If you get in place before the bride started putting her dress on, you will have a chance to get a shot of just a dress without a bride. It may be just a dress hung on the closet door. May be mom or an older sister or one of the bridesmaids fussing around. Get some action, then excuse yourself and do the shot of The Dress.
Make sure white balance is right. Take a wide shot to show entire dress. Come closer; take a slow pan from the tail all the way up to the top. Do some close ups of the details. Bride will put on this dress just once in her life, so make sure to document it meticulously.
I typically do this at every time, and this shot will always find it’s way into the montage.
I would also suggest taking a still picture of the dress hanging on a door as such. Although I hate repeating things in each video, I’ve found that a picture of the dress hanging from a door is a great background shot for the back of the DVD case. I will bring the opacity down and then simply add the wording from the wedding invitation over it.
Thank you Warren.
The idea with the back side of the DVD case is great! Quite natural copy space.
Capture every single moment of the wedding day…
Generally I don’t mind people promoting their businesses in such a subtle way. As long as they don’t use obscenities…