Images: rachelandnoahraye and gregfinck
Hey, welcome to Lensel for another week. Your weekly dose of wedding photography goodness. Here’s what is in store today:
Missing Transitions: Where on a wedding day you can find truely candid photos
Content Formats that are winning
A Sydney Opera House Wedding
+ all the news to keep you in the know
Let’s go ⬇️
NEWS
Happening this Week
Apple announced some incredible new and upgraded photo editing features on iPhone this week. With updates to ‘Clean Up’ to remove unwanted objects, ‘Extend’ to add space to an edge, or around the whole photo. AND ‘Spacial Reframing’ which is wild…. and can re-compose your photo after it was taken. SUPER helpful for those last minute edits before posting on the gram. See a quick intro them here. And dive into Apple’s full release about the Photos app, here.
Alter Magazine is a new vision for a bridal magazine! And has released their very first print issue.
Content wins. Is this the craziest, most effective content formula for wedding photographers right now? Probably.
Crop Sensor Portrait Wins. Lens maker Viltrox has introduced two new lenses designed to fill a gap in the APSC (crop sensor) lens market. That is dedicated portrait lenses that could emulate the pop and separation of full frame equivalents. So we have a new 75mm and 90mm for Sony, Fuji and Nikon crop sensor cameras that are looking very nice.
WPPI 2027 tickets went on pre-sale this week at a verrry nice price here.
Busy busy. This discussion dives into the phenomenon of wedding vendors sharing how busy they always are, and why it might not look that great to their couples…
THE BIG IDEA
↔️ Missing Transitions: Where true candid photos can be found
Images: federicabeni_ed and erikagabalyte
One of the biggest ideas from Bushwhacked’s ‘Invisible Direction’ workshop in Lensel last week was the idea that people change how they act when they know the camera is ‘on’.
And we want candid right?!
There are times on a wedding day everyone knows that the photographer is taking photos - in the portraits, during the ceremony, sitting at the table during the speeches, during the cake cutting. Everyone knows that photographer might catch a photo of them.
So they stand a little different. Act more normal. Get weird with their hands. Pose to the camera in a cheesy way.
SO the big question is: When on a wedding day is it not ‘a moment’?? When will people totally have their guard down? Not expecting photos.
It’s during the wedding day TRANSITIONS.
On the way to the reception tables. Finding the….*
+ GET ACCESS to our incredible library of workshops from the likes of Jose Villa, Greg Finck and Danilo & Sharon. 20+ workshops to dive into plus new ones every month.
A little birdie just mentioned we are launching something with the incredible The Ferros very soon…
WEDDING FEATURE
How to Shoot At An Opera House: A Wedding by Benedict Sutton
The Opera House in Sydney creates MANY compositional issues for a photographer. Huge scale, patchy light, purple carpet, water views, structural lines everywhere. Shoot it lazily and the couple might disappears inside the big scale. Shoot it well and the iconic space does half the work for you...
This feature is all about Benedict's choices of frame, his focus on film and his patience to wait for the exact right moment.
See this wedding featured from the photographers POV on lensel.com
INSPO TO KEEP YOU FRESH
⬇️ What in the horse is goin on here. The frame ideas in this series are just so good.
⬇️ Making more of the guest moments and it WORKS.
⬇️ Sometimes the theme in a post or a wedding could be THE WAY YOU USE LIGHT. And we love that. THIS is a prime example.
⬇️ Incredible work in NYC - with a mastery of light in all it’s different forms
Until next week,
