Remin­is­cent of the Sugar loaf pic­ture from a while back, here’s another high-​key type of photo. Now when you shoot wed­dings with brides in white dresses and kids play­ing around, high-​key may feel cheesy and cliché, but every now and then you may get some real gems. High-​key in pho­to­graphy usu­ally refers to sub­jects and scenes that you inten­tion­ally over­ex­pose slightly; often­times the motives them­selves would have light tones to start off with.

Now there’s two ways of get­ting high-​key images. Either you really over­ex­pose the pic­ture when you take it, or you push the bright­ness after­wards in post-​processing (like this one here, which has been brightened by almost 2 EV). For the lat­ter, how­ever, you really want to have been shoot­ing in RAW, oth­er­wise there’s just not enough inform­a­tion in the dark tones to work with…

Finally you also want to play around with the sat­ur­a­tion. The sugar loaf photo, for instance, was highly sat­ur­ated, whereas the one here is a bit more muted. If you really want to go over the top, exper­i­ment with a white vignette.