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I like that blue color...

That little house.

Yes, it can work. Let's make a shot here.

We are still in Santorini, with another beautiful couple.

I remember in that workshop, photographers complain a lot because

they were a real couple but they were models

and nobody thought they were very much in love,

so, it was kind of complicated.

How will a photographer complain about a couple's beauty?.

That was kinda weird for me.

We always want people that look good in the photos.

And in this case, even when they were top models and people started complaining.

Anyway, in the end you have to find solutions.

In this first image, returning to the same...

We were in this place with docks...

a place saturated with many elements.

We had a small mountain, a small boats

and I saw this little kiosk in the middle of nowhere.

Low angle.

And it was very easy to have a silhouette of that element in the sky.

The next factor was

position the couple as high as possible

and there was a small railing.

So, I positioned them there to make it easier for me to clean the background.

The higher your subject is, the easier you can clean the floor.

And on this occasion we raised them and made a small triangle

with them and with the kiosk.

I liked that composition and I thought: what else can we add?.

That weird / surprise factor...

And there were many stones on the floor

and I asked two workshop participants to please grab a stone

and that they will throw it at the same time.

This has no symbolism, does not mean anything poetic,

it's simply to make a more interesting picture.

Fill these gaps with this stones and cover that large negative space: the sky.

And I really liked the result because it is something I had not seen

and it is a creation at the moment.

Something improvised

using all the elements that the location offers you.

I always look for trash cans, traffic cones...

Any item that has a solid color

(or that you can shoot through it)

It will always give you a surprise factor for your images.

For the next image we focus more on the boats.

We found a wooden chair that nobody was using.

We also found a small staircase.

I always like playing with that, with different levels,

so that when you read an image

you can read it from the upper left corner to the lower right corner.

That you can read all the information

and not just like: the couple is centered and I don't care the atmosphere.

Making portraits with atmosphere will make your photo more nurturing.

And for this photo we put the girl up

and she did her modeling,

she has an interesting pose.

And about the guy, I told him to look down,

as contemplating...

To have that element of forgetting about "ulalá love"

or about "romantic love".

It was simply one more factor, an element within the composition.

And in this last photo...

We talked to the guys about the hard light;

how complicated it can be to use it in wedding photo.

Like we often avoid that.

We were in a sunset and...

almost everyone was using this magic backlight

with which it is very easy to surprise.

I like to use it too, it's just that sometimes I feel that we abuse it.

I saw a mountain in the background

and I had the opportunity to completely erase the background

because it wasn't giving it as much light as they.

So, I positioned the couple sideways

so that the light came from right to left towards them.

Underexpose... the magic of underexposure amazes me,

because of a boring place (exposing correctly)

with high lights you can transform the universe.

As you can see, the mountain is a very large and dominant place,

But since it has no direct light, we can eliminate it completely.

Here I made a sequence to see which one I liked best,

I moved them. He walked from front to back,

and she just looking down

with this elf/bride look, (with her flowers and stuff).

It turned out an image that looks like a photo studio

(due to light control)

but it makes you forget the surroundings.

Once again, I always like to make such an iconic place interesting

and make people wonder: "Where the f*ck was this picture taken?".

And I loved this picture

because it was a great example of how exposing to harsh lights

you can transform a "boring" place

into something interesting.