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Wedding Details: A Bass & Flowers

dav.d — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:24:48 +0000

I am doing my darndest to keep updating my website regularly. I have so many photographs from past weddings that I need to blog. A lot of them are from when I had the opportunity to second shoot. It was my assignment to help another wedding photographer to photograph a wedding. Several of them give me the A-Ok to share some of the photographs on my blog. Mega thanks to them!

I do love photographing as second. As a second shooter I have the freedom to find the detail photographs that might be overlooked if there was just one photographer at a wedding.

This is a bass next to the wedding flowers. This was in Park City at the Stein Eriksen Lodge, which is a beautiful location for weddings and receptions. And I was trying out a new lens that creates some amazing wide angle views and creates a very unique look.

Bass and wedding flowers at a Park City Wedding - I was second shooting this day

As I update my website more and more I will be mixing in photographs from past weddings as well as some behind the scenes of running a wedding photography business. I hope it is a way for you to better know me.

Now, I better get ready for the day – I’ll be photographing my sister-in-law’s graduation at BYU today. Congrats, Kelli Jo!

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

Wedding Cake Wednesday

dav.d — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:24:55 +0000

I was flipping through wedding photographs through the past year and I rediscovered a wedding cake from a wedding at My Noah’s. Maybe at a later date I will post a blog post which shows the cake being assembled.

But I have been thinking how weddings are a huge team effort – and the team may not realize they are part of the team. Everyone works independently – and the photographers usually take credit. The florists should get credit for amazing floral arrangements and bouquets, bakers and cake decorators should get credit for the wedding cake creations. And then there are the wedding dresses, the location and much more.

And the photographer takes amazing pictures – often with the attitude that the wedding couldn’t happen without the photographer. I don’t want that kind of ego. However, this was a gorgeous cake.

Wedding Cake

Favorite wedding snacks?

dav.d — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:01:29 +0000

Weddings are one part ceremony and three parts celebration. And what makes a celebration better? Wedding food such as mini fruit tarts. This little finger foods were photographed at a Rose Sachs wedding reception. I love the attention to detail the cooking team put into these creations. And as a wedding photographer I take all the credit

Mini fruit tarts

And with raspberries – even better. I don’t know why the Christmas season always makes me think about food.

Mini fruit tarts with raspberries

Wedding Cake with Flowers

dav.d — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:55:51 +0000

Ok, I will confess – I can sort of understand why people might use a stunt cake – or a fake cake? Why would you eat something or cut a cake that is more a work of art than a wedding confection? This wedding cake was photographed at Wolf Creek – and the cake was in fact real. I am told it was tasty. But my job is to photograph the heck out of the cake and make it look awesome. To do that you want a gorgeous cake – and then the rest of my job is done – lol.

You can't cut a cake like this and eat it! It is a work of art.

Hiding Wedding Rings Among the Flowers

dav.d — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:41:25 +0000

It has been a little while since I have featured wedding rings on the wedding blog – and I have been looking for some macro accessories for my camera equipment – so what better moment than this evening? Especially on a Friday – when I should be out and about having a fun time watching movies? So instead here is a photograph of wedding rings I photographed at a wedding hosted at Rose Sachs outside of Salt Lake City.

I photograph details like the wedding rings with my macro lens – there really is no other way to properly photograph wedding rings. You want to get close and then get closer. You can only do that with a macro lens (maybe if you use a bellows or double up on lenses).

Finding wedding rings hidden in the wedding bouquet

And to photograph this close with a macro lens you have to master off camera flash. I usually shoot through and umbrella – although I just picked up a small softbox that I will use a ton in the future. And I think I will always photograph the rings set on the flowers and florals.