Just now you have ended a session with a bride, her groom, bridesmaids and many other people, very beautifully, very creatively, very imaginatively, etc. etc. Everyone has patted your back exclaiming that you are an excellent wedding photographer! Now, how about some new challenges? Like TTD? Yes, Trash The Dress is something which if you master you will earn a never before fame as a wedding photographer and it will satisfy that creative hunch in you which strives to show off! You may be Seattle photographers or based in New York or anywhere, if you want to be truly successful, you should explore new fields to conquer, like trash the dress.
Actually the term ‘trash’ is somewhat misleading and sometimes bewildering too. It may scare the bride with a thought that her precious wedding gown will be ruined forever. On the contrary some brides are eager for trash the dress photography after the wedding, because they are already concerned about their valuable and celebrated dress would have to be washed, ironed and boxed after the big day, never to come out again to see another day’s light! Such brides are more than happy for TTD. And here you can create some great masterpieces.
Some popular locations for the TTD are beaches, where the wedding dress can get wet, incomplete or abandoned amusement parks or any other structures, caverns, fields, woods, rocks, a thoroughfare, or a pier. The bride in her exquisite dress descending a ladder into darkness and entering a dark pool or standing beside a large crack in a rugged mountain with her groom or both the bride and the groom heading towards an island or drenching in frothy ocean waves make some fantastic TTD pictures.
You should convince the bride that TTD is not about ruining her dress. The dress just gets wet or to a certain extent dirty. A professional laundering service should be hired beforehand to restore the dress to its previous brand-new condition, so that the bride can cherish it or offer it to charity.
If the dress is too cherished to make even somewhat wet, the bride can consider renting a cheap dress for the TTD purpose.
Your goal should be to create some unconventional and extremely artistic photos which the bride and groom can cherish for their life and praise you for creating such amazing photos. And of course, when forthcoming brides would see your portfolios they should be eager for a trash the dress photo-shoot!