- Back lit
- Motion Blur
- Soft Light
- Same Sex
- Rule of thirds
- Posed
- Playful
- Natural Light
- lower thirds
- calm
- Leading lines
- Horizon Line
- Dark
- Creative
- Cloudy
- Center Framed
- Wide
The story behind the image
Directions
Describe how you spoke to your subject(s)
In this photo, I asked the couple to position the bouquet in front of their faces so that they hide behind the flowers. I asked them to hold hands while they were doing it and stand in a frontal position facing me.
What did you say?
Okay boys now face me, hold hands and hide your face behind the bouquet to cover your face.
Tone of Directions
Calm
Composition
I tried to center the couple exactly in the middle of my frame and made a more open plan in the image in order to convey a feeling of amplitude. I was concerned to make sure that the arm of the two that is covering the face would not be cut by the horizon line, thus bringing a division to the image
Compositional Rules
Broken Rules
framing
Lower ThirdsWideNegative Space
Focusing
Describe how you spoke to your subject(s)
In this specific image, the focus was the least of my worries because I wanted to bring contrasts between the still subject and the camera movement I made to create this effect of low-speed movement.
Focus Mode
Manual Focus
Focus POints
Single Point
Focused on
No focus area
Equipment &
Exif
Camera
Lens
Flash
Filter
1/6 @ f/20 ISO100 WB-Auto
The way the EXIF is written out follows the common photographic method (with the inclusion of White Balance at the end). Here it is broken down:
Shutter Speed @ Aperture ISO White Balance.
Light & Weather
We had a very cloudy day, so the light was very diffused and the sun didn’t actually come out. With that, the photo in terms of light was made with a very neutral light which in a way helped to make the image more focused because of the effect I was aiming to create.
Light Type
Natural Light
Light Quality
Soft
Time of day
Afternoon
Weather
Cloudy
Editing Workflow
How did you edit this image?
The photo came out of the camera a little overexposed and that’s why in post-production after applying my preset I made the exposure correction adjustments by approximately 2 points.
I tried to darken the image a little more to get more details as a whole since it was made without the focus set on purpose.
Editing Software
Lightroom
Preset Used
DiogoPerez Flat 1
Challenges
The biggest challenge for this image was to create the movement I wanted in the camera with the couple remaining still to bring that feeling of static / movement. I had to redo the image a few times to get the result I wanted because in some moments the movements I made were very fast and lost information in the photo, in others they were very slow and didn’t bring the effect I wanted.
Finding that balance was the hardest.
Solutions
The solution to this was trial and error, adjusting the speed and moderating my movements.
Location
Location Name
Plantação
Location aDDRESS
Setor de plantaçoes nos arredores de brasilia
Loation Type
Garden / Field
Country
Brazil
I believe that the most important thing when we have an idea for an image is to really insist on what we want until we get it done.
Pursuing simplicity and a clean frame can have a greater impact than we imagine, especially when we have a light condition where we don’t have such a large volume generated by natural light.
