Compositing in Bridal Pictures!

    These days brides want more than just a pic straight out of the camera.  They want something more artistic, edgy, and different.  Typical straight out of the camera wedding pictures are a thing of the past.  All you photographers out there who want to shoot weddings, the best advice I can give is learn Photoshop and learn it well.  I spend the same amount of time shooting photos as I do editing them.

    Below is a photo I shot at a wedding in Orleans, this shot was taken during a prayer before dinner.  The Bride was pretty still for the shot so I was able to get a really sharp image.  What I did on this photo is I desaturated the wall behind her.  It was a nasty yellow color.  The easiest way to do this is by simply desaturating the yellows in Photoshop or Lightroom.  The next thing I did is added a second layer in Photoshop of a cracked window.  I used layer masks and blending modes to combine the two images into something I felt was pleasing to look at.