Frank Papini
Active Member
I took this shot at the LAPD Academy's banquet hall... but come to think about it... it could be anywhere! 
It was back-lit with a photogenic 1250 powerlight, set at about half power, which was about 300WS! shot at f/11, with a Nikon D2x, 28-70 f/2.8 lens, with ISO 400. I wanted the cake to be sharp as well as the couple! I did work on this image with photoshop, I bumped up the contrast in order to get rid of some of the details that could still be seen because of the light bouncing off the bride's dress, even though it was shot at a relatively high speed... 1/125th of a second, with such small aperture. I also want to mention that I do not like "posing" these type of shots, I do however tell them to "look at each other" during the first dance... because couples tend to want to rest their heads in each other's shoulders while doing the first dance, to the tune of "another one bites the dust"... just kidding!!!
It was back-lit with a photogenic 1250 powerlight, set at about half power, which was about 300WS! shot at f/11, with a Nikon D2x, 28-70 f/2.8 lens, with ISO 400. I wanted the cake to be sharp as well as the couple! I did work on this image with photoshop, I bumped up the contrast in order to get rid of some of the details that could still be seen because of the light bouncing off the bride's dress, even though it was shot at a relatively high speed... 1/125th of a second, with such small aperture. I also want to mention that I do not like "posing" these type of shots, I do however tell them to "look at each other" during the first dance... because couples tend to want to rest their heads in each other's shoulders while doing the first dance, to the tune of "another one bites the dust"... just kidding!!! 
