Shooting the dress in less than FOUR frames Mr. Moto in Danger Island trailer .
It can be done! Here’s how:
Scope out the situation, look around the room- where can I put the dress where it won’t get wrinkled or dirty? A window? A doorframe?
I chose the window. But. I am SO over shooting it hanging it just in the window. Like. Blah. Here I am. A dress. In the window. Just hanging.
So what do you do?
An easy way to spice it up is shoot a reflection of it in the window. Still. It harkens back to the times of 1984, in my mind.
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So I get my camera settings in the ballpark of where I think I need to be.
camera: Nikon D3
Lens: 24-70mm 2.8 – I chose this lens because I needed a wide enough lens to show the whole scene
ISO 500 / @32mm / f 2.8 / 1/250 sec
I notice that there is a school picture there and it is cutting off the dress, which I want to feature. So that won’t work. There is also clutter in the left side of the frame, and I don’t like the ceiling fan showing.
The top image was also a little dark so I bump my ISO to 800. What I should have done was drop my shutter to keep my ISO low. Which to me, is always better. But that is my preference!
I also stand up higher to eliminate the ceiling fan, and scooted to the right to get rid of the left side clutter.
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oh yeah! I scooted alright
The bride’s Mom came into the room and I asked her who the people in the photos were- the bride was her grandmother, and the other one was her sister. No offense to the sister, but I gave her the boot, and kept the image of the grandmother to keep the image cleaner. It still felt cluttered to me, so I decided to change my composition a bit more drastically once I realized what I wanted to feature in the frame:
the dress, out of focus in the back
the window shape
the image of her grandmother in the foreground
and that is it!
I changed my focal length a little- I went from 32mm to 40mm
Almost done! But compositionally it is right where I want it. But still not done, to me.
Ta-DA! OK, now it’s done! I warmed it up a little, and sharpened it, deepened the contrast and threw a little vignette to draw your eye in to where I want you to look
Happy dress shooting!!
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