FIVE Things I Wish I Knew When I Started in Photography!!! 

Exposure triangle is a misnomer. “Choose your Shutter Speed with purpose and Aperture with feeling. Then adjust the BRIGHTNESS with ISO.”- Joe Edelman.

For me, "posing" is more about "directing". That's the hard part. Learning how to direct someone who isn't good at posing to pose, or pose without looking like they're posing...which is my preference.

Thanks for the tips. It's always great to have a model that's fun to work with. Makes the whole experience so much easier and fluid.

#6 I wish I'd known Carolina. Funnest model😊

As far as paid gigs go, weddings can be had if you will do them. There's all kinds of money to be made. But for me, one wedding equals 40 hours of work, between meeting with the couple originally to plan the day sign the contract, to the entire day shooting, to driving back and forth to photo labs, and album places and meeting with the couple again to pick images/album layout, etc. They're a lot of work, but you can earn a weeks salary in one wedding. I did them for many years on the side to build my pro camera kit. I got a little burned out, because I was booking up weddings a year in advance, and I wasn't sure I wanted to be shooting weddings in a year or more. Every once in a while someone can convince me to come out of retirement so to speak, to do another wedding (Usually family or friend), and it's fun again when it's casual. Going to do more seniors/models now.

I love you being honesty about your journey

What a beautiful model and beautiful photos.

These images are gorgeous. Good job!

For lighting, #3, I'd love to see how you choose your locations and how you choose to position your models in those. Also, sometimes, on the same shoot, you choose to use the strobe and other times just natural light. What's the process for those decisions. It could be a whole video!

Damn those poses! Fantastic! (also the photos and timing to take it!)

Beautiful Photos!!!

Beautiful Work Jason!

I have a 300mm F2.8 bought on ebay 6yrs ago. I use it for bird Photography on a cropped sensor camera. I have used on Portrait photography all handheld. I actually do closeup flower photography also. 300mm F2.8 ridge with the camera weighs about 8 1/2 pounds this is not for everyone.

This is simple encouragement and called life and good teaching

Always great videos. Great shoot.

Very nice starting tips :+1:. Agree with all 5 now. Cheers!

3:06 on #1 my worry and hold up switching to manual shooting was I thought photographers just KNEW.. “Oh.. hey.. we are outside.. loads of sun.. I need to shoot ISO 100, f/2.8 and at 1/500 .. “ just off the top of their heads. But one doesn’t need to know it. Just take some test shots and know if it is dark, then we need to raise ISO or slow the shutter. If it is over exposed.. need to raise the ISO or speed up the shutter.

Carolina is so fun to work with

Awesome Jason! Keep kicking ass📸

This is another great video with great information to learn from, thank you. I recently stopped sports photography after a period of 10 years pro and amateur soccer and amateur tennis in my hometown. Now I've chosen to go for model photography and birding and I'm not going for a profession as a photographer (I have a well-paid job), I choose to do TFP and have fun taking the portraits I take of my models and also retouching the best portraits of that shoot. I started as a natural light photographer because I did not know how to keep the flashes working the way I wanted them to work. End of 2022 I started with a Profoto A1 to see if that would work better and it did so now I own a couple of A1 flashes and also two B10 flashes. I love the Profoto system and I don't take any portraits without these flashes and modifiers anymore. I love the result of the portraits in this video, Carolina is a great model to work with as she shows her ability to pose well!

Great video and advice 👍🏼. I’ve been struggling with getting capture one installed right to learn to edit 😂

I agree with your five things and I would like to add one more, that we have to take care about small details, as how to pose hands, fingers and eyes direction, there are many photos I started to dislike after I started to notice them.

Thanks for this information 🙏

Nice work

bonjour, bravo à tous les 2 ,belles photos magnifiques . la modèle est vraiment très gracieuse 👏👏,c'est assez rare sur you tube

I guess it might help new photographers to know that to have full control of the 3, it's best to put your camera on MANUAL mode. Very nice video Jason!

This is indeed a god job well done. I think I would love to request for a tutorial using a nifty fifty 50mm Canon Lense f1,8 stm. Thank you in advance.

Great Video - beautiful model

great video

Man... you're a wonderful photographer.

#5 hit home so hard 😢 Thanks for the awesome info sir.

Great stuff brother

👍👍 good stuff

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10:39 I’m glad you said these things. People get mixed up with what I shoot and I explain and they don’t like that. Just want to shoot single or couple portraits and a lot of times I get asked if I can do birthday party’s and I decline those cause I don’t want to deal with a lot of people respectfully. Same for weddings. I’ve done one wedding and it was great but it was too many people. I’d rather start small.

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Super helpful vid thx. How much do you charge for a shoot like this?

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Mr. Allen, great work and awesome model!. I always benefit from your videos. I have a question. I noticed that on your previous videos, when you use a wide aperture f1.2, you set your ISO to 100. In this video, is there a reason you set the 300mm to ISO 500? Is it because of the your "shake"? I was under the impression that the lower your ISO the better. Please advise. Thank you!!!

Hey Jason!! Great content!!! I’m just west of you in Bandera! Could you link your podcast? Thanks for all your insight!

Love to have a model like Carolina

Thanks Mr Allen Its where i am at currently

amazing bokeh for an F2.8

The bokeh on 300mm 2.8 is special.

ISO allows more light in, I thought ISO increased the exposure after the image has already been taken? I liken ISO to a rheostat after the image has already been captured by the image sensor. Am I wrong? Thank you!

Было бы интересно посмотреть больше съемок на 300mm f2.8 или 400mm f2.8 или например 200mm f2.0

Would you tell the model or show the model what to do , for example show them a picture of the pose

for me number 5 is hard to learn and accept

Hey

Lol you said you specialize in hs students? Good suggests but creep tho lmfao

I can see the camera loves her….

Nice work