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.
In the last post we showed some of the regular pictures
In this one I’ll show a series of pictures taken in a 90 second span.
And Normal
This technique involves the following:
Tell them each click they need to do a different face.
They can’t coordinate. (Because it’s funnier that way and it goes faster that way… they’re more spontaneous)
This is a good exercise to loosen them up for the rest of the photoshoot
or a good way to finish up a night on a really fun note.
Last year I made a goal of weddings and i hit it and did a few extra.
This year I upped the goal by 15 to 40 weddings.
Happy to announce
I am very happy to announce that I went to the mailbox a minute ago… and saw I had complete confirmation on booking wedding #40
Commence balloon drop and other types of fanfare!!
Might I add the strange part that only 1 wedding is booked for after august 22nd
Yes Utah is a bit crazy with bookings… but I did go to 10 different states to do weddings.
Don’t try this at home! haha
I know many of you are photographers
And if you do try to do that many… have assistants, or at least don’t have a family or another job and expect consistent 12-15hr days.
Plan for future
Well while i’m young single 40!! and up to the task It’s all good.
But I have plans to slow things down and do a more manageble amount of weddings… in part to have a bit more of a life, not get burned out and to be able to work on other projects.
Note that most of the bridal pictures that day were taken at Soka University.
But the title of the post is beach bridals so I just added those (just the horizontal ones)
Engagements
They liked the first set I did so much they wanted more. And she was sick for the first one so she wanted some while she was feeling better.
She also figured since I was doing a book for their reception and she was making a slideshow that some extra pictures for it all would be nice.
I think it went quite well
Thanks to Allyson for assisting on this photo shoot.
Bridals
The next day we went to thanksgiving point and took pictures for her bridals.
I get to post them because I know he’s seen her in the dress… because he came along.
I’d like to thank Dawnee who assisted on this photo shoot.
Thanksgiving point has lots of spots all over the park it always makes sense to get a golf cart and be nice to the people at the desk so they can let you stay after the front desk is already closed so you can get great lighting.
We kinda went overboard this evening and took Tons of pictures… but she loves them a ton so I suppose it works.
THE SEARCH I have commenced a long process of searching for all photographers.
I am starting with Utah and focusing on Wedding Photographers
My database so far for Utah is 300+ Photographers, 100 Californian Photographers, 75 Colorado 50NY
A Mega-Database
I am storing lots of information for each photographer, most importantly a link to their site.
Eventually I will share this information on a massive informational website… kinda like a price/product comparison site.
Well for the first Photo Post I suppose I’ll do the most recent pictures.
Monday I went to thanksgiving point and spent a couple hours with Rachel and Andrew. They’ve already been married for a little while, but I suppose they just didn’t get wedding pictures taken when they got married.
So they dressed back up and even had a couple friends come. It was Andrew’s birthday present to Rachel and I thought that was very sweet. Afterwards he took her to a surprise birthday party and I stayed at Thanksgiving Point gardens taking pictures (which maybe I’ll get around to posting)
See the Open Gallery of their pictures. (48 Pictures)
A Full Gallery is available with a login and password
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