Lucas & Lindsey
Lucas and Lindsey, on the San Diego coast. Three minutes, cliff and open water. Sound on.
Cliff and ocean.
Lucas and Lindsey were married in San Diego, and the frame we chose to carry this page is a plain one: the two of them kissing, open ocean behind, a sandstone cliff face filling the rest of it. It is a long lens at a distance that lets the cliff and the water sit behind them without either one crowding the frame.
The film runs three minutes and twenty-one seconds. It is worth watching with sound: on that stretch of coast the surf never fully drops out, and we would rather record that than bury it. Full screen, headphones if you have them.
Notes on San Diego.
San Diego's coast faces west, so the sun sets over open water and the last hour of light lands flat on a couple's faces instead of raking across them. That is the hour to protect. The complication is the marine layer: through May and June low cloud sits on the coast overnight and often into the middle of the day, and it does not always burn off before a four o'clock ceremony. Plan the portraits late and keep them flexible. The bluffs are sandstone and undercut in places, so the good vantage points are the ones you walk to rather than climb down to. Afternoon onshore wind is steady most days, which is a problem for lapel audio long before it is a problem for the camera.