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Hello everybody, this is Ty Schwartz with
Snap Lens Photography and Educational

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Services.

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We are driving the back roads of Texas.

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We're just on the outskirts of Kaleen,
Texas.

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And I'm trying to think of a way to
describe what I'm going to go about doing

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today.

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And one of the things that I love about
being a photographer is I don't have to

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pigeonhole myself into one certain genre
in photography.

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What I do like is when I have an idea, I
can kind of vet the idea.

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So today, our topic of subject is we're
going to do some landscape photography.

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We're going to shoot probably vertical.

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We're going to probably shoot some HDR,
drag the shutter a little bit so I can get

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some silky smooth water.

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I'm going to do some freezing of the
shutter speed or speed up the shutter

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speed so I get frozen.

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I might, I haven't decided if I'm gonna
take a flash and introduce a portrait.

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It seems like a lot of work because we're
gonna end up hiking about a mile and a

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half into where the waterfall's at.

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We're gonna be at Grand Bend, I'm sorry,
not Grand Bend, it's Colorado Bend State

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Park.

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It's a beautiful state park here in the
state of Texas.

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And I thought this would be something
really interesting to go and talk about

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and show video -wise for.

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YouTube and also our educational services.

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I thought this would be a great course to
talk about how we came up with the idea

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and how we created the image, how we
edited the image, and how we get it set up

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for printing it out and hanging it on a
wall.

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So today's going to be just basically
landscaping day.

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I think tomorrow or maybe Friday, I think
Friday we're playing golf.

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So I might not be doing photographs on
Friday, but I'm thinking about...

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tomorrow doing a portrait session and one
of the things that I'm going to like about

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this portrait session is it's going to be
completely different from other things

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that I've done.

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It's not a high school senior portrait.

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It's kind of a young adult tween, sixth
grader, and another little girl who's in

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second grade, eight years old.

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Well, we're going to have a little bit of
fun because in Texas right now, the blue

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bonnets are blooming like crazy and
there's tons of beautiful wildflowers that

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I'm seeing all over the place.

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So my idea kind of is to create an image
with these beautiful flowers.

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But at the same time, I'm going to
introduce a clear umbrella.

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I got some ball pit balls and I'm going to
use the ball pit balls as raindrops.

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And then from there, I'm going to try to
freeze the balls and also drag the shutter

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so I get some type of movement on the
balls.

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I haven't figured out all the details on
that yet, but I think it's a good idea and

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I think we're going to have a little bit
of fun with it.

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Plus, we have ball pit balls that we can
throw at each other later on.

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Okay, so as I was talking about, so just
in two days, I'm doing portraits, I'm

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doing landscape, and...

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One of the things that I do like about the
way I create images is when I travel, I'll

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do travel photography, purposely set up
for stock photography that I can upload to

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stock photography.

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I do love focusing on fine artsy high
school senior portraits.

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I think that's a very interesting because
with high school seniors, you have such

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uniqueness and variety of personality
types.

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And one of the things I've always...

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disliked about high school senior
portraits is the fact that it was Virginia

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Beach and one of the things that I've
always disliked about just doing generic

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photography is just following somebody
around, having them smile, take their

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picture.

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That's a lot of work and to me there's not
a lot of thought process into it.

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So I like to take studio lights.

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I like to add elements of texture and
shape and design.

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and I want to create and plan out a
portrait image.

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I just don't want to, oh, let's go take a
picture and then walk outside and take a

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picture.

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Now, of course, we can do that.

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As a photojournalist, I did it for years.

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Hey, I need you to go over here.

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We need to tell a story.

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We need to create these images.

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And that's not a problem, but that's not
studio lights.

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That's working as a photojournalist.

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And by working as a photojournalist, we're
looking at the elements and the purity and

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the environment.

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And then we're moving to the sun.

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We're selecting lenses to work with the
lighting situation, also the angles of

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what we're shooting at.

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So for this shoot that's coming up out at
the waterfall, I don't know exactly what

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I'm going to need.

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So I brought a 70 to 200 zoom lens.

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I brought my portrait lens.

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I always bring my portrait lens lately
because I have been photographing and

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creating portrait landscape items.

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And I'm thinking that maybe today I'll use
that just for a little bit of fun And then

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I also brought out the 24 to 70 millimeter
Now when I do shoot landscapes I tend to

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shoot them vertically and When I do shoot
them vertically I will shoot an

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underexposure by one overexposure by one
I'll shoot a perfectly good exposure, and

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then I'll create an HDR, but I don't
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create like a heavy heavy handed HDR it's
more of I want to get a lot of details

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into the shadows and I want to capture the
highlights so by underexposing I'm

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grabbing the highlights.

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Well today is an extremely clear day in
Texas it's very bright so we're going to

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get a lot of glowing from the ground and
I'm going to end up doing probably a five

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to seven.

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exposure exchange.

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So I'll go almost two stops under, two
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and then perfectly exposed.

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That way I get as much highlights and
shadows as I can, but it also depends on

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which situation is that I get there to the
location.

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But yeah, so really everything is light
dependent.

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I have my light meter with me, so I'm
going to take a couple light meter

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readings.

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I'm going to adjust.

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ambient lighting.

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One of the things that is disappointing
about today is there's no clouds.

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Did you notice there's no clouds?

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There's no clouds.

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So we're going to get some if we if we
photograph and include the sky we're going

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to have to think about maybe adding clouds
later on in the image.

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And I think at one point I am going to
talk about using the generative fill.

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Adobe Photoshop because I think the gender
fill is a great tool if it's used

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correctly and used the correct terminology
and terms, but I also have photographs of

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Clouds that I can always add into it when
you do have a deep blue sky like this it's

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really easy to add clouds and make a match
nicely because there's not a lot of Heavy

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contrast or what we call haloing around
the clouds that you would get

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that's that's kind of my thought process
there - but I just wanted to talk

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generally you know what kinds of
photography I liked and - thought

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processes as I'm getting ready to go out
for a photo shoot what I'm thinking about

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- some of the things I'm thinking about
case we talk about my lenses so I have the

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eighty millimeter at the twenty four to
seventy I have the seventy dot two hundred

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millimeter - I think if I would have went
with a - seventeen to thirty five.

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think I would have.

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Basically carry too many lenses I always
carry too many lenses to begin with.

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I've stopped shooting with the super wide
lens on landscapes - after listening to a

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great photographer - on landscape
photography - Dennis Hammond.

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He talked about how he photographed a lot
of things using these two hundred -

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seventy to two hundred millimeter lens -
so I started shooting a little bit more

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like that.

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over the last couple of years because I do
like shooting vertical.

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I do a 20 % overlap and by doing that 20 %
overlap it allows me to adjust and create

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that solid, beautiful, landscaped image.

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I set it up for perspective and I'm not
worried about too much when it comes to

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that.

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Now I don't do more than two or three left
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So I'll do one in the center, one to the
right, one to the left.

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Anything more than that, I think it
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But especially when you're shooting
horizontal, sorry, vertical.

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So there's that, when it comes to that.

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Now, I will sometimes move with my feet,
but I try to stay within the same

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perspective and not do too much with the
changes.

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So that's, I think, is an interesting
concept right there.

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The other thing that I did today is I
brought a heavy tripod.

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I need to get a travel tripod that's way
lighter.

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I think I'm going to end up going carbon
fiber so I don't break my back on a

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regular basis carrying this thing around.

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I have been pretty dedicated to the brand
names of the equipment that I've used.

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So I'll probably stick with that.

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I don't know exactly what I'm going to do
on that yet.

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So...

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Between the camera, I'm going to use a
Nikon D850.

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Basically just kind of light meter read,
take some photographs, talk about depth of

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field, we're going to do some rack
focusing.

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I want to create some things that are at
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I want to create some movement on the
waterfalls.

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I'll be able to talk about the exposure
triangle a little bit, which I think is a

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very interesting topic, exposure triangle.

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in general.

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Okay, so that's going to be it for this
idea and thought on this podcast.

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behind some things that I've learned in
photography over the last 40 years.

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All right, have a great day.

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My name is Ty Swartz, and I want to thank
you for listening.