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Romantic wedding portraits with incandescent light

December 11, 2016 Neil vN 8 Comments

Romantic wedding portraits with the modeling light from a flash

Defining your style in wedding photography is, for me, as much about the way you use light and lighting, as it is about composition and posing, and timing. All the facets have to come together, continually through the day to create a successful and representative view of the wedding day. When it comes to the romantic portraits of the couple, posing and lighting are inter-twined. You can't think of them as separate things. With the way I use light, I don't want to be fixed with one specific way of doing it - the style  Read more inside...

adapting your photographic style during a photo session

June 17, 2013 Neil vN 19 Comments

adapting your photographic style during a shoot

I had the pleasure of photographing Rebecca and Max's elopement wedding in New York. They're both from Denmark. (Actually, Max is from Spain originally.) They both planned to get married in New York while over on a trip here. I met up with them at City Hall on the day, where I was the witness to their wedding ceremony. That's quite an honor too. Then, after the ceremony, we ventured out into Manhattan for an extended photo session. And this is where there is a certain balance that I need to maintain. If I have a specific style in  Read more inside...

Wedding photography – Tips for detail shots of the wedding rings

July 31, 2011 Neil vN 27 Comments

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 ...  Read more inside...

Sydney & Paul – their wedding day – fusion clip

July 12, 2011 Neil vN 10 Comments

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  Read more inside...

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

May 23, 2011 Neil vN 38 Comments

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  Read more inside...

favorite image from the weekend

June 13, 2010 Neil vN 13 Comments

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...

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