Photographer Damien Milan noticed a “shaft of harsh light” and thought about using it for portraits, but as he took one with the groom, another idea came to mind. “I thought it would be great if I had the opportunity to take a portrait of the bride in the same spot later on, then flip the image in post-production and combine it with the groom’s portrait to create a sense of symmetry,” he explains, “and to give the illusion that they are both facing each other.”

He had just enough time to snap the bride’s portrait in the light before the ceremony. Though at that point the light had intensified as the clouds from earlier dispersed, Milan says he likes that “it adds a dimension of time to the final image.” 

Arriving home from the wedding, Milan realized he could “push the concept one step further by duplicating both portraits in Photoshop, flipping the copies upside-down and merging all four images together,” he says, “creating an X with the shafts of light. I am usually not a big fan of collages, but I guess my love for symmetry and negative space took over here and pushed me to create something a bit different. I am pretty stoked with how it turned out in the end.”

(Shot on a Nikon D850 and 35mm Sigma lens, slightly underexposed, at f/2.2 and 1/5000 sec.)

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