Bridal Portraits

I did some bridal portraits last night for a very good friend. I have been trying to get brides to let me shoot them indoors on a black background so that the images could be black and white. The white dress with a black background really creates some powerful contrast and draws attention to the dress. Finally I was able to, mainly because my friend was nice enough to be my guinea pig.

For the project I rented two 6' tall strip boxes. The guy at the rental place acted like I was crazy for wanting to use them for bridal portraits! But I wish he could have been in the room with me as I shot some of the most powerful and dramatic bridal portraits I have ever shot. I put one on either side of her so that only her sides were lit. The bride loves them and I'm hoping that now that I have something to show to future brides I will be able to do it more often.
I mean, why would you not want to shoot indoors in July in Texas??? Its 100+ degrees outside, with 90% humidity!! This way you can do your hair and makeup and it stays the way you want it. You are not wearing a 10lb dress and sweating for 2 hours. OK, I can't promise you won't break a little sweat in a studio with lights and a heavy dress, but I guarantee it will not be anywhere near as bad as if you were outside!

I can't show you the photos I got for another month or so, but this is the basic setup I did:

Intermission

I have taken a little break between posts of "The Chemistry of a Photoshoot" but don't worry it will be back soon!

One of the reasons for the break was because I have been pretty busy over the past few days.
I threw together a shoot with a male model I met on a modeling website. Considering the time I spent prepping for my last few shoots, and the short notice of this one, I was rather pleased with the outcome.

We started with a few concept shots that I had seen on several different websites. These are great if you don't have a theme or need a starting point for your shoot. I sent Alan my ideas and he responded with what he liked and what he needed for his portfolio. From there we set a day and time and it all came together.

Here are a few of the images I've had a chance to edit:









Alan is probably one of the best models I have ever worked with. As soon as I said "action" he jumped right in and started giving me killer poses and facial expressions. That definitely made the shoot a lot easier!

I'll put more up soon!
Hope you all had a great weekend.
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Breaking the Ice

Welcome to the new blog for Radiant Squares Photography.
I hope you will enjoy an occasional visit to my blog to find out news and get a glimpse into the life of a photographer. I will try to make this as informative as possible. If you have any feedback for me, or suggestions on what you'd like to see on here please feel free to comment or email me.

For now I will start off the blog with an image that I shot a few weeks ago of Destini.
Destini was recently voted Miss Irving 2008 and is pretty excited about that. This shot was from our first time working together.




For this setup we used 3 lights. One light was in a soft box just above and to the left of the camera. The other two were pointed at the background - which in this case was a 9' black seamless taped to the wall.

I processed the image in Camera Raw, and then in Photoshop.