Crashed wedding
Until today, I had not "crashed" a wedding in several years, although I had been wanting to for a long time. By "crashing," I don't mean dropping in uninvited during the event and ruining it, but I do enjoy taking wedding photos from time to time whenever I can do so without being conspicuous or disruptive in any way. And what better place for me to do that than on the grounds of an LDS temple late on a Saturday morning, when a lot of Mormon weddings take place and the place is chock-full of people equipped with cameras?
Thus my decision to drive over today and see what I could find. I only took about 15 pictures, about half of which were of weddings, but that was enough. I took this one from a distance, using my 55-200mm Nikkor zoom lens and spot-metering the shot off the bridal gown. I could have lightened some of the shadows and actually considered doing so, but I wanted the gown to stand out and decided to leave the shadows just the way they were. This image went through very little postprocessing. (I know about the camera bag in the lower right-hand corner, by the way. I thought of cloning it out but decided that might look obvious, which in turn would just make the picture look worse. I also wanted to include some of the flowers in the frame. Besides, I was unable to take this photo on my own terms in the first place, and had to deal with the setting the way it was.)
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Crashed wedding
Until today, I had not "crashed" a wedding in several years, although I had been wanting to for a long time. By "crashing," I don't mean dropping in uninvited during the event and ruining it, but I do enjoy taking wedding photos from time to time whenever I can do so without being conspicuous or disruptive in any way. And what better place for me to do that than on the grounds of an LDS temple late on a Saturday morning, when a lot of Mormon weddings take place and the place is chock-full of people equipped with cameras?
Thus my decision to drive over today and see what I could find. I only took about 15 pictures, about half of which were of weddings, but that was enough. I took this one from a distance, using my 55-200mm Nikkor zoom lens and spot-metering the shot off the bridal gown. I could have lightened some of the shadows and actually considered doing so, but I wanted the gown to stand out and decided to leave the shadows just the way they were. This image went through very little postprocessing. (I know about the camera bag in the lower right-hand corner, by the way. I thought of cloning it out but decided that might look obvious, which in turn would just make the picture look worse. I also wanted to include some of the flowers in the frame. Besides, I was unable to take this photo on my own terms in the first place, and had to deal with the setting the way it was.)
This image is best viewed using the lightbox feature.