favorite image from the weekend
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, Read more inside...
Mixing TTL flash with manual flash – wedding receptions
Mixing TTL flash with manual flash - wedding receptions
A common technique used in photographing wedding receptions, is to use additional lighting to lift the general light levels in large reception rooms. The additional lights can be wirelessly controlled TTL flash - but more often the additional lighting would be manual flash. Then you can use an on-camera flash, either in manual or in TTL. My preference when working like this, is for my on-camera flash to be used in TTL mode, and the additional light(s) to be in manual. In the photograph above, taken during a wedding Read more inside...photographers, what is your back-up plan?
You can't really see it in this photo taken from the lounge at this small airfield in Wisconsin, but the snow was coming down hard there. Hard enough to cause flight delays and cancellations. However, en route to the airport, the snow was only falling lightly, so I wasn't concerned at the time. After all, this is just a few weeks away from the start of Summer. I had presented a week-long workshop in Wisconsin as part of the Wisconsin Professional Photographers School at Treehaven, and was due to fly back home to New Jersey on Friday afternoon. I absolutely had to get home sometime that Read more inside...
Tips & advice for second-shooting weddings
Tips & advice for the 2nd photographer at weddings
This eye-catching image was shot by a friend of mine, Josh Lynn, who worked with me on this wedding. As such it is perhaps the perfect image to lead this article with advice and tips for 2nd-shooting a wedding. It shows initiative at getting an interesting angle. Exposure is perfect. Framing and composition is great. Excellent timing .. with a little bit of luck thrown into the mix. This image is also a good point for the topic of the second photographer's business ethics. For me, a second photographer isn't merely someone who Read more inside...wedding photography – anticipation and timing
style in wedding photography - anticipation and timing
I'm sure every photographer has this experience, where your shutter trips, and you just know you have the shot. Something that you see - whether anticipated or just lucky timing - and you capture it. This is how I felt when I captured this moment between Marie and Andrew at their wedding this weekend. I got it! A bit of background to this image: During a Catholic wedding service, there is a short time after the exchange of vows and rings, where the couple are seated again for the Mass. With everyone's attention now on the Read more inside...wedding photography ideas – going above and beyond …
This week's guest blog post is by a Calgary wedding photographer, Mark Pawlyszyn. Mark's style in his wedding photography has steadily become more impressive over the course of just a few years. As such I am very honored that he agreed to a guest spot on the Tangents blog.
