I asked the groom to snuggle into the bride’s neck, once he did that I asked him to step closer and put his hand in his pocket. I asked Kendall to look down at her shoulder and close her eyes.
[Groom], can you snuggle into [Bride]’s neck and while you’re doing that, get nice and close but keep your one hand in your pocket. [Bride], i want you to now look down across your shoulder and really enjoy this moment together.
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I tend to be boring with composition, I position my clients center frame way to much. This was no exception, but I do think with motion blur this was a good choice so the blur surrounds my clients. Even something as ‘boring’ or ‘safe’ as center framing the couple can bring out a beautiful image.
Center Framed
The z6ii focus is pretty incredible. I use a focus area and rarely miss focus, the large box was over their heads in this image.
Live View Continuous
Single Point
brides eyes
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.
The specific time the image was taken there was fog covering the sun, so the light was muted and flat. Because of this, I didn’t have to worry too much about where to position my couple. This soft light doesn’t last forever though – so we did have to move quite quickly before things got a little too dark.
Natural Light
Evening
Cloudy
I started off in Lightroom applying ex film 8 by archipelago collective. I wanted the black and white to have a lot of contrast in the lights and shadows to pick up the movement. I adjusted the crop and then imported into photoshop. There I applied motion blur in the drop-down menu in a new layer. I then used the brush to erase the blur over my clients. I adjusted the opacity of the eraser as I moved from their heads down to their feet, as I wanted it to be a gradual shift.
I really struggled “erasing” the movement over my couple and where it should be erased in a graduated way. specifically over the vail. I edited it 5 different times, and kept coming back to it. Being happy with it at night and waking up and realizing it was terrible
I eventually just kept working on the strength of the eraser and adjusting it slowly to almost only 5% over the vail.
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Big Sur, California, United States of America
Garden / Field
United States
I would love to do this affect again in a movement shot, but I know the brushing will be much more time consuming. One thing that I would advise everyone is to just try new ideas. Whether thats out shooting or while you’re editing. No one said you have to be placed in a box and do things a certain way. Experiement. Fail. Succeed. Find your voice.
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