I Need Wedding Ring Tips ?
Q: I'm looking to improve my shots of wedding rings/hands. I'm not talking
about 3/4 length shots of bride and groom with hands... I'm talking about
more of a close up shot, maybe with the boquet & wedding dress as a
background, or possibly on a mirror table.
Zuga net doesn't have what I'm looking for, do you? Do you know where I can
find some helpful info. on this?
A:Open sky or bounce flash for lighting. Bride holds bouquet in her right
hand at waist level (or any convenient level for you). Her left hand
goes across bouquet: fingers together and arched slightly, wrist breaks
back slightly. (Notice that in Renaissance portraits, the middle and
ring fingers are always together.) Groom stands far enough behind her
that his left hand stretches out straight and you see it from the side.
He can lay his hand across hers, she can be on top, or he can wrap his
fingertips around her palm. Arrange yourself so that both rings are in
same plane of focus. A white reflector under the hands is nice but not
essential (have someone in the wedding party hold it). A white vignette
helps focus attention on the rings. There you have it!
I'm not sure what you are looking for. Posing hands is one of the more
difficult parts of posing. On the other hand, one thing you can count
on, especially if you are giving even minimal lip service to
journalistic imagery is that the hands will be doing something somewhere
artistically/graphically interesting, either during the ceremony,
socializing, in the middle of the formals while waiting for that dang
cousin that is gabbing when the family is called you could walk right up
to the couple cause while waiting she is snuggling up and clasping his
lapels, or you have posed them so their ring hands are showing nicely
(the duke and dutchess pose is great for this) or even during the cake
cutting.
If you are talking about the rings in the box or laying out separately,
you could ask to borrow them during a lull in the reception and either
do them in the box next to the cake with the bouquet, or if loose,
insert them into a fairly tight rose bud, set them on top of a bottle of
champaign, or if before the ceremony lay the open box on the bed with
some of the accessories, either the dress, shoes, or if at the grooms,
next to a bow tie laying on the bed. If outside the church, lay the
fancy bag the rings came in (they nearly always bring the bag since all
the packaging costs probably as much as a plain band would wholesale