This was a real interesting location and not what you might think. This “window” is not really a window at all. While walking down the hallway in this ryokan (traditional Japanese hotel) there was this little space…I don’t know what it was for but the model is kneeling down in this little tiny space. I lit the scene with 1 Icelight on the left and cropped out the hand of the assistant holding the light. The inspiration or the thought behind this piece is that she is a Geisha in old Japan being sold off and displayed in a window. That’s why she’s not really smiling as per a traditional portrait but her expression and body language showing her not too ideal situation…
This was a composite shot, but not what you’d expect. The bride is not a composite, she’s a reflection on the glass lit by 1 strobe. The composite part is the curtains…the left curtain is a mirror of the right to give the piece more symmetry but cropped slightly more on the left just to trick the mind to make the mirroring less obvious.
Ah, don’t you just love a symmetrical image? everything about this scene is obviously symmetrical yet the couple behind the doors are obscured but if you look closely you can see their connection by a faint shadow of the two of them holding hands…
So the interesting thing about this image is that you start out on the left with the bride going into the elevator, then your eyes travel following the veil to the right till you reach the groom, and he’s looking left so your eyes travel back to what he’s hinting at looking at which is the bride and round and round keeping (I hope) the viewer and holding their interest in this image, so the viewer’s eyes are not stationary and/or bored.
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I love weddings and I love Star Wars. This was a perfect ‘marriage’ of the two. Pun intended.
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