Creative Lighting for first dance photo

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the wedding day, I really like to photograph a part (actually I love them all, but for the sake of this article, first I love) is the first dance and father / daughter, mother / son dance. Normally these are in the place of welcome where the lights down, doing a nice dark room. I like to create finished by dark places like a beautiful blank canvas, what the vision is to think in my head.

There are some things that normally do not work in places of welcomeLight Art. With an average room size, I usually do is put two lights will be in opposite corners of the dance floor. It is an alien bee B800, the amount of light produced. If you are looking for a Monolight nice and portable, these foreign bees are great. We have 3 of them used the studio for about six years, are reliable and priced very well.

Depending on the size of the room is usually the point at the ceiling and do it from 1 / 2 power. This reboundCeiling light and give a good general appearance for the track from above. Then I setup a smaller unit such as a Vivitar 285 are (Vivitar 285HV Auto Professional Flash) or simply a Canon Speedlite. I'm just going to the power of these depending on the distance from the center of the dance floor and how the room is dark. This is sometimes referred to as the main light or a backlight dramatic, depending on what angle I shoot out will be used.

There are so many different things you can do with this type of light.A common way to photograph these images that looks good is a configuration Vivitar on a corner of the dance floor and the other corner opposite is strange bee. In this type of shot the Vivitar is 1 / 2 power adjustable and positioned just behind the brides head. The stranger was about 1 / 4 power bounced off the ceiling to give a good light complete set. Shot with the Vivitar directly behind the subject, but only provides a low profile, really cool burst of light and shadow on an interestingthe land came to the camera. The light on the other hand, fills his face, so they are well lit.

There are many different ways you can get creative with the lights during a wedding party, you are only limited by your creativity!