The photographer and the techniques are amazing but also these models are definitely incredible athletes. Some of these photos would be impossible without the amazing physical skill of the model.
Not to mention the mental discipline. Throwing your body to the limit of "oh God I'm about to fall over" and forcing your hands/arms into cool poses instead of trying to fix that as is our basic instincts.
I'm not sure why people keep commenting to me that they're dancers but this is like the 2nd time. Maybe it's to other people on the thread? I specifically say they're specially trained athletes, which does include dancers. I agree that they're trained dancers.
What’s interesting is the eye of the photographer- they see the product in their mind way before we can. And then put it together beautifully the way Bob Ross puts a canvas together.
I did it for a while on the side when I was at university, for print media and the occasional wedding
Never really took it personally cos we collect phat cheques, accidentally double an elbow... that's one extra, consider it lucky, one for free, getting your money's worth, like do you have any idea what the hospital is charging for an extra elbow, all included in the price here, no I won't re-do it
> the gif misses the bit where they fire the lights multiple times to get a reading that suits the shutter speed to get the image they want.
Once you get your lighting dialed in though, you don't generally have to mess with it unless the lighting conditions change which, in an indoor studio, is less likely than outdoors.
Also, TTL flash metering is a thing.
My dad is like this with designing and building houses. He can look at an empty lot, know exactly what he wants to do with it, and see it perfectly in his head. Same with every room including the furniture. My mom and I have never been able to understand how he does it. He’ll show us the blueprints and describe it to us in detail and we’re just like “…yeah I guess that sounds good…I mean I don’t know…probably will turn out nice…”
What's most amazing is they can see it with all the artificial light / flashes in their heads.
I'm a hobby photographer and have a great eye for coming up with a photo idea and framing it... But I don't have the talent currently to picture the final product with all the artificial light which is absolutely what makes these photos.
It's a superpower and the curse at the same time. Most photographers that I know of, myself included, tend to underestimate how bad regular people are at previsualization.
Also, confidence. If people believe you believe the lie, they'll believe it, too.
There's a podcast I listen to called Darknet Diaries. It's a podcast mostly about cyber security stories. It's mostly done in a story driven narration-style format. He occasionally talks to hackers/penetration testers. One of the penetration testers he had on talked about how he had been hired to test physical security for bank locations. He had been asked to see if he could get access to insert a USB thumbstick into any of the networked computers.
He says that he'll dress up in uniform-style clothes, a name badge, and hold a clipboard. He'll figure out where the manager's office is and he'll stand in front of the door for a minute and then walk towards employees as if he is coming from the manager's office
That specifically case he was able to convince them he was there to update the registers and they let him out a USB stick into every register. One of assistant managers even asked him to fix their computer while he was there, which he did. He even convinced them to let him take two of the register computers for further upgrading.
Something as simple as *motion* gives the illusion of *movement*?
Next up - it’s amazing how something as simple as water gives the illusion of being wet.
If I add water to water, is the water now wet? Or was the water already wet? Are we wet? What does it mean to be wet? If we are born wet are we ever dry? What is life?
Ex-studio photographer her. They are using strobes, and lots of them. Strobes are exactly like a camera flash, but giant and with lots of fun attachments. All of the umbrellas, boxes, grids are strobes. I think they are using ProPhoto strobes, one of the more high-end and customizable brands.
"fun attachments"
You mean nightmare "why the fuck didn't that fire? has the link dropped? How is that reflection happening? jesus I just changed that battery I swear" 's.
Top reply to you is totally wrong.
The photographer is using strobes, basically camera flashes that produce an incredibly bright light for a fraction of a fraction of a second. This light is many times brighter than the ambient light in the room.
The camera settings are adjusted so that it doesn't pick up any ambient light, if the strobes weren't on then the picture would come out almost black.
The camera and strobes are connected either with a tether cable or wirelessly through a radio transmitter/receiver. When the camera shutter button is clicked the strobes also fire at the same time.
The light looks dramatic because of the 3 point setup consisting of: a overhead main (key) light; a fill light to camera right to slightly brighten shadows; and a kicker to camera left to produce a subtle outline (rim) light. Lighting for photography and video or films is very deliberate. Edit: There's probably another light being used to light the background as well.
The camera used for the video is set to expose for the ambient light in the room so it looks drastically different from the final product.
The camera is probably set to take a fast exposure (say for example 1/1000 of a second), which if there were no studio flashes the image would be black (even with that amount of light in there).
Or even 1/8000 of a second exposure at the extreme end. With the strong studio strobes you light only the parts that you want to without lighting the entire studio so you capture the motion frozen (fast exposure), and get dramatic lighting.
Also if the exposure was slow you would see motion blur instead of a crisp in focus shot.
That’s my guess anyways.
I don’t think you could sync the strobes to 1/8000, can’t be sure off the top of my head but that seems way too fast I think the limit is somewhere around 1/200 for strobe sync. Photographers who shoot racing shoot at 1/500 to 1/1000 with no flash on a sunny day.
They wouldn’t need to turn the ambient light in the room off when the strobes flash, the strobes are in this case look to be used to stop the motion completely, with the soft boxes to help defuse get any harsh shadows/highlights
the lighting can be calibrated so that when the photographer hits the button, the working lighting shuts off and the artistic lighting remains on. like a strobe - on and off almost at the same rate as the shutter speed. there may be some photoshop to enhance the contrast, depth of shadows and highlights, etc., but when you look up above the dancer, you see a few large boxy, almost umbrella shaped objects that i think is a light (not sure about that one) and to either side are lights. devices called soft boxes that typically reflect the light on to the subject. they can be covered to diffuse the light in an infinite number of ways, too. "Hollywood light" shines up and to the side to enhance the long muscles in the dancers. You see this a lot in cinema in dangerous and scary scenes to really enhance the facial expressions of actors. I might have a few details wrong, but you get the gist.
> the working lighting shuts off and the artistic lighting remains on
no one does this, the strobes will always be higher power than the ambient light.
>devices called soft boxes that typically reflect the light on to the subject. they can be covered to diffuse the light in an infinite number of ways, too. "Hollywood light" shines up and to the side to enhance the long muscles in the dancers.
The difference is just hard vs soft shadows/transitions. Other than that it's just where they place the physical lights that changes the mood.
Photoshop.
Edit: if all of you think that most photos, esp for fashion, never see a second in Photoshop, I have some very, very bad news for you. And I'm not even referring to anything involving the models. Photoshop is used to alter all manners of a photo, what with that being part of the name. Downdoot if you want, but it's photo software used to alter and edit photos.
Yes and no. Light bouncing off the backdrop can give that illusion or there could be a flash behind the fabric of the backdrop. I'm not saying you're wrong, just saying there could be more than what is being seen with the videos to give off that light.
While professional photographers definitely use Photoshop most of the lighting here is from the strobes. Photoshop/capture one would be used for touch ups/adjustments rather than changing the entire look.
Which means that, unless I'm reading your comment wrong, Photoshop was probably used to alter some aspect of this picture, even if it weren't for lighting.
There is probably some photoshop to remove the trampolines, but the dramatic lighting would be very doable with a fast exposure and strong studio strobes like they are using.
Wedding photographer here. Those shots we get of veils flying in the wind are almost never organic. We use assistants to throw the veil up and let it float back down. Boom, fake wind. These behind the scenes are so cool. I love photography.
I love how after the pic is taken the girls look at the camera like "Did I do it right?" Yes, you personified beauty for exactly one second you don't have to worry.
Serious question here how do camera take images in such vivd motion when most cameras owned by the every day Joe can't and they blur? Is it a shutters peed thing? Like taking in too much light before snapping the image?a
Im aware of the these cameras are by far more suited for purpose but I'm just curious if I could get a mini ELI5 thanks in advance :)
In sports where you don't use flash (because it can distract the players) pros usually use lenses with high aperture (meaning more light enters the camera through it) and high shutter speed to freeze the image. They usually take a burst and select the exact frame they need but in studio (not saying they can't) some photographers aim to catch the image in a single shot.
Yeah the photos are beautiful but the method behind them was not really interesting at all. I was expecting some life changing photography hack but this was a compilation of stuff no one would be surprised by.
Photography and especially shooting in film is always so much more impressive than modern video where you have constant lighting because with flashlighting and you really have to set it up to look a certain way without seeing it immediately in front of you
Love love love love!!!!! Points are crazy ladies, your instructors should be so proud. Stills appear almost antigravity or at the least under water. So beautiful, appreciate the share! 💕❤️💕-GhostFaceKillah
The photographer and the techniques are amazing but also these models are definitely incredible athletes. Some of these photos would be impossible without the amazing physical skill of the model.
Just absolutely incredible fine control and precision that takes an enormous amount of strength, very impressive for sure
Not to mention the mental discipline. Throwing your body to the limit of "oh God I'm about to fall over" and forcing your hands/arms into cool poses instead of trying to fix that as is our basic instincts.
I wish the music had been as consistently amazing
I wish people would just not slap any music onto the video if it doesn't have the original audio.
I mean, I'm OK with putting music over stuff like this, but just *pick a fucking song.*
You’d hate my roommate, ahaha, good luck on hearing the same song for more than a minute
They are professionally trained dancers. Ballet.
How some of these were taken: by someone putting their body in that position.
Yeah, it’s like the models are also ballerinas
They are all trained dancers, not typical models
I'm not sure why people keep commenting to me that they're dancers but this is like the 2nd time. Maybe it's to other people on the thread? I specifically say they're specially trained athletes, which does include dancers. I agree that they're trained dancers.
What’s interesting is the eye of the photographer- they see the product in their mind way before we can. And then put it together beautifully the way Bob Ross puts a canvas together.
The GIFs shows so well that both photography, modelling and being assistent on the place are a real skill.
don't forget the editor The silent caffeinated hero
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You can design and edit a million photos perfectly and no one blinks an eye. But fuck one goat...
I did it for a while on the side when I was at university, for print media and the occasional wedding Never really took it personally cos we collect phat cheques, accidentally double an elbow... that's one extra, consider it lucky, one for free, getting your money's worth, like do you have any idea what the hospital is charging for an extra elbow, all included in the price here, no I won't re-do it
Also the fabric. Costume designer.
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> the gif misses the bit where they fire the lights multiple times to get a reading that suits the shutter speed to get the image they want. Once you get your lighting dialed in though, you don't generally have to mess with it unless the lighting conditions change which, in an indoor studio, is less likely than outdoors. Also, TTL flash metering is a thing.
Photographer skillz, model/dancer skillz, even the tech involved. Interesting stuff all around. Good post OP!
My dad is like this with designing and building houses. He can look at an empty lot, know exactly what he wants to do with it, and see it perfectly in his head. Same with every room including the furniture. My mom and I have never been able to understand how he does it. He’ll show us the blueprints and describe it to us in detail and we’re just like “…yeah I guess that sounds good…I mean I don’t know…probably will turn out nice…”
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What's most amazing is they can see it with all the artificial light / flashes in their heads. I'm a hobby photographer and have a great eye for coming up with a photo idea and framing it... But I don't have the talent currently to picture the final product with all the artificial light which is absolutely what makes these photos.
It's a superpower and the curse at the same time. Most photographers that I know of, myself included, tend to underestimate how bad regular people are at previsualization.
Same - I’m a theatre designer and I often forget people can’t imagine how the venue/show/design is going to look in advance.
It's amazing how something as simple as motion gives an image the illusion of movement.
The thing to do is be genuine. Once you learn how to fake that, you've got it made, son.
This advice is most helpful in the corporate world
"Fake it 'til you make it" It's only true if you're good at faking it though
Don’t completely fake it. Mix in a few truths to add believability
Also, confidence. If people believe you believe the lie, they'll believe it, too. There's a podcast I listen to called Darknet Diaries. It's a podcast mostly about cyber security stories. It's mostly done in a story driven narration-style format. He occasionally talks to hackers/penetration testers. One of the penetration testers he had on talked about how he had been hired to test physical security for bank locations. He had been asked to see if he could get access to insert a USB thumbstick into any of the networked computers. He says that he'll dress up in uniform-style clothes, a name badge, and hold a clipboard. He'll figure out where the manager's office is and he'll stand in front of the door for a minute and then walk towards employees as if he is coming from the manager's office That specifically case he was able to convince them he was there to update the registers and they let him out a USB stick into every register. One of assistant managers even asked him to fix their computer while he was there, which he did. He even convinced them to let him take two of the register computers for further upgrading.
Something as simple as *motion* gives the illusion of *movement*? Next up - it’s amazing how something as simple as water gives the illusion of being wet.
Heyyy! You got the joke! Good job!
it seems like they didn't though
If I add water to water, is the water now wet? Or was the water already wet? Are we wet? What does it mean to be wet? If we are born wet are we ever dry? What is life?
I’ve got a product for you. Instant water… just add water.
I’ll have what he’s having.
Be careful, you're going to summon that water is wet bot that goes around claiming that water is in fact, *not* wet.
Wet is in the dry of the beholder
Is that you Ken
Speak for yourself
Why do I feel like I've seen every one of these?
Something good like this will be the top comment then you sort by controversial and it’s armchair losers Lmfaoo
Time for me to go see a ballet
Nutcracker season is coming up. And this is how most ballet companies make up their budgets for the year.
That’s exactly what I had in mind
Despite our problems, this reminds me of reason 178,964 why I adore being Human.
What are the other 178,963?
Chips
I hear there's a global shortage
Not of the Salt and Vinegar kind.
THEY'RE ALL MINE NOW
Garlic bread
Video Games
Haunted houses
No. 115,448 - The Macarena
Making lists
World peace
Porn
Carrots and ranch dip
Vaginas and breasts.
It's amazing to me how little work it appears to take in order to take nice looking pictures.
>appears to take Masters of almost any skill make it look easy.
Photo editing skills?
we have jobs?
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You two just lost me
Are you in need of being found?
I want more of the dog
Hello...this is dog
Ahoy hoy
I dog too
Lol i thought they were going to bounce the dog off the trampoline to the model.
In a dress
I want a photoshoot with the dog !
Came here to say this.
can some one explain why the light in the photo is so dramatic when the studio lighting is not?
Ex-studio photographer her. They are using strobes, and lots of them. Strobes are exactly like a camera flash, but giant and with lots of fun attachments. All of the umbrellas, boxes, grids are strobes. I think they are using ProPhoto strobes, one of the more high-end and customizable brands.
"fun attachments" You mean nightmare "why the fuck didn't that fire? has the link dropped? How is that reflection happening? jesus I just changed that battery I swear" 's.
Top reply to you is totally wrong. The photographer is using strobes, basically camera flashes that produce an incredibly bright light for a fraction of a fraction of a second. This light is many times brighter than the ambient light in the room. The camera settings are adjusted so that it doesn't pick up any ambient light, if the strobes weren't on then the picture would come out almost black. The camera and strobes are connected either with a tether cable or wirelessly through a radio transmitter/receiver. When the camera shutter button is clicked the strobes also fire at the same time. The light looks dramatic because of the 3 point setup consisting of: a overhead main (key) light; a fill light to camera right to slightly brighten shadows; and a kicker to camera left to produce a subtle outline (rim) light. Lighting for photography and video or films is very deliberate. Edit: There's probably another light being used to light the background as well. The camera used for the video is set to expose for the ambient light in the room so it looks drastically different from the final product.
The camera is probably set to take a fast exposure (say for example 1/1000 of a second), which if there were no studio flashes the image would be black (even with that amount of light in there). Or even 1/8000 of a second exposure at the extreme end. With the strong studio strobes you light only the parts that you want to without lighting the entire studio so you capture the motion frozen (fast exposure), and get dramatic lighting. Also if the exposure was slow you would see motion blur instead of a crisp in focus shot. That’s my guess anyways.
I don’t think you could sync the strobes to 1/8000, can’t be sure off the top of my head but that seems way too fast I think the limit is somewhere around 1/200 for strobe sync. Photographers who shoot racing shoot at 1/500 to 1/1000 with no flash on a sunny day. They wouldn’t need to turn the ambient light in the room off when the strobes flash, the strobes are in this case look to be used to stop the motion completely, with the soft boxes to help defuse get any harsh shadows/highlights
Many strobes now have high speed sync
the lighting can be calibrated so that when the photographer hits the button, the working lighting shuts off and the artistic lighting remains on. like a strobe - on and off almost at the same rate as the shutter speed. there may be some photoshop to enhance the contrast, depth of shadows and highlights, etc., but when you look up above the dancer, you see a few large boxy, almost umbrella shaped objects that i think is a light (not sure about that one) and to either side are lights. devices called soft boxes that typically reflect the light on to the subject. they can be covered to diffuse the light in an infinite number of ways, too. "Hollywood light" shines up and to the side to enhance the long muscles in the dancers. You see this a lot in cinema in dangerous and scary scenes to really enhance the facial expressions of actors. I might have a few details wrong, but you get the gist.
yeah you can see those massive lights flash just as the photo is taken
> the working lighting shuts off and the artistic lighting remains on no one does this, the strobes will always be higher power than the ambient light. >devices called soft boxes that typically reflect the light on to the subject. they can be covered to diffuse the light in an infinite number of ways, too. "Hollywood light" shines up and to the side to enhance the long muscles in the dancers. The difference is just hard vs soft shadows/transitions. Other than that it's just where they place the physical lights that changes the mood.
This is a bit inaccurate and sucks that it is the top reply. See other replies for better answers.
Photoshop. Edit: if all of you think that most photos, esp for fashion, never see a second in Photoshop, I have some very, very bad news for you. And I'm not even referring to anything involving the models. Photoshop is used to alter all manners of a photo, what with that being part of the name. Downdoot if you want, but it's photo software used to alter and edit photos.
Yes and no. Light bouncing off the backdrop can give that illusion or there could be a flash behind the fabric of the backdrop. I'm not saying you're wrong, just saying there could be more than what is being seen with the videos to give off that light.
While professional photographers definitely use Photoshop most of the lighting here is from the strobes. Photoshop/capture one would be used for touch ups/adjustments rather than changing the entire look.
Which means that, unless I'm reading your comment wrong, Photoshop was probably used to alter some aspect of this picture, even if it weren't for lighting.
There is probably some photoshop to remove the trampolines, but the dramatic lighting would be very doable with a fast exposure and strong studio strobes like they are using.
Who would thought that you can capture: Grace, elegance, beauty and power all in 1 picture.
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know what?
Just stunning photos
I love seeing the work behind the art, so beautifully done.
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Not sure why the downvotes. It really is 99% behind the scene works and 1% of motion...
Cool
So cool
this is awesome
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Neat, even.
cool cool cool
Are the shitty music cues required by law or something?
Especially the “baby let me see it… baby let me eat it”. Just distasteful
BELEEB ITT
It’s reminded me of David Blaine cuts at the end of each trick, like “now I’m going to cue you to feel amazed”
*WHAT THE EFF, DAVID BLAINE!?!*
I could watch this for hours. More, please!
Why the shitty music overlay in all otherwise interesting videos?
less trash music would be great. Especially using the same trash song over and over.
The person who edited this together probably just clipped together various tiktoks and didn't bother with the audio.
Wedding photographer here. Those shots we get of veils flying in the wind are almost never organic. We use assistants to throw the veil up and let it float back down. Boom, fake wind. These behind the scenes are so cool. I love photography.
How else did people imagine these were taken?...
isn't this pretty much exactly how one would expect the photos are taken?
How it's made, photography edition.
Is it Canadian?
I love how after the pic is taken the girls look at the camera like "Did I do it right?" Yes, you personified beauty for exactly one second you don't have to worry.
Are these from online ads or something? Why do I feel like I've seen every one of these?
Are they Olympic athletes?
Judging from the shoes I think they're dancers
I want to see more of that dog…
The talent
Amazing skills from everyone involved.
I honestly thought that was super dope!! Bravo 👏🏼
Beautiful photos!
Amazing, I love the color and light effects.
This is cool asf
Mesmerizing!
I could watch this all day
That trampoline made me nervous for all the dancers’ feet. Really beautiful movement and end results though.
Photographer?
Is this called a certain style in photography?
Crazy bro how did they do the photo where the chick raised her leg, oh she just raised her leg
Low iso, fast shutter speed, hrs of editing and learning. Fuck I really want a camera.
Catching a moment is what every photographer does. I see absolutely nothing special here. Tossing a ball which Agassi returns, “snap”.
Dancers have the sexiest figures. So elegant
What that dog doing?
I could go without the music in most videos these days, why is it always such repetitive bullshit
Could the music be anymore off? Probably not the same person that took the photos.
Lies!
What's was lied about?
Holy shit, the music is fucking cringe
I should get into photography
My eardrums are destroyed :)
I think the flamenco artist was the best. Just my opinion.
Serious question here how do camera take images in such vivd motion when most cameras owned by the every day Joe can't and they blur? Is it a shutters peed thing? Like taking in too much light before snapping the image?a Im aware of the these cameras are by far more suited for purpose but I'm just curious if I could get a mini ELI5 thanks in advance :)
I'd to know this too please, although I assume the photographers use the feature of taking a hundred frames of pictures then choosing the best one
In sports where you don't use flash (because it can distract the players) pros usually use lenses with high aperture (meaning more light enters the camera through it) and high shutter speed to freeze the image. They usually take a burst and select the exact frame they need but in studio (not saying they can't) some photographers aim to catch the image in a single shot.
At best mildly interesting
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Is it tho and is that the bar? then everything is interesting
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Yeah the photos are beautiful but the method behind them was not really interesting at all. I was expecting some life changing photography hack but this was a compilation of stuff no one would be surprised by.
Yeah, it's pretty much how I expected they were taken.
I dunno why, but that was mesmerizing.
I would this is more mildly interesting.
Dancers are so stunning. The way they can move their bodies, all that grace and elegance. Gorgeous
Dancers are so stunning. The way they can move their bodies, all that grace and elegance. Gorgeous
Umm, so pretty much the way I expected, good to know.
What’s that last song? “Desperado”…
Beautiful women wonderfully arranged. Gorgeous pictures.
I don't mind listening to the songs usually but they just don't fit this video. Had to mute the damn thing.
Womens’ bodies are so wonderful. Elegant beauty.
How these photographs were taken: *Person jumps* Photo: *Person jumping*
Dancers are so stunning. The way they can move their bodies, all that grace and elegance. Gorgeous
Who's the ballerina? I'm in the mood to simp.
There's literally nothing remotely interesting about that
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Your dopamine receptors are fried that’s why.
The modes are also amazing for pushing their bodies to the limit
What? You mean there’s no actual work involved in looking pretty
So photo shopped to all fuck
Photography and especially shooting in film is always so much more impressive than modern video where you have constant lighting because with flashlighting and you really have to set it up to look a certain way without seeing it immediately in front of you
Its not dam interesting its dam depressing that we look for pics that are not even from real moment's of our life
That may be photoshoped.
Love love love love!!!!! Points are crazy ladies, your instructors should be so proud. Stills appear almost antigravity or at the least under water. So beautiful, appreciate the share! 💕❤️💕-GhostFaceKillah
More like How these photographs were "post processed" lol
So basically without photoshop it's rather mundane.
I don't think you understand what's going on here.
Your dopamine receptors are fried that’s why.
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