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Desserts & Drinks – Yum!

dav.d — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:11:12 +0000

I’ll confess – these two photographs are not from a wedding. However, I’m sharing them here since most weddings have some form of dessert and often will have some kind of beverage (alcoholic nor non-alcoholic). Photographing these details is a lot of fun and can be a challenge for some photographers. Making food look good is an art form and when I am at a wedding it is all about finding the right light or creating that light to show off the details.

Fruit Tart Dessert

Weddings are expensive! From dresses, tuxedos, flowers, food, locations, and more – the only thing that will survive the wedding day will probably be the wedding photographs. So I go out of my way to capture the food, drinks, decorations and more. And since I don’t photograph weddings every day I do take the chance when photographing other events to treat it as if it is a wedding and I capture details in such a way that they could be in a magazine. (who doesn’t want to be published – even if magazines are a dying medium)

Martini Glasses

Mmmmm, Random Wedding Bouquet

dav.d — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:00:22 +0000

I have made a number of updates to the website! Yay! Some new buttons, a new headline banner, some buttons at the end that are “call to actions” such as Contact Me, Pricing, and check out the Galleries. So to celebrate I picked a random bouquet to feature as the photograph of the day. Yay!

Wedding Bouquet

I will keep working on my website overtime – I want to make sure the content is fresh, that I blog regularly, and that the site is easy to use and serves as a great marketing tool.

Wedding Rings for the New Year

dav.d — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:10:45 +0000

Photographing wedding rings is really a fun job for me. It can be a challenge to find a little location at a wedding venue that is unique to the wedding. I will try to photograph the wedding rings with the flowers for the wedding, the bouquet, perhaps the wedding cake, the decorations and maybe even just some of the textures of the building.

In this case I used the mini Christmas trees that decorated the tables – this particular tree was behind the wedding cake. A wedding photographer has to have a macro lens. You might be able to get away using some other lens or close up rings but you need a good macro lens. Fortunately, I have the amazing Canon 100mm f/2.8 IS macro. That bad boy is sharp as a tack!

Wedding Rings among the Christmas Decorations

I also use an off camera flash setup so the lighting is fully controlled by me. I usually won’t use natural light unless there is a compelling look I can create. This photograph may not make it to the wedding album. There is another photograph that has a more sentimental use of the wedding rings. I won’t share that photograph for now – maybe I will when I show off the wedding album.

So brides, be ready to had over your wedding ring while you and your new husband are eating – don’t worry – your rings are in good hands and they will look amazing after their own little photo shoot.

And be sure to have some beautiful wedding details so they act as a backdrop to the photographs.

Wedding Rings on the sands of Newport Beach

dav.d — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:05:14 +0000

While everyone is eating I grabbed my macro lens and my flash and took photos of last Saturday’s wedding in Newport Beach. I captured some really cool photos of the rings and I figured I might as well write a blog post about just the wedding rings. Yes I will be blogging photos from the wedding and their engagements but I will start with the wedding rings.

And the color of the wedding was purple and sand provided a complimentary color and some fun props for the wedding rings.

Wedding rings

Wedding Rings

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

dav.d — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:58:46 +0000

Last night I dropped by a bridal shower to photograph some of the details for a local Salt Lake magazine. They wanted a few people shots and some detail shots. So today I share a cupcake photograph from Mini’s Retro Cafe – these look so good! Maybe I can see why some people have cupcakes at weddings.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

Umberella, ella, ella, eh, eh

dav.d — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:50:31 +0000

Rihanna couldn’t have said it better when she sang the Umberella song. This wedding party shows off the umbrellas available at the Wolf Creek Canyon Wedding. It wasn’t raining – but more a fashion statement and wedding details.

This photograph is just asking for a musical number…

Women with umberellas

Non Traditional Wedding Cakes

dav.d — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:48:39 +0000

I often find myself on the side of tradition. I do like a layered cake with frosting and flowers. Today weddings are seeing more and more cupcakes, cheesecakes, and maybe even a pie for the wedding cake. Ok, I haven’t seen a pie – yet. But you never know what the new year will hold in the way of photography.

This cheesecake played the feature in a recent cake cutting and cake smash.

Cheesecake Wedding Cake

Dried flowers make awesome wedding details

dav.d — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:03:03 +0000

I love capturing wedding details – and wedding flowers are often the defining detail that captures the feeling of a wedding. These flowers at a fall Rose Sachs wedding were some of my favorites of the 2009 wedding season. They were all dried flowers and in wine glasses.

I certainly happy I was able to be the second shooter for this wedding. If I am not busy on a Saturday or a Sunday I love to find another photographer who will let me tag along and photograph for them.

Gorgeous dried flowers

I can’t imagine the amount of work or what goes into creating these flowers. And the bride had a handmade dress by her sister – so you know that the planning and detail was extraordinary.

Gorgeous dried flowers in wine bottles

Weddings are saving the wedding one pigeon at a time

dav.d — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:29:27 +0000

It is always fun to tackle myths and legends – such as the myth that rice thrown at weddings will kill pigeons and other birds. And I will start some conspiracies of my own at the same time.

It was Ann Landers who started the myth that uncooked riced cause birds to explode – and according to snopes.com – this is false. Why would people continue this myth? I believe it is because the rice is messy to clean up. And many wedding reception locations don’t want to clean up rice after a wedding.

So weddings will often celebrate with bubbles, sparklers and in the case of this photograph – bird seed. What better way to not explode birds (except at the waist line)?

Bird seed from a previous wedding

Wedding Rings on the Invitation

dav.d — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:29:05 +0000

I love my macro lens. It is just sharp as a tack – and the built in VR (vibration reduction) helps take some amazing photographs.

Wedding rings on wedding invitation