But what does a bride ask for it and to be willing to thash her wonderfull dress? Do you have to convince them, or they came to you and ask to do this kind of photo session after the marriage? Do you charge it as an extra or is it included in you "package"?
I want to start to do this sessions with my clients but I find hard to convince them to. Would appreciate any comments or if you could share your experience.
I've had most brides will to do it - but not with their dress. You'll probably need to supply the dress - some clearance dress for $99 - I hear they're out there!
check out my faves...in there somewhere is a pic of a girl on a horse, in the surf, trashing the dress...but girl is another photog, don't think her actual wedding gown!
check out my faves...in there somewhere is a pic of a girl on a horse, in the surf, trashing the dress...but girl is another photog, don't think her actual wedding gown!
as long as it's just water most modern dresses are very easily cleaned - according to my dry cleaner. most dresses are polyester and other synthetic materials.
I've done a few sessions and the brides are keen to do it once they talk to my dry cleaner. And if they aren't I've got a few dresses I can let them wear - at a cost of course.
I recently needed a wedding dress to take to a tiny village in South Sudan. I found two lovely (very very lovely) dresses on ebay. I remember the more expensive of the two was $28. Have some fun.
The March issue of Rangefinder featured work by John Michael Cooper, who seems to take this theme very seriously! Check out his web site. Lots of super examples there!
So out of curiosity, when do you shoot these types of things? I generally always shoot the couple and their formal stuff between the ceremony and reception (and most of them are pinched for time, not wanting to leave their families waiting too long at the reception hall). Obviously a bride isn't going to want to show up at the reception soaking wet, or with her gown muddy, or burned :)
Just wondering when these types of things fall into the scheme of things on a wedding day?
True, Snaffles, this one was set up.... However.... the model REALLY IS getting married this fall and CANNOT WAIT to trash her real dress too! On HER horse on the East coast instead of the west. I wonder if that will make her the first coast to coast dress trasher! :-)
Originally posted by Judi:
Originally posted by snaffles:
check out my faves...in there somewhere is a pic of a girl on a horse, in the surf, trashing the dress...but girl is another photog, don't think her actual wedding gown!
So out of curiosity, when do you shoot these types of things? I generally always shoot the couple and their formal stuff between the ceremony and reception (and most of them are pinched for time, not wanting to leave their families waiting too long at the reception hall). Obviously a bride isn't going to want to show up at the reception soaking wet, or with her gown muddy, or burned :)
Just wondering when these types of things fall into the scheme of things on a wedding day?
I took my girls back out in the fall. Typically it is done well after the wedding.
Just to clarify something... Trash The Dress is just the term used for an after wedding post shot of the bride and or groom to get second shots without all of the hoopla that surrounds the wedding and makes it impossible to spend detailed time setting up shots. Some brides have began to actually trash their dresses a few years back when the Urban Grunge look started to creep into mainstream. I've yet to get a bride to actually trash her dress in any way other than MAYBE getting it a little wet at the ankles. I second shot for a guy who had the bride and groom in a room with white seamless surrounding the room and they had several buckets of bright pastel colors of paint. It started of with just a little hand painting on the seamless and then moved to a little paint on the face to full blown buckets being tossed at each other and then ending with them making out on the floor in all of the color and paint. Pretty killer set. Just glad I didn't have to clean it up.
