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Hello, hello, how are you?

How are things going?

Here we are, second chapter, second part of

the off-camera of my dear Michelle and

Carlos.

Remember that I already told you a little

bit about how I worked on the first

part of the session I did the day

before their wedding, in a little hotel in

Cancun, so let's go for the second part,

for the other photos that I would like

to share with you so that you can

take a look at the rest of the

images and how they were made and all

these stories, okay?

The first image, the first image I want

to show you is this, okay?

And despite, despite, despite again that it is

not one of those favorite images of mine,

I think it has a couple of little

things that are interesting that I would like

to share.

First of all, what we were still working

on in that inner courtyard, it was an

inner courtyard, as I remember, it was an

inner courtyard, sorry, remember, with many photographic possibilities

because there were quite a few columns that

projected shadows, which helped me to find quite

interesting photographs, right?

Taking advantage of the gap between the columns

that were there or what was just above,

there was a kind of little roof that

let light lines pass and I thought it

might be interesting to ask my friend Michelle

to stand in a place, in the place

that I asked her exactly, not to move

an inch up or down so that that

light or that ray of light would hit

her right in the eyes, right?

Or in the face and play with something

more interesting.

So then, once I had Michelle in the

place that I thought could be interesting, it

was time for Carlos.

But of course, always think, or you already

know, sorry, that what I'm always looking for

are clean backgrounds, structures that work perfectly, light

that also works.

But of course, the moment I told Michelle,

for example, that she was up on a

chair, with which I was also up, and

of course, Carlos was a little below, so

the moment I told Michelle to get up,

Carlos was below.

So I had to get up.

Why?

To eliminate parts of the background that did

not seem quite attractive to me, perhaps, right?

That's why I got him up.

Despite the fact that I got him up,

I mean, I asked Carlos to get up

on a chair to fit him in this

little gap that you are seeing, I mean,

between column and column.

For me that is a box.

Remember that for me photography is that, right?

I mean, for me photography in the session,

I mean, well, you understand me, right?

It was fitting him in a place where

Carlos' human body would breathe perfectly and there

would not be a line, I mean, and

Carlos would not touch a column, because that

would have broken aesthetically.

I asked Carlos to move a little, to

do things, but the truth is that he

was quite limited, my fault, because he was

in a folding chair and could not move.

In fact, one of those times he fell,

so...

Sorry, Carlos.

So that was when Carlos let me go,

something like that, and I was able to

capture a photograph that was more interesting than

what I was doing, right?

But I saw that that did not end

up working, so I quickly asked both of

them to get down from where they were,

from the chairs, and I asked them to

go to the other side of what was

the terrace to capture something more interesting, perhaps,

and play with something more aesthetic, as it

was a set of lines, right?

In the background, on the horizon, I had

the Caribbean with that charismatic color, so I

thought it could be, or I thought it

would not be wrong at least in one

of the photos to contextualize, to show the

viewer the place where he was.

Because, of course, if I only show photographs

with clean backgrounds, with neutral backgrounds, in the

end you do not see the place where

we were.

I mean, it could be Cancun, it could

be Madrid or it could be Guadalajara, I

mean, it could be anywhere, right?

So then I thought it could be interesting.

So then I split them again, I mean,

I split them, I divided the frame into

two parts, I asked both of them to

turn their backs, and I was worried that

a column would split, divide the frame into

two parts, and I was worried that the

heads of both were just below the horizon,

that is, in the gap between the structure

and the sea, okay?

And in that little gap I asked them

to stand up, to raise their chin a

little bit to create a better silhouette, and

I simply overexposed it.

I mean, I overexposed the sky correctly, and

then I overexposed a full diaphragm, if there

were not two, to get a perfect silhouette

of what the couple was.

You see that, well, it is a photo

that does not hide any mystery, but I

really wanted to show it to you, okay?

Let's go to the next image, something more

romantic, but you already know that in a

session it is not only about taking photos

with the separated couple, but there are also

cases, and I think it is necessary to

break the rhythm, to create an interesting rhythm,

to ask the couple to stand up.

As always, the first thing is to think

that it works or that there is an

attractive light.

I thought that under the roof it could

be interesting to create that game of lights

and shadows.

I used Tilt-Shift to correct all verticals,

and then, well, and also create that so

attractive and so typical blur of the 45mm

Tilt-Shift, and I just asked them to

connect, to play with their hands, and there

I was asking them that.

I just asked, for example, Michelle to turn

her back on Carlos, or rather, to put

her back, Michelle's back, on Carlos's chest, and

then, only that Michelle's left hand was in

the neck area, in Carlos's face area, and

then Carlos would also play with his hands.

I think it's interesting how I asked them

to play with their hands, how they were,

for example, snuggling, playing, because, although you see

this photo, that does not mean that this

was the only image.

You can imagine that there were quite a

few images, until I finally found the image

that I found most attractive, so to speak.

But of course, the next thing had to

be crazier or more interesting, because if in

the previous photo I had asked for something

more romantic, in the next photo I had

to get something more of my signature, something

more of my own, right?

What did I do then?

Get out of there.

There I think I had already squeezed to

the maximum everything I could get out of

there, so we went to a terrace, yes,

to a terrace, sorry, where every night was

used to do activities for tourists, right?

It was a stage, a stage, as you

are seeing, in which I had two super

interesting triangular shapes, and I thought that in

making two triangular shapes, it could be interesting

to start playing with the couple, right?

You see, the first thing I did was

to think, or was to find a background

that was attractive, a clean background, as you

are seeing.

The clean background was full of geometric shapes

or triangles, that is, I was going to

place the couple in each of those triangles,

clearly, very simple, and later, if the sun

that had it just to my right, I

was going to ask the couple to tilt

their bodies to the left, that is, tilt

their bodies to the light, something as basic

as to direct the couple correctly, and that

the light will work as God commands, right?

Again, I tried again and again, I did

this, I did the other, I changed here,

I changed there, I asked Carlos to raise

the chin, I asked Carlos to lower it,

well, it had already been almost an hour

of session, or we had already almost overcome

that hour, the couple already felt comfortable with

me and I was comfortable with them, the

only bad thing was that there was already

a heat of hell, that already looked like

a sauna, but we took the opportunity to

continue taking a few more images, until I

finally got what you are seeing.

I also worked with the tilt-shift, with

the 45, I mean, because I think that

a large part of the session was taken

with the 45mm, except for a couple of

images, perhaps, but the rest was all with

that lens.

Once I already had, as I told you,

that photograph, I already told them that if

they wanted to stop, they already said yes,

so we went to have a good drink,

because we did not deserve it.

You see that, to finish, as a conclusion,

you see that, well, I have shown you

several images, but there is a little bit

of everything, there are more attractive photographs, so

to speak, or that I like more, and

there are others that less, but I considered

that it was important that you see everything

a little bit too, so that you can

see what the creative process is in each

of the images that I take, and so

that you can see that I not only

ask the couple to be placed separately, but

also together.

And finally, I just want to show you

the images that I published, so that it

is clear to you, or to show you

what I found attractive, because I only published

five images, and the first was this one,

I also published this one, this one too,

which is the aesthetic game with all the

lines, obviously I wanted to publish a romantic

photo like this one, and I finished with

this one, with the last image, which was

the one I said goodbye to.

So nothing else, friends, with this image I

also want to say goodbye to all of

you, I hope that both this episode and

the previous one, which was the off-camera

of the session of Michelle and Carlos, you

liked it.

So nothing else, this week we are in

Italy, we have to be here a couple

of days for workshops, but I had saved

these two videos to show you this week,

because I can't keep the Patreon without publishing,

it's something that costs me a lot, but

there is always a commitment with all of

you that I try to keep it, and

for the moment I have achieved it.

So nothing else, friends, I hope everything goes

as well as possible, I hope the contracts

for next year work well, it is true

that in our case we are receiving more

for 2023 than for 2022, although there are

still a few dates out there that I

keep, and I have hope and I know

that they are going to end up being

filled with big weddings.

But that will be another chapter, okay?

So nothing else, friends, be good, until next

time!