain light database.
I’m trying to remember the name of the photographer I first learned part of this technique from. He shoots a lot of sportraits. His technique involves chasing a grid with a soft light. It’s a great look.
@@ZackAriasATL I end up just putting a monolight with some cut of CTO on it outside and literally shoot through the blinds... This technique seems a bit more flexible, hahaha.
I’ve done that as well! I wish I could embed an image in a YT comment. It’s a good technique.
Awesome shot, atmosphere and lovely model! Love the way you set it up. Very useful info. Thanks!
Funny I also love using a fog machine.
Very interesting. I love to see different people solving different problems and the thought process behind it. Thank you. Stay safe and sane.
Beautiful photo. You are a genius 👏
Very good video. I consider myself a very technical shooter that has a tough time getting out of my box as well. Good to hear there are some "greats" out there who feel the same. Thanks for being open and humble enough to put that out there. Also, I like the name you said for this video of "Shoot and Share".
BTS is great. Behind the Scenes or Behind the Shoot, plus you can ride that K-Pop algorithm
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Keep making these videos Zack. Love them
Love the video and how you went from the inspiration with light to the final product. This is much better and more detailed than a bts.
Great! More of that, please - no matter how you name it! Best and stay safe. Matt
Will do!
This is so cool. I'm not a photographer I'm a painter who has been in a 25 year rut. 😆 So I started doing landscape photography ... and like all landscape photographers I chase the light and blame nature and the weather for my failures! 😉 This was enlightening ... pun not really intended but I'll take it! Making your own light! I love the examples you got of the dappled light in your kitchen. And it was cool to see you replicate it with studio lights and stuff. I always considered studio/portrait lighting kind of boring so I have ignored it. I don't have any studio lights but I'm a pretty good DIYer. This process is what I am familiar with from painting. Creating stuff that you can see in your minds eye. Time for me to make so terrible photographs! 😂
Thanks, Joe! I make terrible photos all the time and you would never ever want to see my paintings! 🙌🙌🙌
Great! More please
Thanks for this Zack!
love the photo and the idea behind it
Thank you, Giovanni!
Enjoyed the video! Good stuff.
please keep sharing experience and knowledge about lighting and etc. I alway love your videos.
Thanks for such a detail breakdown. Great to see your thought process. Lots of great info to take in here
what a great idea to try !!!! Thank you!!!
Very nice series of photos, and rotating 180° that photo totally worked.
It's interesting to know the behind the scene process and having a look at the results, I'm glad you enjoy angain photography.
Very inspiring, thanks Zack
Playing with Light. Have a great day Zack
Really enjoyed this video and learned a lot. Thanks Zack!
Great video. Really nice to see how your mind works when photographing and your creative process👍🏼
Hello Zack, thank you, you explain your research of composition very well.
your photoshoot makes me think of OneLight 2.0 with Mr Blair.
you had expressed your desire to compose your light. for fun, I again watched this shoot.
Very inspiring
Another awesome video. Learned a lot from it. Thanks!
Inspiring !!!
Love this Zack, yes please what ever you call it, (BT’s gets my vote, say’s what it is) It’s the creative process that I love to see and how you arrive at the final image. Seeing and hearing your thought process is both entertaining and more importantly inspirational thanks for sharing.
Great insight and really interesting. Thanks. .........Shooting trials......?
Thanks Zack! I love going back to basics in technique but high in concept with you!
Thanx for sharing Zack
Thanks for sharing Zack! The shots are amazing and super that you could use the opportunity before your friend moved. Love your work.
Thank you. Also. CZcams doesn’t like you again. This comment ended up in the spam tab. ?¯\_(ツ)_/¯?
Zack Arias oh no. So strange. :-(
Meaningful Frames? Cool video :)
Hey Zack! Another great video. I loved the first shot and the last. If you don’t feel the work is already there, keep trying (but let us share the ride, it’s an inspiring one).
Thank you!
Thank You, this was most inspiring!
Show and Tell would be my suggestion for naming these videos. Please keep on making them!
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Thanks for the video Zack, very informative and interesting. Made me think about the way I shoot and has encouraged me to experiment a bit more in the future. Many thanks
Great inspiration as always, Zack. Glad to see you very active, recently. How about Zacks Tricks of the Trade or Zacks Trade Secret for the BTS-series?
I have paused the video [16:48] just after you rotated the head and shoulders floor shot. After rotation, it looks like a mirror view, almost like window light. Really nice! Great shadows on her clavicle and lady parts.
Should call it, best video in a while from you Zack, thanks a lot. I think I was in a kind of depression too, doing pro assignment without making images for love... Can't wait for the next one !
Another nice one Zack. Thanks for sharing the process and your insights.
Your interview on the PhotobizX podcast brings me to your youtube channel. I like the way you deconstruct your modus operandi. First video I watched on your channel, but definitely not the last video I'll be watching on your channel.
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Very interesting thank you 😊
This is so good! Please make more videos in this style. Thanks for sharing!
Will do!
I am a bit late in finding this video. Thanks for sharing Zack! I have always enjoyed your insights and these BTS are a good way to walk us through your wisdom and persistence in working through challenges. Keep them coming my friend!
All about contrasts, colours and the light and the sbject and environment. Great video and I've always been a fan of seeing the reasoning behind a shot and why you think it works as it does. Plus when you know how shit works you can always appear like a magician and take half the time.
That hard light with a soft fill was something I discovered on a shoot one day, and I used to use it a lot. You reminded me of this and how much I love doing it. One of my favorite photos I ever shot was using a 60" umbrella, and putting another light in front of it with just the reflector on it. I had forgotten about that... Thank you! 😂
Thank u so much. U r my favorite youtuber to watch😂 loved this
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Zack, I always seem to turn to you and your videos when I need a voice I can relate to. I haven't spent decades as a professional photographer, and yet somehow I can still relate to the things you say and the stories you tell. I have no idea what you should call these (please don't use BTS...it just feels too "common" for someone of your story telling talents).
Love it, always a pleasure to watch you beeing creativ, thank you Zack!
My pleasure!
Great video Zack!! Cheers from Portugal :) Continue with new videos, i don´t miss a single one!
Obrigado, Joao!
Zack, thanks for the video and the look into how you do what you do. Your videos are always insightful ,educational and entertaining. All the photos were amazing. Can't wait to see more.
"Shooting with Zack"? The upside down photo made her tattoo really pop. I hadn't noticed it until that moment. I wonder if that's because my eyes scan from left to right and stop at the brightest spot, which is before seeing her right arm in the original orientation.
I have a pair of 250ws studio flashes that seem to live on a shelf. I have one small softbox, a few umbrellas and 3 old Vivitar 285 flashes. Oh, and Yongnou radio triggers. Time to get the gear out and experiment.
Get it, Ira!
Wow. While looking for a clip to review on lighting, I stumbled into this site. Though I mainly shoot cars, products, and food, this short clip had stimulated lots of ideas. So I subscribed, and gave an “👍”. Will be coming back for more. Way cool 😎
That was fantastic. Thanks a lot for doing these. I’ve gotten so many ideas and much inspiration from you over the years. 🥂
Really liked seeing that creative process. Looking forward to more.
Absolutely loved the thought process in these images to see how different light act is wonderful thank you very much looking forward to more keep up the excellent work
Great BTS video and I really like how you started from inside your car. It was interesting how you started from the light source inside your house to find inspiration to create that picture. It is great to see your thinking process BTS and how you manipulated the lights source. I like at the end when you talked about this is work in progress. As they say, if you want something different, then you must change things! Also, a very cool way of using lights in line with each other to create that effect. I will have to try that! Please keep that series going.
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Awesome. Always learn so much from your behind the scenes. (It's just a bit frustrating right now, though). Thanks for sharing!
Veery inspiring.
Very well executed Sir :)
How Zack Got His Groove Back
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Great demo sir.
When I am looking at my photos, I will often find that I like them better in a different orientation. I do like "Behind The Scenes" as a series name.
And now I am thinking of the movie Rat Race: "You should have bought a squirrel" - lol
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Zack! Thanks for sharing your skills! ;) Loved this breakdown from filing away random stray light thoughts to where it all ended up. Getting out there and doing the work is what I have to keep telling myself, otherwise how am I ever gonna have any happy accidents?! (Which are absolutely awesome when they happen and I'm the lucky recipient of more times than I care to admit.)
Thank you for watching!
Somebody told me long time ago that you and I were very much alike, I think I see it now, LOL.
I moved to San Francisco many years ago. I was getting a lot of inspiration from the "american look", as I like to call it; buildings, cars, corner liquor stores, ... all that crap. It was ok for a while. But I got fed up of working with strobes all the time. Then i discovered an NYC photographer that worked a lot with natural light and I transpolated that approach to my location. Oh boy!!! I discovered my light! That light that you could spend the rest of your life shooting in. The light that came through my widows, the refection on glass doors, the mix of hard lines with glowy chewy softness, the warmth of the sunset light in the Pacific Ocean ... Man, ideas were flowing, I was shooting all the time, a true happy camper.
Then shit hit the fan and I had to move back to my city back in Spain. No more "american look" to inspire me. No more magic light. All gone. I tried to replicate the light, nah, not the same quality of light, the magic is gone ... I felt so close to give up so many times. But there is something inside of me that still resist to it. I need to keep trying.
Therapy continues with Dr. Arias, LOL.
Thanks man!
I get it. I do. Keep shooting! 🙌
I think just call it show and tell!? Stick with the first concept/thought. Have you ever considered doin' available light only to challenge yourself (since you want to control everything)? Playing around with gels to simulate different light sources is a great tip. I tend to forget such things sometimes.
Anyway ... Great video, thanks for sharing!
I do shoot available light! I’m all for not dragging all my stuff out if I don’t have to! 😂
Zack, what a great video. Thanks for the insights into how you saw the light and reproduced it. As a name for the series......how about; zacks broken down?
Dude, you’re like the voice in my head. I’ve got the technical. I can get the shot the client wants. And I can do it quickly. But that all conspires to keep me in my safe box. I started shooting more personal work over the winter but it all seemed to be in my studio. So, again, I’m in a rut. And now we’re quarantining so I can’t get out. And now I’m whining. Ha. Oh well, I’m going to make a concerted effort, once everyone is cool with socializing again, to do more personal environmental shoots.
I can’t wait to get back to some sort of normal life again!!!!
I find it interesting to see/hear how you were thinking when creating that photo. Similarly, seeing how Joe McNally work towards the final images is really interesting/useful. Not that I've ever been close to taking any kind of similar photo, but listening to the actual thought-process get me thinking about my own photos (at least sometimes 🙄)
Thanks, Jan. I could listen to Joe talk about folding his laundry and I know I’d learn something about life.
thanks Zack for sharing! I like listening in on your thought process, it gives me motivation. Speaking of motivation, you said Leigh is a great photographer as well, would you like to share a link to her work as well if she has one? keep up the good work! Cheers
You can find her in IG @worklifeleigh
Love the lighting in that image. And yes, white light is totally a lie. For personal work I try to avoid it whenever possible and am always pushing the colors and hues around trying to come up with interesting combinations.
Oh, and you should name it: showing my pits
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I like that this was clean, simple and concise video. Moves along, full of info, accessible, friendly. Less yak, more Zack. or something "No BS BTS" // Taking care of BIDNESS (i.e., Breaking It Down) Totally SIC (Sharing is Caring). or just STFU DQ, and let me get to the next comment.
whatever.... sorry!
HAHAHA! Less yak, more Zack! 😂🙌😂