Erin who was my bride on the day named her wedding dress “Ronda”, yes her wedding dress had personality and style. The wedding dress was just beautiful, it was hand crafted especially for Erin.

I really wanted to show the dress off. It was truly amazing. it had a lot of detail put into it and it fit Erin perfectly.

This photo of her wedding dress is as shot, with some minor contrast adjustment and framing.

This same photo as above of Erin’s wedding dress has had a fair amount of work done to it, in particular, contrast, added black. Also, it needs to be noted, that when I shot this image, I also added some artificial light to her face as I knew what I wanted to do with this image. There is an open window that she is facing, but I had to add light to her face ensure that the wedding dress does not blow out. It’s hard to photograph a wedding dress in its entirety, that is naturally unless you have a mirror handy. I was lucky that there was a stylish mirror handy, so I used it, and this is the result.

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WA AIPP Awards 2009

Recently I submitted in some photos into the West Australian AIPP awards, which are run a bit different to the national AIPP awards.

The selection process is some what different, as we submit 3 images in a category and the judges choose 1, which they feel is the strongest, and then that goes into judging on another day.

Naturally I only shoot weddings, so all my images had and will have a wedding focus.

This photo got a great score of 79 out of 100, in WA AIPP portrait category. This is a photo of Angela took at her wedding. It has had a fair amount of work done to it in Photoshop. this photo was taken during the day and her husband Stephen is actually standing next to her (at least he was before the work was done to the image).

Wedding photographer in perth, portrait

The second image that was in the judging was an image I took of Jodie in Subiaco. She is wearing her 2nd wedding dress on the day, which was her party dress and came out when Jodie was about to do her bridal waltz. This wedding photo got 83/100 at the WA AIPP 2009 awards.

Wedding photographer in perth, wedding

Jodie was committed to the task and jumped around 30 times for me. I’ll talk about the whole shoot in another post and will go over lighting and what work was done to the photo.

All in all, it was excellent experience and I look forward to next year’s WA AIPP awards.

AIPP – Australian Institute of Professional Photographers