The weekly photo challenge this week was a conflict Photo
and was left to our creative interpretation. Conflict photography can be many
different types the most common being documenting wars. Living in Las Vegas
there isn’t a lot of wars going on so I decided to use a piece that I did a few
months ago called Till Death. In this series I had a bride and groom that
wanted Zombie inspired engagement photos, the session was shot at The Evergreen
Cemetery in Los Angeles California. The overall feel of the Zombie Engagement
photos was romantic with a dark side, with the exception of a few that were
just dark. When I couldn’t find any conflicts in Las Vegas to shoot, the
cemetery photos were the first photos that popped in my mind. The photo I chose
has the bride and groom laying in front of two headstones as if they had past
and are still together. The couple has branches covering them with a vulture
sitting on their legs as if it is stalking them. In this shot I used a 24-70
lens at 24mm to get nice and wide from right behind them to make it look like
you are on the grave with them. In post-production I aged the photo a little to
give it a little more of a scary look and that’s it. I have never photographed
any thing related to conflicts and this was the closest thing to a dead body
that I have ever photographed, and even though I knew they just had their eyes
closed it was still creepy. If the opportunity ever came about for me to
photograph in a conflict area I would do it, I think it would be a great to
help out the world with my photographs.
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