Jeff’s Photographic Adventure

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…