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 04/29/2008 09:06:50 PM · #1
I love the concept!

Speccially if it envolves sove whater.

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.

Nuno
 04/29/2008 09:26:29 PM · #2
You might want to talk to grigrigirl.. she has some video's on her site..
posting one now.. so great!!!

Grigrigirl trash the dress video

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 04/29/2008 09:53:12 PM · #3
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!
 04/29/2008 10:06:59 PM · #4
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!
 04/29/2008 10:30:40 PM · #5
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!


This one.....

04/30/2008 05:50:42 AM · #6
That's the one! Thanks Judi! :-)
 04/30/2008 07:26:12 AM · #7
I've done it.

Here is my work. Not grigrigirl caliber but I still like them.
//kimberlynicholephotography.com

Click on Portfolio, then trash the dress.

I included it in the package when they pick an all day package.

Message edited by author 2008-04-30 07:27:02.
 04/30/2008 09:25:12 AM · #8
Thank's for the imput.

I was thinking in paying for the cleaning of the dress afterwards, at least in the firt sessions to get some portfolio.

After that if they want, what's the reason to pay if the photos are for them?
 04/30/2008 09:27:59 AM · #9
Originally posted by Nuno:
Thank's for the imput.

I was thinking in paying for the cleaning of the dress afterwards, at least in the firt sessions to get some portfolio.

After that if they want, what's the reason to pay if the photos are for them?


Depending on what you do, the dress may not be salvageable at all, never mind cleanable.
 04/30/2008 09:38:56 AM · #10
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.

One from yesterday

I wold post more but I've got one in a challenge at the moment and it's a bit of a give away...
 04/30/2008 10:56:20 AM · #11
Thank's Tim.

I suppose the bright light coming from the left is a off camera flash. I'm I right?
 04/30/2008 12:11:05 PM · #12
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.
 04/30/2008 12:12:43 PM · #13

grigrigirl
 04/30/2008 12:36:49 PM · #14
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!
 04/30/2008 12:43:43 PM · #15
I shot with John once, he was so nice and has a truly unique vision!!

I just had to post my all time favorite trash the dress session! :0P
(just a little humor for ya'll!)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFtuY0EiMeQ
 04/30/2008 12:54:02 PM · #16
I asked the bride and she thought about it for 10 seconds and went for it. She loved the idea and shots.
04/30/2008 01:17:43 PM · #17
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?
 04/30/2008 02:12:51 PM · #18
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!


This one.....
05/15/2008 09:54:03 PM · #19
Originally posted by alanfreed:
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.
 05/16/2008 03:02:01 AM · #20
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.
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