This particular shot is one of my all time favorites. It is so important to me that couples feel comfortable enough with me and my style to just relax and let loose, be themselves. Kim and Jeff did just that. We had a luxurious four hours to play and capture everything that is the New Orleans Experience. We walked around quite a bit looking for the perfect spot, backdrop and lighting to supplement my two flash units. With my assistant holding one off-camera flash, my on-camera and the downlight from above the French Quarter balcony above them we were able to create a very three-dimensional image with perfect exposure and lighting.
They had fun playing and just experiencing the happiest day of their lives at that precise moment. Very cool couple. With elopements in New Orleans I put my nose to the grindstone and try to finish their wedding images before they leave town as many spend their mini-honeymoon right here in New Orleans. So it took longer than I expected, a week to be exact. I don't really promise a certain amount of images for a wedding. I usually shoot around 100 per hour maybe 150 if lighting is challenging or there's a live band with lots of dancing. And my philosophy is if the image is good and just a bit different I am delivering it. It's those little differences that make the difference as everyone sees different things in photographs of themselves. Not to brag but there just wasn't much to edit out. I think I ended up giving them around 300-400 photographs.
This particular one used Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC with layers of textures I purchased. Can't lie here, sometimes you just don't have the perfect ones close by to photograph. That crazy downlight that normally I would cringe including made the photograph and created the 3-dimensionality that is characteristic of my after dark photographs.
Oh also I spent lawd knows how many hows photoshopping black gum stuck to the bricks. Gahhhhh. Ewww.
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