This was the latest wedding. A wedding overlooking the beach. Funny how you take for granted the place that you live. But the ocean really is amazing. And makes for amazing photographs.
The above shot and this one are a couple of my favorites.
Here are a few more on the beach.
Always be on the lookout for details that help tell the story of the wedding day.
The rings are obvious. I found some of the flowers to shoot through for the ring shots.
Necklaces, hairpieces, shoes etc. are some details that may be overlooked.
Candids, of course, are requested by most every one. Capturing moments that would otherwise pass by. Here is the bride with her brother and sister.
And the kiddos are some of my favorite subjects. This particular one was difficult to get a shot of.
Be blessed.
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For me that is. For the bride and groom it was perfect. What I mean is that all I had to do was photograph the ceremony itself. No candid shots of people getting ready. No rushing to set up for formal portraits afterward. No shots of cake being smashed into someone's face. So it made this a different kind of wedding shoot for me. Of course I've only done one other wedding. So I only have two data points.
But it was very relaxing knowing that I didn't have to set up any lights. The ceremony was outside so it was all ambient light. They were married under a gazebo. That gave some nice flat light to the otherwise pretty splotchy light filtering through the big oak trees.
Even though I was only shooting for about 30 minutes, I managed to pop off over 300 shots. I was really able to focus on capturing moments. Like this one as they spoke to each other during the ceremony.
And this one as her dress was caught up on something.
Otherwise I tried to capture some environmental shots to give a sense of the entire venue.
The reason I got such light duty was because one of the pastors (the bride's brother-in-law) is also a photographer and wanted to do it for them. But obviously he couldn't be in two places at the same time. As I left, I saw him setting up his monolight and strobe with umbrellas and taking test shots as he got ready to gather up the 40 something family members for the group shot. And I quietly thought . . . sucker! Just kidding Kyle, should you read this. I would like to see what you captured.
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Here are a few more from the wedding that I shot recently. They asked me to capture the decorations so that's what I did. It did look very nice. The house is an awesome country house with a huge wrap-around front porch. The grounds are covered with big oak trees. Nice place to get married. So the first one above is a shot of one of the flower arrangements with the decorated gazeebo in the background. The flowers were in the shadow of the porch so I brought in my shoot-thru up close and camera right. The ratio here with the ambient is pretty close. It looks like maybe a half stop.
Here is the front of the house. Ambient light only here. You can see the challenge for portraits by looking at the light filtering through the oak trees and hitting the ground in front of the house. Blotchy, contrasty light; not good for portraits. So that's why I drug around my umbrella on a stand.
Here is another ambient shot of some decorations with the gazeebo framed by one of the oaks.
Great job to whoever decorated. It really looked great.
Oh yes, the cake. Yummy by the way. I hit this with the shoot-thru as well.
Cactus Trigger Update
Just wanted to add that I am still using the Cactus Triggers and have been completely happy with them. Had an experience here where when I moved inside the house with the flashes, they weren't firing at all. I mean at all. I switched channels about 3 times and found one that was clear and they fired every time after that.
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