"Surrounded By Beauty"©David A. Ziser
Here is another shot from my pre-con from Photoshop World Boston last Tuesday. I had framed this image both horizontally and vertically and, while both looked good, I preferred this horizontal rendition. I like seeing the couple flanked by rising stain glass windows on both sides. Those windows add a sense of the "dramatic" to the image. Again, it was the wide angle lens - always one of my favorites - that pulls off this composition. My off-camera flash from the left through a translucent umbrella. Camera specs: Canon 5D Mark II fitted with Sigma 12-24mm lens at 15mm, F5.6 @ 1/20 second, ISO 1600. Enjoy! -David
I am thinking that the interior of the church has an extra warm feeling because of all the tungsten lighting, and I wonder how this would have looked if the white balance had been set a little closer to tungsten and gelled the flash for tungsten.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful location and a beautiful portrait. What an awesome camera setup to capture it with.
ReplyDeleteLovey photograph. The colour of the interior really enhances it. I'm not a massive fan of super-wide lenses but your eye for what suits those optics is perfect as usual.
ReplyDeleteDavid, your signature (in my mind) is always the dramatic, directional lighting. How do you balance the exposure between the subject and background? Particularly, how do meter the flash? It appears that you meter about 1 stop under on your background and you either push your white just below where you'd blow them. Are you using ETTL & flash exposure compensation at about a stop over?
ReplyDeleteIndeed very lovely photograph, and the location is very amazing
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