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wedding photography – tips for detail shots of the wedding rings

July 31, 2011

wedding photography – tips for detail shots of the wedding rings

In photographing the detail images of the wedding rings, there are a few things to aim for:
- context within which to place the rings,
- a few images with different angles,
- great lighting which is easily achievable.

Then we also have to take care of the depth-of-field and the tricky focusing …

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Sydney & Paul – their wedding day – fusion clip

July 12, 2011

Sydney & Paul – their wedding day – photo & video fusion clip

This idea of blending photographs and video snippets from a wedding, into a fusion clip, still fascinates me. In a 5 to 6 minute clip you’re able to give a nicely condensed view of the wedding day. Combining the photos and video in a sensible way that visually makes sense, takes time however.  And Jessica and I are still on the learning curve. (Is it even possible to really get to to the top of things these days with the rapidly accelerated pace of digital photography?) Anyway, I love the results so far!

So here it is – the latest fusion clip of a wedding I photographed,
with Jessica shooting & editing the video.
The music track is a royalty-free track provided via Triple Scoop Music.

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wedding photography – a photo-journalistic style, or more posed?

May 23, 2011

wedding photography – a photo-journalistic style … or more posed?

A photographer who attended the recent flash photography workshop here in New York, asked me an interesting question regarding my wedding photography style. His observation was about how I seemed to consistently get such well-timed un-posed and natural looking images with my wedding photography. Since my explanation seemed to surprise him, and even bordered on being a real aha! moment for him, I thought it could serve as an article here which might interest other wedding photographers.

When asked by photographers about my style of wedding photography, I like to reply that I don’t quite subscribe to the purist photojournalism, nor the traditionalist style. I think my approach is more along the lines of get-the-job-done-alism.

Instead of subscribing rigidly to a defined style, I’m there to give the bride and groom the best photographs I can on the day. And for this, my approach has to be flexible …

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favorite image from the weekend

June 13, 2010


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Often seen in wedding portfolios, this is always a fun setup to do with groomsmen – the Reservoir Dogs style walk towards the camera. A great group of guys, good light with a nice background, and you have the ingredients for a photograph that the couple will just love.

I fired off a rapid series of shots to make sure I have at least one image where the motion and expression of everyone worked.  I didn’t need flash, and it would’ve been difficult to set up properly with a large group of people walking towards the camera.  So the light depended entirely on the shot being set up like this, with the light from behind them somewhere.  The post-processing? No actions or filter.  Just a few sliders in ACR (hosted in Bridge), to give a faded retro look.  Hopefully the final image has a cinematic look to it that will be a wonderful reminder of the couple’s wedding day.

settings: 1/500 @ f5.6 @ 400 ISO)
Nikon D3;   Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S II (B&H)

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