Set to shoot a South-Asian wedding, Tamara Gruner knew she wanted to take the time to take photos of the bride’s jewelry and shoes. Given these items, she complemented them with a few of her own: the ring holder, the filigreed candle holder and the neutral linen.

“Since the jewelry at South-Asian weddings has a central role, I placed the jewelry in the center of this image to point the viewer’s eye immediately there,” Gruner says, and the shoes went hear the border of the frame so they wouldn’t overwhelm the jewelry. “I placed the earrings on the candle holder to give the image a little dimension and added the ring in the grey Mrs. Box next to the shoe on the bottom so that the details formed a kind of X-shape.”

The dainty flowers were sprinkled throughout to fill in some of the empy spaces that stuck out to Gruner, who photographed this next to a window to take advantage of some natural light. With the light streaming in on the left side, she was getting an unwanted shadow on the right, but that was quickly fixed: Gruner hung a white linen on the right side to reduce the darkness.

(Shot with a Nikon F6 35mm film camera and NIKKOR 85mm f/1.4 lens on Fuji400H Pro ISO 400 film—rated at ISO 200 to overexpose by an f-stop—at f/2, measured with a Sekonic LiteMaster Pro L-478DR light meter and developed by Richard Photo Lab.)

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