So, I mentioned that I shot my first wedding reception a couple of weeks ago, right? Well, the pictures turned out pretty painful for me to look at to be completely honest. I didn’t have the equipment I would have wanted, nor did I have much warning that I would be helping out the bride (who is a really close friend of mine) by getting my camera out at all. All things considered, it was a fabulous experience! I learned a lot about the do’s and do NOT’s of these types of events, and I certainly learned a few tricks in Photoshop to help with the out of control ISO noise most of my images have.
Anyway, the wedding took place in Manti, UT at the LDS Temple there (I snapped only a couple pictures outside the temple since I was there as a guest and not the photographer):
The reception was held all the way up in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah Alumni Center:
I’ll probably get some more images up from the reception, but these were needed for a second reception up in Othello, WA so I made sure I had them done in time.
Congrats to Crystal and Adam!
I just got back from a trip to Utah for a friend’s wedding and it was an adventure! At the temple ceremony I was asked by the bride’s mother if I could shoot the reception since the bride and groom had neglected to hire a photographer for the evening… Of course I said yes, though I certainly did not have the equipment that I would have liked to have had. So, without speedlite, wide-angle and telephoto lenses, and a second camera…. I shot the reception! The images will need some massaging since they are all shot at 800-1600 ISO, but I think my composition is OK. I’ll share those once I’m done doing some post-production work.
It was also a blast to see how many of my old friends that I haven’t seen in a while reacted to my work. I would say that most everyone I ran into at one point or another raved about what they had seen on the PhotoBlog, Facebook, and Flickr. I can’t lie, I love the attention but was pretty embarrased by it as well. Hopefully this means I’m doing things pretty well, right?
And the last bit of the story – right before I left I posted the following image onto the Digital Photography School forums to share a simple story and my shot.
This shot was a total accident – I was checking my white balance settings and forgot that my lens was in manual focus from some work I had done the day before. I didn’t delete the picture (since I always wait until post-production before deleting as doing it on the camera kills the battery), and when I took a look on my 24″ computer monitor I smiled. I love the shot, and with very very little post-production work I think it looks great! (Thanks again to my model, Jenny!)
Anyway, what’s so cool is the following:
3,679 views!!! I really think that is super neat… I really didn’t see all that many in the first 10 pages or so of the forum with anything CLOSE to that many views, and I was pretty proud. I also had a lot of people adding the image as a favorite on Flickr.
I’m pretty happy I’m producing some work that other people find pretty neat…
