PLAY WITH LIGHT
Just because a wedding is outdoors, doesn’t mean the lighting has
to be au naturel, too. Balancing artificial light with natural light may
be just the ingredient to give an image depth. Jos and Tree of JOS
Studios explain that sometimes the simple modifiers are the best
for creating dynamic lighting. “Knowing how to bounce light, how
close or far to place a diffusor near a face, or feather one light more
than the other can create entirely different looks,” Jos says.
When asked to photograph at Mt. Hood Organic Farms in
Oregon, they knew that Mt. Hood would have to factor into the
images. “We love how the metaphor of a mountain says something
poetic. Yet we also wanted something different and dynamic,”
they say.
So the photographers shot the wedding party from a low
vantage point to give their subjects definition, “especially against
a wild pink sky!” The image was exposed for the light on the
mountain and then shot with a transmitter to trigger two external
flashes to light up the couple from a 45-degree angle where the
sun would naturally shine.
AVOIDING LOCAL CLICHÉS
“Knowing how to bounce light, how close or far to
place a diffusor near a face, or feather one light more
than the other can create entirely different looks.”
—Jos of JOS Studios
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