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Taking images with a vintage truck

Taking images with a vintage truck

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Taking images with a vintage truck

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Now that we've talked about working with props in different ways, we're going to shift our focus to capturing some images with the getaway car. You know at 50% of weddings, approximately, there's some sort of an interesting car. In our particular case, we had this great, old vintage truck that I had borrowed from a good friend. So as we walked around the corner, at first I realized I don't know what I'm going to do. And it made me think I don't have a lot of experience of photographing people with cars. You just have to try something out. So I had her stand up on the side of the truck and kind of lean off the edge. Also, because it was a pickup truck, I knew I wanted to have her sitting in the back of it. I also had this idea of using a ladder and shooting down to sort of reduce and simplify, yet as I did that, I realized it wasn't very interesting, because all of a sudden, you really notice the white plywood in the back of the truck and so, those shots didn't work. You know as a…

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