Wedding soon, models last weekend

[Mr Guy]

I'm really excited because I've got my first wedding coming up at the end of this month. A friend photographer has said she'll let me second shoot with her at a wedding coming up in two weeks and I'm starting to get really antsy and excited!

By an amazing coincidence, one of the models for a local model mayhem shootout I went to this weekend happened to bring a wedding dress and I went with her and another photographer to do some contemporary portraits walking around downtown.

I know that these probably don't really fall under the category of standard formal portraits, but I wanted some general feedback on them. The one big thing I already thought about is models all train themselves to look all intense and "edgy" and I'm really hoping the bride is a lot happier!

Besides composition and just general comments on the feel, can anyone give suggestions on balancing fine detail in the white dress with underexposing a tanned model?






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[oldwolf]

Originally Posted by Mr Guy

Besides composition and just general comments on the feel, can anyone give suggestions on balancing fine detail in the white dress with underexposing a tanned model?



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You'll have to work in layers and/or bracket. Shoot one shot and expose it for her dress and another for her skin. This would be less time consuming to do it to the RAW files so you only need one shot though.

Background layer would be the dress. The next layer would be the skin. Erase the dress from the skin layer. You could flip that around and have the skin on the bottom and the dress on top as well. It just depends on how you want the background exposed.

Weddings are a lot of work but they're a blast to shoot as long as you don't get stuck with a bridezilla.