Kim

Wachel

Here are some photos from a recent shoot. I am currently under the tutelage of one of the best wedding photogs in Alaska so I am still learning.

So...Here is Kim.

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3. Yes, the floor was crazy tilted.


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Shima

Very nice! Love your lighting in these

Wachel

Shima wrote: »

Very nice! Love your lighting in these

Thanks! We had a blast.

Sam

Looks like you have a good mentor and your picking up the knowledge.

I especially like #5,6,and 7. Love the lighting.

Sam

Agnieszka

Beautiful photos, beautiful model! Love the use of light, very settle but powerful!

now ... the only thing I don't like quite as much is the background ... it's somewhat distracting to me ... I really love the bridge in the first shot, but don't like the building to the far left ... I would have tried to avoid it, by maybe shooting from the other side? Same in #3. I see lots of potential in the background (the walls on either side look very interesting), but don't like the spot she was posed at - my 2 cents

Thanks for sharing, definitely some fun stuff!

Qarik

lovely! that's all I have to say

Wachel

Thanks everyone. Yeah, the background in a couple could have been better. Back to practicing!

FlyNavy

What a beautiful smile.

Kinkajou

There's something about the off-the-shoulder dress that looks odd to me from the side. I find that whatever is happening with the strap and the way the fabric is folding around her armpit incredibly distracting. It's just weird, but it's the nature of the dress. There is one shot where her hair is covering that area of the dress and it just seems so much more agreeable to me (#4), so maybe for those of us who end up shooting a bride in a dress like this we can remember this trick (or a pose like #2) to conceal the weirdness.

Technically, the photos are great - very clean and lovely light.

kevingeary

What were you using to light her?

richardwangphotography

I very much enjoyed the pictures, especially how you used your lighting. It was very effective overpowered the sunlight. And the dramatic sky in the last two are very well done.

I agree with both Agnieszka and Kinkajou concerning both the background and the dress.

I always have a box of Hollywood Fashion Tape in my session bag and that generally takes care any thing like the strap problem. It would also would keep the seam of her bodice down.

Perhaps it a stylistic issue, but did the bride want her hair unkempt? Of course there seems to be a trend in the last few years of brides wanting "Sexy/Just got out of bed" hair.

Wachel

Thank you all for the comments. There is room for improvement. My "instructor" photographer scolds me all the time about that stuff! ....

To light her in the full sun we had 3 580EXII flashes firing through an umbrella. Most of the other ones in which I used flash had a 24in cowboy softbox with a 580EXII.