My Beautiful Bride

I took this candid photo of my wife during our vacation/wedding in

Hawaii last month. Although we didn't hire a pro photographer for our

wedding, I wanted to create something special for the two of us

sometime after our big day. Thank you for your thoughts, well wishes,

and comments.

 

- Eugenio

Very beautifully captured. I love the setting, the pose and the way you photographed it. You lucky man! :)

Fantastic. I think she would be very happy with this quality as a rememberance

I agree with Ken. This is breathtaking!

Wow! This has quite possibly been the first picture that I've taken that has generated such positive feedback. Thank you all for your thoughts.

 

I fell in love with her 10 years ago. We *finally* got married. After having taken this photo, I fell in love all over again and look forward to keeping this as a family heirloom.

just gorgeous, i would have a said you were a pro for sure, would you take the time to have a look at some of my wedding photos & maybe give me a few pointer, your style is one that i admire. great work just so peacefull & and again breathtaking, well done.

Astrid,

 

Thank you kindly for your comments! You too can achieve this kind of photo.

 

The creation of this photo involved a large reflection panel to illuminate the right side, 2 Nikon SB-600s to the left of the photo to overpower the backlight, and a circular polarizer so that I could bring the flash sync speed to 1/250th at around f22. The flash more was set to rear curtain sync. I had to do a bit of dodging to bring in the grass in the foreground, and to some extend, a bit of cloning from greener grass. For the softening effect, create a duplicate layer and add about 30% (or 30 strength) guassian blur; and, finally, reduce the blurred layer's opacity to about 25%. Erase the fine details in the blurred layer (face, hands, dress details, etc) to reveal a sharpened base layer.

 

Hope this helps. Now, go make yourself a great photo. I learned from this site and a few others on the web. Self teach. Have the desire. You *will* get shots like this.

 

- Eugenio