stephanoskaraoulis

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Sep, 2016

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Behind The Lens

Location

This wedding photo was taken at Zappeio in Athens Greece. The Zappeion Mansion, or simply Zappeion, is one of the most important buildings in Athens. It is located south of the National Garden and the Old Palace and west of the Panathenaic Stadium. Its erection was funded by the national benefactor Evangelis Zappas and was completed in 1888. The neoclassical mansion is interwoven with the history of modern Greece. Today it operates as a conference and exhibition center.

Time

It was taken early in the morning at 8.00 am. We have decided with the couple to do a next day photo shooting in the center of Athens. Zappeio was the perfect place for this photo shooting.

Lighting

For this image, we used natural light as the main lighting source. A small flash was used for fill in.

Equipment

I used Nikon D3s and Nikon 24-70 2.8 lense. A small SB800 used as fill in.

Inspiration

As we walking, I saw the old car. I thought that it would be great to have a picture with the old car inside the frame to mix the "old" with the "new". So the only point to think was how to pose the couple near to it. As Jerry Ghionis is my main influence, it wasn't difficult to find a pose for the couple.

Editing

This image was basically edited in Lightroom. A little more post-processing did in Photoshop.

In my camera bag

I use Nikon and Sony professional equipment. So my bag almost always contains the following equipment: 1 camera Nikon D810, 1 camera Sony A7ii, 24-70 Nikon 2,8, 70-200 Sigma 2,8, some prime lenses, 2 flash units, and many memory cards!

Feedback

Our digital era and technology allow many who are not professionally occupied with photography to have easy access to it and to sometimes claim many jobs from professional photographers. This is quite usual, especially with wedding photos, where any "Uncle Bob" assumes the title of an expert and puts himself over any professional. So I believe that today's professional wedding and portrait photographer must be well acquainted with posing and lighting, to be familiar with his equipment, ability, and basic photo processing. This can be achieved only with continuous education and hard work. He will have to look back at older seasoned photographers so as to know the basic rules of posing and lighting and to be inspired by the young great photographers, so as to present something completely different. Finally, participation in professional communities, such as Viewbug is important because through them a professional can benefit and develop even more, technically and professionally alike, the lighting and how this affects our photograph.

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