How to do a Portrait Shooting 

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0:00 📸 Introduction: Jen Atam Moza introduces a video about planning and executing a portrait shoot. 0:20 🎨 Planning The Shooting: Jen discusses mood board creation, model selection, outfit choices, mood, color scheme, location preferences, and equipment. 2:07 🏢 Shooting Location 1: Behind-the-scenes footage and final results from the first shooting location. 5:59 🌆 Shooting Location 2: Transition to the second shooting location with behind-the-scenes footage and final results.

Great 😃 video my friend, 💯👏🏻, you should make more of these, educational and satisfying

I was trained by a master portrait photographer who made me aware that the faces of most non-models are asymmetrical in various ways: shape if face, size and position of ears, one eye larger or angled differently, etc. The reason faces are selected as models are because they are slender and perfectly symmetrical in a full face view and will look identical in right/left oblique and profile views also. What he trained me to do when first conversing with a subject is to first look at them full face to determine if their face is symmetrical and then from both sides obliquely and in profile. If the face is not symmetrical looking at both oblique views will reveal which is the most flattering because of the way an oblique view tricks the brain into thinking the face is more symmetrical. Once the most flattering way to turn the face to the camera is determined the fact that the eye is attracted to contrast guided the choice of lighting strategy. In an oblique or profile view on a dark background putting the broad side of the face in shadow will draw and hold the viewer’s attention to the highlight front of the face turned so the ‘key’ light is 45° from the far side of the nose and 90” from the camera axis in oblique view and 45° from nose and 135° from camera axis in the profile view. It sounds very ‘rule’ based, but it is what has produced most flatter view of face in artwork since ancient times and were the strategies used by old master painters. When photographing a face on a white background the contrast dynamic and lighting strategy flips. On white you still want to use the most flattering camera angle, but use a lighting strategy which makes the sides of the face darker in tone than the sides. This is where the use of reflectors or flashes on each side in addition to the key lighting the front ‘mask’ of the face is an effective strategy. If you have a great looking model with a symmetrical face it’s hard to take a photo that isn’t flattering. The bigger challenge is making a person with a lopsided face and upturned nose look like a model in a photo 😊 photo.nova.org/Mirror/

It would be great if you could also show your post routine. GJ

Genau auf den Punkt gebracht ! Top!👀

Great video ! Great result ! Love the look you get on those leica files

Love it 😍

Goated behind the lens fr

Those are some great images, but I would have liked to hear more about your thought process behind it, like how you decide which poses and angles you use and which settings you use for what purpose.

Love this video, the flow and the shots. Subscribed.

this was dope. thanks for sharing

Geiler vibe!

Lovely work

Great one !! 👍🙂

Looks great!

really good work, enjoyed it

Dope!

Amazing video

Amazing 💡

Amazing quality on scans from 35 mm. Love it.

Sehr sehr stark, bitte mehr davon ❤

Great work!

danke dass es julien azamosa gibt ☝💖

sehr starkes video!

After 10 seconds into the video, I thought the man had a strong German accent. I went to the channel and saw, hey man, he is German Respect for making your videos in English. Würde ich mich mit meiner rostigen Aussprache nicht trauen :) Daumen hoch und Abo da :)

Very nice video!

‼️🤜🏼🤛🏼

7:03 I love this one

Two questions: How did you get in touch with the model or models und general? Do you text them or do they text you? For this photo shoot, how much of the poses where directed by you and how much did he come up with?

sehr sehr krass!!!

great work. would love to see about your editing process, these shots look like film.

Bruh! Most helpful video I’ve seen as I want get into portraits! What app did you use for your mood board? If don’t mind sharing 🙏🏽

These shots are fucking fire bro! Sheesh

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Amazing shots! What film stock did you use?

Geeat video. Were the close in head shots cropped images?

Könntest du mal zeigen wie du die Bilder bearbeitest ? 4:43 tolles Video !

amazing bro! How do u get this sharp quality ?

Gucke jeden Abend zum einschlafen

Geiles Video 💯

Planning on doing any colorgrading step by steps soon?

Geil

Cool, dass du das auf Englisch machst, aber dann bitte "Shoot", denn "Shooting" hat im Englischen ne ganz andere Bedeutung :)

geeeil

Wonderful work. Just subscribed + followed on IG