Welcome to LENSEL this week
Made to keep wedding photographers just like you ahead of the game. Let’s dive into this weeks edition with:

• Colour! A wedding in Vietnam and RED!

• Images that match the digital files with film photos

• What do the olympics and wedding photography have in common?

Alright, let’s go 👇

WEDDINGS

🔴 The Colour Red in Vietnam

Scroll, scroll.

Spend enough time scrolling and the wedding world does start to feel a little same same. So this moment is rare. Seeing something different. Something that makes you stop and go wow.

This week hanguyenphoto posted images from a wedding she captured in the hills of northern Vietnam and we were BLOWN AWAY! Yes by the extra ordinary concept and design of the ceremony area, with the bold red surface and horses, super unique seating and the mirror balls. Yes by the setting, the dress, and the mountain feel. BUT even more so by the way she photographed it and curated it all together.

Her post on Instagram perfectly shows off a huge range of photographic techniques and ideas that are both timeless and current. From overhead drone shots to show off the grandure of the place. To perfectly framed ceremony moments. (the shot of the mountains through the couple is a winner in amongst a scroll post). To flash work (titled) to fill in the hard sunlight. And documentary shots, shooting past people and over shoulders.

A huge part of photography is curation.
It’s culling, putting images next to each other, the details you choose, telling a story with the flow of images. And this post hits the nail of the head. The right mix of documentary, portraits details and did we say colour pop? What a way to work the red theme. Now we are not saying selective colour is anywhere near back, but this idea and effect is eye catching. Placing it next to black and white images or images without many other colours in them. It pops!

What do you love?
Many photographers look at weddings like this and lament not getting ‘cool’ or the ‘right’ weddings. “If only I had such good looking couples, or such amazing details.” The truth is, you CAN go out and create something you love. Whether it’s a styled shoot, or getting more involved in the planning process with your couples or planners. It is possible! Speak up! And just like everyone turning their heads to notice this amazing wedding, everyone is waiting to see what you will do when you follow the ideas and inspiration inside you and you actually get out and do something you LOVE.

That’s exactly what made this wedding, and these photos so amazing… She kept it simple and just went out and did something she loved. This is from the bride from this wedding:

Instagram is bored. So go do something you love.

Huge shout out to hanguyenphoto for her work on this wedding. As well as the other amazing vendors in Vietnam who bought this to life. See more of it in this video here.

NEWS

Happening this Week

• Outstanding at the Olympics. A selection of the must see images from Paris so far. More on this below 😉 

• Authenticity and AI. Could discovering authenticity in AI and not just film photography actually could save photography? This article dives in with an interesting take.

• Wedding Photographer Couple Duos. This reddit discussion on couples working together in wedding photography reveals all!

• Canon R5 Mkii Reviews. Reviews are starting to roll in for the new Canon R5 mkii. You may be interested in this run down of features here at Petapixel. Would you like to see camera reviews done specifically for wedding photographers?

• WeTransfer please don’t change! WeTransfer sold this week to Italian company Bending Spoons who have been known to quickly change up the pricing models on their acquisitions - hello Evernote.

AI EDITING

💻 Narrative’s New Editing Profile!

AI editing is heating up.
Day by day it’s getting better and better. And we couldn’t be more excited about where all of this is going! This week we tried NARRATIVE’s new Free Editing Style called ‘Modern True Tone’ which has just launched a few days ago. And we were so, so impressed!

Try the free style here, or get to work creating your own personal style by signing up here.

TECHNIQUES

🥇 Olympics x Weddings

What do the olympics and wedding photography have in common?
The answer is Briars Atlas.

We’ve seen some amazing images come out of the Olympics so far. But none better than the stunning compositional images by Geoff Lowe. Check his insta here. Stitching together multiple frames to create something unique for each event. This idea, however, has been done before and in wedding photography! We are long time fans of Oli Sanson (Brairs Atlas) and his amazing work. And since these Olympic images are trending, you need to see who did it first! Follow through to Oli’s instagram feed where he links to a break down of how he made these images.

INSPO THIS WEEK

⬇️ Matching Film and Digital. Love these images and it’s a great example of digital edits matched to the film tones. Take a close look and scroll through and really analyse the skin tones. It’s up there 👌🏼

⬇️ Best 10K follower announcement pic goes to…

⬇️ Tom Irwin, a cocktail hour and synchronised swimmers👌🏼

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