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Friends, how are you?

How is everything going?

Here we are with a thousand open fronts

to vary.

Last weekend we had a wedding in Lleida,

which we will soon show you here.

This weekend that is coming now we have

a wedding in Madrid, so as you are

seeing we are not going to get bored.

In addition, this week we have a workshop

in Tarragona and very soon we have another

one in the north of Italy.

All these weeks we are having weddings during

the weekend, workshops during the week, and as

you will be able to see or understand,

we are up to our asses with work

and a thousand stories, but happy to have

the agenda up.

Today's video I want to show you or

I want to share with you the experience

of having had a workshop in London, since

a couple of weeks ago I was lucky

enough to travel to the capital of England

and give a workshop for several colleagues.

Of course, in this video I do not

want to share with you, you see that

I explain myself terribly as always, I no

longer know how to speak, I shit in

the milk, but in today's video I want

to share with you not the experience of

having given a workshop, but in this particular

video I would like to share with you

the experience of having photographed two couples in

the same place, in the same street in

particular and how to get the most out

of it.

Simply as clarification, I will tell you that

currently in the vast majority of all workshops

or my workshops, I am doing a couple

of sessions, a session with a couple in

the morning and a session with another couple

in the afternoon.

Why this?

The main thing is because many of the

students that I am having in my workshops,

or are part of Patreon, or have seen

me in some talk, I mean, they already

know a little bit about the concepts in

which I usually move, or I usually help

myself to take pictures, so investing four hours

in the same room is not only complex

or complicated for me, getting to surprise the

students with five hours of theory and also

not getting bored, right?

I mean, most of my students are usually

photographers who already have a background, or you

are listening to me here almost every week,

so it is very complicated to surprise you,

and I think that the best or the

fastest and the most you can get to

have an interesting workshop can be or is

teaching, almost always practice, I mean, taking pictures,

as simple as that.

So in this video, worth the redundancy once

again, I want to show you the street

where I worked, or one of the streets

where I worked, and how I got the

most out of it with two completely different

couples, okay?

Simply, the street you are going to see

now is a street where I helped myself

with a neutral background, yellow, and another background

that was a kind of pair of metal

doors, right?

They had a gray color on one side

and black on the other, it's as simple

as that.

With which, within those two locations or within

those two spaces, I had to get oil.

Of course, it goes without saying that it

is not the same to work for a

couple that you can more or less get

to like, to work in front of a

photographer, a fashion photographer.

After all, what they want from you is

to know how you find the magic in

a matter of seconds.

With which, the pressure, believe me, was very,

very big, as it usually happens almost always

in the workshops.

But as you are going to see, I

had good or interesting moments and other moments

in which perhaps I did not shine so

much.

So that you understand perfectly the place where

I was taking photos, I want to share

with you 5 or 6 images that a

Hungarian photographer took.

He is a photographer named David, to whom,

in addition to being part of Patreon, I

have to thank him too, not only for

that, but because he took a few photos

of what the location was, and these photos

are going to help us all to understand

the specific place where I took photos.

So I'll show you quickly, well, not quickly,

I mean, calmly, so that you get into

the place, understand the street where I took

photos, and then I'll show you the images

I took.

This is the first image I want to

show you, in which I want you to

understand the location, mainly in which I was

involved.

And well, you are going to see photos

in which, as this one, you are seeing

that the couple is jumping, the next image

that you are seeing, and you are going

to understand perfectly the background in which I

worked.

In addition, those two triangles that you are

seeing are a kind of cones, which will

help me enormously.

Here you have the yellow background that I

was talking about, right?

As you are seeing, I only focused on

that yellow background, the rest of the background

that was not yellow, that is, the wall

that was not yellow, obviously I ignored it,

I didn't need it, okay?

In this next image you see a little

bit of the depth of the street, in

the background you can see that yellow background,

and here was the place where David shows

us the whole perspective of the street.

I think this is the image with which

you can better understand the place, or the

location where I took the photo and how

complicated it was, okay?

In this next image you can also see

that yellow background, and how I was only

focusing on what I needed.

As you know, and I have already said

it here a lot of times, when I

go to see or when I am about

to take photos, I don't think I have

to take photos of a whole location, but

of small parts and I try to abstract

the unnecessary, what I don't need.

In this next photo you can also understand

a little bit more how we were working,

or in the place where we were working,

so that you can better understand what you

are going to see next.

Because, of course, the locations, or the place

was the same, but the couple was not

the same.

How to get out of the comfort zone,

or how to get something completely different or

that breaks a little bit of the previous?

Because, of course, the first session I did

with a couple, with Corina and Matt, and

the second couple was with Vincenzo and Claudia.

I mean, completely different couples.

I have always said it, all weddings are

the same, or the sessions can be the

same, but, thank God, what differentiates us are

always the couples.

What I wanted, or what was going to

help me a little bit, to break or

differentiate each of the couples, or the first

of the second, was, first of all, the

energy that each of them could have.

In both sessions, what I was going to

help myself with, one, as I have already

said, was body language, that was going to

be completely sacred.

Two, whenever I could, I was going to

hide the floor where I was taking pictures.

Why that?

Because that way the place would not be

so obvious, or it would not be so

obvious or so easy to understand the place

that I was taking pictures, and so I

could differentiate both the first session and the

second.

Something I was going to do in almost

all the photos, divide the frame into two

parts.

I think I have already said that many

times.

Something I was going to do in both

was to control the light.

The light was a typical London day, I

don't know, it rained a little bit, it

made a little bit of clouds, well, direct

light, I mean, I didn't have powerful light.

When I don't have powerful light, what do

I do?

I have to mask it, hide it with

the acting, with the acting or with the

body language, with the strength of the same

couple.

I was going to try to play with

geometric shapes, from there to those triangles, do

you remember?

That I showed you.

Well, now you will soon see photos.

And little else, I mean, there was not

much more.

Well, I mean, I have already told you

before, I mean, not to think that I

have to photograph something very big, but to

focus on small parts of the location and

wait for the magic or wait for something

beautiful to get to my head and that

I could solve it.

Well, before that, introduce yourselves, right?

I told both a couple and another that

they had to wear dark, neutral tones for

the session and without any obvious mark and

that they were free to bring some accessories,

hats or whatever they considered appropriate, I don't

know what to say, hats or a scarf

or something, or a handkerchief, why?

Why this type of element?

Is it because they are going to help

me play or have an element like a

scarf that is thrown, a hat that they

take, that they hide?

I mean, a set of stories that can

help me, right?

So what I'm going to do first is

simply show you a few photos of the

morning session, Matt's and Corina's, so we can

take a look at it and I'm going

to talk a little bit and then later

I'm going to show you the session of

Vincenzo and Claudia, okay?

The photo I want to show you first

of all is that of Matt and Corina,

which is this one, and as you can

see, both in Matt's session and Corina's I

used only two backgrounds and with those two

backgrounds, I mean, sorry, both in Matt and

Corina's and in Vincenzo and Claudia's, I used

two backgrounds.

The doors that you are seeing are made

of metal and then the yellow background, but

in the metal doors, first I decided to

bet on a photo with a lot of

energy and just show that, right?

That union of hands and that blow, that

jump of feet, right?

I mean, first I wanted to show that

lower part, for example, of the couple, give

it a lot of movement or a photo

with a little more strength, because the next

one was going to be something with much

less strength.

You see that I like this photo more

than the previous one, although it is more

static than the previous one, right?

But notice how well the background works, notice

how well it works to have put that

triangle in the middle of the two, okay?

To separate the frame into two parts, give

it not only square geometric lines, but that

triangular in the center.

That triangle already helps me to divide the

frame into two parts and to separate the

couple, which in turn, look at the acting,

look at the mood it transmits, right?

Like an absolute calm.

To remove, to eliminate the background ...

Oh, sorry, sorry.

To remove or eliminate the floor, what helps

me is to show the viewer or hide

the viewer the place where it was done.

Obviously, all of you, as I have shown

you the place where I worked, you can

already imagine that the couples were on their

knees, but you don't know that except you.

Do you understand?

There we have a good couple connection, thanks

to geometric lines.

Speaking of couple connection, look at this image,

right?

In which, thanks to a background, a yellow

background in this case, and to ask the

boyfriend to go up, and thanks to that

I can play vertically with the boy and

the girl, with Matt and Corina.

Just to be connected, I asked them both,

or Matt, to extend his hand and Corina

too.

I decided to put Corina down because it

is much easier, more sensual, to play with

the female body at the bottom and only

with the male at the top.

Taking advantage of the interesting background, I placed

one of those triangles, one of those cones

in the center of the frame and simply

asked the couple to look at each other.

Again, the background helps me to highlight the

couple, to give it prominence.

That triangle helps me to separate the frame

or to separate the couple in two parts,

or divide the frame in two parts.

Not showing the floor, as you are seeing,

makes the image much more abstract and has

much more strength and much less sobriety.

The next image I want to show you

may be something more traditional, why not?

But I always do this kind of photos

in all sessions, regardless of whether they are

workshops or real sessions.

I thought this could work.

Also, if we review the five images that

I have shown you, of the couple, I

am talking about this one, and,

of course, this last one.

As you can see, it has a narrative

rhythm.

I tried to make the couple only see

their feet, I tried to make them only

see or that a large part of the

force was on the hands.

In some of them I closed the plane

a lot, in some of them I opened

it a little more, in some of them

the force was in a horizontal line, in

another it was vertical.

I tried to break the rhythm constantly.

In this session I did what you have

seen, some more images, but I am focusing

on the street in which I have spoken

to you.

So in the afternoon I had the complicated

bet, we have to visit that same location

and we have to get something completely different

with the two backgrounds that we have, the

yellow background and the background with the two

doors.

The workshops are the best example for the

students to understand how important it is to

work with good couples.

This does not mean that there are good

or bad couples, there are simply photographers who

do not know how to interact with their

partners or do not find the formula.

The second couple you are going to see,

I am talking about Vincenzo and Claudia.

I don't know why, but I was more

connected with them.

Maybe it's because I knew them, maybe it's

because they are going to be one of

our couples this year that we are going

to photograph in Italy in mid-August, but

the fact is that when I saw Claudia

and Vincenzo dressed in deep black and she

was wearing a red hat, the red color

stood out above all and right away I

started to have ideas or right away I

started to take advantage of all this.

Also, I don't know why, the energy of

both couples was very good, but maybe with

Vincenzo and Claudia the energy was something superior.

So let's go, I want to show you

the images so you can take a look

and see the differences between both sessions.

The first photo is this one, in which

you see that the decoration is completely the

same.

With the previous couple I focused them in

the center, thanks to that triangle, but notice

that here I just asked them to hold

hands and look up.

Looking up was for the simple reason that

their faces didn't have shadows, that they didn't

have any powerful shadow.

But of course, now it was time to

play with both, with Vincenzo and Claudia, in

that same background, in the yellow background.

In the yellow background, I wanted to play

with this, in which Claudia threw that red

hat and Vincenzo tried to hold it.

As you can see, we can't see the

floor, so we split the frame in two

parts.

Thanks to the red hat, both, I mean,

the couple is perfectly connected, there is a

body language by the hands that are, for

example, up, and that makes the photograph seem

really attractive, one of my favorite photos of

that session.

But I had to keep playing with that

yellow background and I had to include also,

why not, the background of the two doors.

And I came up with this idea, in

which it was to place Claudia in a

foreground, to stick the lens or the lens

to the wall, the yellow wall.

I've told you many times, stick your lens

to the maximum to the surfaces.

You can get very interesting things, as it

was in this image, in which you see

that crack leads me directly to the smiling

mouth of my friend Claudia, and in the

background we can only see her mouth, which

is the only part focused on the image.

I always go towards the body language.

Why not?

As in the last couple, I decided to

do something in which the couple was much

more connected, much closer, to make a foreground,

and of course, this is not a type

of photos that I do constantly, not because

it is traditional, but because I prefer to

play with other stories, but I always do

this, and in this case I also wanted

to show you.

In the previous couple I used that background

of the two doors, and in this couple,

Claudia and Vincenzo, I'm using that yellow background.

So, as you have seen, only with two

walls and with the energy of the couple

and with the ideas that we have, you

can take completely different photos from one place

to another and with two completely different couples,

worth the redundancy.

So, this has been today's video, and I

hope you liked it, I hope it helps

you for the season, because we, as you

can imagine, we are going to take advantage

of all this and take it to the

limit to our weddings.

So, that's all, friends, I won't be long,

be good, behave well, and see you soon!