The Chapel & Bloopers

Back at home, several weeks later, I decided I wanted to photograph Lawrence and Naomi and the kids in a side chapel before the ceremony. I needed some kind of space that looked believable as a room off the main hall of the cathedral. So I used my 'stone' walls, the wooden half walls, and the styrofoam arch, to create the set on my dining room table...

Taken in the morning by candle-light, the scene had just the right feel...

Bloopers

Even with all the planning, and attention to detail, there were still a few things that escaped notice, until afterwards when the photos were downloaded.  Like Miho's missing headpiece.  I was quite stressed when I was taking all the dolls out of their boxes, with several people watching, and I never noticed that Miho's circlet had fallen off.

Bianca's pendent on her necklace had also turned when she was in the box, and I never noticed...

Then with all the lighting of candles, the box of matches and the glass dish for the spent matches were left in view...

For the first part of the photo shoot, they had attached a little gizmo to the top of my camera, which would actually move the background scene into different angles depending on how I held my camera.

Then I had to watch out for the moving red line that it generated across the background.  I found it extremely annoying, so they disconnected it. But it was already in some of my photos.

 But at least it wasn't too bad in this photo, and I could Photoshop it out...

Also, notice in this photo that Naomi is wearing her ring on her right hand instead of her left. It's because the fingers on her left hand are not separated, but they are on the right.

Then there was Baron's ring. I had only planned on photographing Naomi receiving her ring. I'd tied a gold cord around Baron's finger at home, to simulate his wedding ring, and I wasn't planning on removing it.  

But when I started to post the story months later, I really wanted to include Baron getting his ring as well, plus he shouldn't already be wearing it when he slipped Naomi's ring onto her finger.  So I removed his ring in Photoshop.

Baron's Damage

The photography session at the movie studio was fantastic, but there was one thing which cast somewhat of a dark cloud over it. Towards the end of the photo shoot I noticed a spot on Baron's cheek. On closer inspection it looked like a big chunk of his cheek paint had fallen off. My heart sank. It wouldn't be the first time some of his paint had flaked off.  The other two times it was from his beard at his jaw-line, and I had been able to 'fix' it and hide it . But this was way worse, since there's no way to touch up something in the middle of a cheek. I was so disappointed, and had no idea how or when it had happened.

Well, there's no way to fix a spot like that, so I just continued on with the photography.

​He was going to need a repaint at some point, but he wouldn't look the same, so I just kept photographing him and fixing the spot in Photoshop.

Then there was the honeymoon photos. I still needed to photograph that, and he needed to look the same as during the wedding, so I photographed him mostly with his good side showing for the entire honeymoon, correcting any photos that showed the damage on his left side in Photoshop afterwards.