Like I said it was a simple lighting scheme that worked for me. As for the you don't know. Bad choice of words perhaps but hang a classic wedding portrait on the wall and have it as an option and just see what it does, if you can do one for whatever reason.
If not and the person want you as their photographer, they will take what you offer. So you have no idea what the market really would accept. The idea about 'couldn't do it' is not accurate that's why I said it was a bad choice of words.
It's more have no place to do it. I always use my son in law as my examples since we shoot so very differently. When he worked with me not more than five years ago at the end. What you see here is what we did. And we sold it five years ago, I have a hard time in believing there is no bride left in the whole of my area who would not accept this. Note I did not say all brides.
When he first went on his own, he did nothing but the funky outdoors or location bridal portrait. I even helped him build a studio, which he never quite got the hang of. He did some product shots in it, but never did more than a handfull of people and all of those with the light of his window.
So now it is five years later and he calls me on the phone. He has bought a bigger house and the little studio is gone. Suddenly he has a bride who has a ten thousand dollar itallian wedding gown. She absolutely refuses to step on the grass with it. I had that with five hundred dollar dresses by the way. So he found a studio space to rent for a day to shoot her photograph.
The only exception, not really according to him, in those five years more than a few have been reluctant to have the outdoor shots and gone to traditional studios for it.
Just as some brides don't find the ,often, poorly lit outdoor portraits a major problem, I never had a complaint about the 'harsh' shadow from an overhead light. Maybe we can all agree on the different strokes theory of photography. Likely it is more if the bride wants you, for whatever reason, she is more adaptable than we give them credit for being.
Or maybe I'm dead wrong, I admit that possibility.
As for the light it is mounted in the ceiling on a ball and socket. Could be possitioned any direction but usually aimed in that direction. I usually stood directly under it to keep my shadow out of the photograph. Remember in those days there was do it over on the spot. The bride would have had to do her hair and have the dress pressed again if I screwed up.
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