Cake smash!

Every time I look at these photographs I hear the voice of the Incredible Hulk yelling “Cake! Smash!”

I was helping photograph this wedding as a second shooter and I had the perfect angle to see the cake smash unfold. And this is the one time I will claim the title of wedding photo journalist. I was able to take about 6 frames a second with my Nikon D300 – and capture every critical moment of this cake cutting gone messy.

Sharing wedding cake

There are trends in weddings – for a long time you would never see the groom smashing cake in the bride’s face – and brides were happy – because they do spend some time on make up and looking perfect. But lately the number of cake smashings is on the rise.

The groom begins a cake smash

And it helps to have a camera like the D300 – it has a “sport” mode that lets me capture six frames per second at 12 frame bursts. And sometimes weddings are like sporting events – if not World Wide Wrestling events.