Father and Daughter Outside of the Church I mentally build my images in terms of layers. I often start my images from the stand point of light. If I have good light, then I look for a good background, something that frames and brings out the subject. Then I place the subject into the light,[more…]
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Spring Breckenridge Wedding Venue: Beaver Run ResortLocation: Breckenridge, ColoradoFlowers: Petal & Bean Laura and David asked me to photograph their Breckenridge wedding in the spring. June is one of my favorite times of the year to photograph weddings here in Breckenridge. The summer rains haven’t arrived yet, and the aspens have just budded. They were[more…]
Window Light Portrait in Tibet Many of you mostly know me as a wedding photographer. Many years ago, I also worked quite a bit doing adventure travel photographer for magazines like Outside and National Geographic Adventure. While spending nearly two months traveling in Asia, I made a number or portraits throughout Tibet, China, and Nepal. Sometimes[more…]
Technical Images 90% of my wedding images don’t use a lot of specialty equipment. The vast majority of images are capture with nothing more than the camera and the right choice of lens. The image at the right is one of the exceptions. Even though I don’t shoot with a lot of extra gear,[more…]
Carin and I are always thinking about wedding photography. Often times we get to travel to a new place for the purpose of photographing a destination wedding. Sometimes we are just travelling for fun. Last month, we visited several Caribbean Islands, including Puerto Rico. We weren’t there for a wedding, but we still wanted to[more…]
It is easy as a photographer to get lost in the process of photography and forget what really matters when it comes to the wedding images. At the typical wedding we bring assistants, second photographers, and tens of thousands of dollars in cameras and lenses in order to create the perfect image. I do believe[more…]
Upset Flower Girl One of the main reasons I love photographing with two photographers is for photos like this. At this wedding my assistant, Nate, was working creating formal portraits with some of the family members. With many studios, the primary photographer handles the formal portraits while the assistant photographs candids and details, but that[more…]
Anatomy of an Image I decided to start writing a serious of blog entries describing the thought process of what goes into a single image from a wedding shoot. I want readers to understand where I was coming from creatively and what went into the image technically. My goal is to explain an image every[more…]
It is said that a photographer must not only be their own biggest fan, but also their own biggest critic. I have found that this can be a difficult to balance. The inability to be critical of one’s own work, is one of the biggest obstacles new photographers face. It is hard to improve when you never see[more…]
The Magic of Film For the past couple of years, I have been shooting at least a couple of rolls of black and white film at nearly every wedding we photograph. I love the unpredictable nature of film along with the almost organic feel of it. Digital photograph has become so clean, sharp,[more…]