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(Above) – I really enjoyed taking picture of her necklace. She loved it and wanted pictures.
When someone really likes something during a wedding it behoves us to make sure there are good pictures.
SD Wedding Preview – Do not adjust your screen
Written on January 5, 2010 Posted in Bridal Pictures, Wedding Pictures
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.
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2009 Review – Brides and Grooms
Written on January 1, 2010 Posted in ! Favorite Posts, Wedding PicturesThese are all the Weddings of 2009 (not bridals, formals, or engagements)
jan 2 – Las Vegas
Jan 16 – SLC
Jan 30 – Denver
Feb 14 – SLC
March 7 – Ogden
There’s overcast and then there’s White Overcast… where the sky is pure white with no definition to it and it provides no unique or warm glow like some types of cloudy days. So to say it was challenging is correct.
As you can tell I’ve really been loving twilight these days.
I searched around for the area with the most frost on the trees in bountiful.
Some random country road.
We pulled up to the location and it just kinda occurred to me that the car had lots of light power… why not use it.
I know it’s nothing terribly ground breaking but it was the first time for me.
I used the car lights on all the twilight/night pictures.
Stay tuned for the reception and luncheon pictures… I tried a new lighting style that I’ve never done before and they turned awesome.
How to get great wedding pictures (Hawaii Wedding)
Written on December 1, 2009 Posted in ! Favorite Posts, Jarvie Trip, Wedding Pictures
This is my recap of the wedding pictures.
There were many many pictures taken that day, but I was able to skim through them and pick out some of my favorites so I could do a recap here.
It’s gonna be a long post because I have lots of pictures to share.
And also a few words about how to make every wedding this great.
Perfectly planned
I really had a great time doing this wedding.
Being in Hawaii certainly didn’t hurt.
They were also a great looking couple, had a great family, picked a wonderful place for the wedding and reception.
They had everything planned out very well and that makes my job so much easier and makes for better pictures.
So if a future bride is reading this.
Please note that it just doesn’t naturally happen with no effort.
What to do?
This bride seemed to almost plan the day around wonderful picture opportunities.
From the fans and the parisols the brides mades used to flying her stylist over from her island.
She seemed to pick the location based on her own estimation and advice from the hotels as to which one had the best photography spots.
And she picked well.
So therefore… pick a great place to get married or time to travel to a spot on that day.
She even organized the banquet/reception to end in time to have her be able to do photography at sunset.
Most people seem unwilling to do that sometimes planning a reception during sunset.
Perhaps it helped since she had a captive audience since 70 people flew from another island.
I can’t and won’t just pull you away from whatever you’re doing to get sunset pictures.
But I will be willing to do them if that desire comes from you.
I’ll do my best to take amazing pictures. But if you aren’t willing to go the extra mile with a smile… well… you understand.
She got tons of pictures during the reception that she will be using for several projects that would have not been possible unless she had 2 people helping organize those shots. I could have done them but not effeciently in the time that it needed to, because we had the help of others to cut down drastically on the time and have me simply doing the shots, what I do best.
Besides she planned a banquet/formal reception which allow for better pictures than a “lined” reception.
The program allowed for great pictures as well as the nice decorations.
Finally they were troopers.
I pride myself in making the shoots fun and creative.
But they were more than willing to make the pictures happen.
Those who are more interested in and excited about pictures will more often get the better pictures.
We photographers feed off of that energy.
They didn’t just wait for instructions (slowing the process down) but they put emotion into their pictures.
And they acted quickly to help utilize effectively the short time we had.
I’m not saying they were the best actors or characters I’ve photographed. In fact I did most of the ideas, but it just happened that I was on a roll. but I think their attitude played a big part and the way we interacted.
Never once did I hear… “But I’m not photogenic”, or “I don’t look good in pictures”
It’s our job to make good pictures and I’d like to think I do a good job and everyone is always pleased, so if you just trust us and just relax and have fun.
Remember we thrive with the emotion of the moment.
Having tons of time to shoot isn’t the key, it’s a team effort to act effectively with the time given.
(Above) Two poses they made happen entirely on their own. The prep dancing they didn’t even know about.
The photographer and those being photographed should both be creative together working to make things happen.
The emotion and feeling of the picture needs to flow from them.
I tend to put them in the poses that match the mood coming from them and from the light of the day.
Even though I scouted out the location in advance to see what could work, we still were open to any possibility that night.
We had to roll with the time and situation given to us.
Just exactly how the light would be hitting at the moment we passed by the location we were walking around.
And it all went down perfectly. And part of that perfection comes from moving fast and taking advantage of every picture we had time for. But not limiting ourselves to expectations of pictures and then not having time to make them happen.
Having wants and desires is great but we need to be able to roll with the flow and settle for the best pictures possible.
If she had wanted a picture that took 20 minutes to travel to or create then we would have missed out on soo much.
There was trust that I would do my job but it wasn’t a blind relience that it only depended on me and that the subject didn’t have to do anything nor did they even have to care.
Hawaii sure didn’t hurt, nor did their good looks of the bride and groom, nor Dustin assisting me that evening with lighting and bags.
And creating and inviting to more opportunities is very helpful.
But the moral of the story is…
It’s partnership of creativity, we all work together to make great pictures.
More pictures after the jump
or more pictures on smugmug
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Hey look!!
I used a lensbaby on an actual photo-shoot.
These are wedding detail shots from two weddings.
Both were pictures of rings.
That’s not to say I probably couldn’t use it even more and get some really fun results.
But I just haven’t… many times the situation wasn’t right or I didn’t have enough time.
Focusing takes a lot longer so the situation had to be right.
Taking pictures of rings are cool… because they don’t move.
I did these without a tripod and it took a while.
I was using the macro filter adapters, and focusing and the depth of field was so narrow it was really hard to nail down.
I ogirinally bought the Lensbaby because I was trying to purchase the Nikon 105 macro and pictureline was out of stock that day.
Therefore I used the lensbaby to get Macros.
Next wedding I’m taking the G11 and testing it out to get some macros (details)
May I add I had a second generation lensbaby years ago… tried it on one wedding and never used it since.
The LensBaby composer is much more user friendly in my opinion.
To learn more about LensBaby go here
This is probably the most iconic LensBaby look… with the blurred edges.
First wedding that I used it on was the following
Thanksgiving Point – Draper Temple Wedding
Written on October 26, 2009 Posted in Reception Pictures, Wedding Pictures
Let’s start with the ending. Those are always lots of fun
They got married at the Draper temple.
The reception was at Thanksgiving Point
When we all figured out after like 20 minutes of shooting that they didn’t want to be told what to do, like it seems everyone else expects of me.
We started to really have fun and just do some crazy and fun stuff and I was just there to document it and tell them when something wasn’t working.
For instance on the last two they just posed differently after every shot. Believe it or not they had no idea of what the other was doing.
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The hand in the air just makes me laugh… lots of other good faces too.
This type of shot has become my “Thing” for each leaving shot.
This is an old wedding phoot back from June.
I’m working a lot of getting the August weddings edited, so I thought I’d throw in an old shoot that has already been done.
Enjoy
To view the full gallery go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8936121_reGjq (more…)
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 (more…)
We came back later in the day… Thus no one around.
I think i’ve seen every schedule possible for a wedding day… but I must admit this was the first time I took group pictures and then left for the luncheon and then came back for the couple pictures.
I liked it… a bit less rush.
For those that didn’t hear it last time… Sacramento LDS temple is probably one of my favorite temples to shoot at!
My philosophy on group pictures is: Let them decide, I’ll just make it look good.
I don’t want to put groups into situations they think are gonna be terribly cheesy.
But if they think of it themselves they’re probably good with it.
This way I get new ones each time and if they’re a more traditional group I’m not putting them into some elaborate set up they won’t even appreciate when a straight line is probably all they want.
Sometimes the good ol’ fashion jump is amongst the best… and this is amongst the most entertaining of them… as far as faces go.
To view the entire album go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8840079_qymoP
Alaska Bridals & Tips
Written on July 22, 2009 Posted in Bridal Pictures, Tips For Photographers, Wedding Pictures
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
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