The best part about shooting a wedding is getting a front-row seat to the couple’s magical day. I won’t subject you to all 1,400 of Amanda and Jason’s wedding photos (if you want to see them, click here: password Amanda), but I thought I’d pick out a few that stood out to me for one reason or another. I already shared the bloopers and the dress rip and my commentary on not bringing a camera to a wedding if you are a guest, but here are the “awe” moments. Whether it’s Amanda and her maid of honor Ann dancing just moments before walking down the aisle, or a photo of a child walking for the first time that very day, or the last photo in which the room has all kinds of activity but Amanda and Jason seem aware of none of it, it was all a very magical day. And of course I had to include the photo of Amanda surrounded by children with Jason shrugging – as it turns out, they conceived a child on their honeymoon and they are expecting almost exactly 9 months from now! The love continues. Big thanks to Chris who helped me edit some of these – it takes a lot of work to process all the photos (which we shot in RAW), color correct, fix blemishes or wall colors or ill-placed cars and without his help I’d be working around the clock much longer to get these out.
Wedding bloopers
Weddings wouldn’t be fun without some laughs, would they? A picture is worth 1,000 words (even taken with your own camera) but occasionally, taken out of context, the words can be much different than the reality. As I poured over the thousands (literally) of photos of Amanda and Jason’s wedding, some of them made me [...]
Don’t bring a camera to a wedding
Unless you are the photographer, of course. I have worked with wedding photographers for years who have preached this. Your “job” as a wedding guest is to – be a guest. I fully understand why people ignore this – they want their own pictures, they don’t want to have to purchase them from a photographer [...]
Broken iPhones and why Apple rocks
I had a wonderful evening on Friday. Went to Wade’s house, then a group of us had dinner and drinks at Cosmo’s in Uptown Charlotte for Jim’s birthday, then bowling at midnight and attempt to dance at Blackfinn (way too crowded to actually dance!). All night, my iPhone came in handy. Twittering my horrible bowling score, texting [...]
I cooked for him so he could cheat on me
A memory It is 1995, and it’s picture day. The senior-year me has just been officially captured by camera, and I walk down the steps of the school auditorium, happy to be out of class and wondering how my photo looks. Sitting in one of the auditorium seats is Brian. I have been friends with [...]
“I designed my own …”
As a graphic designer who does custom commissioned work, my job is to listen to my clients and create designs based on their wants and needs. I am not a puppet reproducing the work exactly as they request it; I am adding my own style to each piece and making certain that the pieces are [...]
