The Welsh Wedding
This was a marriage between a Polish bride, a Welsh groom with a Brazilian reception on a foggy evening in Sheffield. A recipe for fun! We had a nervous translator doing shots midway through his speech, a retired vicar in a rush to get the vows done before 6pm to keep it legal, a bridesmaid carrying a model spinal column down the aisle (the groom is an Osteopath) and the most cooked meat I've ever seen at wedding.
Photo by Glyn Ryles
But again with the camera shy organist! No filming was allowed in the church during the ceremony so my sneaky friend the official photographer Glyn Ryles snagged the footage of the vows that you can see in the final video.
So the evening was seriously dark, my camera was maxed out on all of it’s low light settings. I used a mixture of slow motion, free lensing (or lens whacking) shining my iPhone torch into the lens and black and white to try and cover up the problems that emerge when there is very little available light.
I really explored the free lensing technique on this shoot. The idea is to create a dreamy, soft fairy-tale visual. The client is looking for a beautiful looking video rather than a gritty documentary raw looking film. This technique produces weird planes of focus and soft light flashes, look out for it scattered throughout the video.
Photo by Glyn Ryles
But again with the camera shy organist! No filming was allowed in the church during the ceremony so my sneaky friend the official photographer Glyn Ryles snagged the footage of the vows that you can see in the final video.
So the evening was seriously dark, my camera was maxed out on all of it’s low light settings. I used a mixture of slow motion, free lensing (or lens whacking) shining my iPhone torch into the lens and black and white to try and cover up the problems that emerge when there is very little available light.
I really explored the free lensing technique on this shoot. The idea is to create a dreamy, soft fairy-tale visual. The client is looking for a beautiful looking video rather than a gritty documentary raw looking film. This technique produces weird planes of focus and soft light flashes, look out for it scattered throughout the video.
From the groom:
"Thanks for the amazing video of our wedding!!...love it!! The second track on the video was also written and sung by him...so many thanks for such a great production!!"