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Photographing the wedding processional

July 12, 2009 Neil vN 112 Comments

Photographing the wedding processional

The processional is technically probably the most difficult part of a wedding to shoot and get right. Light levels are low in cavernous churches, while people are walking towards you. Getting enough light on them, and having that light look good, as well as getting the image sharp .. that's a tall order. In the photo at the top, the adorable flower girl  just had to stop and check in with dad half-way down the aisle. [  1/80th @ f4 @ 1600 ISO  //  Nikon SB-900, Nikon D3,  Nikon 24-70mm f2.8  ] I use on-camera flash to photograph the  Read more inside...

destination wedding photography ..

April 30, 2009 Neil vN 16 Comments

destination wedding photography

A few times a year I'm fortunate enough to photograph a destination wedding, where I fly out to a more glamorous location than New Jersey.  The Bahamas, Aruba, Jamaica, and even locations within the USA are choice destinations for couples who are looking to have their weddings in an exotic locale. The choice of equipment to fly out to photograph a destination wedding, as well as the way to transport them becomes a real concern.  You have to have a flexible selection of gear with you, with a certain amount of redundancy in case something goes wrong  Read more inside...

wedding photography – and some homework ..

April 5, 2009 Neil vN 7 Comments

Some of the questions that I'm most often asked about here, relate to wedding photography.  Advice on a whole range topics such as posing people, business advice, album design .. and sometimes even lighting.   Amusingly enough, I sometimes get asked this a few days before the newbie wedding photographer is going to shoot a first wedding.   Regardless of the photographer's experience level though, my advice is usually fairly succinct ... that it is indeed time to do some homework.  Read more inside...

2008 overview – my favorite wedding images

January 26, 2009 Neil vN 17 Comments

As most of you already know, I work as a wedding photographer in New Jersey.  This slideshow displays some of my favorite images from weddings I photographed in 2008.  A number of the images where chosen because they I think they are beautiful to look at; others might evoke a fond memory of a cute moment; but they are all images that I am proud to have taken. I decided to limit it to 3 images per wedding, and with only a handful of photographs from engagement sessions.  Read more inside...

embracing tungsten light

January 15, 2009 Neil vN 28 Comments

wedding photography - working with incandescent light sources

As a wedding photographer I obviously shoot all the time in ares lit by tungsten / incandescent light sources. With modern D-SLRs and fast lenses it is no problem to actually use tungsten light as my main light source. The photo above from a recent wedding, is a typical image where I used an existing incandescent / tungsten light source for a beautiful but simple portrait. Here I photographed the bride by the light of a lamp in the living room.  No flash was used - just the lamp and whatever other ambient light existed  Read more inside...

from the hip …

August 30, 2008 Neil vN 29 Comments

Here is a simple technique which some of you might already know of - shooting from the hip without looking through the viewfinder. At weddings, when photographing the party and dancing during the reception with a wide-angle lens, I often don't hold the camera up to my eye.  Instead I rely on the infra-red beam from the speedlight to show me what the camera is focusing on.  Then, using the focus-lock-and-hold method, I keep focus and reframe the shot if needed. This way I can shoot from the hip without looking through the viewfinder, but still have images that are well composed. Here are  Read more inside...

wedding photography: standing out / blending in

April 7, 2008 Neil vN 16 Comments

wedding photography: standing out / blending in

An interesting question I received in an email recently had me thinking about, and considering my style in photographing weddings: Do you sometimes feel as if you can't be inconspicuous in order to get a certain shot during a wedding? There have been times I feel like I'm not blending into the background enough. How do you handle this?    (Regina Coble) In trying to verbalize my answer, I came upon some interesting insights for myself.  Read more inside...

gear for destination wedding photography (Canon)

March 15, 2008 Neil vN 12 Comments

gear for destination wedding photography (Canon)

I enjoy photographing destination weddings- and I've been fortunate to photograph weddings in Aruba, Bahamas, Miami and Las Vegas. These are weddings are often in exotic locales.  (Well, nearly everything will seem exotic outside of New Jersey, but I digress.)  Even even though it sounds exciting to photograph in faraway places, there is a challenge that comes along with that -  packing enough of my gear and getting it safely to my destination.  It is even more of a challenge with restrictions placed on air travel. Since I  Read more inside...

Developing your photographic style – the necessary photo gear

September 7, 2007 Neil vN 7 Comments

Developing your photographic style - the necessary photo gear

A constant debate that I see online is whether a specific piece of equipment is justifiable.  And whether it is justifiable in terms of a business decision.  The discussion typically centers around something like the eternal, "What will the 85mm f1.2 give me that the 85mm f1.8 won't? And is it worth $1000 more?" But I feel that in phrasing the question like that, the real effects that equipment choice have on our style are disregarded. I firmly believe that: Style should always be evolving, borne from our choices and  Read more inside...

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