When choosing a place for wedding ceremonies and celebrations, not only their visual appearance should be taken into account, but also various other aspects, including what the lighting of the specific rooms will be. This is a question that should be discussed together with the decorator, photographer and videographers before the wedding, because in wedding photography and video lighting is one of the most important prerequisites for a great final result.
Solid wood interiors and yellow walls should be avoided
Photographer and videographer Anda Upmale / Riverside films x photography points out that light is the most important nuance by which photographers and videographers often choose their framing.
"It is always challenging to create quality material in rooms that have brown interior tones with little natural light. Usually, in such cases, even artificial room lighting is turned on, so you have to expect that you will no longer be able to get the light, white feeling if that is the concept of the big day.
In this case, yellow undertones may appear prominently, or the photographer will choose black and white tones in the photographs. In very poor lighting conditions, some photographers may even use flash, which is extremely annoying for videographers. There may not be a lot of light, but the colors of the interior should be chosen carefully.
You should not choose brown, solid wood interiors, as well as rooms with yellow walls, which will overwhelm the light in the room and create a yellow-orange mood. If there is little daylight, but there is a white interior, the decrease in light cannot be felt, because the white tone will reflect the light," says Anda Upmale.
Wrong lighting - the moment of death of the photographer
There is a lot of talk about artificial lighting in various wedding photographer forums. There are photographers who symbolically compare, for example, violet light to the moment of the photographer's death.
Photographer Billy Lotz believes that it is also difficult if a large light object is placed behind the couple at the place of celebration.
“A couple should definitely not sit with their backs to the window.
If the decorator placed strings of lamps behind the pair, it can be, but then there should also be another main light object that would illuminate the pair from the front. On the other hand, I don't think you should get carried away with colored LED lighting at all."
But the photographer Ainārs Mazjānis observed that often the amount of light is not as big a problem as its location.
“A very good solution, which is also used by many decorators, is candlesticks with many candles in the middle of the table - especially if there are round tables at the wedding.
It is best for the candles to be slightly above eye level so that the light falls on the faces most pleasantly. You can never really have too many candles. The strings of warm light lamps across the ceiling are also a very good light source, which creates a pleasant mood in the pictures," says Ainārs Mazjānis.
Without direct sunlight overhead
Wedding photographer and videographer Anda Upmale has observed that there is another extreme, that is, couples often choose rooms with direct sunlight in the windows for their wedding celebration or ceremony. It turns out that such light can also be too strong and take over the desired tones in photographs. That is why, when choosing a room and wedding venue, Anda recommends:
- To understand what are the tones of the specific wedding day concept. If they are bright, then you should choose bright, as white as possible rooms, without solid wood furniture.
- Choose rooms with large windows that let in the maximum amount of daylight.
- Make sure on which side of the sky the particular room has windows and record what time the morning shower is planned. Choose the opposite side of the sky or the one where the sun is not yet shining. Anda recommends a mobile application that allows you to check the position of the sun by location: lumos: sun-and-moon-tracker .
- For the morning act, you need to choose a room in which several people can comfortably stay - the bride, her closest people who join this morning, a make-up artist, a hairdresser, a photographer and a videographer. It should be noted that each of these professionals will still have their personal belongings with them.
- When choosing a room for the morning of the wedding, you should make sure that it will be tidy, without open suitcases, unnecessary belongings, because the photographer will want to capture everything, not organize the specific room.
- When choosing an outdoor ceremony location, you should not choose one with direct sunlight overhead, so as not to create unpleasant shadows, so it is recommended to plan the ceremony in the late afternoon after 15:00. It is also a good idea to check where the sun will be in order to choose a location for the ceremony in the shade, if it takes place near a forest, for example, which will help if it is extremely hot in the summer.
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