Bride + Groom with fairy lights

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Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby jdear on Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:50 pm

Hey guys,
Just one share from a recent wedding:

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I''d seen this tree lit up with fairy lights as I left an earlier wedding I had shot at the same venue. I thought to myself I have to get my next bride and groom in under this tree and get some photos when its dark. So I did! My wife is crouching down behind them using a video light to spill light back into the camera and give them a rim-light. Camera is tripod mounted.

More from this wedding at the top of my blog http://www.vibrantphotography.com.au/blog/

Thanks for looking :)

UPDATE: CHANGED TO FLICKR HOSTED IMAGE.
Last edited by jdear on Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:34 am, edited 4 times in total.
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby Geoff on Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:10 am

Hey Jonathon,
No worky here mate...
No image and no access to your blog...it says...

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /blog/ on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby sirhc55 on Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:10 am

No photo showing and forbidden to enter blog :?
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby jdear on Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:33 am

strange! I just had a friend test it from america and it all worked for him - also looks fine to me... hmmmm
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby surenj on Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:11 am

can't see it!
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby gstark on Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:37 am

I must be going blind. :)
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby Mr Darcy on Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:02 am

I get the same results as Geoff. No image + forbidden

BUT if I go to your base site (.com.au) then click on blog, I get there.

So it seems to be a problem linking from here.

Nice image BTW.
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby jdear on Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:36 am

ok I changed the image to a flickr hosted one. Cant figure out why its playing silly buggers!
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby gstark on Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:39 am

It's a miracle! I can see!

And a bloody nice image too. Are you able to wrangle just a little more detail from the shadow areas of the b+g?
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby chrisk on Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:11 pm

stunning shot. wow. so magical...
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby macka on Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:29 pm

That's stunning. Just perfect.
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby marcotrov on Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:09 pm

Beautiful image and one i'm sure the happy couple will treasure.
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby aim54x on Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:01 pm

Absolutely stunning!!!!
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby hamster on Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:59 am

Absolutely stunning. I don't think you need to try and pull any more shadow detail, the blacks are good as they are.

My only real complaint is the bride's train, it leads to the bottom left. perhaps if you put the bride and groom more to the right it would avoid that leading problem and give it a sense of space.

Great shot, and I wish i could do stuff like that soon.

How different is a video light to a strobe or other form or artificial light when it comes to on location work like that?
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Re: Bride + Groom with fairy lights

Postby Alex on Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:29 pm

THat's one stunning image! Very creative.

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