Garrison & Meredith
A resort garden in November, and two people not noticing anyone else. Sound on.
Low November.
Garrison and Meredith were married at the Four Seasons in Westlake Village in November, when the gardens there are still full and the light comes in low and long across them from the middle of the afternoon.
We spent their portrait time in the planting rather than out on the open lawn. Roses, deep green, and a lot of shade to work with, which is exactly what you want when the sun is that low and that direct.
Notes on the light.
The gardens at Four Seasons Westlake Village are the reason to film here, and they behave differently by season. In summer the open lawn is the star and the light lasts. In late fall the sun drops early and comes in almost horizontally, which flattens the lawn but lights the planted borders beautifully, so we move portraits off the grass and into the beds. Knowing which of those two days you are having changes where we stand all afternoon.
