I originally have a background in economics. Ten years ago it did not even occur to me that one day I would be become a wedding photographer. Like everyone I knew after highschool
Wedding Photographer Rome, Italy. Alessandro Ghedina shares a wedding photography technique.
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Alessandro Ghedina
Hi I'm Alessandro, photographer for about 20 years, starting with landscape, sport, architecture and interior design photography, for about 8 years my main interest is people photography, I love faces, emotion and it gives me much more feedback than any other kind of photography sector. I'm based in Florence and being a destination wedding photographer always helps me to have new ideas every wedding.
A good wedding photographer must have skills in all kinds of photography, fashion, street, reportage, advertising, with very little time to think and create, I prefer candid shots trying never to be intrusive, I don't want to change the day of the wedding but just take images of what is really happening. My goal is to create something new and creative every wedding I shoot.
I was in Rome, it was raining on a winters day so the shoot seems as if it's at night but in fact it's noon. I always try to take different shots every wedding I never repeat an old shot.
So I took the brides shoes and went out in the streets, the first pictures where the shoes reflecting in some water pots in the street, then I saw this nice street with the typical stones of Rome. I put them in the middle of a very busy street and waited for a car to pass (a very common FIAT 500)
The main difficulty was shooting on a wet street from a very low angle, I used the liveview finder to compose the shot, normally I just lay on the street but here it was impossible, people in the cars were getting mad with me!!!
I just choose a point of view that included the most important symbol of this wedding: the rainy day, Rome, wedding shoes and Italy.
Shot with a Canon EOS 5D MK III Sigma EX 50mm f/1.4, settings at 1/800 sec f/2.2 ISO 100. Aperture priority, Automatic exposure 2/3 stop underexposed.
In lightroom I made some contrast and sharpness changes in the shoes area, some darkening in the rest of image, I used a Fuji 160C film preset with some personal adjustment.
A photographer normally makes the mistake of loving the most difficult shot instead of loving just the shot itself, so I feel proud of this idea. I got more enthusiastic feedback from other photographers, they thought it was a great and original idea. A girl on Facebook commented as 'SAD' probably because of the loneliness of the shoes in on rainy wedding day...but it was not meant to produce a sad shot ;)
A good wedding photographer must have skills in all kinds of photography, fashion, street, reportage, advertising, with very little time to think and create, I prefer candid shots trying never to be intrusive, I don't want to change the day of the wedding but just take images of what is really happening. My goal is to create something new and creative every wedding I shoot.
I was in Rome, it was raining on a winters day so the shoot seems as if it's at night but in fact it's noon. I always try to take different shots every wedding I never repeat an old shot.
So I took the brides shoes and went out in the streets, the first pictures where the shoes reflecting in some water pots in the street, then I saw this nice street with the typical stones of Rome. I put them in the middle of a very busy street and waited for a car to pass (a very common FIAT 500)
The main difficulty was shooting on a wet street from a very low angle, I used the liveview finder to compose the shot, normally I just lay on the street but here it was impossible, people in the cars were getting mad with me!!!
I just choose a point of view that included the most important symbol of this wedding: the rainy day, Rome, wedding shoes and Italy.
Shot with a Canon EOS 5D MK III Sigma EX 50mm f/1.4, settings at 1/800 sec f/2.2 ISO 100. Aperture priority, Automatic exposure 2/3 stop underexposed.
In lightroom I made some contrast and sharpness changes in the shoes area, some darkening in the rest of image, I used a Fuji 160C film preset with some personal adjustment.
A photographer normally makes the mistake of loving the most difficult shot instead of loving just the shot itself, so I feel proud of this idea. I got more enthusiastic feedback from other photographers, they thought it was a great and original idea. A girl on Facebook commented as 'SAD' probably because of the loneliness of the shoes in on rainy wedding day...but it was not meant to produce a sad shot ;)
My name is Michael Epke-Wessel. I am a wedding photographer from Germany and come from the Ruhr Valley in Germany, the city of Essen to be exact. People from this area are known
This is one of those images that will remain engraved in your mind where you see great potential on the face of the bride, an image which expresses feeling, tenderness and where on
