VIDEO : A real life engagement session part 2
February 20th, 2009 at 1:49pm
While Bert is on his second shooting day in a row, I have the honor & the privilege of presenting you the second part of the real life engagement session I did a while ago with Piet & Tina.
In this second part we did a combination of posed & more spontaneous shots. I hope you guys enjoy it ! I’m looking forward to reading your thoughts in the comments.
Enjoy the movie & the weekend !
Pieter
LIME009 - A real life engagement session - Part II - by Pieter Van Impe from squeezethelime.com on Vimeo.
In case you can’t play the video, you can also see it on YouTube.
For a better version of the pics, check the Flickr slideshow below.
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i just followed your status on facebook..rendering….uploading….and tadaaaa it´s here
the video is nice, but the photos are AMAZING! cool light, the clouds do a good job as giant softbox, don´t they?
better than the first session *top*
Cheers
FloH
Could it be the YouTube version is set to private?
Its my favorite time of the week Friday after work at home with a new lime video, I cant thank you enough for continuing to share your stills and know how
Hi all there.
It’s a really interesting and useful video. It showed me how to take juicy pictures in ordinary places(like a cornfield, or bridge). So thank you guys very much.
Thanks again for an amazing shoot and a great learning experience! Awesome again.
Ok, you ‘ve convinced me to buy the 35mm 1.4.
You should ask money from Canon for this marvellous advertisement campagne
encore un grand merci pour cette sublime leçon.
i love the work you did with the 35mm. i had always worried about distortion with portraits that close on a wider lens. i must admit though… the swastika on the door of the shed? i know its original meaning had a very positive connotation. but nazi germany has kinda ruined that for a lot of people. so i’m curious, did the client (or anyone else) have any objections to the image? do you think it was placed there as a symbol of the 3rd reich or as the original hindu meaning? please excuse my ignorance to your country and its culture, it just really stood out to me and made me curious.
great seeing you @work
you make it look so easy, maybe it is , maybe it should be, but it’s not easy getting there.
@David it was still set to private, I just corrected it. Thanks for letting me know !
Thx all for the nice comments !
@jtutlo I think it’s hardly noticable in the shot itself, to be honest I hadn’t even noticed it till you pointed it out to me, I had to look at all the shed shots and didn’t see it, so I checked the movie and indeed there you can see it briefly.
Who put it there & why is unknown to me, probably some punks with a can of spray paint and to much free time on their hands … The client obviously didn’t mind, I’m sure they didn’t even see it.
Pieter, Bravo!
Ce qui est extraordinaire, c’est que tu arrives à un rendu exceptionnel à des endroits si banals! Comme quoi tout est dans la technique et… l’oeil du maître!
Pour fêter ça… Jus de citron vert! Santé
Awesome natural light shots, You make shooting on a cloudy day a beautiful idea!
Great shots Pieter ! I love the posing that you ask them to have . I also like the angle of view .
ouls you please let me know , what is the best way to improve my eye to see the people from youe angle of view ?
Many thanks ,
Stunning pictures! It’s amazing to see the poses get so much better with just a slight movement of the arms/hands of the couple.
I am also suprised by the sharpness of your pictures, especially considering you shoot at f/2.8.
Great job. Thank you for the video.
Hi Pieter,
Many thanks for the new video and… as always right on time. I hope you will continu with every week with such things like these. Keep up the good work and… Bert, thanks for the first LIME workshop… if I hadn’t say that already.
CU!
Coolest photo set yet! AWESOME!
Thanks for this new video. I’ve learned a lot, especially on how to give instructions. Nicely done! Also, the last picture of the couple kissing on the bridge with the headlights of the cars is MARVELLOUS!
Keep it up!
Thanks.
Another great video from the LIME crew! I recommend this site to all of my fellow photog friends, can’t wait to see the next video!
Thanks again for a new video. I love how you can make it work with normal day-to-day background and still make your photo’s special.
nice work !
d.
Thanks for a good video.Its clear that a good photo doesnt need much lighting equipment.As you show with only natural light
You did it again Pieter.
Sorry for waking you up this afternoon, you worked all night to get this video ready kd you awake this evening after working all night.
For me you are the best LOVE-sensitive photographer with fantastic skills and funny moves.
Thanks again for a promised Friday video and again on time, incredible work!!
Again, I’m depressed after watching a video by you Pieter. You take 2 people, your camera, no lights and produce phenomenal work that I could only dream about producing.
The idea behind the headlights from the bridge is just an example of how great you think about your shots. I wouldn’t have thought to do that in a million years.
Well done, and when are you guys coming to do a workshop here in New Zealand?
Wow, that was so entertaining to watch and very informational. I love this site! Thanks for putting all the time and effort into it that you do.
The slideshow of the pictures afterward were AMAZING! Great job!
I actually have two main questions I’ve been dying to ask someone, and you guys seem so good about answering questions in one way or another. This shoot seems like a good jumping off point.
1. You mentioned in a previous podcast that you never use a gray card to set exposure because you enjoy the look, more than the “technically correct.” One thing I’ve been wanting to know is, do you ever set your black and white points in your post processing? I’ve noticed that many books tell you to do that so that your prints won’t have blown highlights or black darks, but you guys have never mentioned that. Set your black and white points or not in PP?
2. The other is a quick and simple request: Could you cover sharpening a bit here sometime? I noticed you said you sharpened in Photoshop later. Do you have settings you use all the time, or do you base it on looks only? And, in regard to that, how do you sharpen so well for the web? A lot of my shots look great until I resize and sharpen for the web.
Sorry so much. Those really are just two little questions though. :o)
Awsome work, what everybody said above me, totally agreed. Only thing that I can say is that you have inspired me a lot. Great work as always. I wait every week for the new video and end up watching old videos over and over again. I learn something new everytime I watched the previous videos while I am waiting for the new one to come out.
Awesome video and final prints…really like the ideas for shooting in random places and getting great shots.
How often did that train pass? I would see myself getting killed while looking at my LCD if I tried to shoot there!
Once again a good video, just impressive to see waht you can do with just the 70-200 and nothingn more.
Very nice pics.
Greetings Holger
Another great video. You guys are the best. Pieter I am so impressed how you get the couple totally zoned into each other. Then the pictures just turn out amazing. I really liked the shot with the traffic in the background. It was such a small but such an important detail for the picture. I am really looking forward to the screen cast of the post processing of the photos.
Keep up the great work,
Christopher from Tokyo
you’ve certainly opened the aperture not just on using ambient light in your portraiture, but your insight into posing the couple, choosing a location, and directing the couple to create ‘memories for a lifetime’ is inspiring.
i want to also add, that you are doing a wonderful job of leveraging social multi-media! (blog, youtube, facebook, flickr)
thank you.
Pieter - very impressive, but could you please post 1-2 images prior to post processing? Ie. right out of the camera? For example the one here with thecouple between the railway tracks? Many thanks, Laci.
RESPECT !!!
You tell that you use the 35mm on you camera on the bridge. Are you using this on a full frame or is there a crop factor? Because the wide of the pictures are surprising. There is a lot in the picture on a distance this close.
This is fantastic. Pieter, your creativity and talent is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Your videos are really inspiring.
wow, really great. thank you. again a great video with great tips.
looks like a bit of a suicide mission with the train passing - but great results. Was surprised to see the colors come up like that from such a grey day. the video is so dull in color. the bridge textures made those shots really interesting as well as the fading train track in the bg. nice idea playing with that rusty hut as well, looks like a totally different shoot. thanks for squeezing the lime big time again! Inspiring work!
What is the main lens you are using there..70-200?
Great shots in a day to day location, that many of us would pass everday.
Trev
Wonderfully inspiring to see how you make the most of a dull day and come away with great images.
What size/model is the California Sunbounce reflector? And what surface is it - it looks like it might be the zebra one?
It looks easy to carry so it might be a great accessory for me to consider.
wow wow wow wonderful work, very inspiring
Pieter,
Amazing! I really learned a lot from both parts of the engagement shoot and the postprocessing of part 1. Your photos are amazingly sensitive. Watching you work and pose the couple really helped me. And your explanations are just the right detail. Thanks to you and Bert for this amazing web site and podcast!
Net als vorige video van dit koppel ziet deze er ook weer erg goed uit!
Adding another thanks for the time and effort y’all put into the videos and I’m also interested in the post processing … I love that you both work in Lightroom so much.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for these great videos, and the photo’s on flickr keep up the good work its super.
Hi, Im Alejandro de León from Guatemala, Central Americag reat pictures my friend greetings from Guatemala, thanks for sharing, you guys really inspire me.
What size sunbouncer do you use?
Stuuning images.
Superb.
Thanks a lot gives me a diferent look to shooting and inspiration..
Very nice job! I like your style! I like to shoot more nature and landscapes, and I’m still amateur, but I really got interested about portrait photography after watching Lime-videos. What can I say? You guys really handle photographing.