I know I shouldn’t criticize the work of others, but I was looking at some pictures of what appeared to be a very low budget wedding where the “photographer” was more then likely a friend of the bride(or groom) with a nice camera. Well sadly the pictures were not good at all, at least in my opinion… I honestly felt so sorry for the bride. To think that the bride will look at those pictures for the rest of her life, and hopefully remember the way she felt, but to always have those not so great pictures as the reminder is so sad! I honestly wish I could have been like “you deserve good pictures. Please, let me take them for free!” now by no means am I saying I would have taken top notch pictures, but I am confident they would have been much better then what she got!
See it is my opinion, when planning your wedding, and note: I am not married, but have been to enough weddings and talked with enough couples, and seen enough photos to know that pictures of that special day are very important! Probably next in the “importance line” to the “I Do’s” so get a photographer who knows what they’re doing! Even if you have to cut back on some other aspect of the wedding. I mean the pictures are what tell the story of you, your love, your wedding. The pictures help you remember who was there, where it was, how you decorated, your dad crying, the flower girl picking her nose, how happy you were, and the great time your guests were having. The pictures tell the story that began the rest of your lives together. You want that in the best form possible both for you in the years to come, but also for your posterity! I know I personally love going through my parents wedding albums and seeing the few photos taken at my grandparent’s weddings! It is a magical thing to have those wonderful moments captured for forever, they should be in the best quality possible. Even if it is a friend taking your pictures, get a friend who has an idea of what they are doing who you can fully trust to capture the moments the way you hope to remember them. A friend who knows how to bring the bride’s beauty to life in an image as well as make the groom look confident, comfortable, and ya, know manly. No Bride want to look manlier then her groom and no groom wants to girly-er then his bride! Its just how it is!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Bud+Brittany 10/22/11
I went to Bud and Brittany’s wedding reception last night as a guest, they were married in the Denver Colorado LDS Temple yesterday and had a reception for friends and family to come and celebrate in their union afterwards.
The reception was held at the Louviers Village Clubhouse, A cozy and quaint location! With great lighting!
The Bride and Groom, who just happen to be fantastic people, looked amazing! And you could see how happy and in love they were/are! And the people who filled the room were a true testament of how amazing Bud and Brittany really are!
After congratulating the happy couple, I went and found Kristen, the Photographer, and asked her if it was cool that I take pictures during the reception- and because she is so awesome, was like, ‘totally’! I did my best to stay out of her way while at the same time tried to think of myself as a second shooter. Now mind you, I have gone to plenty of weddings before and always take pictures, but this was the first wedding I’d been to with the thought of, “I could be a photographer…”, so I took picture! I tried to get good shots of the Bride and Groom, their family and guests as well as the details… I did all of this, but I now also see that I missed SO MUCH!-but hey that is why I’m learning! The night went well. As far as I know I didn’t get in Kristen’s way-and I made sure I didn’t use my camera’s flash, because I didn’t want to chance ruining any of her pictures.
The only down side to the night, which I’m very grateful I had to experience, and am lucky I experienced it as a ‘guest’ and not ‘the photographer’! was this, towards the end of the reception I was in the side room talking with some other guests and Brittany comes up to me and asks if I can go outside with her and take a picture of her and her sister-Kristen was somewhere in the other room. So I followed Brittany out side, where it was VERY dark to take the picture. Well here I am trying to take this picture and it’s not working, I try turning on my flash, changing my settings, using a car’s lights as something to focus on, and NOTHING IS WORKING!!! I felt so bad! But Brittany’s sister had to go and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my, still new, camera, so we went back inside with out the image. Luckily, Kristen had gotten a picture of Brittany and her sister! But I was still clueless as to way I couldn’t get that picture, to I sat down to figure it out, and guess what, my memory card was full. Yes, it was full! I felt like such an idiot! But then I take a closer look and see that my camera only has 340 images on in, and I know for a fact that it has taken a lot more then that! I’d never, while having this camera thus far, run out of room on the card so I had not yet bothered to buy an extra one. And was still very puzzled! Well when I got home and uploaded the images to my computer I figured it out, earlier in the week I had changed my camera from taking JPEGS to RAW images-because I’m still learning and experimenting with my camera and thought I’d see what it would do. So as the images are uploading I see that for every shot I had taken three images were being uploaded! No wonder I had no memory left on my card! Haha, yes I do feel silly about this, but I am SO SO grateful that I learned about this now rather then later! So a note to myself: get extra memory cards!
The reception was held at the Louviers Village Clubhouse, A cozy and quaint location! With great lighting!
The Bride and Groom, who just happen to be fantastic people, looked amazing! And you could see how happy and in love they were/are! And the people who filled the room were a true testament of how amazing Bud and Brittany really are!
After congratulating the happy couple, I went and found Kristen, the Photographer, and asked her if it was cool that I take pictures during the reception- and because she is so awesome, was like, ‘totally’! I did my best to stay out of her way while at the same time tried to think of myself as a second shooter. Now mind you, I have gone to plenty of weddings before and always take pictures, but this was the first wedding I’d been to with the thought of, “I could be a photographer…”, so I took picture! I tried to get good shots of the Bride and Groom, their family and guests as well as the details… I did all of this, but I now also see that I missed SO MUCH!-but hey that is why I’m learning! The night went well. As far as I know I didn’t get in Kristen’s way-and I made sure I didn’t use my camera’s flash, because I didn’t want to chance ruining any of her pictures.
The only down side to the night, which I’m very grateful I had to experience, and am lucky I experienced it as a ‘guest’ and not ‘the photographer’! was this, towards the end of the reception I was in the side room talking with some other guests and Brittany comes up to me and asks if I can go outside with her and take a picture of her and her sister-Kristen was somewhere in the other room. So I followed Brittany out side, where it was VERY dark to take the picture. Well here I am trying to take this picture and it’s not working, I try turning on my flash, changing my settings, using a car’s lights as something to focus on, and NOTHING IS WORKING!!! I felt so bad! But Brittany’s sister had to go and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my, still new, camera, so we went back inside with out the image. Luckily, Kristen had gotten a picture of Brittany and her sister! But I was still clueless as to way I couldn’t get that picture, to I sat down to figure it out, and guess what, my memory card was full. Yes, it was full! I felt like such an idiot! But then I take a closer look and see that my camera only has 340 images on in, and I know for a fact that it has taken a lot more then that! I’d never, while having this camera thus far, run out of room on the card so I had not yet bothered to buy an extra one. And was still very puzzled! Well when I got home and uploaded the images to my computer I figured it out, earlier in the week I had changed my camera from taking JPEGS to RAW images-because I’m still learning and experimenting with my camera and thought I’d see what it would do. So as the images are uploading I see that for every shot I had taken three images were being uploaded! No wonder I had no memory left on my card! Haha, yes I do feel silly about this, but I am SO SO grateful that I learned about this now rather then later! So a note to myself: get extra memory cards!
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Pre Mission with Randi 10/12/11
This is a pre-mission photo session with Randi, who was an excellent model and also happened to be the birthday girl! It was great photographing her, because she was so patient with me while I was figuring out my camera and the lighting- and let’s not forget that she is beautiful! Who wouldn’t be glad to photograph her?! I also was messing around with editing a little more then usual. So here it is!
Sunday, October 9, 2011
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