Samantha and Jeff - Yosemite Elopement after dark

tenoverthenose

Samantha and Jeff let me schedule the perfect time for the ceremony, so naturally I set it up so we would take portraits during the magic hour. When she arrived to the ceremony an hour and a half late, I knew things would get interesting later on....


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More from the wedding on my blog at patrickpikefilms.blogspot.com

MA-FOTO

interesting set.
The last photo had to be a little tricky - wow - stars!!!!

Very cool.
(any chance to add numbers to the photos?)

Really like the first one ... nice composition.
#3 is a very nice shot. well done.

Thanks for sharing....

Later,
Mark

Moogle Pepper

Like something out of fairy tale..

I like the last one, although, they seem to be pretty bright.

Darren Troy C

Really nice stuff. Love your compositions! 3 is def. my fave. What's the "wood" pattern in #4? I wish you could have lit all the way around them and eliminated whatever that is in the BG alltogether. The last one is tough....both technically on your part to actually get the shot and the couple just seems way to bright.

Andy

Uh, hey - these are really good! I love seeing 'something new'

rhondavid

Would appear that despite the bride being late, you did a great job with the shots. Not a bad one amongst the group as far as I am concerned. Thanks for sharing.

WingsOfLovePhoto

NICE!!! Love the first one. I kinda wish it was just the bride and groom and the preacher..... I think that one would definitely something that would look great on canvas on the wall!

lnoble

Wow, #3 is gorgeous... the bride is going to love having that one.

mpaulie

All are very beautiful! Love #4

tenoverthenose

Thanks everyone, it was fun to say the least. You know its a great wedding when you share a beer with the bride and groom

There is a need to run a few photos into photochop to clean them up a bit, but I am generally opposed to that. The last photo (with the starlight) had some exposure problems...


I was using a 550ex on a PW Flex TT5 and took a test shot and noticed the couple were a bit hot. So I remotely scaled it down a stop and fired another frame. It didn't change enough, so I pulled it down another half-stop and took the actual photo. Given that it was late (and they were close to missing their dinner reservations) I ran with it the way it was. It turns out, the 550ex had slipped a bit in the PW Flex and all of the pins were not connected properly, so it defaulted to a full power pop. Oops... Thankfully I had it a long ways away from the couple.

Matthew Saville

AWESOME wedding, Patrick! Your photos were killer. Speaking of which, I'd KILL to shoot a wedding in a Yosemite field like that! Truly gorgeous!

=Matt=

FlyNavy

Wow!!

crow

a big WOW, love your dance with the light. All keepers!!!

VayCayMom

Beautiful work!

lisarhinehart

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I LOVE the ones on the blog too-- wow-- great work! What is that swirling light effect? --Lisa

Shima

These are fabulous, love how they are backlit in some of the later evening ones. Awesome set!

tenoverthenose

Thanks again everyone!

Matt- Come on up to Yosemite, let's shoot!

Lisa- All of the swirling effect was done with a flash light (actually a video light in this case). I set the camera up for a 30 second exposure, locked down on a lightstand because I refuse to carry a heavy tripod, and simply ran around either painting the scene or pointing the light right back into the lens.

Shima- All of these photos were shot using artificial light of some sort. The bride really wanted to have a wedding in a field with that magic hour glow, but the sun had already gone down behind the mountains (we are in Yosemite Valley). It's all just a matter of where you put the light.