Hi guys, welcome back to I photography on YouTube. So today we've got a really cool little tutorial about getting graduation photos. So this may be very, very pertinent, very useful. If you've had a bit of a problem this year in trying to get to those types of ceremonies with everything that's gone on during 2020. So we've got our lovely model, Nicola, who is going to stand in and actually get some graduation photographs from us. We're also being joined by George and I'll be the office studio dogs today just if you hear them in the background. So we're going to go through it a few different ideas, a few different kind of more traditional style portraits in a graduation sense and then some more kind of creative ones as well. So we'll just walk and talk you through the whole shoot. Hope you enjoy it. I'm just going to start off just making sure that the light is nice and even balanced to make it come in a tiny bit closer with that. That's lovely. So just keep looking towards those pictures on the back of the wall. So we're getting nice kind of blue tint to those just to give you an idea. It gives a nice kind of soft gradient to blue tint across the back of the wall. Lovely. You turn your head a little bit more towards the window but keep your eyes that's it just on me. That's lovely. So it just gives a totally different kind of vibe to the shot overall. Cheers. Right. If you hold it so it's kind of pointers up towards your nose and basically bring it in really close and it's just your eyes of peeking over the top but you hold it flat so it's straight up towards me perfect and bring it kind of closer. Lovely. If you want to actually come maybe a tiny step further forwards and I'm just making sure I bring the lights in a little bit closer. Making sure everyone can still see. That's brilliant. See you're getting the hang of this now aren't you? That's true. Okay, tell me what we'll do there for a moment. Do you want to just take the gown off for a little bit and we'll just do some of the more cap on it so I may actually turn this back quite off for a little bit. Yeah, yeah. So it's a really nice kind of little DIY hack that if you're not able to actually have your own certificate of any reason you've not got one or anything like that. This is basically just a few documents rolled up in there and it's just a nice simple piece of red ribbon. You can get from most kind of hobby shops or anything like that. So we're just using that as our little prop for the moment. Right. So just eyes on me again. Thank you. Lovely. I'm going to step back a little bit because I'm just a fair bit close. I'd get you just to go with a tiny step back as well, Nicholas. Yeah, that's enough there. Thank you. Lovely. So, effectively, we'll do the same again. Then you might just take a tiny step back from there. Thank you. Right. Okay. So yeah, if you start to two-handed this time, we'll almost repeat the same set of shots, but it's just in the gowns. It always gives you the option as to what you want to do, whether you want to do shots with the gown or without them when it comes to choosing them afterwards. So we bring it a little bit higher to perfect. Right. Thank you. Just again, eyes on me. Superb. Now, if you bring it a bit closer towards your body and bring that left shoulder a bit more this way again, so it's not totally turned. Thank you. Now, if you just slightly dip your head a tiny touch, that's brilliant. Lovely. I think today's begin with, there's always to focus on the face and keep that regardless of what happens anywhere else. Don't take your finger off. If you're shooting in the first mode, just keep it on the shutter all the time and it will keep the focus placed. Okay. Are you ready? One, two, three, go. Perfect. Lovely. Now, what I'm going to try and do is actually bring this further forward so it's in the foreground for a second here now. Let me have to come. A little bit closer in there. All right. So we're just going to arrange the letterings just so they're in front. That's great. So we're just going to get a nice little cute little cut me a short. Can you say that I'm still smiling? Well, you may not do that. Yeah, it is very important to just to make sure that you've always got your subject smiling and always have to be smiling necessarily. But even when you can't see their actual mouth, it just kind of translates in their eyes. I mean, well, just for a second, if you can just pull a very straight face for me for a second, Nicola. And now so if you can see Nicola's eyes and then now if you actually smile, it totally changes around the cheeks and underneath the eyes. But it instantly gives you a clear indication that she's smiling even if you can't see her mouth. So it is important to still kind of get your subject to smile in these instances as well. That's great. So what I've done, I really hope you've enjoyed some of the tips and ideas that we've been going through that you can see with Nicola's graduation shots. Obviously, hopefully they can rub off into some DIY home graduation shots that you may be doing of your own. If you are, then just let us know. You can drop us a note in the comments. You can send us some pictures on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. You can find us pretty much everywhere these days. Which I want to say thank you so much for watching any links that you may need about any of the blogs or even joining an eye photography course will be in the comments below. But for me and the rest of the team, thanks very much for watching.