Continuing with Allison’s wedding, this is the part of the photo session that comes directly after the last clip that was posted.  Again, I am trying to continue doing at least the first 1/2 of the wedding without adding any music or transitions.  Just straight cuts, heavier documentary feel.

After doing this part I am starting to think that I may have to break off from that and add some music in the back for this.  Not 100% sure yet, but I may even though I would prefer not to.  Thinking it may be too slow and laid back, even though I like that whole approach.  But there are a lot of nice shots that I like in the clip.

Part of the issue is that in place of music, you would normally use people talking for the audio, but it’s just the bride, groom and photographer here, pretty quiet, so not much conversation to steal.  Directly after this is when everyone else shows up for photos as well, so I should be able to pick the pace up at that point since there were more people around talking… if that makes any sense to anyone.

I am also thinking maybe this clip is going on for too long and needs to be shortened down.  Not sure- need to see how everything around it develops first before I decide one way or the other.

But enough about that, here is the clip finally…

The light in this area was not very user friendly.  Where the pics were taken was all in the shade, but in back was this hard sunlight. Constantly had to play with the f-stop whenever I changed position.  It’s extremely difficult to find a happy medium where both the fore and backgrounds are evenly lit, sometimes impossible in a situation like this.  Just have to accept the fact that at times part of the image may wind up overexposed.

Speaking of which, one of the hardest things to shoot is actually the bride’s dress.  The reason is because it’s white and something white is always going to get overexposed before anything else on screen, so you have to be carefully when there’s a strong sunlight.