Wedding photography – Style, technique & choice of gear
Wedding photography - Style, technique & choice of gear
With Manhattan as a back-drop, I wanted a cinematic look for the photograph of Nima and Peter. A magnificent view behind them as they snuggle in. While I approach wedding photography with my eye on telling the story of the day, for me, where a photographer really reveals a specific style, is in the portraits of the bride and groom. I wanted a romantic look to this sequence of images, so there were specific choices to be made in terms of equipment, camera settings and the lighting. So let's run through the Read more inside...wedding photography – those key moments
wedding photography - looking for those key moments
Wedding photography has become more modern in style over the past decade or so. Instead of overly posed images, the general trend is now more of a story-telling (or photo-journalistic) style. It's now as important to capture the day's events as it unfolds, as it is to get beautiful portraits of the couple and families. As photographers we're now much more focused on the moments and the gestures that tell the story. With this intent, I really try and observe the day as closely as I can, capturing what I hope are the key moments. Read more inside...Romantic wedding portraits – more than just the kiss
Romantic wedding portraits - more than just the kiss
More frequently than not, when looking at the work of other photographers, I see that the romantic portraits of the couple are just of them kissing. Having worked with a number of photographers over the years, I've also seen how the instruction "and now, kiss", becomes reflexive. Pose the couple; have them look at each other ... *snap* ... and now kiss ... *snap*. And then the photographer takes no other photos of the couple at that specific place. Yet, there are more (and perhaps even better) ways to show intimacy in the romantic Read more inside...wedding photography – a photo-journalistic style, or more posed?
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...Cherryl & Jim – their wedding day – stills and video fusion clip
wedding photography, The Grove, New Jersey
overview: Cherryl & Jim's wedding at The Grove, NJ A little bit of info about the video and stills photography ... Read more inside...Wedding photography – Dealing with the videographer’s light
Wedding photography - Dealing with the videographer's light
With wedding receptions, we're most often working within a very warm spectrum. There are tungsten (incandescent) lights all around. (**) There is candle light. There might be twinkling lights as decoration ... and there is the videographer's light. The videographer's light will be Tungsten balanced, even if it is an LED video light that they are using. (***) So while a wedding photographer might be using a lot of flash to dominate the lighting .. and settle for Cloudy or Flash WB, there is often a conflict of interest Read more inside...Flash photography during the wedding ceremony in church
Using flash during the wedding ceremony in church
Whether or not to use flash during a wedding ceremony in a church, is a tricky decision to make. You have to weigh the solemnity of the occasion, with the contractual and artistic requirements to create awesomely awesome images. When to use flash during the church ceremony? - when there aren't specific church rules against using flash, and - the light levels are too low to give correct exposure for the shutter speed, aperture and ISO combination we need. The decision to use flash, and how to use flash, strongly depends on Read more inside...using the new Nikon D3100 for its video capability
Melissa & Dennis - their wedding day from Neil van Niekerk on Vimeo.
