Light me, paint me, shoot me, thrill me!

Wedding photographers face lighting challenges almost at every event they go to. If it’s not the harsh sunlight in the middle of the day then it’s heavy overhead tungsten lighting during ceremony mixed with different color temperature daylight coming through the windows…or it can be a dark reception room with black walls and ceilings. We may be experts of our craft and we may have mastered all possible on and off-camera flash techniques but when there really is nothing to bounce the flash off, no room to work with an assistant and no way to possibly set up off camera lights… we have to experiment and take chances. Go wild, open your shutter for a looong time…and I mean LONG! 6 seconds? Crazy? Maybe…and maybe you’ll never know what you are going to get…but chances are you’ll create something unusual that actually looks good. Oh, and the fun you’ll have shooting – it’s almost like the time you first picked up your camera! Wooohooo!

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04/02/2010 - 1:41 pm

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10/23/2010 - 3:33 pm

Charlotte Wedding Photography - I’m going on my 2nd yr in the professional photography industry and am discovering new things all the time, including this posting – thank you so much for sharing. Jen

11/22/2011 - 7:47 pm

Manchester Photographer - I could say its about time we saw the rest of this wedding but I am just SO blown away!!!!

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