Framing Elements
As I defined it yesterday, framing is when the subject is bordered on 2 or more sides by another element(s) in the image. Back to my home field - weddings . . .
Manual Mode; ISO 400; Shutter 1/250; F-stop 3.5; Focal Length 80mm. No flash.
Sometimes you just know you got it. This was one of those “Oh snap, that’s the best picture I’ve ever taken!” moments. This was 5 years ago and I was using the snail-slow EOS 1DS. Everything fell together and I nearly swooned when I looked at the back of the camera. Of course, that was like 20 minutes after I hit the shutter with that camera body!
This was at 80mm on a 70-200mm. I intentionally pulled back and framed the image with the crepe myrtles there at The Inn at Serenbe in Palmetto, Georgia. Trees are always good for framing. (Are crepe myrtles trees or shrubs? I hope that landscape-architecture-degree-holding-fraternal-embodiment I call my brother reads this blog and can help me out.)
This wedding was one of my first travel weddings in the Atlanta area. It turned out to be a good one. The groom is the head chef at The Four Seasons Atlanta. The bride worked there as well. The wedding and event coordinator for the Four Seasons, Gayle Skelton, helped her friends out with this wedding and enjoyed working with me and Laressa so much that she started referring her clients to us. (She’s since moved on to The Mansion on Peachtree, a swanky new highrise hotel in Buckhead which opens this month.) The wedding was published in The Knot magazine. And, of course, we got this image and the flower girl shot from the feature site video commentary section. All in one day!
Manual Mode; ISO 1600; Shutter 1/100; F-stop 1.4; Focal Length 50mm. No flash.
Yes, I shot this of an inanimate object handheld at 1600 ISO. Yes, it would have been better on a tripod at a lower ISO. I would normally have done so, but there was some great dancing going on, so I had to shoot quick because the “sweet light” (dusk) was waning fast and I had to get back to the action. (Photographic Observers have that added difficulty of time constraints and a zillion things happening at once. That’s what sets us apart. How quickly can we make this scene look amazing?!) I framed it with the woodwork in the background. This image was made at River Ridge Golf Club in Raleigh, North Carolina.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” - Johnny Carson
Tags: four seasons hotel atlanta wedding, river ridge golf club wedding, serenbe wedding, the mansion on peachtree
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