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Bridal party.
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Bridal party.
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So this is another part of the wedding
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day that we actually don't pour a ton
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of creative energy into.
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We try and get it done as quick
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as possible and we try and keep it
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as light and fun as possible as well.
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Right and that goes for at our workshops,
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real in-person workshops.
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This is one of the most fun parts
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because what we would do with you is
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you would become the bridal party for us
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and we would demonstrate for you exactly sort
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of how we coach them and get the
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shots right.
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Yeah and basically what we're trying to do
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is we're directing moments.
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So when we're with the bridal party we're
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directing moments and scenarios to give us something
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interesting to photograph because people just standing in
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a line looking formal at the camera isn't
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very interesting for me.
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But actually I would say we're not directing
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moments as much as we're allowing them to
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direct their own moments.
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That's true.
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So and we get this request a lot
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especially in the questionnaire that we sent out
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our clients.
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They always say I want fun bridal party
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shots right.
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That's and we know that's a common request
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among wedding photographers.
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We really want fun bridal party shots like
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maybe we could be jumping or we could
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have a Tyrannosaurus Rex chasing us and my
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answer to that is always okay we can
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do fun bridal party shots but your bridal
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party has to be fun in order for
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the photos to be fun.
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Okay so Landy and I have to make
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it fun.
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It's our job to make it fun.
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So we've got a few different little games
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that we play.
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But first we start with just the straightforward
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standard shots right.
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Yeah generally we start with a straightforward standard
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shots which is very similar to the family
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formals where they're standing the bride and groom
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are in the middle.
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I there's an equal number of bridesmaids and
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groomsmen.
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I'll do boy girl boy girl boy girl
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boy girl on each side.
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And then we just have them you know
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standing if the bride and groom are in
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the middle like this then everybody on this
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side standing with their left shoulder forward and
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everybody on this side standing with the right
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shoulder forward.
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Then just like a normal family family formal
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right typical.
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In fact sometimes it happens right after the
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family formals in the same location.
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Yeah and then then we'll start inserting some
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fun stuff.
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So we've got a few different games that
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we play.
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These we cannot take credit for.
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We learned these from our friend James Day.
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If you're not familiar with James Day's work
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he's a photographer out of Australia.
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He is probably the most fun photographer in
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the world.
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Especially for bridal party.
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He's the king of bridal party.
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He's been like two hours yeah photographing the
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bridal party and he'll have them in stitches
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the entire time.
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They have the time of their lives.
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They have the time of their lives.
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I don't want to spend two hours with
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the bridal party never in my life would
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I want to do that.
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But we've got those these games from him.
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Yeah he's a good friend of ours and
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he's given us lots of tips.
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So not all of them we've got from
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him but some of them we've got him.
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So they're standing they're smiling looking at the
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camera.
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After that one I usually do something along
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the lines of it sounds so ridiculous saying
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it to a camera while I'm videotaped.
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It's way better in real life but I'll
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say something along the lines of the bride
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and groom are like peanut butter and jam.
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And you guys are pieces of bread and
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I want you to squish the bride and
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groom until the peanut butter and jam come
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out the sides of the bread.
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And we usually get a good moment there.
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The important thing is is the camera is
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up the whole time.
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Because there's the moment where they squish and
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then there's the release of the moment.
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And the release of the moment where they're
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laughing at the ridiculousness is what's really funny.
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Yeah and this is a good starter one
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because what we're trying to do is get
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them loosened up warmed up kind of you
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know just get them being who they are
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as friends.
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You know often our bridal parties are lifelong
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friends.
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And you know that what they've done all
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their life when they get together is not
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dress up and stand prim and proper right.
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They have fun and they goof off.
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So we're trying to get them back into
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that state.
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Give them permission to be themselves and do
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what they do as friends.
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Yeah.
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So we'll just give you a few more
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examples of some of the games that we
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play.
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Right and I would say that after that
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first one once we move into these next
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ones it's for the right bridal parties only.
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And we'll know ahead of time like we'll
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get we'll have a sense of yeah these
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games aren't gonna fly for this bridal party.
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And it's fine and we sort of know
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and we don't but with the right bridal
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party you know when the clients want to
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have fun photos we'll start to go into
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some of these kind of games.
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Yeah for sure.
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So one of them is secret telephone.
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Right where I'll say who who's the dirtiest
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person on your bridal party.
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And they'll usually laugh and they'll pick someone
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up pick someone and they'll go to the
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one end of the line and I'll say
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who's the loudest person on your bridal party.
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That person will go to the other end
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of the line then I'll say to the
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dirtiest person I want you to think of
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something at least x-rated and whisper it
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into the person's ear next to you.
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And then that person is gonna whisper it
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to the next person until we get to
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the end of the line and then you're
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gonna yell it out as loud as you
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can.
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Okay and cameras are off the entire time.
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Yeah as they as they start you know
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doing it relaying the message you'll start to
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see these really cool little moments between each
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other as it's happening.
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It's not it's not just that final big
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belting out the dirty phrase at the end
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and then the laughter that happens it's everything
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leading up to you get all these money
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little moments between each other.
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Yeah so is that um then there's the
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batshit crazy game.
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Okay so the batshit crazy game which is
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a total James Day original.
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Yes can I take a stab at this
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one?
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Yes.
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Okay totally James Day is the king of
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this but with the right bridal party it
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can help you get some really cool fun
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type shots because the thing the thing with
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fun photos is if we direct it like
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if we tell them to do something ridiculous
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like like throw the bride up in there
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they're gonna look look at us like we're
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ridiculous.
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They're gonna be like what?
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But people love to make their own content
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so if we let them create come up
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with these crazy ridiculous ideas then it's much
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less awkward and we get something much more
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unique and interesting so.
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And unpredictable.
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Yeah so the batshit crazy game looks something
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like this we're all lined up okay guys
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so this is called the batshit crazy game.
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Okay so on a scale of of one
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to ten you know one being super tame
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and lame and ten being the most batshit
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crazy thing you can imagine like one one
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is what you guys are doing right now
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okay you're all standing here boring that's a
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one okay ten would be like create like
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a giant orgy okay so on a scale
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of one to batshit crazy one one to
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ten think of four like like like like
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like the Harlem Shake.
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Gangnam Style.
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Gangnam Style would be like a two out
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of ten.
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Maybe three okay so now they're getting an
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idea of this batshit crazy scale and so
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they're starting to nod okay okay okay so
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you guys we want you to come up
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with pick a number.
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Three out of ten.
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Start low.
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Three out of ten and so they start
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looking at each other and at this point
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often it's still a little bit awkward.
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Yeah what do you mean like hey it's
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up to you guys right and we'll let
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them kind of huddle in and come up
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with a plan and we get ready with
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our cameras and then we say okay you
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guys ready let's see let's see that three
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out of ten and usually what happens is
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something really lame because they're awkward and people
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aren't sure and they do something really lame
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and then we call them out on it.
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Yeah just remember while you're doing this and
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we talked about this at the beginning of
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the course you have to go through that
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failure to get to the success.
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Even with this they always do something lame
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at first expect that.
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And so then we tell them that was
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like that was a 1.5. That was
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a 1.5 out of 10 at best.
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And now we're kind of posing a bit
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of a challenge they're starting to feel a
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little bit challenged like oh okay well we
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can do better than that and so now
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they're warming up and we're like all right
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we want to see a five.
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You guys have a five out of ten
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in you.
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So then they're taking it a bit more
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seriously now and somebody's got an idea and
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if you've had like throughout the day if
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you've had a groomsman or a bridesmaid who's
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the one with all these ideas about this
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jumping photo I got this idea that I
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saw it's like okay I got the perfect
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time for you to shine and that's now
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right somebody's gonna come up with a cool
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idea and now it's their own content right
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so they're taking ownership and they do something
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more interesting hopefully okay and then we'll give
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them encouragement it's like okay well no that
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was that was a three we're getting there
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and so then we move to maybe a
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seven right.
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And you've got to let them do it
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at least three or four times before they
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warm up but this is how we've gotten
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all those really fun interesting bridal party shots
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where the brides being thrown up in the
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air where the grooms got a hand coming
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around his crotch or being lifted up.
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I mean we haven't coached them into doing
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that that would be like very awkward and
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ridiculous for us to imagine that and ask
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them to do it but when they create
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that content themselves it works.
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Yeah yeah it totally works it works especially
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if they've you know been in the limo
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and they've been drinking champagne on the way
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over there plus it gives them memories yeah
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right when they look at these photos they
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remember what they were feeling at that moment
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as opposed to standing prim and proper for
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the photo.
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Yeah it's a fun experience right oh that
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was fun right yeah so we do that
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with the entire bridal party right yeah and
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then usually we'll do I'll just say usually
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on that batshit crazy like they have their
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30 seconds to huddle in and then we're
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like all right let's see your 7 out
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of 10 we're ready usually with with a
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wide lens and a bigger lens so we'll
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get the whole group but often then we'll
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move hone in on like often there'll be
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little moments and we'll kind of get in
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and fill the frame with all of that
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fun stuff that's happening.
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Yeah totally yeah yeah so then that's the
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entire bridal party and then we'll go into
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and and we've worked this all out with
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the bride and groom beforehand in terms of
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what they want for compositions but if she
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wants one just with her just with her
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girls we'll do one just with the girls
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but we'll always start with those big groups
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because that residual energy that we've created through
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those games and that fun atmosphere is gonna
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carry us through the rest of the shoot.
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Okay so then we'll do one with just
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the girls and I've got some great little
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games and cues for the girls as well
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I think there's some in the behind-the
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-scenes coverage of that and then we'll do
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one of just the guys and then we'll
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often do one of the bride with the
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guys usually don't have any games it just
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it's usually just you know kind of stand
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you know smiling maybe arms crossed you know
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stone-cold album cover to do a couple
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and we've got we show that in the
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behind-the-scenes coverage and then if they
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want one with each person separately you'll also
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see that I've got a series of different
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actions that I give them so should we
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demonstrate it it's hard sitting down well that's
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it's in the behind-the-scenes yeah it's
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in the behind-the-scenes coverage but you'll
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see that that series of actions that I
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give them it's for that final photo it's
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for that final photo where they've gone through
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all the actions and then they have that
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release of the moment.
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Well just quick what is it?
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It's standing looking at the camera smiling then
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looking at each other giving each other a
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hug and laughing then looking back at the
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camera yeah you'll see you'll see it in
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the video it's for that last shot at
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the very end yeah yeah and that's that's
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pretty much it for bridal party and usually
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we try to get that bridal party out
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of the way and done before like bride
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and groom portraits because then you know bridal
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party can go off back to limo whatever
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they can go get the party started and
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then the bride and groom can go off
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and relax do the portraits without worrying about
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you know the hecklers following them around sort
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of thing yeah very rarely very rarely like
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I'll say like I can count on one
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hand we're asked to do more formal bridal
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party shots like think Vanity Fair or something
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that's that's a little bit more high-fashion
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looking the wedding that we're showing you happened
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to be one of those times where we
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were asked to do a more formal shot
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so out of our comfort zone out of
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our comfort zone but you'll get to see
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us do one of those as well so
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that's bridal party and now let's look at
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behind the scenes all right so the couple
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wanted to do one more sort of Vanity
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Fair style bridal party shot indoors which is
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totally totally out of our comfort zone but
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we started off with this just with the
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same lighting setup that we did for the
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family formals that you already saw one sort
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of bear flash over on the left here
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and then the softbox over to the right
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and I've
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tried to compose the group here whoop whoops
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I've tried to compose the group so that
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there is different levels I've got a few
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people sitting in chairs and I've got kids
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I'm trying to make triangles so that it's
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interesting for the eye to look at so
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as you can see I've sort of got
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a triangular grouping here I've got the bride
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and groom here and then I've got a
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bit of a triangular grouping here on this
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side as well so
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the lighting is not bad in these shots
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it's fairly good but we thought we'd try
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something a little bit different that we've seen
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a lot of other people try and this
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was actually our first time trying this but
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using the softbox here and lighting the group
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up in three different pictures and then merging
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those pictures together in Photoshop so compositing them
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basically and then the middle of the
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grouping here so the idea is is that
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we'll composite those three pictures together in Photoshop
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and we'll see how it turns out okay
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so that was our formal bridal party shot
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now we're outdoors we know we have to
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be fairly quick here because it's bloody freezing
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out and we haven't got a and I
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probably rushed into this a little bit too
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much to be honest I found this I
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was just looking for a nice even background
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you can see the Sun's gone so we've
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got even light I'm not too worried about
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the light it's it's not great but it's
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not awful either but I'm just looking for
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a night I was looking for a nice
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even background that I could put them on
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so that they would pop in retrospect I
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think I might have put them on the
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cityscape or maybe not had them up on
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this hillside I was feeling a little bit
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rushed which is my own fault and something
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that we're all guilty of I also think
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we could have maybe added a little pop
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of flash here but these photos they're all
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about the moments keeping
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my camera up during all these moments
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so
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here I'm setting up for the the broken
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telephone game okay
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okay so okay so you're gonna think of
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something at least x-rated okay and then
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oh no no you're supposed to be on
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that you have to think of something x
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-rated okay so you're gonna think of something
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x-rated okay whisper it in her ear
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and
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you
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can see here that
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I'm positioned a little bit closer to the
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action than Lanius but but Lani actually had
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a much better lens on back here he
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had compression working better for him it was
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just a much better perspective than I had
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and he also completely abandoned me during this
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section so I'm shooting all this entirely on
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my own without any help from him he's
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stressed out I think I think he's stressing
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out about portraits and I was really mad
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at him after this for completely leaving this
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entirely up to me and that
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was probably one of the lamest games of
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broken telephone we've ever played and I told
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them it was lame I'm just doing all
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the bride and the bridesmaids together that one
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worked pretty well and what I'm doing here
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is I've given them each a number and
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one through six and when I call the
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number they each have to look at that
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person whose number I'm calling and laugh and
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it usually ends up in some really great
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moments you're gonna look at each other and
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laugh then you're gonna give each other a
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big hug and then you're gonna smile and
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look back at the camera okay okay so
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I'll show you so you're gonna go ahhhh
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and then you're gonna go ahhhh like that
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just boom boom boom oh god it's painful
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watching these after the fact I'm so annoying
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when I do bridal parties ahhhh and it's
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all about that last photo right like I
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make them do all that crazy stuff but
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it's really about that last photo.
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It just makes that last photo so much
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more authentic as opposed to a fake smile
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looking at the camera.
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Do you want to just scout out portraits
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for later?
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Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping we can hit
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some of those, that sun.
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I don't think we're going to be hitting
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any sun.
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We're getting further and further away.
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Manny's completely stressed out because he realizes the
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sun is going and it's not within our
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power to finish the bridal partying time to
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take advantage of the sun.
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So we're, I'm trying to be patient here
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with him.
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So he's going to scout out for some
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portraits and hopefully he'll have something ready to
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go after I'm done bridal partying here.
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He left me all alone to do groomsmen
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portraits and I've never done these.
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But I just gotta fake it till I
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make it.
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And again you can see we're not pouring
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a lot of creative energy into these at
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all.
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We're directing some moments so that we get
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some laughter and smiles and stuff like that
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but we're not, you know, using fancy lighting
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techniques or fancy compositions.
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Mostly just sticking them together and making them
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laugh and that's it.
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And then getting the transition shots again, right?
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So she stops for a smoke before she
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gets into the van and this is a
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lot of the times where photographers will, you
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know, put down their cameras and really this
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is the opportunity to get some pictures of
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her and her bridesmaids in a much more
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natural manner.
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Same in the limo.
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Although in retrospect I don't think we should
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have been in that limo especially with COVID.
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But these are usually our favorite things to
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photograph because everybody lets their guards down once
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they're in the limo and it's not so
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much about the photos it's just about enjoying
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time with their friends and that's really what
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we want to document.
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This is a second location we went to
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and it's very rare that we go to
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a second location with the bridal party.
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They had requested a picture with the cityscape.
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By this point it was really freaking cold.
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It was a nasty wind so we had
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to be really really quick.
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As you can see the Sun is setting
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now.
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We've got dusk light.
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We're doing a really simple lighting setup.
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We've exposed for that dusk light in the
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sky and we've got a softbox on one
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or sorry a B10 on one side and
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an A1 on the other.
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Nothing fancy.
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Just trying to get it done as quick
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as possible before they freeze their asses off.
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All right so that's bridal party for you
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and it's very rare that we do bridal
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party in three different locations.
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Usually we encourage our couples to just pick
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one location for bridal party.
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It's usually the same location as family formals
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to be honest and we get them done
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in ten minutes.
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We do the big group.
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We play a few games.
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We do the bridesmaids together if they've requested.
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We do the bride with each of her
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bridesmaids separately and the groom with each of
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his groomsmen separately only if it's requested but
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we knock these off as quick and painlessly
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as possible and save as much time for
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portraits as possible.
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Usually that's the priority of our couples as
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well.
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This wedding was a little different and we
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ended up doing it in three locations but
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it's great because then you could see us
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see us work three very different locations.
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