How To Make The BEST Man Fish PHOTO!

don't you wish she had a second yield for taking photos every time you catch a big fish I used to luckily I have found a girlfriend who is a photographer I Canyon in this video I am going to teach you how to make a best man fish photo no matter what camera you have because we've all let this happen you catch a beautiful fish but the photos are disappointing well after this video those days are over but before I start I want you to notice that you are watching this video on my brand new youtube channel with my girlfriend Kenyon hello we run across free film and photography tutorials here every week but that's only possible with your sport so like this video subscribe below and turn on post notifications if you'd like to learn from us [Music] we are here at the karpova in belgium a lake I fished multiple times through a Dutch booking agency called the carp specialist please note that we have an incredible amount of respect for the fish and posing with them in this video is for learning purposes only before I actually show you how it's done I want to emphasize that photography is a question of taste you can decide for yourself if these techniques work for you the men fish photo I'm about to show you is my own style of photography that I have developed over the years I've divided this video in five subjects which are all equally important to achieve the best man fish photo the first one is lighting then the composition posing with the fish the camera plus the lens we are using and the settings of the camera as an extra I'll give you some more tips to achieve an even better man fish photo [Music] [Music] before we start actually handling the fish we have to do some prep work the first thing we're going to do is decide where we're going to take the photo as a photographer I always look around first to decide where the light is coming from on a sunny day that's just the direction of the Sun on a cloudy day like we have now that can just be in the nearest open space where you're not shouted by trees once we have decided where the Lighting's come from then we can look for a space to sit with the fish as you can see this forest doesn't produce a lot of light so it wouldn't be practical to face it that way but it's way better to use all this light facing that way at this circumstance it doesn't really make a difference at what angle the light is hitting the fish because there's so much light available but when the sun is shining a you have direct sunlight you want that light to hit the fish at an angle of 45 degrees this gives a lot of depth and contrast in the subject and the colors will look the prettiest possible [Music] so the most important part of the composition is the background and now we have looked at the lighting conditions we can choose where we're going to sit and post with the fish it is not only you and the fish that appear in the photo the background provides lots of context and atmosphere for the viewer so choose a background that is most appealing for the situation I like to choose something that stands out like an extra subject in the photo so I'm looking for subjects that will be interesting in the background it's kind of gray weather now so I'm looking for something lighter and this birch tree really stands out I think I'm going to add this in the background a rule you need to remember is the further away the background the blurry or it will be so if you want a blurry background also called bouquet don't sit too close to it or Kenya does this look good like this composition yeah okay cool let's go get the fish [Music] [Music] I'm going to show you my favorite way of posing with the fish I always keep my knees very close together and I sit back on my heels this way I'm as low as possible to the ground there's a very good technique for holding a fish you see this fin on top here if you do two fingers around the fin there's a little hole there and then the other hand just around the fin after just before the tail then you have a lot of control over the fish it is very important to hope the fish close to you and lean forward a little bit this way both me and the fish will be sharp but if you push the fish too much forward you'll see that I get blurry and that's not what we want so this is a very realistic way of showing a fish you can just flip a fish down only your arms if it starts flapping and this is a very safe and visually appealing way of posing with a fish I lift the fish with my arms if you find that too heavy you can also lift one knee but make sure you lift the knee on the side of the head of the fish this is the most pretty way to keep all of these things in mind can be difficult and that is why a photographer comes in handy he or she in this case can give you tips to help make your photo better ok love can you pick up the fish okay and now raise the tail a little bit you've got the head too high yep and angle the head a little bit towards me sit back on your heels a bit more lean forward okay smile hi beautiful nice so we just took a photo and went very quick because personally I like photos in the water much more it's a more natural way of posing with a fish so I always recommend to bring waders for both you and the photographer so I'm in the water I have to fish in the sling but what I like to do is to push the sling away when I'm holding the fish since we already have the backup photo on shore I can just push the sling away and then post with the fish only so with the tips I just gave you I can now make the best men fish photo [Music] Wow it's such a gorgeous fish we're very happy with the photos so now she can go back where she belongs [Music] [Music] okay now we know our composition and how to post with the fish let's talk about the camera and the lens it's obvious that this 70 to 200 isn't the best lens for this purpose so let me fix that real quick ah that looks a lot better a good old 50 mil lens on my full-frame Sony camera and by the way the Scheldt you're looking at right now is also filmed on a 50 millimeter lens William said at the beginning that it doesn't matter what camera you use however obviously if you use a better camera you're going to get better photos but what is most important is the lens use as long as you have a camera they can change lenses you're good to go now I'm going to show you how different lenses look for a man fish photo from wide-angle to tell a lens I'm going to show you a 20 millimeter lens a 35 millimeter 50 millimeter 85 millimeter 105 millimeter the higher the focal length and millimeters the tighter the angle of view is the longer the focal length in millimeters the blurrier the back trunk will be but also the smaller the fish will look therefore you won't find a lens that provides you with a blurry background and a realistically sized fish in the basics there's one thing you need to know about your camera before you choose lens and that's the size of the sensor the sensor is basically all the millions of pixels that will be transformed into a digital image on mirrorless cameras you can see the sensor straight away on these lars there's a mirror in front of the sensor width which flips away when taking a photo in general cameras have two different sensor sizes cameras with a full width sensor are called full-frame cameras and the cameras with a smaller sensor have a crop factor the smaller sensor with a crop factor captures a smaller area of the image through the lens I'll show you what I mean so this is a 50 millimeter lens on a full-frame camera you can see the shot is perfectly framed but with my dedicated button for the crop factor you can see the shot is way too tightly framed so now I have to take a couple of steps back to get the same framing again 50 millimeter on a full frame sensor 50 millimeter on a crop sensor you see the lens didn't change it is approximately zoomed in 1.6 times because the sensor is 1.6 times smaller this means to achieve the same framing I have to take a step back now the biggest advantage of a full-frame camera comes in play it is a fact that the closer the subject is to the lens the blurrier the background is so with a full-frame camera you can stay closer to your subject which makes the background more blurry also called bokeh in my opinion the field of view of a 50 millimeter lens on a full-frame camera is the most beautiful and realistic angle of view for a man fish photo so to reach the angle of view with a crop camera you have to divide 50 millimeter by the crop factor 1.6 which leads you to choosing a 30 or a 35 millimeter lens a 50 millimeter lens would almost have the angle of view of an 85 millimeter lens when used on a camera with a crop factor are you still with us I know that this is all very complicated but it's also important to know if you're looking for the perfect lens to make man fish photos in conclusion we recommend a 50 millimeter lens for cameras with that our full frame and a 35 millimeter lens for cameras with a crop factor [Music] besides the focal length the angle of view the most important thing about the lens is the aperture the lens opening that regulates how much light can pass through this is expressed in an F number the lower EF number the bigger the opening to more light comes in lenses with a low F number like F 1.8 are called fast lenses because the camera can set a faster shutter speed then with slower lenses like f4 I recommend to choose F 2.8 or lower batteries F 1.8 and best is F 1.4 but this last option comes with a price tag a side-effect of a low F number is that the depth of field is shallow the depth of field consists of the area in the photo that is sharp the focus of the lens decides where it is sharp modern cameras have such good out of focus that the focus will always be perfectly on the subject as long as you set it to the right point always make sure the focus point is on the fish [Music] there are plenty of videos that explain to you how the exposure triangle works but I am going to teach you the easy way of exposing your photos every camera has a dial on top with different letters we need the letter A or a V for Canon cameras in this mode you can set the aperture to what you want the f-number remember you want the F number as low as possible you do that by dialing the wheel to the left until the F number reaches the minimum of what the lens is capable of this differs between lenses the camera will control the other two settings ISO and the shutter speed for a man fish photo in daylight you don't have to worry about those the only time you want to set a higher F number also called stopping down is when you want to increase the depth of field so a deeper area in the photo appears sharp you also want to stop down a higher F number when you do close-ups the closer the subject is to the lens the blurry of the background will be if you do close-ups the subjects come so close to the lens that the subject itself isn't even sharp anymore then you stop down to say f/4 [Music] you can also take landscape photos at f/4 or higher to get everything in focus now we have set the aperture the F number to what we want we can also change the exposure if needed that's simply making the photo darker or brighter by dialing another wheel which sets your wanted exposure on my sony camera i have a dedicated wheel for that and all other cameras you might have to press another button first like the one that's shown here and then dial the wheel for some cameras i recommend to set your exposure a bit towards the - on the exposure bar to prevent over exposing and maintaining perfect detail in your photos but it is important that you look at your photos yourself in playback mode to see if the exposure is correct another setting that is very important is one that you must turn off face detection modern cameras have the option to recognize your face in a photo and focus on it this means you will be sharp but the fish won't make sure you set your focus point manually on the fish so the fish will always be sharp [Applause] [Music] we've almost reached the end of this tutorial but we have few more tips to give you if you haven't already subscribe below if you would like to see more tutorials from us every week when it gets dark your camera slows down a share to speed to collect more light a slow shutter speed can cause motion blur if you are shooting and health the solution is to use a tripod and also consider using a flash when you run out of light on overcast days you'll get an unwanted glare on the fish and this will significantly decrease the details in the scales you can resolve this using a polarization filter this always occurs on cloudy days a little bit like today so I recommend just always having one with you [Music] [Music] okay can I see the photo scanner nice always keep a towel close to the camera so you don't have to touch the buttons with slimy hands oh that's a nice better [Music] [Music] always save your photos in a high-resolution social media apps are great for sharing your photos with family and friends but for important things like printing or displaying your photos on a large screen you don't want to use this downsized file use the original file [Music] apps like Lightroom are great for improving your photos but please don't use them for dramatic effects and also Instagram filters they don't make up for a bad shot I'd rather see your photos naturally my last and most important tip is be critical on your own work but respect that of others we hope that you've learned something from this tutorial if you want to learn more subscribe below and turn on post notifications also feel feel free to leave in comments what you'd like to learn about we'll see you in the next video [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 21min 23sec (1283 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 31 2020