Last night we had this snowy session. I shot this couple's reception on last minute notice (they were already married in Mexico). Here's a handful of the shots. We only had time to do bride and groom shots after dark, no place to do anything worthwhile inside and well, they were brave. 25mph EASY sustained winds (probably stronger) with no windbreak, the snow felt like little sand pellets. Ouch.
Very nice set. However, there is a whole lot of centered images. Not always a bad thing, but it is something that *I* noticed because of all of the space on each side. Take #11 for instance, I would have cropped out the top right and right side a bit.
Thanks cordellwillis - point taken. A lot of these were shot in near darkness with help from focus assist on a 580EX2, so I didn't do a whole lot of creative comps (not to mention it was PAINFUL out there!) - but I need to pay more attention to what I can create in cropping the file itself.
I want to make one of these a canvas for my new studio, and am having a hard time deciding which one I like best.
Melanie - I was cold. The wind was unbelievable! I made sure I asked her "are you sure?!?" a bazillion times as we headed for the door. We broke the shots into two sets of about 5 min apiece and warmed up in between. It also fried her hair so I'm glad we waited 'til the "essential" part of the reception was behind us! But they absolutely are freaking out over the photos so I think she didn't mind too much.
Sarah Dickerso wrote:
Melanie - I was cold. The wind was unbelievable! I made sure I asked her "are you sure?!?" a bazillion times as we headed for the door. We broke the shots into two sets of about 5 min apiece and warmed up in between. It also fried her hair so I'm glad we waited 'til the "essential" part of the reception was behind us! But they absolutely are freaking out over the photos so I think she didn't mind too much.
It's always worth it in the end if they sacrifice a little! Just hard to convince them of that IN THE MOMENT.
I have no clue. I wondered that myself while editing. The rest of the images took some ps to remove snowflakes from distracting locations (such as over lips or eyes), but on that shot, I really do not know. The snow was blowing HARD from the right side of the shot to the left - so she is standing perpendicular to the wind, which was blowing VERY hard (you can see the movement of the snow a bit in 12).
Magic, I guess! No editing was done to that one, though, from a snow standpoint. She may have had her body angled just enough that it blocked the snow's movement across the front of her. That is my only guess.
