Rebel Fish designs her albums with every spread having a background image that spans the gutter. It makes for some beautiful backgrounds, when you know how to darken them or blur them just right.

Rebel Fish, therefore, is always thinking about the album during the wedding day. She looks for details that she shoots in landscape with the idea that it will make a possible background. Busy items make for distracting backgrounds, so look for things from the wedding day that are simple. A pear, a single flower, a rusty door knob, a table setting, etc. She uses her widest aperture to capture these little details so the focus fall-off makes them look even more interesting. Remember: one of the things point and shoots don’t do very well is narrow range of focus with the fall-off effect. So, when you’re shooting deteails, use an open aperture–your photos will look less comon than what the clients and their guests can pull off with their own cameras…

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