Wedding of Jessica and Wellington 11/09/08

Can you tell what she is telling him?


Groom with his best men, who is also his younger brother

Mother of the bride during the ceremony



Now how can the pro compete with this?

Inspired

About a week ago I have afforded an opportunity to listen to one of my favorite wedding photographers, Jerry Ghionis. He is an Australian photographer with an amazing ability to see light. He has opened up a completely different world for me with his ideas about light utilization.

So this past Friday I had a beautiful wedding of Shanna and Kevin and I could not wait to try some of the new things that I have learned on this lucky couple.

For example this is a photograph of a bride (Shanna) who is by the way 6 months pregnant. Congratulations! I have never looked at reflection before, I have never paid attention to them up until this recent seminar. So this is what I get when I sit the bride in front of a grand piano and bring a kind of a stained glass very close to her left side.

One bride is great, four however is better :-). I could have easily created this photograph in Photoshop, but being able to capture it "live" and convert your vision into reality is priceless. For my light I have used the light that happened to be in the room. I shut off all the lights in the room, closed all the blinds and asked the bride to look at the light and reflect on her childhood growing up in this house. Isn't this an incredible portrait?

Here is another one of my favorites:

The bride just got into her limo to go to church. Mom and dad have escorted her and helped her into the car. For a split second, the bride happened to open the window and I saw this increadible image in my head with bride looking at her parent for the last time as a single girl and the parents reflection and emotion seen in the reflection of the limo's window.

This to me is a priceless image that this bride will cherish for the rest of her life.

Here is another image inspired by Jerry. This is a photograph of a groom right before ceremony in the back room behind the alter. The light was terrible as always, but I saw this little window from the side. I have asked the alter boy to turn off all the light, I set the groom on the chair and asked to fix his coller. How coold does this look? Than I asked him to look up at me while he is fixing his collar, take a look at the second shot.







The best man was also in the room with the groom so I really wanted to capture the emotion, the fun and the joy of Kevin's special day. Using the same light from that window I have asked the two brothers to be themselves and just chat and "hang".

Here are few more shots from that day.