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TravelBugDove
February 01, 2016
This photograph is a real treasure!! Amazing work & such a special capture!! This is so unique & the coloring, lighting, background, umbrella touch, and moment is perfect!! You are an amazing photographer as you made bad photo shoot weather into a perfect weather photo shoot!! Congratulations & well deserved!!
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Location
I took this at a wedding in the UK in Gloucestershire.Time
it was a couple of hours after sunset, it was dark and cold and raining heavily!Lighting
I used two speedlights in this photo. The speedlight behind was bare and zoomed in to around 100mm. The reason for this is to light up all the rain droplets from behind. The front speedlight was behind a small softbox and was used to light the couple.Equipment
A Nikon D810 with a Manfrotto tripod. I had a Nikon 70 - 200mm VRII zoom and used two Nikon SB900 speed lightsInspiration
The idea was to create something magical using the rain for the couple. I have experimented a lot with this effect but this is one of my favourites.Editing
Not too much, mainly just brightness, contrast, saturation and a little vignette.In my camera bag
It depends on the shoot I am on, as I shoot a lot of varied subjects. But for weddings I now shoot on a Nikon D850, with a D810 as back up. I have the holy trinity of Nikon lenses (14 - 24mm, 24 - 70mm and 70 - 200mm) and a Sigma Art 35 f/1.4 that I use a lot for portraits. For lighting I have three SB 900 flashes with various modifiers.Feedback
The main trick is to use a back flash to light up the rain from behind. Make sure you use the couple to block the back flash (otherwise you get very harsh flare). Zooming the flash and having it on high power often helps. I would recommend using a tripod and if its very dark then use a light on the couple to focus. It's actually a very simple shot to pull off, its just getting the flash power balanced against the ambient light (if you want to use ambient in the shot).