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In this episode with Vanessa Joy and her weekly show “Breathe your Passion” on Adorama TV we’re going to talk about wedding details and the best way to capture it. Vanessa shares with us a few tricks that hopefully will bring more unity to your wedding photo gallery.
“First off when I photograph wedding details I’d like to make sure that I’m photographing them all in the same place. While I’m sure the wedding details will look great if I photograph the shoes in one place, the Rings in another, the invites in another, they’re all going go together on an album, typically next to each other on a blog post, so I like the consistency and the cohesiveness, if I photograph them all in the same or similar place with the same or similar light.”
“First when I photograph the shoes I’m usually using a 50mm or an 85mm focusing on the front of the shoe because that tends to be where most of the detail is.”
“Next I’ll swap and put the bouquet in the same exact spot that I’m putting the shoes because again, they’re going to go next to each other probably on my blog. For the flowers I’ll photograph the entire bouquet and then focus on different parts of it like a grouping of the flowers or the stems on the stems it’s very popular right now to have a little bit of detail on them so it’s nice to capture that as well.”
“For the invitation I try to make sure that I show all the different parts of the invitation. Lay it out as they are you know – the invite card, the RSVP card, accommodations, directions, things like that. This is also a really great place to incorporate things like the bride’s earrings, bracelet or even her shoes because hopefully they all match, and it is just a nice little accent to have there.”
“Next we have the rings. The rings I’ve decided to photograph right on the bride’s shoe because it held the rings stable nicely and then also was nice and sparkly, so it had some bokeh to it. Now while most of the pictures that you see here of the details are photographed wide-open around f2.5, f2.8, f3.2 on my aperture I’m going to bump that up for my macro shots because I’m using a macro lens my area to focus is much smaller so I need to make sure that I bump up my aperture to around f5, f6, f8 or even f16 depending on how much light I have. “
“As you can see in these two pictures the first one being shot at f2.8, very little of this photo is in focus, while overall yes it’s light, airy and pretty it’s not focusing on what I want to show off of the detail of the engagement ring. While this next picture here is shot at a much higher aperture you can see so much more. There’s so much more in focus the entire engagement ring the diamonds and the diamonds around it, as well as bringing the wedding bands into focus.”
“Finally we’re going to photograph the wedding dress. Now the wedding dress obviously want to photograph in a place where it lays nicely but I’d like to photograph it in a spot that sets the scene for the day. Here at the Parks Savoy we are able to hang the dress right in front of the venue on a tree, so it’s a perfect spot to let the dress hang. Gorgeous natural light and in front of the venue where it really sets the scene.”
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