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Captured By the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography
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Captured By the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography

by David A. Ziser
February 2010
Beginner
312 pages
9h 14m
English
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Content preview from Captured By the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography

Chapter 5. Kickin’ It Up a Notch

Make Your Wedding Shots Sing with Backlighting

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Hey gang, you know by now that, for me, it’s always about the lighting. If we can get that light really working for us, we can create some imagery that blows the competition away. Wedding photography is more than just running and gunning, and hoping that out of the hundreds (or thousands) of images you take, you capture a couple hundred that look good.

I remember a photographer, years ago, who joked with me as I was telling an audience that I photographed on average about 600 or 700 images per event back in the film days. At that time, that was ...

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