We were staying at the beach house of next week’s bride (last week) I thought it’d be fun to do some pictures for her (spontaneous) prior to leaving back for Utah. So we talked down to the beach and took some pictures in a short 40-60 minute block of time she had open.

I love that she’s picking something different for her wedding dress and it matches her personality and looks.

I look forward to the wedding this Saturday.

See many more here

The above was taken by student-assistant Megan Newhouse

Crescent Bay Bridals is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Kind of the typical items in the list of bridal details are Veils, Shoes and Flowers

But too often missing is a fun hat. haha

Yes not too many can pull it off.

These pictures were taken early last year… I was assisting a friend. I was busy on another wedding the day of this brides wedding. Even though I got to show up at the wedding for a moment since both were at the same location.

Veil, Flowers, Boots and Cowboy hats is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Back-lit scenes are awesome and even more fun with some good lighting work.

But how about those lens flares

I know the majority of people love warm colors… but I stayed with a very cool look to this one on purpose, just to see if I can convert people to different color schemes on pictures. While trying to maintain keeping a natural skin tone.

More from this shoot (From last year)

Love me some Lens Flare and Backlighting is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

A different look: Meaning a bunch of different looks in the same spot.

A different look: As in a different kind of spot to begin with.

Try both of these things.
You don’t need an amazing background for good pictures… sometimes they’ll even detract from the main part of the picture which in this case was the bride.

We got the flowers, the full dress, the face and emotion and eyes and all that stuff.

These pictures were taken late last year but I fear I might have glanced over them and never really shown them on the blog… so here they are.

A different look is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

May Bo and Dallan got married earlier this month and their wedding pictures are soon to come.

But a couple weeks before hand I had the chance to go up to Logan and take some bride and groom pictures of the two of them.

Take notice of the flyfishing line behind her… i really wanted it to turn out awesome in the picture… better if you could see the fisherman.

Got their “Thank You” picture done early. (For their thank you cards later)

Logan Bride and Groom is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

How we met

So this is Carissa many people have her to thank that I actually started doing internships and training and teaching people on a more one on one sorta way.

She contacted me about 18 or so months ago asking to be an intern (for last summer) and I was like “What?!” you’re kidding right?! Well it happened and I’ve learned a ton since then, specially on the realms of how to share what I know, how to teach and mentor.
I’m happy to have gotten to know her, spent a bunch of last summer at shoots with her and in the office. Never got sick of her and I don’t suppose her of me.
She was always thirsty for knowledge and never a prima donna or felt that she knew it all, and it was that passion for learning and zeal for photography and her eye for a good picture that led me to tell her I didn’t have any qualms believing she’d become an amazing successful photographer.

Well back a year ago she already knew she was getting married, just had to return to Indiana (from Utah) and finish her last year of college (BA in Photography) and now she’s back.
Getting married next month and her bridal pictures are now done… and here they are.

The pics

Me and another good friend of ours David Terry were asked to shoot and since David is an over achiever he already blogged his pictures (which we took YESTERDAY) and so now I had to follow suit. Also because most of my pictures right now are weddings which aren’t as time sensative as a bridal session for an upcoming wedding.

Carissa informed David that Jake doesn’t check the internet a ton… so it’s alright to post these. So hope it’s all good for me too.

Here’s a gallery of the first set of 70 pictures

Royal Treatment

So she had two amazing photographers… and two assistants two those photographers.
Her mother was there.
We were shooting at a beautiful location (La Caille in Sandy Utah)

It all worked out swimmingly and I’m sure she felt like a princess, because she looked beautiful of course!

Trying out some fun back lighting to make the Bride stand out!

(above) Far right is probably one of my favorite pics

having two photographers makes it fun because I get to photograph different poses I wouldn’t have done before. In different ways and different angles of course.

Many of my favorite pics were actually asides that I said… let’s try this out for a moment and we ended up staying there for a bit, because my moment lasted many moments.

This spot turned out to be one of the more dynamic spots for me… I don’t know why I only posted two when there are a whole bunch of others I liked… guess you’ll need to check out the smugmug gallery.

There were vineyards.

Who doesn’t Love a good Swan picture? (Oh and Peacocks)
I really wasn’t even planning the swan picture quite this much… but he decided to float on by.

Spin Spin Spin

Like a Princess : The Royal Treatment for the First Intern is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Do not adjust your monitor… what you’re seeing is real.
So real in fact, I haven’t even gotten to editing this one.

This is really what it looked like for a few minutes.

These are straight out of the camera (well with a loop through Lightroom to convert from DNG to JPG for the blog)

Can you believe this was the backdrop for their actual ceremony? This was a minute or two after they said their I Do’s

This one was taken with a warmer white balance on the camera.

SD Wedding Preview – Do not adjust your screen is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Snow Formals – Extended Preview is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Ladies and gentlemen…

Props to the bride for not only being willing but more than happy to go out to the stinky gnat infested waters of the Great Salt Lake.

And to her Mom and two sisters and niece that came to help.

And to my wonderful Intern Heidi who braved the swarms of mosquitoes that came out about 5 minutes prior to this shot

Annika (the bride) had no problem going out into this little area in her beautiful wedding dress and in between being sucked dry by mosquitoes she even posed and smiled.

Now for the exciting part…

Usually I spend a good 10-20 seconds editing pictures… but I was happy to see with the great lighting and flash assistance from Two directions

There was NO Editing on this picture.

(It makes me happy to be able to say that)

I didn’t have time to really even review pictures because we had overstayed our welcome with the blood suckers. So I was just hoping things would be in focus.

And to top it all off it was pretty much the very last picture of the night. Huzzah

I kinda wonder what we could do to it if i do decide to edit it…
what a beautiful sunset and what a beautiful bride.

I will post the rest when i get to them i suppose… but for now back to the weddings from a few weeks ago.

Just that good … hehehe ;) is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Here’s another photo shoot I did about a month ago and they’ve since gotten married
It was in a week or two span that every bridals i did she had the groom come along as well.

It’s a break from tradition but it seems that they specially enjoy it if they’re not big fans of getting pictures taken by themselves, or if they want pictures up at their reception.

To view the full gallery go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8942191_9W2ay

Salt Lake City Formals is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

‘Things are clicking. (Pun intended)

I’ve got some fancy new toys like new lenses and lighting stuff.

I’m working better with all the people coming to assist.
It’s a lot of work getting each person to know what to do specially when it seems i have to deal with someone new each time.
But i’m getting better at it and showing them their job faster and better.
While still keeping the connection with my clients.

Things are starting to get even busier around here with 3 weddings each week for the next few weeks.
It’s just about the right time to start getting in a groove.

And I think I’m in a groove, taking things to the next level.

I’ve been spending a bit more time on lighting my pictures.

ALSO, after years trying to get faster at editing… I think I’ve slowed down.
Sometimes I’ll edit all the pictures then go back through and see what I missed.
Checking a second time to see how I can improve the pictures.

Yes maybe I don’t have tons of time for it at the moment but i think it will help step up the level for times to come.

The plan is to do Fewer jobs and focus on them a little more.
(Which happens to mean an increase in price, but shhhh don’t tell anyone. haha)

I hope you all have enjoyed what you’ve been seeing these days.

The following set is from the SLC library in case you wanted to know the location.

Finding and working a new location on a whim… Pays off.
Don’t you just love the reflection off of the glass.

The one on the right looks almost fake. For some reason it just came out that way. I did add a bit of vignette.

I admit it’s not the perfect wedding picture, but as a regular kinda modely picture for some reason I love it

Girls love their veil, their ring and romantic moments… so that’s a 3 in 1

We were inside on this 100 degree day most of the time. But they liked some of the outside shots the best in the short period of time we were out there.

You can see I played a bunch with lighting on that first one. Nice snooted flash hitting her face

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Another Formals Session

Two completely different scenes and both pretty crazy lighting situations I had to work withand created.

Every previous sister to get married has had their bridals taken here with this same shot.
Having never seen the others I wonder how different this shot is from the rest.

Direct late day sunlight hitting one area is a beautiful thing

Twilight is the best color

Steppin’ it up is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Thought it would be nice to put the two of these together with the engagements I just posted of them

Are they technically called “Formals” since the groom was there too? I’m not sure

But since I wasn’t going to be around for the wedding (conflict of weddings) while i was there I did these.

Yes I know… It looks somewhat fake eh?

We did shoot middle of the day because I went 4-wheeling later that day.
So I was happy for the chance to get into some shade.

I do like that she had these flowers… they look real don’t they?!

They really liked these types of plants… I thought they were awesome.
I put the f stop up high to catch a bit more of the sun and of course flash to light up the foreground (them)

To view the full gallery, go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8945147_58bsd

View the rest of the post for more tips etc

I swear this is a real scene… no backdrop or nothing.
Thanks to Carleen for helping with the flash… It was a bit hard for my flash to reach her flash 20+ft away to trigger it.
I’m waiting for pocketwizard flex to make it to Nikon.
But until then the CLS on Nikon rocks

Again I remind you… middle of the day.
Alaska has lots of flying bugs like flies and mosquitos during the summer. FYI

I just made sure their faces were in such a direction they wouldn’t get bad shadows… and they didn’t have to look in this picture so no squinting etc.

She liked her parisol and her fan and her glovey thingies.

The 14-24 of a full frame makes it look like that one picture i took while up on a bench… but not so… just hold above the head and it just makes things look like you’re way up high like 10ft

Though the tempature wasn’t super high the sun was strong and so we through them into a little bit of shade we found near the river (or right)

Seriously, had you not know… would you have guessed Alaska?

The place is called Hatcher Pass

Alaska Bridals & Tips is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Bridals at Hare Krishna Temple is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Jenna is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog

Full Gallery Here

La Caille Photo Shoot is a post from: JarvieDigital Photography Blog