{"id":1774,"date":"2013-01-09T17:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:17:13","slug":"image-of-the-week-keep-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/image-of-the-week-keep-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the week &#8211; Keep it Simple&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simplicity. It just may be my favorite rule of composition&#8230;. not that I follow any rules. With so much equipment available out there, and so much photography education out there, I honestly believe that many photographers forget that sometimes less can be more. Over-lit, over-saturated, over-photoshopped, over-exposed images can really be overkill. During the flow of a wedding day, sometimes it&#8217;s just not feasible to set up several lights to produce a beautifully lit portrait of a bride. it&#8217;s also not really necessary. Sometimes, a simple, single light source is all that&#8217;s needed. I photographed Aasta as I do with most of my brides-using a simple, single window as my light source. there were warm toned shears for diffusion, and I closed the blinds to reduce spill around the subject.  put Aasta on a slight angle from the window, and worked a few frames until I was satisfied. <\/p>\n<p>Now, granted, I&#8217;m only as good as my client- as I always say. But given the fact that I shot this situation within 2 minutes, I was pleased with the results. One other thing to remember.  Sebastiao Selgado once said &#8220;it&#8217;s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed&#8221; Try not to pose her too much, and allow her to be as comfortable as possible&#8230;. with a camera in her face&#8230;..Also, without trying to begin a huge dialogue&#8212; USE THE PROPER FOCAL LENGTH!<\/p>\n<p>Simplicity. it&#8217;s&#8230;. well, dare I say- simple. Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preminievents.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Priya Kumar from Premini Events<\/a> for the privilege of working with Aasta and Sujan a few weeks ago. <\/p>\n<p>Nikon D4, 85mm 1.4G, ISO 3200 F1.4@1\/250th<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20.jpg\" alt=\"Cliff_Mautner_20\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20-710x472.jpg 710w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20-222x147.jpg 222w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20-320x212.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20-207x137.jpg 207w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cliff_Mautner_20-96x64.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simplicity. It just may be my favorite rule of composition&#8230;. not that I follow any rules. With so much equipment available out there, and so much photography education out there, I honestly believe that many photographers forget that sometimes less can be more. Over-lit, over-saturated, over-photoshopped, over-exposed images can really be overkill. During the flow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weddings","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}