Prayer
I guess this shot is more about architecture than people, though I hope I can be forgiven for this: The First United Methodist Church in Watertown, SD, is a beautiful structure. I know that Gothic cathedrals, like the Notre Dame de Paris, were intended to lift the celebrants’ eyes to heaven, while at the same [...]
We Do
Moments after the exchange of vows, Eric and Abby seem oblivious to the appreciative audience sharing their special moment. Those who have been using a DSLR for more than 6 years might have some sense of why shooting with an ISO set to 2000 and getting fairly clean result is worth commenting on. I rarely [...]
A Bit of Color
I generally don’t like selective coloring, which is what this photo illustrates. It’s done in Photoshop. Compositionally, this is very simple photo but the software processing wasn’t – I ultimately had 6 different layers in this photo. A goal was to emphasis the flower, which would have been the focal point even if I had [...]
Fairy Tale
This is not your every day walk in the park; it’s Brian and Katie walking in the park. Overdressed? I don’t think so.
The Princess Bride, Part II
This is another example of serendipity in a photo shoot. In the days before my photo session with Brian and Katie, I had imagined some of the photos I would like to take. Unfortunately, few of those worked the way I had planned. But I did manage to take a photo or two that were [...]
Attention To Details
For the sake of variety, how about another shot from the bridal series I did of my son and daughter-in-law a few weeks ago?
Princess Bride
This is Katie, of course. This was one of my warm-up photos in the bridal shoot we did. There’s nothing about this that says “bride” but I like the portrait anyway. The lighting here is very simple – she is sitting in the opening of the doorway leading to our deck, which, in the late [...]
Runaway Bride
My son, Brian, and my daughter-in-law, Katie, came to town yesterday for a photo session. They were married almost a year and a half ago but they weren’t altogether satisfied with the photos they got on the day of their wedding. And so we spent 4 or 5 hours doing a variety of fun things. [...]
A Bride and Her Entourage
This is Jennie and she and her attendants were getting ready to pose for the “real” photographer in Willmar, Minnesota. I had been hired as second photographer, which is the perfect assignment for me.
Details
Most of the photography I do is very personal and maybe even selfish. I rarely think, “What will they say about this one?” when I push the shutter button. When I frame something, I am more often studying the object being photographed than I am recording it for posterity. Thus, the details that I often [...]
A Few Members of the Rausch Family
This is a candid shot of a family photo that Brian and Katie’s wedding photographers were organizing. That’s why no one is looking at me. I love the light and the soft colors in this photo. The light is late afternoon ambient light sifting in through the east windows on the 22nd floor of the [...]
Dancing the Night Away
Here’s one more from Katie and Brian’s wedding – this time from the reception dance. The reception was on the 22nd floor of the Crowne Plaza in St. Paul, MN, and, as you can see, the view was spectacular. For those interested in technicalities, I was able to get a proper exposure of both the [...]
A New Constellation
These “stars” were four of the six bride’s maids at Katie and Brian’s wedding. This photo wasn’t my idea and I was skeptical about getting a good shot. The sanctuary was fairly dark and I thought it would be hard to get details in the faces without washing out the beautiful colors in the stained [...]
The First Dance
It is the day after the Big Event and I am tired but happy. We enjoyed every thing about the day, including Brian and Katie’s first dance in their life as a married couple.
Private Moments
I was asked to do candid photography for a wedding in Minnesota. At one point well before the ceremony, the bride and groom cleared the sanctuary and shared a few private moments. No one, not even the candid photographer, was allowed inside. A paparazzi would have barged in and snapped a few shots. Instead, I [...]
Another Bride, Another June . . .
This time I’m wandering the streets of Dubrovnik when I encounter this photo opportunity. I’ve concluded that some weddings are planned around the photography and not the vows. Is that cynical?
The Bride and Her Bridesmaids
Here’s one more from Caitlin and Jordan’s wedding. The entire wedding party was wearing black and white tennis shoes and when I asked to get a close-up shot of the bride’s shoes, the photo turned in to this spontaneous grouping. What I liked about taking photos at Caitlin’s wedding was that little seemed to be [...]
Caitlin & Landon
Two days of wedding pictures? I guess so. I don’t shoot many weddings but how could I say “No” when charming Caitlin asked me to shoot informal photos at her wedding? I converted this photo to sepia but there was a lot of color at Caitlin and Landon’s wedding. For more photos, click here.
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