E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
The shot is PERFECT! Why make excuses for something that doesn't need to be excused? The image shows a beautiful relationship of a beautiful event happening at a very difficult time. The hands tell the story. You can't "stage" images like this. I love the brides matching mask! Back in the olden days before wedding photographers started to call themselves "photojournalists", we used to call it "candid" wedding photography.
Back in the late 1960s, a wedding photographer for Oklahoma City, Bill Stockwell, came out with a very casual, romantic and emotional style. Many of the so-called masters, ridiculed his images as sloppy and "poorly posed". Bill was a bit hyperbolic and poetic, by his own admission, and retorted.."y'all old-timers walk through the lovely wedding garden path ignoring the lovely delicate flowers and pick up all the stones and rocks instead"! Bill revolutionized the wedding photography industry.
You picked a rare flower. The bride will treasure that image!
The shot is PERFECT! Why make excuses for somethi... (
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Thanks! ...the staged stuff is important but the "moment" ones are what makes the Bride cry....tears are the barometer of how well I did to capture the day. If the bride doesnt tear-up in the review...I failed :-)