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First wedding shoot…

Ashley and Matty came over yesterday afternoon to have a look at the pictures I took at their wedding. They were both very happy with them (they sent a quick email this morning to tell me again), so in turn that made me pleased that I had done a great job in capturing their special day for them.

All in all, it was a great experience, I know I swore I’d never do a wedding, but I’m glad I took the jump. The experience was definitely made more rewarding watching Ashley and Matty go through the pictures and just listening to the comments and the additional memories it brought back - not to mention being able to capture things they hadn’t thought of as needing to be captured. I’ll be slowly uploading them over the next few days, these are two of my favorites, it was a tough call though.

I’ll also write up another post in the next couple days going into a little more detail about the shoot, how many images I took and whittled down to, and some other interesting tidbits.

Tags: ashley, bride, groom, husband, matty, wedding, wife

11 Aug 08 | People, wedding | Read on | Comments (0)

The Wedding Photographer

Sorry I haven’t posted much the past few days, but I was stressing out because I was gearing up for my first wedding shoot. Needless to say, the stress wasn’t all that warranted, and I survived relatively unscathed! I rather enjoyed it actually, I rented a 24-70 f/2.8L lens from Pro Photo Rental - I HIGHLY recommened them, they are US based but had no issues sending me the lens across the border into Canada. FedEx on the other hand - they need to get their act together.

Anyways, I shot the wedding with 2 Digital Rebel XTi/400D’s. One had the 24-70 f/2.8L on it, the other I slapped on my 75-300 f/4-5.6 USM. Managed to snag a 430EX from the maid of honor so both XTi’s had external flashes as well which made a huge difference. Also took my laptop along, was a great idea - offloaded one card after the shooting at the bride’s residence in the morning, and then some from the afternoon shoot in between the ceremony and the reception. Good thing too because all said and done I ended up taking 1897 images, I’ll keep you posted as to how many I show the bride and groom in a week or two. I’d love to show you some of the shots but I told the bride they’d be the first to see them, and I think that’s the way it should be. So that’s why you got a shot of me above with that sweet piece of glass… I don’t want to send it back tomorrow!

Oh yeah, here’s the MOO cards I had made up from the pre-shoot which were placed at every setting at the reception. Great little piece of MOO-vertising if I must say so myself!

Tags: 24-70, 24-70mm, B&W, black and white, canon 24-70 f/2.8L, L series, moo, photographer, photography, self-portrait, wedding

27 Jul 08 | Miscellaneous | Read on | Comments (0)

Pre-wedding shoot

Met up with Ashley and Matty to scout a possible location to take their wedding photos after the ceremony. While we were there we took a few shots - both for practice and to use on some Moo cards for the wedding.