Everyone knows that Venice is an ideal setting for photo shooting, especially for couples’ photo portraits.
This is obviously due to the city’s highly romantic atmosphere, the light effects created by water and its typical architectural elements such as bridges, narrow streets (called “calli” by Venetian people) along the channels and squares (“campi” in venetian dialect),
Needless to say I make the most of these elements on my shots when I work as a portrait photographer, especially in the case of honeymoon, wedding or engagement photo services.
A typical Venetian architectural element which is often ignored, or at least undervalued, by may photographer is the arcade (which is called “sottoportego” in Venetian dialect). Venice is full of small or big short or long arcades, which in most cases were built to offer a shelter from rain to passers-by.
couples hugging under an arcade are fine subjects for photo portraits in VeniceI used arcades several times during my photo shootings in Venice and found out they gave me a lot of setting possibilities, which were much appreciated by the couples I had to shoot.
In many cases I asked the couples to hide or kiss, or even to run towards each other under the arcade and they had a lot of fun!
couples might play and even jump under a Venetian arcadeI have my personal favourite arcades in Venice…let’s meet in Venice to show you them!
I even let the couples run under an arcade in Venice!
