At the end of the day it’s all about light
Let’s light up the room!
So, you’re like, “Len, I’m not a photographer, I know nothing about light! This is bananas!” And honestly, I getcha. There’s so many times at weddings where I’ve asked people to stand in a ditch (that exactly what happened before the photo on the left), or moved them to a seemingly less beautiful location just because the light wasn’t right. And that’s what I wanna do here, just to give you a little bit more info on what to look for and how to plan for a chill day.
“I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.” ~ Trent Parke
I live for gorgeous natural light and capturing the warmth and glow of a wedding day, how it felt. As a photographer, I never want to dictate the timeline of the day, I’m there to capture your day as it unfolds. But, since light is often times overlooked on a wedding day, I wanted to draw your attention to a few things that could make your wedding photos go from really, really good to absolutely, extra gorgeous!
Please don’t feel like you have to incorporate all these ideas into your day, or that you need them to get great photos. Weddings are about love, family, and emotion. Great photojournalism is about capturing moments and encapsulating the mood of the day and there are too many variables for this to be the end-all guide in lighting. Great photographers can take on tricky lighting with ease and will often come up with really interesting compositions when faced with harsh light. However, any consideration for lighting will usually be more beneficial than not.
SOPHIE & JOSH’S OBERON WEDDING
Festoon lights, can you have too many? No, no you can’t, but also adding in some candles (whether battery or firey) on the tables helps supplement and create a soft glow for your wedding.
GETTING READY
Getting ready images are a perfect way to start the narrative of your wedding day. So many really great moments are happening and good lighting can help capture them in a more elegant way. The best conditions for lighting would be a room with large windows and enough light coming in through the windows to light the room evenly with the lights off.
Lighting to avoid is anything with mixed light (example: a little bit of daylight + orange tungsten bulbs, tungsten + fluorescents, daylight + florescent light, etc). It’s hard to see with the naked eye, but in photos, it can lead to odd skin colours.
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EXACTLY what we were looking for. Another fantastic shoot.
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