So many guys to shoot...so little time! Questions?!

Really glad we came across your profile. Great insight and end results! Bravo

Thank you for the BTS of photo day Billie!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, John!

Great job!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you for this!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

For sure! Thanks for watching!

Absolutely critical day down in the Fort

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

An absolute ripper of a day if you will.

Great job! Thanks for your work.

Always love the BTS perspective!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jeff!

You drop these just when I need them most!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it man! Thanks for watching.

Dougie is prob the most fun to shoot with! Also happy and cheerful

@leroyyau5

3 жыл бұрын

Always*

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah he is the absolute man! Great energy - love it.

Wow! Thank you for this video, and that Florida weather doesn't look too bad either!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Not bad indeed. Thanks for watching!

Thanks, for this video, it's different compared to what we do with the photo day at the soccer club Go Ahead Eagles here in Deventer, The Netherlands. First, we start with the team photo with the empty stands as the background, once we invited supporters to fill up the background in the stands. That was something different compared with other teams in the league and was received well actually. After that, we take the individual photos (headshots) standing in a row if possible take a small stepladder along to get up a little higher so we get the grass of the pitch as the background. The photographers who are invited all stand in a row and the players pass by one by one and after all this is done we get low on the pitch and all players come dribbling one by one towards us with a ball. This is how it happens here at our Club the Go Ahead Eagles and at many other soccer clubs. After all this, you go home and edit the shots and add the names to the all players. The way I do it is I add a white border to the portraits, name the players and also add the player's number and upload the whole set to my FB page. Great to see how it happens at a giant organization like the Boston Red Sox.

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, Pim! Very cool to hear how it happens for the clubs over there. Interesting that the team photo happens on the same day as the individual portraits. That's a big day of shooting! Our team photo typically happens about 3/4 of the way through the season, close to when all of the player trades are finalized and the team is set for the rest of the year. I have a video on my channel showing the socially distanced team photo from 2020 during Covid - you may find it interesting as well! Thanks for watching :)

@pimnauta3840

3 жыл бұрын

@@billieweiss7681 Thank you for replying and pointing out your other video.

This was awesome! As soon as I saw you guys shooting media day I was hoping you’d do some BTS for your channel. Great content!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe! Glad you enjoyed it.

Wow what great timing..on a much smaller scale getting ready to shoot our local high school varsity players for headshots/media photos. This gave me some good ideas on lighting and posing. Tend to go gray backdrops this year as hard to extract on white (due to bright white pants) but with those strong hair lights that a perfect idea. Thanks Billie!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it was helpful! Yes, extracting on the white backdrop if they're wearing white can be tough for sure. As you mentioned, that's why the separation lighting on the back of the subject helps out a ton. Grey is always a good safe bet too. Good luck with the shoot!

Great video Billie, more of these please!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will try my best :)

So I just need 4 more flashes and I'll be all set, haha! For real though, inside lighting is my kryptonite. Thanks for sharing this information. Super helpful!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, build the kit slowly but surely! Thanks, glad it was helpful.

Man, just have to say, I found this channel on the right time, I´m triying to build my way to become a sports photographer and maybe something more, but I found here a lot of knowledge and tips, you are my hero haha Sorry if I made mistakes with the typo, English is not my first language xD

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found the channel! Thanks so much for watching and the support, glad it's helpful.

Great video Billie - I'm envious of that lovely sunshine! One question - will you be doing a whole team photo at Fenway at some point? I remember seeing the socially distanced one from last season.

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Claire! Yes, we will hopefully have a whole team photo this year. I guess we will see if it's socially distanced or back to the regular. Time will tell!

great BTS Billie! What focal length are you shooting the full body white backdrop photos? I'm typically shooting our team with a 70-200 from further away and I'm worried if I shoot too close with a wider lens it won't look right. Also loving the prism look!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike! Really appreciate it. Yeah it's a good question. For the prism look, I was going between an 85 1.4 and a 35 1.4, just trying to mix up the looks. For the white setup, it was on a 24-70 2.8, mostly hovering around 50mm. I totally agree with you, I actually like the look of the 70-200 best, I feel like it gives a more natural look to the subject than the wides. But the 24-70 range is usually pretty safe and you don't run into a whole lot of distortion. We also have the need for full body on the white setup, so its nice to not have to stand so far back to get those looks. Thanks for watching!

Hey Billie, i was wondering what LED lights you use? Do you mainly stick with strobes when shooting regular portraits or do the LEDs get some use then as well

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Good question, a bit of both! For strobes I use Profotos, and for LED's I have a set of Dracast LED1000 Kala Bi-Color LED Panels. I like to mix and match depending on what style of portraiture I'm doing.

Billie, do you practice what your going to shoot before the actual shoot itself? I know how busy team days can get. Also the white background shots lighting is spot on.

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Darren! I do like to run through the shoot before if timing allows. Good to just work through lighting, poses, etc. in a low pressure situation before the lights go on for the real show!

Billie- thanks for sharing your knowledge. I too shoot a lot of baseball (HS predominately), and have a few questions. 1- Do you always shoot RAW, even for game pics? 2- Many of my games begin late afternoon, so they begin in sunlight, then transition to under the lights. How do you handle white balance in those situations? I appreciate your feedback!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John. Yes, I do always shoot RAW, even for games. Just never know when a photo is going to need to be blown up for advertising, billboards, etc. A lot of storage to deal with but just gives us more flexibility for post-production. As for white balance, in those situations I adjust as the light changes. For late sunlight, I typically actually use the cloudy setting for white balance. The twilight time is a bit trickier, so I try to dial that in manually. Then once it's fully dark, I have learned the color temperature of our lights from repetition, so I dial that in - 4150 for Fenway! A few test frames under the lights at different color temperatures should get you there. Hopefully that helps!

I should have looked for you Billie. I was at the Braves/Red Sox game on Saturday.

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to have missed you! Hope you enjoyed the game.

@mgmoats

3 жыл бұрын

@@billieweiss7681 I really more enjoyed the food options, LOL I find baseball pretty boring to watch, but my wife wanted to go.

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

@@mgmoats hahaha. It can be pretty slow!

@mgmoats

3 жыл бұрын

@@billieweiss7681 The Braves new stadium was nice. We were visiting relatives that live in that area, that's how we ended up there. Wanted to go see the Tigers, but Lakeland was farther then we wanted to drive.

When you're shooting game action, do you tend to use shutter priority, aperture priority, or stick to fully manual? And do you shoot with this same mode for pregame/casual player shots? Thank you!!

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Good question Zac! Mostly, I stick to full manual mode, however I do use shutter priority sometimes in situations where I'm dealing with drastic light changes - for example, half the field is in shade and half is in shadow. For pre-game features/casual player shots, I use full manual!

@zaczeman100

3 жыл бұрын

@@billieweiss7681 Thanks for the reply! Makes sense, love how you maintain full control of the camera whenever possible! I was also wondering, what's the process like getting your photos to the social media team mid game? Do most MLB photographers use a wireless transfer system and if so, do you edit these photos/have an applied preset or does the social staff edit? Thanks so much!

I want to know about your new robotic pods and how they are working? Read An article from Nikon on it.

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely Brian. That is on my list and hopefully I'm able to make a video about it this season!

Masks out doors 🙄

@billieweiss7681

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta do what we gotta do right now.