Colin & Michele
Palms, a clipped lawn, and the sun coming in sideways underneath them. Sound on.
Under the palms.
Colin and Michele were married at the Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades, and their portraits were made on the upper lawn with the sun already low enough to come in flat beneath the palms.
Theirs is one of the shorter films here, under four minutes, built almost entirely around that last stretch of afternoon.
Notes on the place.
The palms on the upper lawn at Bel-Air Bay Club are the thing to plan around, because they only work for about half an hour. While the sun is high they cast hard shadows across everyone's faces. Once it drops below the fronds it comes through horizontally instead, lighting the trunks and the grass and the couple all at once. Miss that window and the same lawn photographs like any other lawn.
