Honeymoon
I really love the man in the painting looking at the bride. The rest of the story.
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I only wish this image could have been taken at a different time of day. Used just a hint of fill flash from an SB800.
An SB800 flash head was hand held over my head, and another was placed camera left. We were on a hanging bridge which was only about 3 feet wide. Very little space to work with at all.
The sun was setting on camera right. To the left of the subject I had mounted an SB800 flash head to provide some fill. There was a bit of light leaking into the lens from the sun, but that was removed mostly with photoshop.
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Taken during my client’s honeymoon in Germany. This shot was hand held with natural daylight.
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Always try to use off camera lighting whenever possible. This will give your subjects a more three dimensional feel in the final portrait. This shot was taken on my client’s Honeymoon in Germany last December.
When photographing a male subject have the chest facing into the light to make the shoulders more broad and shoot from a lower angle.
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This dramatic portrait was captured at the royal residence in Munich Germany during my clients honeymoon last December. If you would like to learn how I approach my clients with the prospect of photographing them and creating portraits of them during their honeymoon, then you may want to consider attending my next workshop. If you cannot attend my next workshop, then we offer a DVD set of one of my past workshops. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this DVD set are donated to a friend and fellow photographer in his fight against cancer.
This portrait has actually been flipped horizontally. in the original capture declines were facing to the left. Talk to almost any professional photographer that competes on the national level and they will tell you that it is best to have your subjects in the lower right-hand corner.
This space I was shooting in to create this portrait didn’t allow for the subjects to move closer to the edge of the image as there was scaffolding just in front of the subjects. In fact, support legs of the scaffolding were intruding into this image it had to be retouched out.
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This formal portrait was created last December on my clients honeymoon in Munich Germany on the steps of the Opera House. The bride is a ballerina, and our goal was to enter into the Opera House and photograph her on stage.
I had imagined an image with my client on stage, leaping into the air as only a ballerina could. But this was not to be as the scheduled tour that I had purchased tickets for did not allow anyone onto the stage, nor was anyone allowed to take pictures of the stage, so we did the next best thing and that was to create portraits on the steps of the upper house.
I think it turned out beautifully. A treasure that will give my clients a lifetime of enjoyment.
I absolutely love this photograph. It was one of about ten shots I captured at BMW Headquarters in Munich, Germany. Above the bride is an awning which had a can light pointing straight down. to the camera right in slightly behind the subject was an SB 800. The camera left and slightly behind the bride was the groom was repeatedly tossing the bride’s veil into the air.
The temperature outside during the shoot was roughly 15°F.
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I don’t even want to think about the amount of retouching that went into producing this image. This facility is actually a museum, and while we were shooting there it was filled with tourists. In every museum you will find proctors in each exhibit making sure that people do not touch the artwork, but I am sure in our case security was watching us to make sure we did not break any of the rules set in place for professional photographers. One of which prohibits me from moving paying customers out of our shot.
It I love the fact that photography allows me to travel. I love the travel with my clients so much that I have invented a new product. Honeymoon photography!
If you can think back and imagine the first wedding photographers. Their cameras, more than likely only held one piece of film. What do you suppose that shot was taken of? I think it would be safe to assume that it would be an image of the wedding ceremony, or a formal family portrait. I think it would also he safe to assume that photographers quickly realized what each additional photograph they created came with it additional opportunity for larger sales.
And so it went. Photographers expanded their wedding photography services to include the reception. Bridal and Engagement Portraits more than likely followed soon after.
So there you have it. Wedding photographers, for quite sometime now have been expected to photograph pre-ceremony images, ceremony images, formal family portraits, and the reception to follow.
I have a saying, “100% of the images I do not take, will not sell”. In my mind if photographers are to continue to expand their wedding photography services, they must find additional things to photograph. And while it would seem logical that the honeymoon would be the next area to expand into, as it turns out this was not the case. For the past 2 years now a new form of photography has swept the country, that being “trash the dress” sessions.
Honeymoon photography is the final frontier for wedding photographers! It’s time has come, and if you would like to learn how I am accomplishing this, then I would suggest you attend my next workshop.
The image contained in this post has taken 72 hours after the couple’s wedding in Venice, Italy.
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This image was taken at Nymphenburg Palace last December. I was traveling with my clients on their honeymoon in Germany. In the next few months I will finish my eBook on how to start photographing your clients on their honeymoon.
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The only way to get this image is to wake up before the tourists hit the streets. This image was taken at 4am, in San Marco Square in Veince, Italy.
