video and photography composition

composition balance provides equilibrium and sense of harmony

by giving an equal amount of space to both subjects even though they are in different prespectives I have provided a sense of harmony between the bride and groom. Tthrough the sharp focus of the bride she seems to be more intense or captivated along with her body language she leads the eye to her husband making his wedding day speech

I saw the white balance as being strongly tungsten especially using the telephoto to get a close up photo

when using the telephoto lense I’m shooting a smaller portion of the scene so tungsten becomes dominant over the sky’s white balance streaming through the church windows

wide angle lense takes in a larger portion/ spectum of the available white balance

so by using the wide angle lense in this picture sky becomes the dominant white balance over tungsten

white balance "corrected" via levels in photo editing program

think I prefer the original image as it’s much more atmospheric compared to the “best corrected” white balance via levels ( picking the grey mid point off the groom’s jacket or the slate grey in the wall finish)

rotating this image improves composition

I’ve rotated this image 180 degrees after my daughter took this of her brother to give the impression that the person taking the shot is also upside down or has turned their head in such a way as to look the same way up as my son.

below  is the original image taken with her camera phone

original right way up photo

Shutter speed for composition increasing motion

using a slow shutter speed here, (allowing it to remain open for longer)I have increased the sense of motion of this man on a wedding  bouncy castle, the girl is relatively sharp because she wasn’t moving at the time while I was  planted on firm land!