by Neil vN
While helping my friend David M photograph a wedding recently, the maitre’d excitedly came to tell me that there is a full rainbow outside after a rainstorm had blown through. I grabbed the wedding couple, and went outside, and saw the beautiful rainbow and set the couple up for this simple, but romantic portrait.
Yet, it wasn’t that simple. Here is what the reality looked like:
While looking at a scene, we tend to not see the clutter and the things that detract … until we get the photo. The camera tends to be relentless in how it reports something. At the time, we would tend to only see the beautiful rainbow, with our brain ignoring the uglier parts such as utility wires.
It then often needs the Photoshop skills of the photographer to recreate the image as we perceived it at the time. And that’s the subtle challenge for me as a wedding photographer, not just capturing the memories of the day, but also creating the images of the day as we would remember them.