wow this is a really nice little temple, isn't it? Gopro take my portrait. would you?
yeah yeah yeah. take a few more. take a few more
yes, different angles! ok, let's have a look! oh my god! what the hell is that
GoPro? oh my god! GoPro your portrait skills suck! you have to go back to photo
school or subscribe to Cassiophoto youtube channel and you're gonna learn
how to take good portraits, because man your portraits suck!! and talking about
portraits, I got a phone call from magazine fashion editor, and she said
that Black Eyed Peas were in town and she managed to get an appointment to
interview them and she wanted me to go and shoot Fergie's portraits. and I go like
what? shooting Fergie? that's great man! let's do it!
guess what I told Fergie when I had a camera in my hand and I was ready to
take the very first picture. that's what I told her.
It was so funny! she laughed and we had a great time! so what time are we shooting tomorrow?
she says four o'clock. cool man, I'm available that time! let's do it! where is
the studio? and she says when are not shooting in studio, we're shooting in a
hotel room. for my own experience I know that hotel rooms suck!
I know that usually they don't have the nicest furniture. their wallpapers are
kind of old fashion and nothing that would match Fergie's image.
I don't think that a hotel room is gonna be the best place to
shoot Fergie, but we didn't have any other option! Then the editor asked me
if I could take three different pictures. how long do we have to do the job? she said:
15 minutes. 15 minutes for three pictures! oh wow man! that is not a lot! all together
we had 30 minutes but the story's like, the first 15 min
would be for interview and the last 15 minutes were for the pictures. when we
don't have much time to shoot, you just don't mess around. just go and
do the simple thing. what I had ? I had one strobe with an umbrella, a photometer
and my camera! that's all. so I point the strobe at her, fired it, I had my photometer by
her chest, reading the light so I know what the aperture is, set the camera to
that aperture and then I'm ready to go! don't mess around. just be simple and
fast. we are talking about three different pictures in 15 minutes! so it means
that we have two minutes to do the lighting setting. two more
minutes to do the pictures.. the following minutes only to get
from A point to B point. say that we shooting against this wall here. then we
move to this one here, and then move to this one there. as I said three different
pictures. but let me tell you how it was like inside the hotel room.
I stepped into this suit room. There is a little lounge, not that big, with a sofa there,
two chairs here and the only empty wall I had was this one!
with a mirror on it! A mirror is always a good idea!
I told Fergie to just get close to the mirror.
I put a strobe right here!
pointed towards her. I am shooting from here.
headshots are all about expressions, that's what I kept telling her.
okay smile now! then kiss the mirror! what if you lick the mirror now?
when I said lick the mirror, she goes what? lick the mirror? well, you know, why not?
she says, what if I kiss?
all right, kiss! very quick setting! I'm very close to her face. I don't
see nothing behind her. that was easy.
didn't take more than five minutes to do this mirror shot!
Fergie, step out, we're gonna go for the second shot now. so she steps out and I moved
the light away. then as I said, the wallpaper patterns in these
hotels are never nice! I had this piece of fabric that I
just got stuck against the wall. Fergie is standing right in front of it.
she is here. she had this short t-shirt. showing her
stomach. if she lifts her hands, the stomach is gonna look even better. what if she has one hand
higher than the other. the balance is better. then keep playing with
the hips. oh oh. and the head. boom boom boom boom. As I was taking the pictures, I'm
gonna go like that! boom boom. yeah. keep changing. left right left right.
now now straight to the camera. straight straight straight boom boom boom. very quick
shot. The lighting. A strobe right here. in front of her. Can you see a
strobe here? we had this thing here.
pointed towards her. slightly from above because I am standing in front of it. I'm
not going to be covering the light. slightly above my head.
pointed to her. I had a photometer. fired a strobe. see the aperture in the meter.
set the camera with that aperture. boom! we are ready to go! two minutes to set the lighting.
three minutes to take her picture. boom boom boom boom. left right left right.
look at the camera. break here break there. easy.
Fergie, let's go to the last shot. right guys this was the last shot of the day. I told Fergie,
we don't have much time, let's go to bed baby!
she was pretty cool. She was laughing all the shooting long. she was a great
girl to work with. the room was so small. Oh my god. how
I'm gonna set the lighting in here? the bed itself was bigger than the room! we had
this huge queen-size bed. with a window there. a TV here, with shelves. and
here where I'm staying, right behind me, there's this white closet.
the only way I could do the lighting was a strobe there with an umbrella
hitting her from behind right here, pointed towards her back, so what happens
here, the light is traveling around the room and bouncing on this white closet there.
it comes back to her. I had a photometer in my hand. I read only the
low light. Saw what the aperture was. set my camera. As for the poses, I had
of this bunch of pillows there, so she's here, somewhere, and I told her to keep
her legs bent. because it's going to look better
than having it stretched. If you have the legs stretched, this area will be all empty.
she was wearing this short white t-shirt. I
could see her stomach. what if she has the right hand here, above her, if she
stretches out a little bit, her stomach is gonna look even better. and then she had
her left hand free. so she could place her left hand the way she
wants. she can plays with her lips, she can play with her forehead, smiling,
doing whatever she likes. we didn't have more than three minutes
to do the shooting, and two minutes to do the lighting, so you just plug the
strobe in the wall, boom, switch it on. flash it up. read the
light. boom. set the camera. Fergie, this is it, this is the pose! She came in, pa pa pa,
five minutes. Done. that's how the job was done. pretty nice and
simple. no messing around. just do the simple thing is the best.
GoPro, next time you take my portrait, just do the simple thing! why
do you have to go and crop my head off? unfortunately
I didn't shoot a making-of video because I knew probably her press
people would complain about it. plus we didn't have much time to do that
anyway. we had only 15 minutes. but I managed to get this little clip here.
GoPro, next time I ask you to take a portrait, you know what to do!
hey did you subscribe yet to my
channel? yeah man, do it now! just go down there!
you can go down there if you like! just go down somewhere you like and
click the button and subscribe! you can always drop a comment
as well, you know what I mean? we all like to hear comments.
was it good baby? yeah, was brilliant! yeah, just go down, go down and
subscribe to my channel, would you? and here is the preview of the next video I'm gonna
be uploading here on YouTube. it's gonna be something with a bit more action. we
gonna have models jumping. it's gonna be fun. check this out!
guys don't miss it! next week! yeah, it's gonna be nice and cool. you're gonna
see girls jumping all over the place. it's gonna be cool. best regards
from Tokyo and it was good to have you here! see ya
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