Always great tips. Shooting high noon, you will always consider the background now and placement of the subject. The Golden hour or night shots makes it easier to hide the background when dropping the exposure and only lighting the subject. That Westcott shoot waa good example where there is so much sun, there is no way to drop the background exposure and need to consider placement with subject and how the lit background plays into the final image. Keep it up!

Jake is brutally honest, but offers great advice. He's helped me as well. Good tips here.

I personally love shooting during the day… the challenge of keeping the sun out of the subjects eye, playing with Shadows… angles to get the clouds in the pic without being washed out.

Joe Eledelman has always told me “ Don’t be afraid to suck” if you wan to find success as a photographer. Thanks for the reminder.

Great tips and well explained! I ran into many of the same issues myself. 👏👏

Bruh I love midday summer shoots. Yes the heat is unbearable but damn, love me that light. I will say one thing I learned this year is that every softbox has a purpose. Beauty dish, octa, parabolic and so that’s something I’ve been experimenting with. Lately I’ve been experimenting with a 48 inch parabolic, which has been giving me great results. Collaborating with the right person is also important for growth. No matter how much you know, I feel that you can still learn and tweak technique by observing someone else who shares the same hunger and passion you do, but therein lies the problem. A lot of photogs lack hunger and passion and do this solely for the money and not for the love of it which is obvious by the quality of their work. At the end of the day, I’m open about my deficiencies and understand I still have a lot to learn. I’m always honest about that. But I also have an insatiable hunger to learn, to WANT to get better and better. Excuses be damned. Thankfully having a full-time job affords me the luxury to take my time to improve.

Practice makes us better,never perfect , because there is always something we can improve on . Me encanto este video Eli . Gracias por compartirlo.

Thanks, Eli. It really gives me something to think about. We can't get too comfortable. Keep up the great work!

A BIG MAHALO'S Eli! I was on the same mindset of soft light & only shooting at golden hour! I'm going to try to to experiment on shooting during hard light hours of the day, I not going to lie but it's a bit scarry but I'm going to give it a shot! BTW your work is amazing! Aloha, my friend!

I went back to photography bec of the inspiration from you Eli. There is no boundary , learning and absorving from others, the lights, composition etc etc. There is no satisfaction, once you look back at old photos, you want to top it and make a better one. Now happy clients are coming back thanks to you.

Thank you, Eli! This has helped me so much! Tapping into that growth mindset can elevate your work in ways you never thought possible!

Real great advise, thank you for sharing.

Great advice. Its almost like you unlimited yourself

cannot agree more on all three points bro... U opened mhy eyes to my mistakes and weaknesses that I realized I was running away from. Will try with harsh lights and move away from Bokeh for some time. :) thanks again ..

Great video as always buddy 😃very pleased to hear you’re loving the hard light and optical snoot 💪🏻

I use the Nikon 24-120 lens for portraits. I use f/8 mostly. I can zoom in and catch an expression in a close up focusing on the eyes and then go right into a full body shot if the subject moves in an interesting way.

Thanks vato. Great tips.

Fabulous video!!!!!!!

I shoot with my primes a lot and always shot are very shallow DOF and recently started shouting at f/11 or f/16 outside and actually enjoy it! Ha! I’ve also had the rf 24-105 f4 for a while now and it’s becoming a favorite- especially in my studio! Great content once again!

As always Eli, great video and a terrific inspiration to be retrospective in my own work. I've come to adopt an attitude that you learn more by failure than you do in success. So your advice of getting out of your comfort zone is a great reminder for me to take a risk, do something different, and incorporate what I've learned if it turns out to be less than what I was hoping for. Thanks for sharing all of your expertise and hope to meet you at one of your workshops one day.

Thank you for this video! I absolutely love your work and you have been an inspiration. It's so good to hear you speak honestly about your fears of trying uncomfortable things and it gives me the motivation to try as well. Thank you again, and thank you for turning me on to two other amazing photographers!

Su trabajo es excelente. Espero hagas un tutorial también en ESPAÑOL.

All of these are great tips. I'm definitely guilty of only using soft light, but will start practicing with hard light and see what happens!

Do you have your own fb group? I've been following your success for a few years and it's amazing how far you have come along. Really enjoy these videos. Thank you

Excellent video bro! This last year I've been working on challenging myself with lighting. Thats one of the reasons I joined Dreamer's. But let me tell you shooting hard light in the studio with that optical spot was the most challenging for me. Hey but that's how we grow. Got to get out if our comfort zone. Lol Thanks for that day and for this excellent video! #todoelpedo

Ooh 😯 *Incubus* ..... _”I wish you here”_

This video made me go out and throw out the rule of photography book and try new thing hard light here I come

Awesome man!

Hi Eli! Can I make you a question? How do think about depth of field in outdoor portrait photography? I am a big fan of 24-105mm and as I mainly shoot on studio, depth of field was never a big concern. However when we talk about outdoor portrait photography the most common approach seems to be to try to blow out everything that is possible. I rarely see portrait photographers that work with small apertures like F4 or F5.6 in outdoor. I really love how you work with colors. I really would like to see more videos about your color grading process :D

Sigh...yeah, mid-day shoots scare me and I avoid them when I can. Sometimes it can't be helped. I would personally like to get out of my editing comfort zone though. I would like to find a workflow that's efficient for (somewhat) higher end edits.

Hello dear friend :) I emphasize a lot of important details for myself in your works. Each of your videos is unique. I need your advice: which tripod to choose for outdoor shooting to set a soft box ( photo flash ) over the model ?

You need to come to Utah

Sir, I am using benq sw 270c monitior and i have a doubt not only it is very problem sir. I don't know how much brightness and contrast level should be set sir, how much level you have set in your monitor. Please clarify sir.

My weakness is pretty much everything ... gotta work on "Todo el pedo" 🤣

Eli infante how can we get to download your colour lookups pls I'm inlove with them, I have tried searching on your website couldn't find them. Please I will appreciate if I can get a reply from you

Hey Eli where in Texas are you ?I’m in the Dallas Fort Worth area. I have a preposition for you it has to do with Ps…

Hey Eli, I love the helpful video content you create for us. I searched the internet to get a translation for #todoelpedo and I'm sure what it comes up with isn't what you actually mean. So Im asking the main source you... what does your saying #todoelpedo mean?

Hard light is for people working with professional good looking models. Period :) Even my grandma will shoot nice picture of 21 year old model ;)

Que onda Eli. Soy de Brownsville carnal. Lets do a collab! Would love to work with you

Okay Eli, I give up: what does "pedo" mean?

Any time is good time if you can afford to bring your own light. How I wish having a robot lighting assistant