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
So excited for this evening! I am going to see Avenue Q at Salt Lake City’s historic Capitol Theater. I have heard a few songs from the Broadway show but other than that I have no clue what the show is about. All I know is that the comedy is not for the little ones – and I am perfectly fine with it.
I will admit I love humor that borderline offensive – as long as it is designed to poke fun at everything and everyone. South Park, Simpsons, and Family guy are my heroes.
Maybe I should plan a trip to California so I can see some other Broadway shows – like Wicked. Roadtrip?
My ticket to Avenue Q
Imperfection, thy name is Holga!
I received a roll of film back from the lab (they forgot to make prints) and they had the developed film scanned to disk. I’ll pick up the prints tomorrow. And I am really enjoying the photographs that are created with my imperfect film camera. Yes, right now it is a toy – but it is camp, it is old fashioned, and it has it’s own character.
You can even seen that the camera has developed some light leaks – there is some red light that is getting through on the top left and there is some white light on the top right. I might have to seal the camera up with tape to minimize the light leaks – but I also like them. If I wanted perfection I would be shooting digital.
Salt Lake County Building
I think I need to have a spin with my medium format camera next – I haven’t shot with the Bronica for a few weeks and I don’t want to get rusty. Maybe after the Sundance film festival – cause I won’t have much time photographing while Sundance is in full swing.
Elder Jonathan Daniels (my youngest brother) returned from a two year mission for the LDS (Mormon) Church. He was preaching and teaching in Taipei, Taiwan for that time period speaking Chinese. Needless to say we are happy to have him back. In fact when he was home one of the first thing he ate was cheese – he hasn’t had cheese in TWO years.
It was a happy family reunion even if it was delayed by an hour and a half as planes had to battle for one runway to land. My brother Joel and I both had our cameras there on hand – I even tried a few photographs with my Holga camera while using an Nikon SB-800 in the Holga’s hotshoe. We will see if that worked.
But here are a few photograph
Welcome home Elder Daniels
Mom watches at the plane's arrival is delayed, again
Sister Melanie Bush is a bit more up beat
Henry was looking for candy while waiting for his Uncle Jonathan
Elder Jonathan Daniels decends the escalator to cheers
Mom kisses her son on the cheek
Daniels Family and Bush Family
Elder Daniels' name tag
Another roll of film is back from the photo lab! This has a few photos from the recent photowalk that visited Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.
These film photographs look amazing printed out – I really love the black and white photography that my film camera creates. Can I do better with digital? Probably. But the film does have a unique vibe that I can’t describe. And I didn’t have to do any photoshop work on these photos. It just cost $20 to process the film, get prints and have the film scanned to a disk.
Salt Lake City Temple as captured on black and white film
I am going to be practicing some people photography soon with my film camera. Since it is manual focus it’ll require a little patience but I think it’ll be fun. Maybe I can have an all black and white photo shoot with a victim – I mean volunteer.
Downtown Salt Lake City
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.
The photowalk at Temple Square was a huge success! There was about 130 photographers who first attended the low-light clinic. We learned about the benefits of using tripods, high ISO, flash, long shutter speeds, HDR (high dynamic range), multiple exposures, and more. After the clinic we all boarded the local Trax train to head downtown to Temple Square.
There were so many people – it was rather fun. I was photographing with two camera (and my flip mino video camera). Most of my photographs I created were with my film camera. And then a few photographs were created with my Nikon D300. Such as the photograph below – this photograph is of the Nativity scene in front of the Salt Lake Temple. It was also stitched together from multiple exposures using Photomatix Pro software. When I fill up the film I will get that developed and post some of those photographs – even if they didn’t turn out – I will at least run a comparision.
Christmas Nativity set at Temple Square in HDR
I am looking forward to tonight. A number of photographers are bringin cameras, tripods, and heavy heavy coats to photograph the Christmas lights at Salt Lake City’s Temple Square. If you haven’t visited – I would highly recommend it. This photo shoot isn’t for a wedding – although that would be cool. This will be a photowalk with other photographers.
I will be bringing two cameras (at least). I will be shooting digital and film tonight. With digital I will be photographing some HDR photographs. And on film I will shoot in both black and white and color. I want to see how both compare in to each other. It’ll be a lot of fun!
Salt Lake Temple at night during Christmas
So if you are a photographer we are meeting at the Salt Lake Library at 7pm. There is a lowlight clinic first – and then we will board Trax and head downtown. Rich Legg will be teaching his secrets on tripods, ISO, cable releases, and much more. Even if you are a beginner – you are more than welcome to join in on the fun.
Christmas lights on Main Street's walk way on Temple Square
Assembly Hall at Temple Square during Christmas
