Prague Wedding Photo Shoot: Sunset on Aleš Embankment and Charles Bridge

Walking with Charles Bridge (Karlův most) behind them: a Prague wedding photo shoot at sunset

Hi, I’m author S.
AI sure is handy. Photos get delivered so much faster now, which means I have more photos I can upload to the blog, and that’s nice. In the past, even when I’d shot and edited lots of good photos, I’d often forget about them and let them slide, or they didn’t fit the season.
Today I’ll show you photos from a sunset photo shoot with a bride and groom in Prague in spring 2024 😀

First, the package. This was the daytime-to-sunset package, a 2-hour shoot in total. I left out most of the daytime photos when uploading this post (there were just too many..). Sunset shoots were a popular package, after all. After this day, I had sunset shoots scheduled five days in a row.

This is a vertical shot on Aleš Embankment (Alšovo nábřeží), where I shot a lot back then. Nobody else has tried this one, so I’m the first 😀
I usually take two versions: one with the aperture stopped down so St. Nicholas Church (kostel sv. Mikuláše) behind them is a bit sharper, and one with the background softly blurred like this. Since this is a kissing pose, I picked the blurred one, so you’d focus on them 😀

They’re newlyweds, so of course there should be lots of kissing 😀
The sunset wasn’t a dramatic one, but I somehow managed to make it look pretty.

Come to think of it, it’s been nothing but kissing poses.
The bride and groom wanted lots of photos with perfectly straight verticals and horizontals.. so I worked to keep everything dead straight. It’s the habit I stress most when I teach photography. You have to keep your horizons level. Get into the wrong habit when you first learn photography, and you’ll spend the rest of your life being the fool who can’t keep a horizon level.

This was one of my regular photo spots. A spot where lens quality really matters 😀

I take casual shots as we walk through Prague.
It’s not hard at all. You can all do it 😀

I also catch the chemistry between the two of them in candid moments.

I take care to get Prague into the frame. That’s why I’d rather shoot with Charles Bridge (Karlův most) in the background than shoot on the bridge itself.

Kissing poses are normally a very small part of my shoots, but there are lots of them on this day.

Cihelná was peaceful that day too.

This is another one they used when they wrote their review.
Thank you for being so kind about it, even though you’re sensitive to whether the photos are level.

I shot a lot of these then too.
I deleted every traffic sign that stood out nearby.. Honestly, the traffic sign clutter in Prague seems to get worse by the day.

I did make it to Charles Bridge (Karlův most) anyway. I chose this photo because it captures Prague well, too.

This is a shot I often did during night shoots, but it works well at sunset too 😀

St. Vitus Cathedral (Katedrála sv. Víta) is in there too 😀
Quite a range of shots, right? When a photo turns out well, I just move on to the next place quickly. I can’t stand staying in one spot and just changing the pose over and over. It’s not like this is Jeju Island or an indoor studio..

The result was different from what I’d pictured, so I picked it out.

Walking down Nerudova Street (Nerudova) in strong backlight 😀

Hehe, hehehe ^____^

I think simply having them walk makes for lovely photos.

I used backlight and reflected light to give this photo a hazy look reminiscent of spherical aberration. That’s really how the photo turns out 😀

We finish with a passing tram 😀
I only uploaded about half of the photos. Past around 20 photos I usually run out of things to say, so I pace myself.
I applaud your excellent eye in choosing Sarangbi Snap, and I wish you both happiness and good health always. Thank you.

I used to charge 450,000 KRW for the two of them, and I delivered 30 edited photos and 450 originals. I’m not taking Prague bookings right now. If a shoot is scheduled, I’ll announce it separately.