*Bleh, my photo links keep on disappearing because I have sync the Web Album..
So, on Saturday I had the wonderful opportunity of shooting for my friend, William and his fiancee Irene. This will be the gift for their engagement/wedding. And the photos I shoot will be on the slideshow during their wedding! As this was the first formal portrait shoot ever for me since I started DSLR, to say I had the pressure is an understatement!!
To be prepared for the coming date, I had went over all over most of the works of my favourite wedding photographers (ie. Hasass & Albert Chou), scramble to test out working of flashes as fills, and several visits to the potential sites that I will shooting. The day has come, we started early as morning light is softer and is angled for easier manipulation. We encountered problems immediately as the site I have chosen was blockaded off by the policy for a emergency situation.
So I choose the next best alternative for the shots I wanted in a nearby location. The beginning was very rough, as I was very nervous and the couple were not used to me in their way.
But as we arrive in the location in second set, Minoru Park, things got alot better, by this time I am much more at ease with shooting portraits and the couple really were great with each other, most of the time I would just ask them to be in the location where I want them to be, and a few postures I would like to see, they would start from there.
Also, I have tried a couple Story telling sets on several spots
The couple watched the bride and groom stepping out from the Chapel
William can't wait to drag Irene to Chapel afterward
The couple playing hide and seek
Fun continues
Overall, I am rather satisfied with the results of first day, despite some heavy criticism from some of my friends about engagement photos should be about love not child play. I still believe this captured the couple's fun characters. In the future, I will have to pay alot more attention to the postures and minor details of the couple. Afterall, portraits is new and a foreign territory for me.
PS. The second shoot at dusk actually went very wrong, I wasn't able to coupe with the dominate light of dusk, and the couple's dress were way to casual to work with.
I should avoid dusk as part of my set until I'm able to figure how to make use the light.
1 comment:
I think overall you did great. A lot of good shots that really captured their personality, and I think thats what is important. I am sure they will treasure these photos a lot more than professional photos (even if they are better) just because YOU took them. Good job!
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