{"id":21720,"date":"2016-05-25T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=21720"},"modified":"2017-07-30T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T01:10:54","slug":"wedding-photography-art-second-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wedding-photography-art-second-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Photography: The Art of the Second Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is The Second Shot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever Laura and I show up to shoot a wedding we have a few things in the forefront of our minds. The first is that we want to make sure we are capturing the client\u2019s story in the most creative way we can. We do this by utilizing our surrounding and including whatever we can into the images.\u00a0 We are always thinking about how much time and energy our couple put into planning their wedding. We know they picked the venue, flowers, dress, etc. because they loved something about them. Knowing this, we go out of our way to shoot in a way that captures these things. We call these types of images \u201cThe Second Shot\u201d.<\/p>\n

Often times wedding photographers can get stuck doing the same shots at every wedding, i.e. groom adjusting bowtie, bride standing by window light. We consider these \u201cThe First Shot\u201d.\u00a0 The First shots are very needed but we would encourage you not to stop there. If you got a great tight portrait of the groom adjusting his bowtie why not pull back and get a wider shot showing more of the story?<\/p>\n

We started the concept of The Art of the Second Shot in order to help push wedding photographers to see beyond what is right in front of them. You can read more about this concept here<\/a>. We would also like to invite you to join our Facebook group, The Art of the Second Shot<\/a>, which consists of over 1700 photographers that are pushing themselves to be more creative.<\/p>\n

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How to Find the Second Shot<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we walked into Union Trust in Philadelphia we were in awe of the architecture. We knew we wanted to get at least a few images of the couple that featured their wedding venue.\u00a0 This way we could tell more of the story of their day. The image above is the view from the second story balcony and you are looking at the window of the bridal suite. As soon as we saw that window we knew we wanted to put our couple up there.<\/p>\n

We knew that simply asking the couple to stand up there by the window wouldn\u2019t produce a great shot. This is because the couple would get lost in the image due to the fact that there was no light on them separating them from the background.\u00a0 Knowing this, we asked our assistant to take a flash and a video light up into the room with the couple.<\/p>\n

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