Another Wedding Cake
Last weekend Alicia made this fake wedding cake so I could take some more pictures. I brought it home Monday, but decided to buy a couple more flash guns so pictures had to wait until this weekend.
I’m using the beauty dish behind the diffusion panel in these shots to the right of the camera as the main light along with a snooted flash opposite the main aimed at the flowers on top. I’m still learning lights and mostly just throwing stuff up and seeing what works. So far, I’m getting results, but it’s mostly pure dumb luck at this point.
Something else I’m learning from Dawn is that the shot is only half the battle: post-processing can make or break a photograph. Which isn’t to say that the capture itself doesn’t matter. The thing I have to keep in mind is that the two work together to varying degrees. I’ve known this, for sure, but it’s nice to be reminded of things every now and then.
These were taken in my kitchen with Ginny’s curtains as a backdrop. In the future I’ll wait until it’s dark out to shoot in there so I have to do less work on the background.
wow those are some great pictures,
regardless of it being luck or not.
post-processing is definitely a challenge.
i did a few photo classes,
and that was a make or break thing.
you can take amazing pictures,
but you have to know how to process it as well.
keep up with the great work.