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Ok I’m done. Commence blogging!
Ahem…
Derek and Summer’s wedding was the third in a series of back to back weddings. It really was a blast! Yes, I was a little tired that weekend, but I feed off of people’s energy, and these guys’ wedding was dripping with it! Everyone, including the bride and groom, were out on the dance floor like nobody’s business and that just makes for a great time.
Also really interesting to me; Derek is a CSI. Yep, like the TV shows!
I’d like to humbly suggest to Hollywood producers to consider the following:
CSI: Salt Lake City
What?! You’ve already done all the major cities, time to branch out to the smaller ones! Just imagine CSI in teeny tiny towns. Like CSI: Mount Pleasant… Oh the irony!
Anyway, so Derek & Summer were really just awesome. As with anyone else, I try to stay in touch with them on Facebook, where Derek and I have exchanged some hilarious David Caruso clips.
“Horatio, there don’t seem to be any pictures in this blog post.”
“Well maybe you should try…
*sunglasses*
… a little patience”
*exit screen left*
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
I recently recovered a batch of old pictures that had gone missing. It was really very exciting! And it didn’t hit me until I started writing this blog post that all four pictures were snapped using the same camera; my late father’s Pentax ME Super:
“Super”…
There’s a word you don’t see in the description of any new electronics huh? And ME right in front of it too! “ME Super! ME good photographer! ME hungry!”
Anyway, but it’s strange to think of that Pentax as having been there to take pictures of everything from when I was so young until the end of its life (with me at least) in March of 2009 when someone broke into my house and stole it.
Man I miss that camera…
Here’s a few of the shots it was responsible for. Everybody say “awwwwwwwwwww”!!
And here’s my oldest, Gabriel:
I consider myself incredibly lucky; I have very few wedding horror stories to speak of. 99.99% of my brides are a joy to work with.
But every now and then I really just click with my couples. Working with them becomes effortless, talking to them when I’m not behind the camera is easy as pie and staying in touch (my Facebook account is where it’s at, baby!) is a breeze.
With Rob & Lyndsy, that’s exactly what happened. And what a wonderful pleasure it was to work with them.
Now, I can’t speak for other photographers, but I’m a STRONG believer in having a relationship with my clients beyond just the professional one. And I don’t do this as a ploy for future work (although that does tend to happen), I do it because I love people…
You read that right! Imagine that! A photographer who loves people!
Anyway, so without further ado, here’s their wedding day, beginning with my favorite image:
Here’s some random Diana F+ (same as a Holga) shots from my most recent roll. A bit disappointing if I’m honest…
I don’t even know where to start…
I’ve been at it on this new track for my upcoming movie NURF Wars since yesterday… And the day before… And the day before that… My Facebook account has been a flurry of status updates filled with excitement for every step of my progress. And now…
It’s done!!!!
Dead Man Walking is officially track #1 of NURF Wars and man oh man, what a start!!!
I am STILL beside myself with excitement over this track!! It’s not a delicate symphony by any stretch of the imagination. It’s closer to Hans Zimmer than it is to Mozart, but hey that’s still something!
Please, like with the last orchestral piece I put together, listen to this on a proper sound system and turn it up!! You NEED a subwoofer or at least speakers with enough oomph or you’re gonna miss half the experience!
Ok ok. Enough talk. Here it is…
Dead Man Walking:
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I’m a little behind on my weddings (on the blog at least), but I was working on Derek & Summer’s wedding today and came across this:
I love this shot of Summer… So elegant…
The little dressing room had two light sources. One large soft light and some overhead lighting. Kind of a recipe for disaster although at least they were the same temperature (tungsten lighting), but Summer just happened to be in the right place, turning just the right way, for the light to land on her perfectly. I turned the flash off and used available light.
But it made me think; I gotta get a model to do this in a controlled environment. Maybe with a haze of cigarette smoke or something. Can you see it?
Anyway, Derek & Summer’s wedding pictures are coming soon.
When they booked me, Michael and Jessica insisted they were very awkward in front of cameras. I get brides and grooms like that every now and then. Even rookie models feel that way sometimes.
It’s my job to make that feeling disappear. I’d say they did pretty well 
Beyond our professional relationship, Dani and I are close friends. So it made perfect sense that late at night on May 19th, Dani called to see if I’d be available to shoot the very next day. She needed some shots of an outfit before she had to return it to its designer on May 20th, the night of our shoot.
I want to mention something in passing.
I love Dani (big surprise, huh?). It’s no coincidence I’ve worked with her seven times with no apparent end in sight. She’s impossibly fun to be around, easy to work with and endlessly talented.
And about that talent, I remember taking those first few shots thinking “Man, I don’t have to tell her anything. We’re in perfect sync. She just moves exactly the way I’d like a model to.”
This last one isn’t particularly good, it’s just a pre-cursor to something I’m shooting next week
