Biggest mistakes new photographers make when shooting portraits in natural light.
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39 responses to “When natural light photography goes wrong.”
Thanks a lot for those advices Omar.
The hands! My goddness me, too good!
Genial esos tips !!! Gracias Omar !
Thank you merica 😂
I love how goofy you are when giving the first few tips. 😂 My kind of humor. Wonderful information provided. Thank you!👌🏽
Great helpful video and thanks!! But I want to tell you why I did not sign to your channel. I had a briefly look on your recent videos and they seem to lean more or less towards Fuji Kamera/Objectivs. So not really interesting for me as I have no Fuji. I gues you could have more members when going more broad. Its not a critic just a feedback. But maybe you say 180.000 members is enough for me.. Stay as you are 🙂
I've started doing some of my first paid gigs and this is helpful, short advice. Ty
LOVE the photo at 8:12. Striking contrast between subject and background. Leads to endless speculation. Who is she? Where is she? WHEN is she? Nice work.
thanks!
Thank you !
Thank you for this. Long time photographer, but first wedding shoot. This will help, thank you.
this is really useful and very well conveyed, thank you! I will forever remember racoon eyes 😂Love from Argentina
love the video man!
Great video Omar. I like your sense of humor 🙂
Man your eyes are enormous when ya wanna make a point
I don't even have a camera yet… I just take pictures on my iphone for now and wanted to learn more about lighting. I learned a ton in this video! gold nuggets freely given in a concise easy to understand way with relevant examples. Also a few funny moments! Well done Sir!
best thing I ever did in photography was learn off camera flash & saved me hours in editing poorly lit photos
thank you Omar, I learnt.
conclusion as a national photographer, use a f**** strobe
How did I miss this video ??? Very nice. No, excellent !!! I especially love the usage of direct sun. I had fallen for "avoid direct sun at all cost" thing. Thanks again.
6:10 I lol'd so hard
why do I like bad lighting so much?
Great tips, thank you!
b&w photo of 3 kids at @7:41– were you saying that was "no light? great video.
You mention not avoiding the sun or forcing the sun to behind the subject, which is something I'd like to do, but how do you achieve this without squinting? Even when trying to use the nice golden light when the sun is lower in the sky, I have never been able to find any kind of "in between" where the sun isn't just behind the person but it's not blinding them and making them squint, either.
Probably one of the most useful vid I’ve seen on NL photography thanks!
Great video!
You have a very good teaching instinct.
You got my sub!
Is one of your images from Art Factory Studios in Patterson?
very useful. thanks!
This is the video I have been needing, thank you so much for posting!
Great tips, thank you!
What a great input! You mentioned exactly all problems I have when shooting in natural light and after watching your videos it all makes sense now. I do have problems with "dirty light" coming from green grass on a very bright day many times and being able to avoid this is key. With your video I think I will be more aware of the problems and how to deal with them so thank you for that great video. 🙂
Is the girl in thumbnail your daughter?
Love how you talk to us like a close friend. Thanks Omar!
Thanks greats tips.
If you are a beginning or interment photographer (or an expert who wants to refresh some lighting issues)…This video is the best 9:23 minutes you will ever need and it will help you tremendously!
An excellent video!