This is my favorite thing to do; finding those little pockets of great places to shoot most people would overlook. I used a worn out green wall in a back alley for a senior session and it turned out amazing.
I'm not a professional, just a hobbyist, and my photography style is totally, totally different. And I still learn so much from all of your videos, thanks! Really appreciate these videos - clear, to the point, and most of all you really know your stuff!
Thank you Katelyn! I just purchased your Consistency course and am a new monthly subscribing student of yours! I just love you and your family so much! God bless you all from the Larsen family in northern Minnesota! 😊
Great tips! I've been doing these same things for years and still sometimes have to remind myself to use them when the pressure is on. Literally just hid tourists on a trail with my bride & groom's bodies during a mountain elopement at a popular location yesterday!!
I think I naturally do this as well, but still learned something. I've had friends say sure, but my yard is ugly and I'll tell them I can find the beauty in it and work around it.
Love your videos and many thanks for the tips. Now that it's getting warmer, I can try these tips in some of my locations that I was avoiding and use my new 50mm lens.
Anytime I have the room to shoot the 135mm even for full body photos that is what comes out of the bag and gets used. The 85 and the 50 is for when I don't have the space to shoot the 135. Out of all the lenses I have used that is my favorite since I love compressed telephoto looks (if I could afford the 200mm f/2 prime I would shoot that but that is definitely not in my budget). These are all great tips and things I still forget or overlook sometimes when I am shooting in locations that are too busy or have too many distracting background elements so this video was great as a refresher to keep these things in mind.
This is why I love zooms so much because I can manipulate my backgrounds and foreground perfectly, though I know you use primes… 😍 I took a photographer friend of mine out to the lake with my 70-200 2.8 to take photos of her, and she was just mindblown at what a high compression lens could do. She shoots everything on a nifty fifty. Feel like if I could ever get ahold of that 28-70 f/2 (backorder just plain sucks), it and my RF 70-200 will make me unstoppable! 😛😈
Thank you for these great tips! I do t shoot weddings but will be good to use for seniors and families. Off the subject, what paint color is on your walls? It’s exactly what I’m looking for. Not to warm and not to cool. Lol
I have a 35 and a 135 lens for now, what don’t you recommend about the 135? I’ve actually enjoyed shooting portraits of me and my wife for practice and development
You just have to be so far away from the client. It can be hard to interact and can be limiting in certain situations! But I do think it is a great lens.
As of 5-16-22 none of the free downloads are available :-(. Message states "You cannot add another "5 Ways to Transform Lousy Portrait Locations" to your cart." You MUST fill out all the info and then the items are available. Sorry, I was confused.
Hi Debbie! Sorry you're having trouble! Make sure there is only 1 of each product in your cart before heading to checkout. Email us katelyn@katelynjames.com if you're still having trouble!
Weird question did you mean $1,000 dollars or actually 10,000$ I was surprised because I would of thought that $1000 would be shooting in the locations you just mentioned and I would assume that if your client is able to pay $10,000 the better the location.
We have found some of our clients spend a majority of their budget on photography so sometimes other areas of the day aren’t “high end”, but the way we shoot we are able to make things look high end! Hope that makes sense
How we can make confortable the couple, like the couple are not confortable doing poses they are not really photogenique. 🥲 and i have a canon r6 with only 24-105mm STM Lens. its a good for a marriage photographie ?
