{"id":1893,"date":"2012-11-20T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:34:52","slug":"image-of-the-week-keep-it-as-real-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/image-of-the-week-keep-it-as-real-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the week &#8211; keep it as real as possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep it real. On a wedding day, it&#8217;s easy to say, but hard to do. When you consider that a wedding is a staged event, it&#8217;s truly difficult to produce real moments from elements of the wedding day that are&#8230; well&#8230;. staged. Lets take the portraits of the bridal party, for example.  Many of my brides want &#8220;fun&#8221; pictures of the bridal party. In all honesty, I&#8217;m just not the photographer who tries to make my clients- who I think they are supposed to be. I&#8217;d prefer it if they were just themselves. How am I supposed to tell them what&#8217;s fun???? I will NOT say, &#8220;ok everyone, 1, 2, 3, JUMP!!&#8221; That&#8217;s not in my vocabulary. However, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with simply putting them in some beautiful light and letting things unfold naturally. <\/p>\n<p>This image was shot at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyit.edu\/deseversky\/wed-special\/weddings\" target=\"_blank\">De Seversky mansion on Long Island&#8217;s NYIT campus<\/a>.I stayed true to my style of using gorgeous, harsh light, and I simply told them to just talk to one another. I allowed them the space, and a few moments to just interact with one another. This image was all thanks to them, and thanks to the sun. I simply placed them in the best compositional scenario and allowed them to be themselves. It doesn&#8217;t hurt that the bride is incredibly expressive, beautiful, and exudes pure joy on her wedding day! Of course, I did the compulsory shots of everyone staring at the camera, but there&#8217;s so much more that we can do to provide a more creative touch.<\/p>\n<p>For the geeks out there, Nikon D4, Nikkor 70-200 VRIIG, ISO 160, 1\/400th @ F4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky.jpg\" alt=\"deseversky\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky-710x472.jpg 710w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky-222x147.jpg 222w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky-320x212.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky-207x137.jpg 207w, https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/deseversky-96x64.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep it real. On a wedding day, it&#8217;s easy to say, but hard to do. When you consider that a wedding is a staged event, it&#8217;s truly difficult to produce real moments from elements of the wedding day that are&#8230; well&#8230;. staged. Lets take the portraits of the bridal party, for example. Many of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","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\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}