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Kessler Wedding

What a great couple and a great wedding. Bear with me please. There are a lot of photos following but I am very happy with them. My friend Mark and I teamed up for another wedding. We have come to the conclusion that having two shooters is the way to go. If you are involved in the planning of any weddings, please think of including us.

So I provided the Bride and Groom 3 sets of photos: normal color, aged, and black & white. I am including some of the aged set here as they are my personal favorite and this is my blog so I get to decide (some small nugget of something that I have control over).

Things happen so fast at a wedding so in the following photos there are examples of natural light and natural light filled with strobe flash.

These two little guys are so cute.

Not sure if we should laugh at this or call the authorities. :) Just kidding. These two were very comfortable with each other and seemed to really enjoy being together.

I love these backlit photos. A classic look.

This guy is already finding out how things work in this relationship. :)

Thanks so much for letting us capture your wedding. Best wishes to you two.

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Five Two

So here's what happens when you take your son to see his (and his Dad's) favorite hip-hop artist. We saw KJ-52 last weekend. And also a local artist 20th The Remix (who was awesome!). My oldest was pretty much on stage. KJ-52 was freestyling about him and took his hat off and pretended to give it to someone else. So since he was pretty much in the show, he has been pumped ever since. We had a dance party tonight in our house. Something we do pretty often. Turn off the lights, music on the computer, turn on the disco ball, AWESOME! I got inspired to do some of the photos with the edgy look that fits the music genre. Cross lighting with my two monolights with only their reflectors on.

This one is just cute.

When I see this one I think it's after he has just finished rockin' the spot in some stadium and is coming off the stage. He's tired and ready to get back to the tour bus and knock back a couple of apple juice boxes. No time for the paparazzi. "Get up off me!"

So KJ I hope you see this. Thanks for inspiring my seven year old. I am so thankful for all of the artists like you that God is using to be a positive influence. My son is supposed to be sleeping now but just came out and told us that he is writing a song called "God Rose On The Third Day". Surely there won't be any copyright issues right? :)

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Sweet 16

I had the privilege of photographing an awesome sweet 16 birthday party recently. What an amazing family! Thanks so much for involving me in the celebration.

So we were in the youth zone of our church. It is a very typical multipurpose room. For ambient light we have the ubiquitous fluorescent fixtures in the ceiling. Great if you like dim green light. Not exactly my favorite. So my approach was to create a zone of light that covers the room using two monolights in opposing corners of the room aimed at the ceiling but angled toward the center of the room. So I'm using the white tiles as huge light modifiers. I also put my Vivitar 285HV onto a stand to use for additional fill when needed. There was a corner of the room that was in the shadow of speakers and a big flat panel so I shot the Vivitar off the ceiling there when the subjects moved into that area.

In the above shots, I put my umbrella on the Vivitar. I moved the subject so that one of my monolights became the hair accent light. This was a very good setup as it gave me good coverage of the whole room.

This one was shot only using the monolights.

I think we did a great job of getting some quality light in here. This shot shows what a nice result we get by putting the subjects into a crosslight situation with one strobe in front and to camera right and the other behind and to camera left. You get a great keylight with a very nice hairlight.

I slowed the shutter speed down to capture some of the dancing action as well.

It was a great Sweet 16th Party. She is blessed to have such great parents and family.

Hope you all are blessed too.

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Another Amazing Weekend

We have been blessed lately with lots of fun on the weekends. This one was great. Two trips to Cocoa Village. One with great friends and the second just as a family. What a neat area. Architecturally interesting. Great colors. Cool art gallerys. Alleys. We even found a mountain. OK it was barely a hill but here in Central Florida you take what you can get. The shot above is in an art gallery. They have classes for kiddos which I think we are interested in.

We went in to the Porcher house. Oh I would love to have a house like that. Doesn't need to be that big but the style is great. This shot was on the back porch area that is mostly windows. The light is amazing. Would love to spend a few hours working shots in there. Too bad my current subject won't stand still for more than one shot.

The kiddos had so much fun at the park with friends.

Maggie gave me some flowers. Daddy's not a big flowers kind of guy but I'll take whatever that sweet thing gives me. So I arranged them on a bar at Murdock's restaurant. Great light and some rain gives an interesting shot.

Here's the rock and roll shot in the alley.

And here is a sad rocker that wanted to go all the way down the alley. Rocker's Mom and Dad did not.

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Weekend Favs Part 2

My Saturday Morning

This is how me and the boys spend most Saturday mornings. A trip to Burger King for bacon, egg and cheese croissants. Usually starts with the wolfing down of the sandwiches so that they can quickly head to the playground.