You need to understand plates.
Not styrofoam things you can put in your microwave, but photographic plates.
They have great value.
Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan.
Today on Slanted Lens we are gonna talk about plates.
What is a plate?
It's not a dinner plate, it's not something you eat off for dinner.
It's something you photograph, every time you go out, to make sure you are covered and
have options when you get into the post-editing process.
So lets take a look at what plates really are.
First off, when I'm shooting a photograph...
I'll shoot my subject matter, I have my background, I'll shoot like crazy, but then just to cover
myself, I'll take my subject out.
I'll shoot a plate of the background.
So, for example, when I was out shooting with my brother I shot some great shots of him
at sunset, but I want to make sure I got the right exposure on the buildings in the background.
That was looking good, so I shot some plates.
I shot a plate out of focus, a plate in focus, so I have both those options, and sometimes
I'll even pull it way out of focus to give myself a third option so it has really great
bokeh back there.
Now I have the option, I can take him from any of the images we've shot and I can put
him on that background.
So, sometimes as I'm shooting we'll go, "Oh, there's a fabulous background right now, looks
perfect, the sun is great.
Step out for a second."
I'll shoot three quick plates, I now have those three plates to be able to use as an
editing composite in post.
So shooting plates is a really important principle.
It's important to do for several reasons.
One, it will help cover you if you make a mistake - if your person isn't looking quite
right, if there's light that goes too quickly, if you're feeling like, "Oh, wow, I just missed
that shot."
Get some plates at the beginning or end, get some great shots of your person, you can go
back into posting, find yourself a great image when you put those two together.
So, first one is there to cover you.
If you get something in the image that you just hate, like, "I don't like that sign in
the background."
And my person is kind of coming in and out of it, step him out, shoot a plate.
Now you have a great plate, you can clean all that up, and put the person back on it,
it makes an easy way to get out of a problem when there's something in the back that you
want to get rid of.
Number three is, you shoot plates just simply so you that can use them with other images.
When I go in the future and say, "Oh I got a great shot of this guy, I'd like to put
him on the sky or Downtown L.A. Well, I shot plates."
Create a folder for your plates, "Here are the plates I shot at this location, here's
the plates I shot at that location."
They now become backgrounds you can use for other images.
Or if you go into your search you say, "You know what, I really need a background to be
able to put behind my this..."
Well you search in there and go, "I've got a great desert I shot when I was out there
with Lizz Hernandes."
I can create that...put that desert shot and I put it in this image.
So it gives you pieces and parts you can use for other images.
So just get your subject matter out, get a great plate and that plate becomes another
image that has great value to you in the future with this image and other images.
So there's why you should always take plates.
Not these plates, photographic plates.
So keep those cameras rolling, keep on clicking.
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