Mark W. Decker is an experienced wedding photographer with in-depth knowledge of techniques for capturing details in a bride's dress. A wedding dress can be difficult to photograph effectively and often becomes indistinguishable if not exposed correctly, either becoming too bright if overexposed or looking dirty if underexposed. Activating the camera's histogram view allows the photographer to balance tones and place the brightest areas of the dress at the graph's edge, helping to properly expose the bride and dress when setting the exposure in manual metered mode.

1. By Mark W. Decker

2.  As an experienced photographer, Mark W. Decker has
captured many special moments. Mark W. Decker
maintains an in-depth knowledge of wedding
photography techniques, including the technical
methods for accurately capturing the detail of a
bride's dress.
A wedding dress may be one of the most difficult
parts of the wedding day to photograph effectively.
Rich with detail and often the result of hours of
deliberation, it can turn into an indistinguishable
mass of white or grey with the wrong exposure.
Overexposed, a wedding dress becomes too bright
and uniform. Underexposed, it can look dirty.

3.  Activating a camera's histogram view can help
the photographer to balance the tones in the
photograph and accurately capture the white.
Experts often recommend placing the brightest
tones at the graph's edge, thus allowing for
proper exposure of the bride and her dress. By
then aiming the camera at the brightest area of
the dress, the photographer can use manual
metered mode and set exposure. A stop or two
up from the needle's zero point often works well
to emphasize the detail in the dress.