High End Photography on a Low End Budget. Is it possible?? 

I really liked the breakdown of the photo and trying to build it back up together. I'd like to see you guys do more videos like this recreating shots like that. This was really cool

Kids: Can we pick up some JLO tonight? Manny: No, we've got JLO at home.😂 This came out great!

Manny’s “budget” with $20k worth of gear 🤣

This is nice. How you basically reversed engineered the photo. Maybe this can become a series. Great job.

This is the best way to learn. Take 1 photo and try to get as close as possible to it. You get to understand a lot and appreciate what we often think is "simple."

That was fun to watch. It's great seeing the thought processes that others go through to build up a project.

You should make this into a series...pick professional/ad campaign photos and re-create them. This was really interesting and one of my favorite videos overall

Love how you 2 collaborated on this and the chemistry you have. I have learned so much watching you over the last year Manny and I want to say thanks. Great results!!!! Keep em coming please.

Love the ambition to recreate something. It takes patience and creativity that both you and your wife have. Great content.

Super refreshing to see something so creative and thought provoking rather than just gear reviews. Gear reviews are cool, but this is the best content IMO. Awesome job and I hope you do more like this

Great work! More of this please. Loving the honesty, step by step recreation and "problem" solving.

I like how you break down the image to figure out how they set it up. I've been practicing doing that myself. Great video👍🏾

Manny, you nailed it! Love this. You should do more of these remakes.🙌🏼

happy belated birthday! amazing video with a beautiful result! wishing you many more happy birthdays 🎉🎉

Happy one day late birthday, Manny! 🎉

You guys make an amazing team!!! And Manny you never disappoint!!

I’ve said it before, I love you both interacting on camera. Of course the convo is natural and it’s very entertaining. Bravo.

You DID THAT, Manny!!! DOPE AF

Yall killed it! Loved this!

Loving this video Manny! Great stuff as always.

Very cool to see the two of you talk through breaking down the photo, from the clues in the original image to how you recreated it. Thanks for sharing!

I really loved the way Diana drank that dunkin in the beginning. She looked like whatever it was, she knew she was about to enjoy and the facial expression is that of someone who knows what's in that cup is about fo be satisfying.

They’re actually not far off, Manny. You nailed the composition. J. Lo is just a tad less exposed than your wife which I guess gives her a more chiseled cheekbone but aside from that: NOT BAD, BRUH!

Thanks, always interesting and fun at the same time watching you guys!!!

I like your picture better than the JLO picture though. You and Diana killed it. 🔊💯📷✔️🔥🔥

This was a ton of fun to watch please please do more of this style of video. Love to see recreation of photos!!

That was a cool recreation guys!! Great job!! Happy holidays and GOD bless!!

That's fire!!!! Great job!

Amazing work both you and your wife Manny. I’m impressed with the growth of your Channel as well as your photography game. You are truly an inspiration to me 💯. Happy New Year. Keep killin it!

When it comes to the getting the detail from the eye, its actually a little trick. Besides using flashes which usually have weak modeling lights, you use bright continuous lights to shrink the pupil which makes the eyes look more brighter.

This was awesome! Also the end product looks great! The team narrative/commentary was cool too!

Andddddd that's why I love this channel that much, thanks man, this was excellent

You guys killed it! Great work 👏

I'm just talking from my own experience Manny. I have also tried to get the most appropriate look in my photos based on the 'J'Adore' commercial shoot of 'Dior'. I myself worked with the MUA in charge of this production on this, so I can't get any closer to the experts. According to what I've learned then, in such a production a complete plan is built up from start to finish. In other words, the editors tell you what the make up should look like on the photo to be able to edit properly. A company that carries out a light study (yes there is) that indicates in a 3D drawing which lights should be where, how adjusted, which light source, and so on. Based on all the information, the photographer must indicate which material he will use in order to get exactly the result that is requested. Before, not during, because then there is no time for that anymore. I had asked my MUA to paint my model exactly the same as in the original shoot, because I was very curious. I can tell you that it doesn't even look like the result. For me this was not even make up, but an accumulation of colors on a face and was surprised that no gold was even used, while the end result in the advertisement has a 'golden look'. With that information, it became clear to me that we photographers who don't work in such productions can never come out with those results, no matter how hard we try. But I personally have no problem with that, certainly not. Because we photographers have our artistic freedom that we can show to the outside world. This makes us unique, this makes us free to make a choice how we show our work, which is worth much more to me (and I think also to you). Once again congratulations on your work and keep doing what you are doing, always looking forward to seeing new material from you. Happy New Year to you Diana and the rest of the family

You nailed it Manny - impressive.

Wow I found this tutorial very useful you explained everything greatly. I have mastered cityscape photography, but thinking of getting into portraits!

That was really awesome. So much to learn in one video. Definitely humbled

Great tutorial! Love watching your videos

Both of you are so great, it was really interesting to listen each breakdown. The overall result is amazing. Well done

Thanks, great video to end 2021 with ! Great content and thanks for the great details

Fantastic job ,Manny and your wife,she is the best photograph ever!

Great video. One of your best.

You Nailed it manny !!!

Brilliant idea, equally brilliantly executed!!

Happy Birthday Manny!

Wowww.. I just discover your channel and already watched some of your videos but this one kudos to you!!!! well done it shows your level of professionalism and experience. Definitely an awesome source of information and tips.

Good stuff! Id like more of this type of content. I learned a lot!

You two make a great team and thanks

Love this! Please make more

I think you did a great job Manny. And I think It's really hard to replicate Professional Grade Editorial/Beauty work, simply because of the Editing aspect. It's up to the editors discretion on how they edit and it's a creative process that you can't really replicate because it's like an artist's work. It's like trying to replicate a painting, brush stroke by brush stroke, it can never be 100 percent. But you were truly like 90 percent there. Stay classy Manny.

Manny well done. As always

You did one hell of a job re-creating the photo. Great job. I appreciate the step-by-step breakdown. Keep up the awesome work with your vids.

Great work and a good challenge to take on. You both did an amazing job. And that cheeky little Luminar Ai trick at the end…. Genius!!

Loved this!

Deconstructing commercial photography is pretty fun. ღ this video.

I wish I had your low budget issues. Super nice studio workspace and gear. Love your channel. You rock.

Your work is amazing ♥️

Manny very cool my brother, it's like you two put yourself in a investigative state of mind figuring out the lighting like that was a on point, good stuff!!!

Awesome breakdown and that’s pretty much as close as you can get. Nice one mate 👌🏼

Jay Leno!!!! Powercouple is back baby!!! Happy New Year Manny and Diana! ❤️

Nice creative concept to recreate I enjoyed watching!!!

This was one of my favorite videos, piecing it together at the eyes chico

You guys smashed it.

always a great vid

I have worked on a lot of "glamour shoots" and the edits are higher than people expect. I think you did a great job and your wife carries it well and had the sense to know her own limitations, which you both do when looking at this. It is interesting to see you try and replicate a different style of shoot and how it is plausible to a degree.

Love the breakdown

Fun! Nailed it!

Cool video and sick studio man 👌

The "Fake" iris! You're such a great photo detective. That was awesome!

nice vid. Good thinking. Thanks for posting!

Top class couple photo fanatic session.

yo... when bro added the IRIS! That was it! I love yall as a team man! Great work!

Look Manny, there was no need to bust me out in the intro like that! 🤣🤣 I love how you recreated that shot.

I think you guys nailed it, Jlo has chiseled cheeks bone and jawline I believe that creates may of the face shadows and Jlos eyes are more hazel than brown. Your version looks fire 🙌🏼

Very good job with the ceiling rail system for holding lights 👏👏👏

Nice teamwork, you two! And at very low production costs. Mission accomplished.

In my humble opinion, the recreation and breakdown video was amazing. this should become a regular thing.

Excellent work!

You killed it bro

Probably used Enhance Iris slider in Luminar without actually changing the color - In B&W it doesn't matter as much but I doubt they changed the color - they just enhanced - or if in LR they masked the iris and brought up the exposure - many ways to achieve this. Fun video! Thanks Manny :)

I think you nailed it well done.

bro you honestly did amazing

#Beardgang. There is actually a way to make your photo more punchy. I love the time and effort placed in this video. One would never imagine, you would need so much lighting setup just to get a face portrait, this goes to show photography is no joke when you hit a particular level.

Wow this is so valuable!

you guys did pretty amazing on this. side by side it looks like the same image. thats sick 🔥🔥

Nailed it!

This is a very interesting video. I hope you are going to do more vids like this. 🍻

Ladies and gents, we get a lighting breakdown and a makeup tutorial all while making it highly entertaining! Long haired Photo snob Manny needs his own weekly show!

MUCH PROPS!! You guys did KiLLER!! Love the beginning, that was hilarious!! You guys are LegiT Bad A$$ DUO!!

Great job 👏🏼👍🏼

This studio is amazing.

This I'm sure was a learning curve. If Beoncé isn't at least Dianna's cousin, I would be shocked. Great job and tutorial to you both.

Kudos you two for sorting out the lighting etc. And nailing it so close ! Love you and your wife. Blessed to have such a beautiful in house Model 😉😉

Damn, more recreations of commercial/fashion stuff like this would be rad. Love the detective work!

I think if you also added two black v flats on either sides, it would've helped with contouring her checkbones and jawline. Posing wise, best person to learn it from is Sue Bryce. I knew instantly how they achived that pose, thanks to her education 🙂 This was a good excerise though. 👍

You came pretty close bro. Awesome work.

In the past for me, when art directors bring in previously created shots and say "they want it like this" its one of the most difficult things for a professional to do, and incredibly time consuming, much easier now with digital than film but still can be a long job and sorts the "the men from the boys"... I think there are lot of photographers here who would like to spend a day trying this kind of beauty shoot with Diana. Watch out J.lo... there's a new girl in town..

Great video!

Great job Manny.. very very close to the JLO shot and that Luminar trick sealed the end result! 😃

Very illuminating