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Behind The Lens

Location

This wedding photo was taken in Kea Island in Greece. Kea or Tzia is a Cycladic island of the Aegean Sea. It is the closest inhabited Cycladic island in Attica. It is the sixth largest and the 10th most populous island of the Cyclades. So because it is close to the Attica it attracts many young couples to get married there.

Time

It was taken at noon a day after their wedding. We have decided with the couple to do a next day photo shooting in the picturesque center of Kea. The groom originates from Kea, so he knew to lead us to the most beautiful points of the island.

Lighting

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

Equipment

The settings for this photo was: Camera: NIKON D810 Aperture: f/7.1 ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/250 The flash unit was a Godox Ad200.

Inspiration

As we walking, I saw the old bicycle standing there. I thought that it would be great to have a picture with the bicycle inside the frame to give a balance. So the only point to think more 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

We used On1 Photo Raw software for the main editing. A texture also applied at the end of the processing.

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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