“On Top Of The World”

Here is another one of my "sunny day" wedding portraits from this past weekend's wedding. Our vantage point gave a great view of the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. I positioned the bride and groom between to two bridges you see in the background. I had the choice of a low camera angle which would feature the sky more in the composition, but that obstructed the bridges from the view. Since the rooftop view was important to my clients, I choose the higher camera vantage point for this shot showing the bridges. They were standing directly in the sun which I blocked with a large translucent panel. That gave me the soft light on there faces upon which I could add the "loop-light" illumination from my off-camera flash which was coming in from the right side. I filled the facial shadows with my on-camera flash firing too, but with the power reduced by 1 2/3's stops so that it did not overpower the off-camera flash. I thought we pulled off a pretty cool shot. To see the entire set up, hit the "Read more..." link below. Camera specs; Canon 40D fitted with 10-22mm lens at 10mm, F 20 @ 1/250 second, ISO 200. Enjoy! -David