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Digital Wedding Photography: Capturing Beautiful Memories
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Digital Wedding Photography: Capturing Beautiful Memories

by Glen Johnson
August 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
10h 55m
English
Wiley
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11
CHAPTER
Creating Romance in
the Magic Hour
F
or thousands of years artists have been trying to capture or create images that portray romance.
Photographers and painters and sculptors alike all struggle with the same question, “What does
romance look like?” For that matter, what is romance? We have romance novels, romance languages,
romantic music, and even romantic places. You can have a childhood romance, you can have a romantic
encounter, and an old car can even have a certain romance about it. None of that really tells us much
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about what romance is. Like beauty, romance is an elusive trait that can only be judged in the eyes of the
beholder. Every person knows it when they see it, yet no two viewers will see it in the same place. This
chapter describes a few of the techniques and thought processes that go into creating a type of image
that contains such elusive qualities that no words can fully describe what it is or how it should look.
Defining the Romantic Image
According to the definitions, a romantic image is idealized, not based on fact, and remote from everyday
life. It displays, expresses or is conducive to love. It is imaginary! Perhaps not completely imaginary,
but certainly a romantic image does ...
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