Wedding Photography Anywhere and Anytime?!Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Hooray for Photoshop! Did I ruin the surprise?
One of the first things that a bride and groom will ask about are cool locations for their bridals, formals and maybe even wedding photography. The old adage of “location, location, location” will always be important.
When we were planning for the formals for Kelli Jo and Jonathan we had discussed the Bonneville Salt Flats. Unfortunately, the Bonneville Salt Flats are only dry and available for photography from August – October. What do we do? I photographed them in studio and then used Photoshop to add them onto the Salt Flats.
The first photograph here is the final result. Truth be told this photograph comes from 3 different photos. I photographed the Salt Flats in August, The sky is from the Great Salt Lake in October, and then they were photographed in studio in November. It all came together and it is one of my favorite photographs to date.
Kelli Jo and Jonathan on the Bonneville Salt Flats
Here is the studio photograph. We spent the first part of the formals wedding photography at the Salt Lake Temple. We wanted “real” photographs first and then we shot in studio. I will be blogging more photos later.
They were originally photographed in studio - with the idea of using Photoshop
Here are a few more photographs that were shot in studio and then added to the Bonneville Salt Flats. The other advantage of Photoshop is we can use photographs from Stock photography websites and that will be cheaper than flying out to New York, Chicago, Europe or other locations.
Bridal portraits - anywhere and at anytime
Shooting on location will usually always be ideal. I can create a few hundred photographs easily on the Salt Flats or wherever we have the portrait session. If I am compositing – it takes a lot more work in Photoshop – and so a portrait session may result in 4-5 shots. Right now it takes about an hour per photograph to add people to a different location.
If you want to see some of the possibilities – check out this family photo shoot that I did – it is on my other website. This kind of photography is definitely different – and hopefully makes my photography a little bit more unique.
So with a bit of planning we can do almost anything. The fashion world is using these techniques on a regular basis. They will photograph a model in studio and then put them into different locations around the world. It saves them travel costs. And since I like the idea of putting fashion and wedding photography together I am definitely breaking some new ground here.
Where would you want your photographs?
Fake, fake, fake, fake!
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