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Tony & Chelsea Northrup provide guidance on taking outdoor portraits using both smartphones and traditional cameras. It emphasizes that technique is more important than gear.
Key topics covered include:
Location: Choosing safe, quiet locations with multiple spots for photos, and being aware of permit requirements.
Background: Opting for clean, simple backgrounds, and checking for distractions. Zooming in can reduce distractions and blur the background.
Expression: Encouraging natural expressions by creating a friendly environment and using motion.
Posing: Discussing different posing techniques, including headshots versus full-body shots.
Composition: Considering horizontal and vertical shots, leaving room to crop, and paying attention to camera height.
Natural Lighting: Aiming for ideal lighting conditions but being prepared to deal with challenging light. Using reflectors or walls to bounce light.
Artificial Lighting: Utilizing off-camera flash with umbrellas and remote triggers.
Camera Settings: Covering manual mode, ISO, f/stop, and shutter speed for background exposure, as well as HSS and flash brightness for flash settings.
Gear: Listing necessary equipment, including video gear, mics, diffusers, reflectors, cameras, lenses, strobes, sandbags, and light stands.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:23 Location Scouting
1:19 Meaningful Locations
1:33 Choosing a Background
1:59 Focal Length & f/stop
2:47 One-eye Rule
3:15 Composition
3:54 Facial Expression
4:46 Evoto Promo
5:25 Posing
7:10 Camera Height
7:36 Using a Diffuser
8:10 Using a Reflector
8:39 Evoto Promo
8:59 Backlighting
9:10 Strobes
11:45 Summary
Comments
27 responses to “The Photographer's Guide to MASTERING Outdoor Portraits”
Professional photographers my ASS AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
❤❤ one of the best videos ever! Thanks, you guys rock!
That was seriously impressive!
Suggesting to add fake smiles = 100% american (0% authentic)
Why is AF hunting, what´s wrong?
Chelsea & Tony, i just want to say thanks for all the amazing videos, i have learned so much from u guys over the years..
This is incredibly helpful, thanks!
Giving someone a fake AI smile is pretty weird.
Thanks! I am in this situation as an amateur. It's graduation time and I agreed to do some photos for friends of my daughter. I do have a 5 in 1 reflector/diffuser, but I don't have any lighting equipment. I only have the on-camera flash that came with the X-T3. I do have the OG XF56 f1.2 and the XF90 f2, both of which I've shot grad pics with in the past. I've also done some portraits with my daughter using a few vintage lenses(Pentax 50mm f1.7, Canon FD 135mm f3.5). I got another one recently I'd like to try, a Pentax Takumar 55mm f1.8. Any thoughts/advice for shooting portraits with a vintage, manual focus lens? Thanks again for all of your tips!! Have a great weekend.
Yaaay strobes! Went from okay to legit!
Great information!
Whatever camera you’re using to video has weird pulsing effects throughout the video.
4:46 Ai smiles are still uncanny , and always have false teeth , teeth are a feature and make people unique xx
Wonderful that you both are doing real photography….Any workshops in the future to Chicago?
Nice very nice beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Nice pic ❤❤❤❤
This was a great video, but I wanted to take this moment to thank you for the many years of tutorials, books and work put into helping others in their craft. You guys have meant more to me than you'll know and more than I can ever repay. In this Youtube world of constant content, you should be praised for how beautiful you are as creatives and a family working together.
Professional Photographers! Amateur Videographers 😅
Not an ounce of wind. lol that helps
I'd rather do it all in post
great video! I like your tips on posing
Good Video! Thank you!
As always great video!!
This is a bit off topic but I gotta say Tony's white hair with that youthful look in his face makes him look so good, quite mystical in a way. 😄
Evoto AI looks super solid for quick edits! I’ve been using Retouch4me for retouching though—feels a bit more natural and fits right into my workflow.
This was great. I am an experienced photographer but this sums it up in nice way
Good refresher course. Thanks.
Hey Tony. You are a very lucky man to be married to Chelsea. Chelsea, you could do better! LoL. I really like both you.
She looks like Nibras Jaff 😂😂