Another wedding

bdcolen

Two old friends got married today. I shot the wedding, but did so as a guest, so I didn't move around the way I would have had I been there as a photographer. It was brief ceremony - about 10 minutes, followed by a leisurely lunch at a nearby restaurant. I've put up all the images. (Oh, an interesting aside - I met Jim, one of the grooms about a dozen years ago when we were both members of the on-line Leica Users Group. Jim and John live outside Philadelphia, and I wouldn't know of their existence, nor would they know of mine, were it not for the net. )

Here's one image:


For those who may be interested, but who are understandably not interested in looking at more than 200 images:rofl, I've edited the shoot down to 64 images, all of which I've done some more conversion work on. Film? I don't need no steenkin' film. :rofl http://tinyurl.com/32wxx9l

rainbow

This shot really captures the joy of the occasion. I looked at the set (very quickly once I realized how many shots there were...) and observed how many lighting challenges there were including the blinding background and the slatted rays from the blinds. Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as your photos show the others doing!

bdcolen

rainbow wrote: »

This shot really captures the joy of the occasion. I looked at the set (very quickly once I realized how many shots there were...) and observed how many lighting challenges there were including the blinding background and the slatted rays from the blinds. Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as your photos show the others doing!

Thanks Rainbow - I did indeed enjoy myself. And the lighting was ridiculous. But actually I liked the blinds and the slashes of bright light. I think that with things like that you can either go crazy trying to figure out how to eliminate them, or you can work with them as compositional elements; I go for the latter. :ivar

sara505

BD, I continue to appreciate your style. You both inspire me and give me courage to do more and more straight BW shooting (okay, processing - but I'm thinking BW as I shoot). BW was my first love, and it is this BW/PJ style that continues to fuel my passion for photography.

rteest42

Nice! I LOVE the light, I am sure it was a bear to work with, but it's offered up some incredible images! Great job!

bdcolen

rteest42 wrote: »

Nice! I LOVE the light, I am sure it was a bear to work with, but it's offered up some incredible images! Great job!

Thanks Sara and Trish - And to Sara's love of black and white - and mine...I was particularly struck with this batch of images by how mundane most color is in every day situations such as this, and how it distracts from the story. I was also reminded of that the other evening when I watched a PBS show called, I believe, "The President's Photographer," about Pete Souza, the chief White House photographer and the role of the White House photographer. Aside from the show's lack of depth, and it's almost aside reminder that while the White House photographers are documenting the Presidency they are doing so in a way that is complimentary to whoever is the occupant of the Oval Office, it served as a potent reminder of how much more powerful black and white photography is than color photography as a documentary medium. The photos from the Johnson and Ford Administrations - shot with black and white film - had a striking immediacy that the color photos of more recent administrations lack. And I am convinced that the difference, aside from the skill of the photographers, is that the color distracts - and reduces the images of the daily life of 'the most powerful person in the world' to the every day, in some ways indistinguishable to the color images of everyone's family and work life. And no, the difference has nothing to do with film v digital - it has to do with color v black and white.

sara505

bdcolen wrote: »

.... And no, the difference has nothing to do with film v digital - it has to do with color v black and white.

Absolutely correct.:D