Gulf Coast Pictures

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Welcome to the Podcast. My name is Dingani Alexander and you are invited to join this adventure. Along the way, I will discuss my photoshoots, how to take cool wallpaper photos, and more. If you are interested in listening to this adventure, subscribe for the monthly newsletter. If listening is not your thing, that's fine. I have a blog if you prefer the text route as well as a Youtube and IGTV on Instagram if video is more your flow. All forms of content, including this, are released once a month. For those that stuck around, see you soon!

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On today's podcast. I will be discussing how to pick a location. Welcome to the through the lens podcast. As I said the how to's are instructional episodes so as I explaining it. I'm actually doing this with you alright so the first thing that you need to do in order to find a location is to go on Google Maps or Google Earth I recommend using both but the first thing that you're gonna do when you're but when you're finding a location is you're going to.

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Decide what you want the location be do you want it to be a moody location do you want it to be something let's say for art so let's say for example, if you're picking a location for a client then you're picking location based on their needs and wants if they have a specific place in mind all right because then if they have a specific place in mind not only do you have that place but you also have similar places in case that particular area is not available for use or what have you in addition to that if they don't have a place in mind you have those lists of places for the fact of the Go with that person and their personality, so if you know they're kind of edgy and adventurous then you would have something that you would have you pick a location that appeals to that.

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Alright so the first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna be on Google Earth alright and you're gonna find where you are all right, so you're gonna go to Google Earth and you're gonna you should have a in the top right of the app you should have three dots you should click that and tap my location all right now with Google Maps why I like using it in addition to Google or I'm sorry Google Earth in addition to using Google Earth with Google Maps with Google Earth, you have the ability to place it in 3d so you can see buildings.

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And streets and roads and structures in 3d now obviously it's not perfect but it's a pretty darn good replica so you can get an idea of what your location that you want or may want to shoot at will look like in addition to that you can throw on a street person in street view from most areas that you're looking at so what you're gonna do is you're gonna find my location and let's say for example.

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I want to find a place that's, Let's find a place for me. I just want to find something new. I've never I've never really taken pictures by rocks or by bridges, so that's what I'm gonna find. I'm just gonna go on maps and I'm looking to maps right now and in the little search bar.

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I'm gonna type in bridge. And we're gonna see if there are any nearby whoa and we're gonna see if there any nearby bridges that'll pull up for. Hattiesburg. And because that's where I'm at right now if not that's fine, but I think I found one nope and the wrong spot so I gotta go back to my location.

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And we're just going to zoom out a little bit. And we're gonna have it in 3d and we're just gonna zoom out a little bit and we're just gonna look for you know bodies of water because typically that's where bridges are alright so I found some bodies of water, but I'm not seeing any bridges quite yet.

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I think I found a bridge yes. I found a bridge now. And you know, you you can't exactly see bridges quite perfectly eating the building for that matter, but you can get a pretty good idea of what they look like alright, so I'm gonna try to put this in street view.

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If I can and I am able to do that and if you ever zoom in while you're on Google Earth, you may notice little circles instead of lines in areas and that when you click on those those that gives you a 360 area so right now just clicked on this that little dot and I'm actually under or actually beside the bridge all right and I'm seeing a little roadway a really really looks like the area where you if you had a truck in a boat you put the boat into the water.

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And then I'm also able to you know, like I said, you're also able to see 360 there's a wall on the other side of what I'm looking at you may you

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Sup guys it's new year new decade not a new me same old me just improving but today you know like I said I was talking about how to pick a location for part of the photo shoot, this is what I used if you're ever been on my website you'll usually see like whenever I pick a location it's one location with a bunch of mini locations what that means is like I'm at my apartment complex right now, so this is one location because I'm not driving five 10 20 minutes out to go the next spot but this for example I can use I can use all of this there's actually there's actually three location.

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S in this thing right here, there's one two, and then including the tree that's three so right here is three and I haven't even used I haven't even used that over there how to use those over there have to use those over there, at least this. I haven't used the chairs.

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I haven't used the waterfall right there that you saw earlier. I haven't used. The bridge. I have not used the hut and this is just that's over here and this little section of the. Crap. This is just what's in the little section of this place right here that's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten oh that was about a dozen spots right here that was about a dozen spots and one location and you could really take five to ten pictures and all those pictures were look different because you have all of these little things that that are in one location to make it a mini location, so that's what I mean whenever I say it's a mini location and that's how I do my photos.

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I just pick one spot where there's like five or six different areas of it that look different so all the photo. S aren't the same alright now this is where the paintings and basically what I did is I had her for you when I was using these aren't for I don't know this called but I basically like had her lane down in this and then you know, we removed all of this stuff from one night that we just pure green and the whole premises of her laying down was to make it look like she was you've probably seen these photos on Instagram anyways, but I've never really done it that much but it was basically to make her look like she's laying down and shit and she is immersed in the grass with nature all that type of you know cool stuff to make.

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Do it like it's surreal so you know I had her in that and she was doing different poses, you know hand overhead and all that there's those should be shown up about now but you know hand overhead looking away handling at the camera all these different variations of poses, so not only do I have this one location right here that I go through five six different poses.

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That totally look different and unique and then I throw in props and that just brings all whole other level to this one spot and then you multiply that over a dozen and that's how my pictures look different when in fact for you know, three, four, five photo shoots of different people.

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I've used the same spot but they all look different because of how I've used the location. So like option, you know like a. Town green there's these buildings are gone now but I've been like three four five photo shoots there but was different is you know I used the building sometimes maybe it was the angle that I shot the building at where they were the opposes the props that I used the props that I didn't use and things that were naturally there, you know, so like for example, if I did another photo shoot right here, they would they might have the same poses they may have different poses but with this one, I didn't use any props so like if I was to shoot have another photo shoot right here, I'd probably use my prism if it was at night.

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I would use my, IL CD or Suncatcher turn on the light of flashlight and bounce that that way there's you know, the rainbow, you know, like pink purple all type of stuff in these leaves are on their face or on their outfit and it's since I take it take since I would

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Hey guys and welcome to the podcast. Today, I'll be just guessing how to pick an outfit. This is gonna be really short because it's really not that hard. Alright, so let's say either you are going on a photo shoot in the photographer allows you to pick the outfit to wear or you're taking pictures of friends, whether it's for an actual photo shoot or just for kicks and giggles.

Alright the way I pick up like I said, all this stuff is personal preference and you'll figure this out on your own as you start to mess with and experience. With things but the number one thing is you have to have a location that way you have an idea of a of what you want or that way, you know where it is and the reason why I said that is because once you have once you know, where your location is, let's say, for example if it's.

Um somewhere on like a nature trail and it springtime well since its springtime number one is gonna be warm so you're not gonna be wearing jackets and coats and gloves and all your winter stuff because it's not for the season. Number two, it's sunny outside which means you're probably better wearing material that's breathable such as a hundred percent cotton or something like that.

I mean not that that's something that you got to get really technical but basically I'm saying just we're very breathable stuff and not so that's gonna make you sweaty and you know, Colors, for example, you know, don't wear black on a pure sunny day. If you're you know, if wherever you're at and there's like no shade whatsoever because then number one, whoever's getting their picture taken is gonna be sweating super super easy versus if they were to wear that black outfit and you're taking those pictures whether is some shade provided, all right?

And then also you also have to think about since you know, it's already sunny. It's springtime and you're on a trail. It's green the plants are green, they're vibrant there may be some plants with other colors of side green, so you may have the opportunity to mess with a lot of colors or just green.

Either way it goes. You want the outfits to be somewhat complimentary of green so say for example, why gray green itself a brown black beige maroon, you can actually go with blue things like that. You know things things that don't draw away too much attention attention from the from the person in the background.

You know colors that that really will blend in and won't be too bold. Now the only now countering that they can wear pink orange yellow purple all those bright fancy colors, if the outfit that they're wearing is very bold because then it would make sense for that because then it's all about the outfit and not the person wearing the outfit and conclusion with the background if that makes sense.

Alright, so let's say for example if you're just going for something super casual super easy. I would say go for you know male or female you go for a. Let's go for. Brown denims or khakis, but brown denims are tan something that affects with a what color do I want to do let's do it's it's let's see if we have green going on let's go with let's go with red as the dozen stand out too hard and 9 times out of 10 they have a not a not necessarily a jacket but something to throw over that's really light like a flannel that they can just throw over.

You know you don't have to worry about that but you know but basically make sure the colors are either very very not very neutral but very complement the background or if they're bold that they that the outfit itself is actually a boat outfit, you know, so like let's say if it's a female she's wearing like, you know a skirt with with like with the checkered pattern, you know, don't I mean it's fine to where you know black and white chick or skirt, but it'd be very very bold and very appropriate to match that checkered pattern with you know, those colors being I don't know.

Red and orange or red and yellow or just something to that effect that weighs very bol

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This is my first concert and I am just reflecting on my take on it.

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Welcome to the Gulf Coast Pictures Podcast. I, Dingani Alexander will be your host. Although I'm a photographer. I will discuss other topics such as new music recommendations, things to watch on Netflix and Hulu such as Lucifer and Raising Dion and a little bit about me. I will release at least one episode per week, and they will start airing January 6th of 2020, that's Monday. Subscribe to be notified when new episodes air.

Instagram is gulfcoastpictures. To see my vlogs, behind the scenes, and when I travel follow my Snapchat and Twitter at GulfCoastGCP to see the behind the scenes of those vlogs, videos, and photoshoots.

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On this episode, I will be discussing who I am, my backstory, and where I'm going.

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This is an intro to a rebraining of this podcast where I will be focusing on photography.

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I am taking a break from podcasting among other things to focus on photography. I found that I really liked it and I want to have a laser sharp focus on photography as well as not to dilute the quality of anything else that I do suggest podcasting. If you'd like to continue to follow me in my endeavors follow my photography Instagram at gulfcoastpictures

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