Wedding alley or вясельны алея
Getting married is a big thing in Belarus. It involves a lot of activities and people. If you're a couple of days in Minsk, you are bound to stumble upon 5 to 7 weddings a day. There are innumerable wedding churches, wedding photographers, marriage agencies, wedding dresses and accessories vendors, function rooms, special functions in restaurants and romantic location to be photographed.
As I've done my share of wedding shoots, it's kind of fun and nice to see how the Minsk wedding photographers core is coping and if I can perhaps learn a view things. And yes there is something. Being: to constantly be moving and making series in a very quick pace, to stay out of each other's line of fire, while working in close proximity of each other. One would actually think they're using the Nikon's an Canon's as video cams and picking out the best still later during post-production.
In this scene there are actually three photographers. The two you can see left and right. The third already moved behind the gazebo, before I had come to that area with my series for this panorama. The remaining rose petals on the small square behind the trees is the only thing that's left of the 30 second photo shoot. And their driver is already preparing the car for a quick departure (if you look through the gazebo). This pano consists only of nine individual photos, which is for my doing a very short and a quick series. So, go figure!
Technical stuff or тэхнічны матэрыял
So, this panorama consists of 9 photos, shot in a series of 20 seconds (this is due to the fact that a Canon G9 doesn't save RAW shots that quickly). The photos are handheld. The stitching was done with Photoshop CC. I used the straitening tool in the "adaptive wide angle" toolbox to adjust the horizontal curvature. In post-production I tuned the lighting and enhanced the sharpening by adding a high pass filter (setting 10, occupancy 35%). The original pano is 7239 x 3116 pixels and approximately 208MB. The pano has an angle of approximately 160degrees (which is also rather low with regard to my other work).
Wedding alley or вясельны алея
Getting married is a big thing in Belarus. It involves a lot of activities and people. If you're a couple of days in Minsk, you are bound to stumble upon 5 to 7 weddings a day. There are innumerable wedding churches, wedding photographers, marriage agencies, wedding dresses and accessories vendors, function rooms, special functions in restaurants and romantic location to be photographed.
As I've done my share of wedding shoots, it's kind of fun and nice to see how the Minsk wedding photographers core is coping and if I can perhaps learn a view things. And yes there is something. Being: to constantly be moving and making series in a very quick pace, to stay out of each other's line of fire, while working in close proximity of each other. One would actually think they're using the Nikon's an Canon's as video cams and picking out the best still later during post-production.
In this scene there are actually three photographers. The two you can see left and right. The third already moved behind the gazebo, before I had come to that area with my series for this panorama. The remaining rose petals on the small square behind the trees is the only thing that's left of the 30 second photo shoot. And their driver is already preparing the car for a quick departure (if you look through the gazebo). This pano consists only of nine individual photos, which is for my doing a very short and a quick series. So, go figure!
Technical stuff or тэхнічны матэрыял
So, this panorama consists of 9 photos, shot in a series of 20 seconds (this is due to the fact that a Canon G9 doesn't save RAW shots that quickly). The photos are handheld. The stitching was done with Photoshop CC. I used the straitening tool in the "adaptive wide angle" toolbox to adjust the horizontal curvature. In post-production I tuned the lighting and enhanced the sharpening by adding a high pass filter (setting 10, occupancy 35%). The original pano is 7239 x 3116 pixels and approximately 208MB. The pano has an angle of approximately 160degrees (which is also rather low with regard to my other work).