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A Sad Bride

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These are an interesting mix of wedding photography and 'modeling' poses. I don't know how many brides I would encounter who would be interested in these poses; but I do like them. I don't care very much for some of your color toning though. I think it pushes them a bit too far and adds an element that is not needed. I would like them more in a warm black and white. Interesting work.
 
What country do you go to, to get a bride to lay on a dirty brick floor in her dress?
 
these are stunning as usual, i always love your work, and your brides must be the furthest thing from sad when they see their photos. I love your choices of toning for the B&W's versus the typical. Now why the gravestone???

Josh
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They are gorgeous photos from a compositional and emotive point of view - really outstanding... BUT I have to wonder if the "Sad Bride" motif is the only perspective coming through? The pictures speak to me of a beautiful woman in a wedding dress with a talented photographer - NOT of a bride on her wedding day...

You don't happen to have any of the same bride looking like she was looking forward to the wedding do you? :-)

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She probably just sees the future. Majority of marriages are unhappy and end up in divorce.

The images are technically good, artistically i did not like the coloring - too strong and weird tones.

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Henri Karapuu
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...to raise the dead!

Did you succeed?

Or is the poor guy still down there, craving the flesh that he can no longer have?

But then, perhaps, he craves nothing at all.
 
I especially like the first three - the lighting in the first two is really well captured and to composition of the third is top notch.

Good stuff.
 
what moves the brides about the "poses" lately is getting a little crazy... not all of them but many of them... (the getting dressed part, to be clear) Nothing compared to what Billy posted LOL

the business is indeed changing ... about the poses
 
Love your eye and the technical quality of your shots, but above all, I like the way you catch the "potential" of your models. This bride is very special and the result is as special as her mind.

No doubt, these are Billymokdat style shots but you did translate her personnality without drawning them with classic "wedding clichés"

Hope she swap clothes after the session as sitting into the water doesn't help much in such ceremonies ;0)

Thanks for sharing, definitely original although like others here I think that some tones and duotones are a bit overdone

Ludo from Paris
Tankers of tools, thimbels of talent
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...This is powerful stuff, because it works in so many levels.

First of all, they "work" as plain photographs and stand on their own, subject, camera and setup apart.

Next, they are an excellent collection of wedding reportage photographs, one that, most surely, has made her (them) very happy for their choice.

Then, there is this brilliant "dual-reading" and antagonistic aura that elevates them to a true artistic level.

Brides are usually an gleeing-happy (...albeit, sometimes, also stressed out) lot mostly, well...because, for a woman, that is pretty much THE day.

The fact that she appears as serious, almost sad, as she does really adds a different, almost unique "conflicting" dimension to the photos. You are, it seems, quite aware of this, as you elected to underline it with your title choice for this thread.

Finally, these also work great as portrait photographs. Should they be just a pre-prepared set up, model shooting they would be already great on account of the 3 previous reasons BUT, since they're testimony of a true event of a specific, real person in such a significant moment of her life, they go the "extra-mile".

They prove, without question, that you possess what it takes to be a great portraiture photographer, a quality so seldom found, that few people understand how important it is and that has nothing to do with equipment or even the "regular" photographer's eye:

The ability to capture on-camera the subjects soul.

You, my friend, most surely are blessed with that.

Congratulations!

PK

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If so, maybe another location would put a smile on her face

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Greg Gebhardt in
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