Saturday, November 24, 2007
Studing posing options
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I've seen this in Hong Kong. It is a style that I think of as spontaneously formulaic. Often it isn't even the wedding day, but a special day set aside for visiting all the right places in the wedding clothes.
It is probably harder to mingle as a westerner in Shanghai.
Funny things, we human beings. This captures it well.
What a fascinating scene -- and the bride is the center of attention, even in this image where she is partially obscured -- you've managed to frame her well.
I'm very curious about the man in white -- is that the groom? And what is he looking at?
Yes, I get grabbed by the white clothes, the see the photographer and his camera's line of sight brings me back to the bride.
I saw it in China too.
The man in white is the groom, I think, might be reading some manga while waiting? ;-)
From what I understand talking to others in China, both the bride and groom wear white for these 'photo' events, thus the guy looking at the page is the groom. What the groom is looking at is a series of different wedding photo poses that he and his bride can do at this park. Thus while his bride is getting this photgraphy made, he is trying to figure out the next spot and pose.
The color version of this in retrospect has a kinda 'Jeff Wall' look to it and I posted that version on my Blog; Singular Images.
The title is a bit Freudian - no? I particularly like the fact that the photographer isn't using a tripod. I could do with a Chinese girl to hold a reflector for me though! A good composition, although it is tableau-like enough for the shadow coming in from the right to be slightly out of place. As someone who got married in a registry office, with Jana taking a driving lesson in the afternoon, these sorts of activities surrounding weddings seem a bit OTT - but it's good for photographers!
This is an almost surreal tableau. The main interest in in the top right 'quarter' (& a bit) but the rest helps with the environment and puts the 'bride' dead centre.
I have an ongoing series of model shoots and this comes over more as being in that classification than a wedding shot. Can't remember many weddings I've stumbled across over here utilising a reflector. The angle of presentation gives a slope off to the top right but the angle of the 'bride's' head brings you back in. It was a shame that one of the assistants was in white too as this would have left the 'couple' as really solitary elements in a well textured environment.
This photo suggests so many questions. The groom studying the page of possible poses does it for me; can you do poses that aren't on the page?
That color version is indeed Wallian.
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It is probably harder to mingle as a westerner in Shanghai.
Funny things, we human beings. This captures it well.
I'm very curious about the man in white -- is that the groom? And what is he looking at?
I saw it in China too.
The man in white is the groom, I think, might be reading some manga while waiting? ;-)
The color version of this in retrospect has a kinda 'Jeff Wall' look to it and I posted that version on my Blog; Singular Images.
That color version is indeed Wallian.