Episode 56 - Don’t fix it in post | Save time editing by doing this instead

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I'm I'm told with age balance goes anyway anyways but um yeah to to have it

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one day in great capacity and then to have it not be to

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not too it's uh yeah it's been pretty debilitating hey speaking of things that we take for granted um so as some of our

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audience may know others may not um we're we're big advocates for Tennessee kids belong they're a wonderful

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organization o and uh so I went I went and shot with them the other day to help him with some interviews and I don't

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even think I've told you this yet because we've just been so busy with other things but so the things that we take for

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granted you know during those interviews typically they will ask them what are what are three wishes that you have

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what's your perfect day what's your day yeah which Perfect Day simp things um this one was what are your three wishes um there was a nine-year-old boy

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I can't give his name right now for privacy purposes but there's a nine-year-old boy during that interview and the three things that he asked for

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number one he said I want a home o not a house home mhm yeah so we often take

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that for granted right secondly he said I want a family that will take me to church dang yeah let that let that

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simmer a little bit and then I'll wreck you real quick number three he said I

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want to go to church so I can get saved oh sweetheart you don't got to go to church we can do this right now so

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those those were his three wishes as a 9-year-old boy you me back in the corner running the camera I'm just oh that that

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one wrecked me pretty hard because again it's like this this dude's nine and he understands already the need yeah uh for

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the Plan of Salvation so that that was something that man and those those shoots are always difficult but hearing

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something like that from a kid that's so young is just it's incredible it's incredible we make things so complicated

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oh yeah we definitely definitely uh take things for granted we we we we over

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complicate things as you stated for sure uh yeah wow waged me raed me 9 years old

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uh I don't know how to transition into our topic because it's uh well there we

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go how about that good morning um hopefully hopefully uh hopefully you weren't driving uh I say wipe away wipe

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away the water works for a second so you don't wreck and yeah so that you can see um but uh what we're going to talk about

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today is we've all said

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it and I'll tell you this every time I've said it I have absolutely hated myself at least as creative as we've

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said it uh I'll fix it and post I'll fix it and post I will I will remove that in

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Photoshop later you know what's funny is is I see

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other creatives say this all the time and I tell myself this all the time I'm not going to fix it and post this time

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and I still end up fixing a lot of things of post yeah because you get on the shoot adrenaline's rushing and and

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you get what's called whiskey throttle and you just Throttle Down I have never heard whiskey throttle in a photography

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uh analogy but I mean here we are here we go here we are but basically that's what we're going to talk about is ways

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to avoid it and how to save yourself time yeah in editing he in post in post

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and and speaking of whiskey throttle this is funny because in in my past life

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um I was certainly whiskey throttle wide open on some caffeine

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this caffeine addict out yeah on that note meat and taters jar get us the meat and T we are not fixing it in post today

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no well we say we're not we probably won't we probably still will we'll proba yeah we'll probably still fall victim to

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this butal as we do the literal goal is to to attempt to help you um save tons

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of terrible words about yourselves uh those late night edits where you're like oh man I really wish I wouldn't have

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said I'll just remove that and post it's 3:00 a.m. and you've just popped a magic mind mental performance shot maybe you

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have maybe you haven't um but here we are trying to fix something that we said we would fix in posted yes

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well uh I forget the ppppp the proper planning all that right you know there's

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there's tons of an or uh phrasings there I would just say proper planning prevents piss poor performance something

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along those lines right right it's at the end of the day if you don't plan

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you've if you fail to plan you you can to fail you can plan to fail so that's no different than with what we do photo

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and video and we've kind of broken this idea into what I'm going to call three phases right uh three phases of not

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fixing it in post we're going to fix it in Pre and we're going to fix it in in

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present get it right um so let's kind of dive into phase one Jared when it comes to not fixing and posting and this I

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think relates whether you're a photographer possibly videographer as well but let's just say for phase one

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you know I'm I'm a photographer about to go do a family shoot yeah um because I think we have a lot of of people that

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we're close with or in groups with that this is kind of their primary thing so phase one of not fixing it in post yeah

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it be pre-shoot pre-production whatever you want to call it it's and you don't always have this opportunity and I will

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I will like big asterisk right there you sometimes you don't have the opportunity

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but when the opportunity is present you need to put the extra effort in and do some location scouting do some homework

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do do do a little bit of uh homework um do do location scouting for instance if

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you know for a fact that um this client wants you to come out to their family farm to take their photos or you're

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going to do a shoot on this Family Farm Drive by a day or two before the

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shoot around the time of day that you're going to be shooting and just observe observe okay

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so the lights coming in from this side um this section of the farm should be

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very nice and softly lit you know whatever it is that you're going for but go by some trees over here I like got

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some cows back here that I like so so so go see what you're going to be you know

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shooting in um I think I think location scouting when you are afforded the

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opportunity um is definitely definitely worth the extra effort and I know like

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you're technically not getting paid right for for that for that extra work but here's

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the thing the person who pays for you're not extra work on the back end is you

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right in my opinion it's you in the edit it's like gosh if I had just if I just

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went there I would have known we could have shot over here and I'd have solved all my problems well and I think I think

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it pays or I think it does pay though to do to do that when you're afforded the opportunity because at the end of the

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day we are we're problem solvers we've mentioned that in in previous episodes

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but we're paid based on how we accomplish our Mission mhm you know so a

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family doesn't care if you come out with the the best camera that's ever been produced or or the best lens that's ever been made they want to know are you

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going to capture right our family in a way that shines a a realistic and and

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true and good look on our family right and I think pre-production wise location scouting is is a great way to help

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yourself do that oh yeah well and so I'll give you an example of not being able to go in person it just physically

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wasn't feasible uh a few weeks ago we shot uh year two of the strong mom event yes well they had went to a new hotel so

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we didn't have the knowledge of okay well we're in the same hotel we know all the ins and outs no this is a new hotel

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so leg work on The Upfront was I reached out to the hotel uh sales staff who does

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all their events to get some sample images I was like hey can you just literally go snap a few images of your

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conference center so you let the phone do the visiting so I I I asked Emil you let email do absolutely I sent them an

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email they said yes sure no problem the next day I had images so I knew okay now there's a lot of Windows okay so now I'm

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thinking we need a lot of light well do we need a lot of light like what what window or what uh cardinal direction are

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these windows facing yep you know so I then took to Google Earth and saw okay

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this is that side of the building right now I know that that is a uh North facing window yeah thankfully

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it was it was a North facing window have indirect light indirect light the whole time it wasn't ever going to be

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backlighting or beaming in from the east or the West it was so it was best case scenario but all that to say I knew at

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that point we would have nice ambient light coming through and we could actually use those windows and we could use those windows didn't have to Black

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them out so so that was a use of uh just remote resources I say you're

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using technology at that point in time let Google Earth Google Earth has um if

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if you use Google Earth it has the sun feature yes like you can go through the angle of the sun on

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October 24th or whatever it is and you can see oh there's the angle of the sun

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yeah and I think too that that's pretty smart and and I'll say this because I I am a I am a in-person type of guy I

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think we've mentioned that in the past but I would prefer to actually physically show up on a location to

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scout it but you don't have to and and that strong mom example was great like it would have made no sense

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to drive 4 hours to location scout right when we a we didn't have a day for

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location scouting in in the budget but B uh you were able to contact somebody who could get us some sample photos we found

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a couple online as well so like we let the technology work for us at that point time and I think that's a great way but

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some form of location scout yeah will absolutely help you whether you're doing a family session a car photography shoot

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a corporate head shot whatever yeah um a a location scout will certainly help and

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that's mostly for like outdoor stuff you know if you're in audio then that doesn't matter unless you're shooting in

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a new studio that you've never shot in before right right like if you're renting a space out that's that's that's

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a good point I guess the next thing that I would say with with regard like just another tool that you have uh at your

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fingertips literally uh with helping you in location scouting is I mean leverage

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social media location tag those photo groups for instance well I mean yeah no I'm I'm mean I'm even saying period okay

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so like let's just say for whatever reason a very popular area which I don't know if it's accessible right now maybe

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it is maybe it's not but Max Patch yeah okay that's in North Carolina right it is a beautiful bald uh in the middle of

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the Appalachia mountains and a lot of people like to go take photos there if you have been yeah I mean if you if you

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are uh you know being asked to take photos there and you've personally never been there yeah guess what other

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photographers have been go to Instagram type in Max Patch find that Geo tag and look at all the images at that point you

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can you can get a very good feel for what the space looks like again use places like Google Earth you can again

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see the whole area at that point and and it's just going to help you be a little

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bit better prepared when you show up yeah you go ahead and have some plays drawn up basically for going into our

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coaching mentality and here's the other thing too it it's it's one of those things where again we're we're problem

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solvers sometimes you don't I mean sometimes it just doesn't pan out in the sense like okay I location scouted I

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plan for a sunny day yeah and we got some clouds and we've got an overcast day like or maybe the landscape has

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changed since you did your location scout so I mean we've certainly had some landscape changes in the past few months

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you're still going to have to be able to Pivot on the fly yeah you've got to adapt

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however I've never been to a location scout or went through a location scout and been like this was a waste of time

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right right you know like it's always gives me more clarity it's always been of a benefit and I guess the last one uh

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still with location scouting is I mean ask locals yeah you know ask locals

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local people local photography groups I mean bird watching groups what well I mean whoever's been to that location you

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do have the people and I'm not going to lie you do have the people who like for whatever reason uh feel as though they

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have the keys to the kingdom they they'll gatekeep like secret spots you know and stuff like that but for the

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most part I will tell you the photography community and even the videography Community um is is pretty

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forthcoming with information so for instance if you if you really liked the

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way that this person's uh video looked or you really like the way that this person's set of photos

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looked don't hesitate to reach out to them and say hey where where did you do this in some cases you won't have access

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to that that may be somebody's private property but I mean it also may be public property and at that point you now know a place where you can go shoot

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photos and you know the location now yeah I like that I like that um yeah let

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leverage leverage people I mean there's there's absolutely nothing wrong with asking people to help right uh most

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people most people are willing to I know I'm an open book at I would love to see

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what you do with some locations that I shoot at because it may give me some good ideas yeah you know there you go I

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don't know at all I'm so so it's it's also fun to to um for instance we just

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had family photos or not family photos my wife and I had couple photos which was the first time since we've had

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photos since probably our wedding um you tried to tell me you didn't have no nice Duds I don't those were American Eagle

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um pants and my sister called me out on it she said uh how old are those pants I said oh don't matter they were she goes

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I saw the American Eagle and I knew that uh they had some age on them wait a second Kylie what's wrong with the American Eagle pants I still wear them

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well evidently I'm I'm I'm an old fart um listen time out Quest right here the

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American Eagle Flex fit jeans yeah are some of the greatest jeans in modern

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male Jean design yeah that's that's probably a hill worth done on anyways but um jeez

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what was interesting we shot at at at my house and um I've shot several sessions

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at my house and I knew the spots that I likeed photograph it was interesting to

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see a different photographer shoot on the property that you own and that you've shot cuz it's

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like i' never thought about shooting that spot did she go to any of of your spots no she did but she also went to

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picked a few that I was like never thought about that never thought about that that works and a lot of it had to do a lot of it had to do with Fall

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Foliage there was a red tree behind so like it was really pretty and pleasing because it matched the dress and all

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those things but like it was just really interesting to see how another photographer sees the same area I don't

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know that's just I it not really a point with location scouting but just I mean it's a cool point though like again

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reach out to people people are willing to help you might learn something might learn something so you can do all the

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location scouting that you want uh you can location scout until you are blue in the face but at some point it comes time

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to actually execute yeah you got to make a photo you got to make a photo You' got to make a video you've got to show up

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and produce which is the production this is the shoot phase two this is this is

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the second phase and again you could have everything planned

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out in this location scout and you may be dealt a completely

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different set of cards the they of you can and and with that set of cards

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though regardless of the weather regardless of of maybe how the landscape

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has changed I think one thing that you and I both agreed on uh off camera for this first point is be aware of your of

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your surroundings yeah be aware of your background when you're shooting because on your location scout yep you know

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there may not have been a a failed tree that is ugly and has branches sticking

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up everywhere and it's sticking up out the back of your subject's head whatever right you may not have seen the dumpster that is in the back corner of your frame

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now but um be aware of your background be aware of your location yeah be aware

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of of like you said your background and and and what is behind so like it's

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really it's really really really easy to get fixated on the subject yeah you you've got a million things you've got to to concentrate poses

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triangle did I manipulate like You' got all these things oh wait it focused like all of these things are running through

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your head it's so easy to let the background slip it's so easy to let the background slip now too I mean with with

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the improvements that we have in in AI um it's so easy just to say oh I'll

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remove that trash can and post or oh that that filled tree or those branches sticking up out of my subject's head no

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biggie I'll lay it out but sometimes it doesn't work

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it's not perfect it's not perfect um but if we're talking about ways to save yourself time in editing yeah you can

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save yourself hours of time by not even having to use it by not ever having to put yourself in those situations so like

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literally just take the extra moment assess listen look at the back of your

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camera yeah look at review your images while you're there on site I mean that's

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that's that's a sure fireway it it you I've I've very rarely been shocked when I get it into computer yeah based upon

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like what I saw that day now I I can tell you that day or not if I I should

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have moved 5T to the right yeah I would framed that tree out and everything would have been better literally a

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single side step May location will save you many steps in post a single side

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step the only other thing that you could do um is is to to help yourself with

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backgrounds if your lens allows you might be able to rely on some bokeh sure

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blow it out super shallow depth of field might as well at that point I pay for F12 I'm going to use all of them yeah

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well good luck on your focus system but I mean that is a tool it be it's a tool

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you have at your disposal so be just be aware of what is behind your subject not

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just your subject yeah or blow it out and then you don't even have to care about it well there you go that's an option you said it not always an option

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but the biggest thing is is I I've personally felt victim to this many many many times and it's more so like it the

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the the most common and this is going back to my wedding days the most common is when you're taking all those group shots right after the ceremony and

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everybody just kind of picks a spot yep and you're like oh there's an ugly fire pit here it's fine I'll stamp it out

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I'll fix it and post well guess what you get to do now you get to hate yourself for all300 images you've got yeah 62

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poses and 62 groupings of that spef specific framing now got to frame the fire pit

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out whereas if you had just I mean it could be just as simple as like I said a simple side step many steps now now

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you're going to save yourself a lot of time and hatred of yourself in post production um the other thing that I

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think comes into play while on the shoot in addition to to to your background is

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to to like nail your poses yeah posing is very difficult I feel like that's

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something that most people struggle with yeah um and and a lot of it depends on the style of photographer that you are

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most Studio photographers are like really good at it well yeah that's what they do every single day but like if you

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were more of a family photographer or documentarian yeah you just want those candid moments so I will say this like a

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pose is more of like a prompt yeah I want to get you into this position MH um

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that feels natural for you guys and then seconds later after your guard goes down

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that's when that IM yeah that's when I'm going to get the gold that's when I'm really going to get the gold well and it the thing with with posing too is it it

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gets your it gets your subjects moving yep um it gets them kind of comfortable kind of loose and and I think one

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actually two people that are are great at this um AR Bonnie and Melissa I've done shoots with both and while they are

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great at prompting me with poses where they where they become even greater is

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what they fire after the fact cuz after they've posed me they're then crack cracking jokes right or we're we're

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having a conversation or we're making each other laugh or me and Sarah are are laughing with each other that's when

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they're getting their gold and so that's what makes them Masters in my opinion of like posing is the fact that they're not

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actually using those poses sometimes no and and and posing is certainly not what I would call my strong suit either um

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like I really don't I I would not say that as a strength of mine my documentarian yeah let me get you into

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this pose or your vers of this pose and then yeah I'm probably going to say something ridiculous to to get you to

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crack to get you to crack and now this is their version of that pose and that's where the gold is so with that though we

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still have to be prepared and I think off camera we had mentioned too there are some resources if you do struggle

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with posing oh yes um what are some of those resources that we have so you've got unscripted yeah that is an probably

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one of my favorite posing app um and I think it's for iOS and Android but

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somebody fact check me please there is a free version now you're going to be limited in what you can see they're going to blur out some of the ones I

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think the paid version though is like 6.99 yeah so there's a there's a paid version and a free version but unscripted it does a great job of

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breaking it down are you doing a newborn session are you family sessions are you a wedding photographer you many examples

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is this a family with just the dad I mean so like it gives you all of these categories and subcategories to just

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give you inspiration so you've got unscripted you've got places like Pinterest Pinterest is a great

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foring um like you can literally Google senior uh senior portraits by the water

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and you're going to be flooded of them tons of options like oh I do like that I like that I like that so when you when

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you find something you like I would suggest this and maybe this is because we're in the rural mountains of East

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Tennessee screenshot it yeah do not rely on data yeah don't think that you're

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gonna have Sal service on the top of Max Patch and be able to oh heck my phone doesn't work at all currently yeah got a

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bad sim card got a bad sim card so have fun trying to contact me so yeah screenshot it that way it's at least in

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your camera roll regardless of your cellular data basically if you have battery yeah you can good to go you can

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you can come back to that make sure you charge your phone though here's here's a some of us don't well yeah you almost

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never charge it so in addition to it not having SOS mode problems you you may not have juice um but here's a uh here's a

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quick like Pro tip o bonus tip I'm going to write this down instead so so you may

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already have anxiety about posing right and so now you've got anxiety you you

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you've screenshotted you're sweating you're sweating because now it's like okay I just did this pose let me pull my phone

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out and reference the next one and oh yep okay so you may have great anxiety

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about that which I don't think you should but your KNE are weak and your arms are heavy at this point in time hey

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maybe there's vomit on your sweater but instead of screenshotting them and leaving them on your phone yes

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screenshot them uhhuh so now you've got a JPEG or PNG whatever put those on

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their SD card that you put in your camera what now mind blown now you can

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reference them on the back of your camera I've actually never known so that

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was a possibility it's like and so now instead of of you pulling your phone out

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to find the next it just looks like you're looking at the image that you just shot which hopefully no clients are

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listening to this cuz this is well I mean even still they've got to know they've got to know that you know posing

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is is not natural uh you know the photography business hey just a little tip exposed put them on your SD card and

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now you can reference them on the back of your LCD 30 for 30 how to cheat your poses there you go last one would be

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overshoot yeah get those candid moments yeah get the candids those are the best ones anyways and my and all of my

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experience shooting families shooting couples yeah um the editing the best images 99 times out of

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a 100 are those in between moments it's the candid moments that's when you really capture the personality of the

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person well they let their guard down because they're not expecting you to capture well I mean most people aren't models right they're not used to being

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posed and and and uh put into these precarious funky correct positions

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correct but when you get those candid moments MH that's that's when they're in their natural habitat so you've got to overshoot a little bit yeah um very

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rarely have I ever actually almost never have I ever gotten to post and been

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like wow I took too many images even if I took a lot of images normally it's

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it's it's easier to weed down something but guess guess what you can't do you can't add pictures you can't add

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pictures so if you didn't take it and you get in there and you're like I'm delivering 20 images and I'm I'm I'm

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drawing right now I'm drawing for straws I've only got 12 you know sweetheart trouble get those

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candids shoot the in between moments yeah I can shoot the in between moments I can agree that so these are good phase two I I want to move into to phase three

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um and that is actual post- production so we've talked about all the ways to help mitigate y uh hating yourself in

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the edit but now that we're actually in the edit let's kind of touch on again things that will just save us time so my

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workflow every single time I get back from a shoot regard regardless if it's a client shoot a shoot that I've just went

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out and shot photos for myself whatever my workflow never wavers I have I've got this down this is what I like to do I

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always import my images now I'm sitting here in Lightroom my first step is to go

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through all the presets that I've created for myself pick the one that I like the best so you're creating presets

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then you created presets and you're going to use those I have created presets or if you've downloaded and bought presets on that first image that

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you like I I'll normally call first right I'll normally get I I'll do a first pass so now I'm only editing the

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ones that I like I will on that very first image that I like I will find a preset that I like whether I created it

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whatever M boom then I tweak that image yeah because presets are not like right

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it's yeah it's a starting place it's still a starting point hey by the way I'm going to do an upsell here and a Shameless plug um if you want to know

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to organize that it actually helped me tremendously and I've been in light room for a long time so it is kind of daunting but what I go to the first

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image I throw the preset that I like the best on it I fix that image I get that image to its finished State yes and

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here's where the big time saving comes I copy those settings CNP and paste them

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to the rest of the set now does that mean that every other image is done no no however starting place I have greatly

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saved myself a lot of times because this was the same location mostly the same lighting the same skin tones the same

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like you've got the same base now got same base versus editing each individual picture and by the time you get to the

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end of the set it looks nothing like the first picture right so yeah get that

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first image the way you like it copy and paste it to the rest yep that's your starting Place consistent it's you're

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already way more consistent at that point which we talked about in the previous episode like having consistency in your photos is very very important

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when it comes to your style your look etc etc I think I think that's really where you start to note someone's growth

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as a photographer yeah uh a lot of beginners struggle with that I struggle with that uh my first few sets of images

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not cohesive whatsoever from start to finish because I was editing each individual picture right I then learned

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that you can take the principles and the settings from this image and start the rest of the images from that exact same

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starting point uh the next thing is is be careful with your edits uh and

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what I mean by that is like less is truly more in most cases make minute adjustments small adjustments make lots

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of small changes you know if you're constantly moving all the sliders all the way to the extremes you're you're

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impacting a lot Clarity slider 100y yeah take it easy on the clarity slider um

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that's that and the DH those are my those are my pet peeves um but do lots

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of small changes that's where you're and along those

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lines I'll say this it took me a while to learn the power of masks even in Lightroom they've got

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great masking options now that used to mostly be radial subject background that used to mostly just be in Photoshop but

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they've started to give a lot of power to the masking section within Lightroom and there's a lot of really great tools

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but rather than using one or two masks I have found that most images are much

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better suited with lots of masks that are very localized very specialized

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small adjustments well they're all designed to point to your subject right that's that's what your mask are designed for so I would even say lean

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into Auto masking I mean Lightroom now specifically their Auto masks are incredible they are one click and most

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of the time it's going to nail it they've got of it's really good with select the subject select people uh

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select Sky yep those are all really really powerful and they're really good at it they're one click and they're one

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click so yeah don't don't don't neglect the the automatic tools that are there

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one of my favorite features from the people version is you can it it'll break

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each person down it's like oh you want to change their you want to whiten their teeth which is something that most

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people have to do anyways um but instead of shout out coffee drinkers I used to have to brush that in yeah manually

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every single time and now that that exists it's like no person two Chang the and and breaks it down vers via the body

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part so it's it's it's very helpful but I say all that to say even even with

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masking less is more yeah like yeah don't don't make great adjustments don't

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make massive adjustments and even if you want to a mask is a great opportunity to

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literally paint yeah if you think of Bob Ross yeah when he starts his painting it's

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normally one color two colors whatever but by the time because he's layered he

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has layered Happy Trees he has layered this Brook running through the the whatever but it it's it's because he

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does a lot of small things that makes this beautiful image he used a little bit of sandstone beige as his Sandy base

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yeah with his big brush cleans the brush with the wide brush a little bit clean

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it it's it's no different with with photo editing do lots of small small

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local adjustments don't cook them don't cook them you'll see a greater impact

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with eight masks yeah versus one giant mask that you've cooked yeah so th that

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that would be that would be my my biggest tips with post production yeah uh in addition to just good catalog

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management yeah um which again you've got a YouTube video for hey Folks by the way let's get jar to a th000 subscribers

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on YouTube he's well on his way yeah well you know if you're out there watching it is more than zero need some

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good tips and tricks he's got a very good channel for that um yeah uh Jared I'm I'm trying to think of

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anything that we can add even to the post- production phase and I think we've nailed it well in regards to speed as

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far yeah I mean as far as saving time obviously there's a lot more granular things when it comes to editing but oh

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you could do a whole episode on editing tips right but today we're just trying to save time editing so I think that right there the biggest is copy and

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pasting yeah and I see so many I see so many images from from beginners and sets

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it's like I don't know if they're just editing each individual image in Photoshop right in which case you don't

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have the reference of the first image and so like or if they just didn't realize that you could copy and paste

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the settings um but yeah that saves a lot of time but be it already already

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helps you a lot in uh having a more cohesive set yeah speaking of Saving Time o speaking of saving time if there

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is anybody that you know and you're listening to this episode that you think this would resonate with them and save

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them some time right with their Creative Photography process shoot them this episode yeah I think uh again we're

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trying to help as many people as we possibly can right um and in return we ask for a couple of things Jerry what

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would those be uh reviews you know review uh leave us a rating yeah stars

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and bars Stars bars uh leave us a comment um specifically I would love to

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hear if you have any editing speed tips yeah put those in the comments down below we read them all good bad or if

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you found a really helpful uh pre-production or location scouting tool that we didn't mention yeah um put it

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all down there again always looking to be better put it all down there also uh again if you would like to try the magic

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M mental performance shot uh we'll put that down the description below as well motion 20 yep is your discount code that

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code and on that note Jared here's the hard part we will see you guys in the next one hey didn't make that very hard

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see ya