OK, so this is the photo session from the current project and takes place at the reception hall. I remember this day well because it was so hot that day that all I could think about the entire time was having a drink of water. It’s easy to get dehydrated hauling everything around, so you have to be careful.

I just did this tonight and not sure if it’s done or not. And if not, how much work this part needs to be complete. It takes a minimalist approach, but I think it works and is effective.  Super heavy documentary style.  Maybe I’ll let some kind of soft music start to creep in at some point and raise it towards the end in order to get out of it and into the next section, but not sure.

You have to keep in mind that this all comes after the church and ceremony, so the change in pace and style will fit better than it will by just watching the clip on the computer.

The photos were taken in front of a waterfall, so you can hear it the entire time.  There is no way to get rid of it without getting rid of all the other audio as well.  How will any kind of music sound if it has to fight with the sound from the waterfall?  I’ll find out tomorrow.

And maybe I’ll take out a few shots here and there to tighten it up, but maybe not. I guess you can say it’s still a work in progress.

One of the main reason I did it like this is because this was really hard to shoot. There were 3 photographers and each one was taking pictures at the same time, so what do you focus on? And they were all kind of shooting in a circle, so there weren’t too many places to get a shot from. Plus, since they were all shooting everything at the same time, it meant that the session lasted probably 1/2 as long as if they all focused on the same thing, so the amount of footage I got to shoot and work with was cut in 1/2 as well.  I didn’t turn off the camera for even a second the entire time, just let it roll non-stop because I knew there wasn’t much time.

Since I also knew it wasn’t going to be easy editing this together, I just tried to get as many good shots as possible and build everything from there.  As you can tell there’s a lot of long shots- really tried to get nice framing from a distance. I really like long shots with a strong image sticking out in the foreground, like the shot with the valet sign.

Also, in order to tighten things up and speed up the pace I’ll use the directions the photographers give and edit to that, but the photographers didn’t give much to work with, so there goes that idea.

And they say editing is easy…

UPDATE: I went back and decided it was too minimal, so I added some music under it, a bit of Spanish guitar, and a some transitions between a few shots here and there to smooth it out. Also shortened a few shots to make it a bit tighter. It’s still the same basic thing, but made it a bit lighter in feel.