Red Shoes Redux

One of my favourite parts of shooting a wedding is the details.  I like getting those special moments during the ceremony and reception, those candid times when no one notices the camera, but those moments are quick and fleeting.  I feel that I am most creative with the detail shots.

I posted my pearls shot a couple of weeks ago.  Building on that premise, I went looking for cool shoe shots on the internet.  Now, being that I don't have a "thing" for shoes its hard for me to think of a cool thing to do with the wedding shoes on the wedding day.  So, during my off time when I'm not editing (or colouring fondant) I do research.

Research looks a lot like surfing the web - at least that's what my wife says.  But she doesn't question me when she finds me looking at women's shoes.  I think she likes to think I am going to buy her a pair ... so win/win as far as she's concerned.

Recently I came across two cool shots.

Both of these shots are pretty cool - with the muted background.  I like the idea of the shoes facing away from each other.  I like the colour of the red shoes, and the reflection in the jeweled shoes.  So I sought to create something of a hybrid of these two shots.

So this is what I came up with.  It's the same shoe from the pearls shot in my earlier post, but this time it's all about the shoes.  Apparently these are "super cute" shoes, according to my wife.  I like 'em because they are red... :-)