In the meantime, I just edited one photo from my cousin's recent wedding and thought I'd post here what I did. See, sometimes, to get natural shots (especially of people who don't like their photo taken!), you have to grab one when it happens, even if you don't have time to frame the shot well. This is one of those times... The groom kissed his bride and I had to shoot even though I knew the shot wouldn't be well framed. One of those 'blink and you miss it' moments.
This is how I would have wanted the shot to be framed:
I had already edited the above photo to take off the distracting blue sign on the wall, so I took the kiss shot and placed it on this edited photo.
But then, of course, I realised that I need to edit out the groom from the background! I hoped that I had a shot without anything obstucting the doorway on the left... and I did!
So, using the area on the left from the above shot, I placed it on top of the groom...
A few tweaks of levels and tidy-up of lines, and here is the final image:
So there you go - bit of trickery pokery to get the shot I wanted, but I really wanted to capture the spontaneous, natural kiss as it happened rather than pose one, so I was happy to do the editing afterwards. If you have read my previous blogs about my camera shy cousins, you will know why I was so keen on grabbing any spontaneous, natural shots. ;-)
3 comments:
That's so clever what you can with the editing side of things. I have no clue about photography. Fantastic end result, sounds like it's very technical.
Ida
I hadn't realised how much can go into getting the right shot, very impressive!
Oh yes, it's very technical, Ida! :) But editing has always been technical, even in the film photography days.
I can't even imagine how long it would have taken to do this edit in the darkroom... luckily the work is so much quicker with modern software.
Thanks for you comment!
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