Just had to put up one more post about Dena & Doug’s wedding. Last year I spent a good amount of time at workshops of all sorts. Two that were especially awesome were Jerry Ghionis’ workshop and one by Neil vanNeikerk. The first was all about thinking creatively and the second all about thinking about lighting in new ways. So here were a couple examples from their wedding that worked so well when thinking about what I learned at these workshops
So this one was all about Jerry’s workshop. Their reception was at a cool glass factory and they had this huge retail store. I immediately thought of a shot I did a couple years ago using the glass as a diffuser for the flash. I ran out the car and grabbed a needed accessory, set up the flash on the shelf with the glasses on it and fired a couple test shots and viola…the shot below…otherwise this would have been a pretty dark uninteresting image.
The image below is all about Neil’s workshop. The walls were this really dark green but powering up the flash enough and I got a great softbox effect between the white ceiling and dark walls reflecting the flash to give Dena perfect lighting against this beautiful stained glass window. I just keep hearing Neil say…where would you want the softbox plus set the camera the max flash sync and the bright window was exposed perfectly and the flash filled it all it!
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