Wedding photos in HDR: Giardino degli Aranci

in Blog, Post Archive, Wedding photography by andreamatone — May 30, 2010 at 10:13 | 0 comments

HDR photography is a very appealing medium and may perhaps represent a very interesting pathway for photography in the future.  Some aspects of this type of photo technique attract me.  I find other attempts to be too artificial and therefore unnatural and undesirable.   I am pleased with the effect when it allows the viewer to appreciated all the tonalities of the pictures and the different changes in contrast allowing for all the deeper shades of black to come through the photo.

To commercially apply the effect to wedding photography is no easy task as the photographer, as well as the subjects, need to be perfectly still.  The photographer obtains the HDR effect by assembling a series of pictures in post-production.  Even a slight move by the subject might throw off the overlapping.

The HDR picture shown at top was taken at Giardino degli Aranci here in the heart of Rome. A day in which rain alternated with sunshine. The depth of field, the contrast range, the colors, the moment all concur in making this what I consider a unique wedding picture.

The moment seems frozen in time.  The gesture of caressing hair is immobile.  There is no one there but them and this moment in silence.  The empty L shaped marble bench on the left gives off a sensation of solitude, of emptiness, filled up with the very romantic moment on the right.

Check out other HDR imagery applied to weddings or pre and post wedding photography: HDR Photo Tour

Not all pictures were taken in HDR.  Here is a few more:

Giardino degli Aranci. Rome, Italy

Spanish steps. Piazza di Spagna. Rome, Italy