dav.d wedding photography

If you don’t know I was raised in the military. My dad served both in the Army and the Air Force and we moved constantly. And living in the military often requires sacrifice on the service members as well as their families.

Tom and Kristi both serve in the military. They have dated for about a year and a half and there is a very likely chance that Tom was going to be transferred soon. And they had planned on getting married – and with the chance of moving they had to get married almost immediately. It was faster than eloping.

So they were married without family, friends, wedding reception or big wedding bash. So I was selected to photograph them after the fact. So these photographs count as their engagements, wedding photographs, and more importantly – photographs to be sent to their families so the families can see the new bride and groom together.

You can see all their engagement photographs on my SmugMug gallery.

We started in front of the Capitol Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah. And we walked around the block finding cool locations and backdrops for the photographs. These area is really photogenic. And even in late November the weather was perfect! And the photographs turned out perfect as well. ( I am not beyond boasting )

Most of these photographs were taken with one lens – I can do a lot of amazing photographs with a 50mm lens. I get the artistic blurry backgrounds – which really brings the focus on our couple. And I don’t have to stand 30 feet away to achieve the same effect with a 70-200mm lens.

And here are some photographs that feature the wedding rings. Kristi’s wedding ring had a gorgeous setting – and was surrounded by other diamonds.

And I love it when the wedded couple get all cuddly – sometimes I have to encourage people to break the rules of PDA ( Public Displays of Affection ). And in the case of photography there are no rules so don’t be afraid to hold hands, kiss, whisper sweet nothings in the ear.

Kissing always works on camera.

As well as the whispering sweet nothings into each others ears.

We were lucky to find one tree that still had yellow and red autumn leaves. So we were able to snap a few photographs with the leaves as a background.

The following photograph I created with the concept of 1930′s New York. I am imitating Kodak Tri-X film which is a contrasty black and white film. It reminds me of the New York photographs of skyscrapers.

Thanks for check out my blog – I loved creating these photographs and can’t wait to photograph the next engaged couple.

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