1920's Theme Wedding

Shima · June 3, 2008

Jessica and David got married on 05-31-2008 and had a really neat 1920's theme wedding.

Also, I now must take back the comment I made last week that the Lightsphere ate through batteries... I only went through two sets of rechargeables this time... so maybe it was just that it was the first time I used those batteries and their initial charge didn't actually charge them all the way? Anyhoo, I'm still loving the Lightsphere

And this wedding was in a smaller area, so I never had to use the 70-200... it was the 17-55 all the way!

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Lots of fun, more favorites from the wedding are here:
http://photos.cathoffman.com/gallery/5005877_YtYVo/

anwmn1 · June 3, 2008

This looks like it was a very fun time.

The detail shots are good and the conversions work excellent with the theme.

Great job

Telephoto · June 3, 2008

Shima:

Lovely photos. If you and Scott Quier ever started charging brides by the pound, you would both be milti-millionaires.

Tele

qsjewl · June 3, 2008

Telephoto wrote:

Shima:

Lovely photos. If you and Scott Quier ever started charging brides by the pound, you would both be milti-millionaires.

Tele

????? - I hope you mean the english pound/currency???

these are great pics and it looks like they had a blast. great job!

ian408 · June 3, 2008

Telephoto wrote:

If you and Scott Quier ever started charging brides by the pound, you would both be milti-millionaires.

Totally inappropriate comment.

joshhuntnm · June 3, 2008

REALLY nice shots. Looks like a fun group.

evoryware · June 4, 2008

Love the shots and they wore those dresses well!

Telephoto wrote:

Shima:

Lovely photos. If you and Scott Quier ever started charging brides by the pound, you would both be milti-millionaires.

Tele

:wow :eek1 :yikes

Scott_Quier · June 4, 2008

Telephoto wrote:

Shima:

Lovely photos. If you and Scott Quier ever started charging brides by the pound, you would both be milti-millionaires.

Tele

Welcome to DGrin - I think you'll like it around here once you get your sensitivity factor set correctly.

I take huge exception to this remark. Please think about your comments a bit before clicking on that "Submit Reply" button.

I photograph weddings and either accept or reject people as clients based on the person, their character, etc. Poundage (or lack there of) is not a selection criteria for me.

Back on topic:

Cat, I would give my left eye-tooth for a bride and groom with this kind of sense of humor! I sure hope you enjoyed working for them. The photos you've posted here are wonderful:

1 - Love the mirror shot. Another variation of this is to have the bride look at you through the mirror. This one you did quite nicely.
2 - This is unique. Don't even know what it is. My first thought was that it was a cake topper, but that didn't make a lot of sense. Anyway, love the detail shot.
3 - Nice hands/rings shot. Suggest a bit more DOF (stop down the lens a touch more) to get his hand in better focus.
4 - This is just plain awesome through I think I would have backed up another foot to get all of his foot in the photo. Love the pose and the very alive expressions on all the faces!
5 - Very nice "almost a kiss" shot! Hmmmm, I think I've seen something like this somewhere before....
6 - Her with the gun - that's just plain fun!
7 - Again - nice expressions - they seem to be really enjoy playing their parts!
8, 9, 10 suggest you slow down the shutter a bit to gather a little more ambient light. These look a little like they were shot in a cave.

Hope you don't mind, but I gotta say I really like this photo

I just like the exposure, the posing, the post processing. All very much in keeping with the theme of the wedding. Nice

Over all, I think this is a wonderful set! Well done!

Shima · June 4, 2008

Scott_Quier wrote:

Welcome to DGrin - I think you'll like it around here once you get your sensitivity factor set correctly.

I take huge exception to this remark. Please think about your comments a bit before clicking on that "Submit Reply" button.

I photograph weddings and either accept or reject people as clients based on the person, their character, etc. Poundage (or lack there of) is not a selection criteria for me.

Back on topic:

Cat, I would give my left eye-tooth for a bride and groom with this kind of sense of humor! I sure hope you enjoyed working for them. The photos you've posted here are wonderful:
1 - Love the mirror shot. Another variation of this is to have the bride look at you through the mirror. This one you did quite nicely.

2 - This is unique. Don't even know what it is. My first thought was that it was a cake topper, but that didn't make a lot of sense. Anyway, love the detail shot.

3 - Nice hands/rings shot. Suggest a bit more DOF (stop down the lens a touch more) to get his hand in better focus.

4 - This is just plain awesome through I think I would have backed up another foot to get all of his foot in the photo. Love the pose and the very alive expressions on all the faces!

5 - Very nice "almost a kiss" shot! Hmmmm, I think I've seen something like this somewhere before....

6 - Her with the gun - that's just plain fun!

7 - Again - nice expressions - they seem to be really enjoy playing their parts!

8, 9, 10 suggest you slow down the shutter a bit to gather a little more ambient light. These look a little like they were shot in a cave.

Hope you don't mind, but I gotta say I really like this photo

I just like the exposure, the posing, the post processing. All very much in keeping with the theme of the wedding. Nice

Over all, I think this is a wonderful set! Well done!

Thanks for all the feedback Scott! And I too was also put off by tele's comment above...

This certainly was one of my most fun weddings to shoot since they were just living it up with the theme so they were very flexible in letting me pose them and such. I had a blast. Plus they even printed out a name card for me at the table instead of just pointing somewhere and telling me where to sit lol.

Actually the "almost a kiss" idea I did *not* get from dgrin, despite what you may think... when I was married my photographer had us do an almost kiss and it's one of my favorite shots. See here: http://photos.cathoffman.com/gallery/1634197_QQFsQ#79896772_xLzFb

#2 was some jewelry holder type thing I assume, it was just really nifty looking, and I found it chilling in the bride's dressing room at the location, so I stole the rings and carefully balanced them on it

I'll try to do a slower shutter for those dark shots in the future, hadn't realized how dark they were appearing...

Thanks for everyone's feedback so far!

joshhuntnm · June 4, 2008

Shima wrote:

I'll try to do a slower shutter for those dark shots in the future, hadn't realized how dark they were appearing...

Cranking up the ISO can help with this too. And, of course, if you happen to have a low white ceiling you can use the bounce with nice effect.

Shima · June 4, 2008

joshhuntnm wrote:

Cranking up the ISO can help with this too. And, of course, if you happen to have a low white ceiling you can use the bounce with nice effect.

Nope, it was in a barn... so high and wooden brown ceiling... that was my biggest enemy lighting wise most of the evening, caused all sorts of grief.

jeffreaux2 · June 4, 2008

Telephoto wrote:

Shima:

Lovely photos. If you and Scott Quier ever started charging brides by the pound, you would both be milti-millionaires.

Tele

Well that was pretty classless.

Great job Cat!!!

That wood ceiling looks like the rustic building I fought with for me recent wedding. Definately a challenge to light!

Shima · June 4, 2008

jeffreaux2 wrote:

Well that was pretty classless.

Great job Cat!!!

That wood ceiling looks like the rustic building I fought with for me recent wedding. Definately a challenge to light!

What's really ironic lighting wise is that I hated the way the dressing room photos looked no camera, but then they actually looked really nice when I got them in the computer. Go figure! Sometime things look different on the screen....

Scott_Quier · June 5, 2008

Shima wrote:

What's really ironic lighting wise is that I hated the way the dressing room photos looked no camera, but then they actually looked really nice when I got them in the computer. Go figure! Sometime things look different on the screen....

As I've said before (and I ignore this all the time

) - use the LCD only for compositional evaluation. Don't use it to check lighting quality - it will lie to you every time!

Last Sunday, I did a family portrait session and I kept chimping and thinking the off-camera flash I was using was too much. But, I reviewed my technique, looking for something I had missed and, not thinking of anythingl, I kept at it. When I got the photos home they turned out to be a bit better than all right.

1920's Theme Wedding

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