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…]
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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…]
Venue: Copper Station at Copper Mountain I love weddings that are a little out of the ordinary. When Ben called me and asked, “I have a question about wedding photography. Can you ski?” I was pretty intrigued. Having to ski to photograph an event is nothing new for me, but I have to say I was[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…]
As each year wraps up, I like to take a look back at all of the weddings we photographed and pick some of my favorite images. As usual, I ended up picking images that were a little different than most, but ones that I felt were either great shots, fun, or just a little quirky.[more…]
I never like to experiment on actual wedding couples, so when I had some ideas about a Breckenridge fall color bridal photo shoot, I called my friend, Angela, and asked her if she wouldn’t mind putting a wedding dress on and spending an hour at sunset on Boreas Pass Road. One of the[more…]
One of my favorite things to do is to photograph the weddings of friends. I met Karen over ten years ago when I was in graduate school at Northern Illinois University. At the time, I was the graduate assistant for the Outing Centre, the university’s outdoor adventure program. I hired Karen to work as[more…]
Importance of Backing up One of my biggest fears would be to somehow lose someone’s wedding photos while en route back to Colorado from where ever their destination wedding was. About a year ago, I wrote a very in depth blog entry regarding image backup and protection in the office. Of course that requires that the images[more…]
I recently received news from Intrepid Travel that my image, Toroweap Point Sunset, won the 2012 Annual Photography Competition for the Landscape category. I made this image a few years ago while spending several days camping at Toroweap point. Most of the images I shot were pretty disappointing. The one exception was this evening when there was[more…]