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A couple weeks ago, I posted the final pic of my Trash the Dress session with Jenna, this one with her holding a paintball gun. I felt the picture was wrong, too bright, too colorful, for the concept I had in mind. As I worked through the series of pictures, I went with a much more grungy look at the Paintball location.
You can see the original post here: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1307711/0#12476226
Not all the pictures in this series has that grungy look. I didn't really do this with the idea that they were all supposed to have the same editing process. As we went from location to location for the shoot (seven in total, although three were at one park and two were on the same creek just a few hundred feet from each other), I was more interested in finding the best shot for that location.
I had told Jenna at one point in time that we were going to get into a mud pond, and I don't think she quite believed me. But she was a real trooper. By the way, for most of the shots, I wanted more of a tranquil expression from her. For every shot where she's looking like that, I got others of her smiling and having a good time, as I knew Jenna would prefer those. But, largely speaking, this was the look I wanted.
These shots are actually in the order taken throughout the session. Her hair, for example, gets messed up more and more as we go along, and I just really thought that was fitting as we kept moving toward more of a grungy look as the session went on. I didn't fix a single flyaway hair, and have no intention of doing that.
Comments welcome.
1. First shot of the day, obviously not yet in water.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/14657820010_8de3027af0_b.jpg
2. First place where she got in water, she wasn't really comfortable yet with it. I brought her husband down for a shot.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3836/14657979867_eca4ff1fed_b.jpg
3. We moved downstream a bit and this water worked out nicely, I thought.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5588/14657876249_785caa9c91_b.jpg
4 color. I usually don't have a problem choosing between B&W and color. My wife likes the color of the water here, but I like the contrast I was able to pull in the B&W conversion.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5592/14657979247_e964e4c26b_b.jpg
4 b&w.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3890/14658124800_b144f2eda4_b.jpg
5. Same spot, just having some fun.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/14844294882_8b6299ee37_b.jpg
6. Now we're at the mosquito-laden mud pond.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5582/14841433611_ef9155e89e_b.jpg
7. We're at the side of a very small creek now, just though this tree trunk would provide a contrasty look to the beauty of the bride, but also an earthy touch to her muddied-up dress. One of the few shots that weren't full body.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3848/14844514015_5af1b5afac_b.jpg
8. This shot is a work-in-progress. We're in a shady area in mid-morning light with the light coming in behind her and to the camera right. So the leaves and foliage are insanely bright green. I tried toning them down but it just came out looking unnatural (which I don't mind in the grunge looks), then thought it would work well in a b&w conversion, but still not happy with the leaves/foliage. They're too muted for me, so I need to keep working on the b&w conversion here. You can tell this shot is more for Jenna than me, as she smiling big time.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3887/14657897598_f37dcbc010_b.jpg
9. Now I'm going a little more grungy and that's why the grass is the color it is on the side. I wanted it muted so the attention goes straight to Jenna in the small creek.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5578/14844513545_1be07f3d44_b.jpg
10. Okay, now we've left the nature scenes and we're at a paintball location.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3891/14657875039_a07e0fddba_b.jpg
11. As I shot this look, some guys in a neighboring paintball environment looked over to see what they were doing. I thought that really added to the concept of her being shot and killed here.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3840/14864388353_b89a7f4df3_b.jpg
12. Jenna works in education, so this was a must-shot.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3889/14657874369_41efd3a514_b.jpg
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http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5563/14864387943_1aa1381c7a_b.jpg
14. This was a shot I had in mind. Andrew, her husband, having killed her off.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5588/14841432111_4dc226d109_b.jpg
15. And now, the new version of the final shot of the day. You can click the link above to see my first version of this shot. This one, I wanted way over the top grungy.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3905/14821541566_9da8219f84_b.jpg
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