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Shooting a wedding video couldn’t get any better. Below are some surefire basic tips that will help you ace the video especially if you are just a beginner.

Be Ready
To make sure that you shoot a good film, you need to be prepared beforehand. You can set up a meeting with the wedding couple and get to know their expectations. This way you will be aware of what they want featured in their video. You could also have a visit to the venue so that you could see for yourself the various strategic places where you will position the cameras.
On the actual day make sure you are as light as a feather to make sure that you are able to move properly. Continue reading →

Silhouettes can be beautiful. They accent a person’s facial features in profile, they can make someone look mysterious, they can accent shapes and make objects & people look iconic. Shooting a silhouette can be quite easy with a few simple steps.

A silhouette occurs when the background is bright and the foreground is dark, resulting in an outline of the features against the bright background. To achieve this, you need to expose the photograph so the background is correctly exposed (or overexposed), allowing the shadowed foreground to be dark through underexposure.

Silhouettes can be made with any kind of camera. If you’d like to take your image a step further, using photo editing software can enhance the silhouette by Continue reading →

Light is different everywhere in the world. Atmosphere, angle of the sun, weather, seasons, and geography can all impact how light behaves. I didn’t really understand this until I moved to California 13 years ago. The light is so different here than in New York and New England where I had lived all my life. Smog, haze and marine layers cause the light to be diffused to one extent or another most of the time. At first, I missed sharp, dramatic shadows and variations to the light caused by cumulus clouds (a rarely-seen cloud here). Now I’ve learned how to work with the light here and it can be very beautiful. Continue reading →