I will be blogging the photographs later when they are ready for publishing. In the meantime I figured I would share the two family photographs.

The first photograph features the family portrait from the Salt Lake wedding. My brother Jonathan (the youngest of 7 kids) married Kelli Jo in the Salt Lake City Temple.

Jonathan and Kelli Jo were married in December at the Salt Lake Temple

My brother Joel married Carissa 2 weeks later at the Snowflake Arizona Temple. My brother Paul wasn’t able to make it out for that wedding so I will be adding him with the power of Photoshop.

Joel and Carissa were married in January at the Snowflake Arizona Temple

Our family is very excited for our new sister-in-laws! They are awesome and they have really meshed well with our family. Most importantly they enjoy our family’s sense of humor – which is important

Now if we can find someone for my sister…

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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

I want to use the photographs on my website and my blog to help promote my business. And if you are already married your photography will be free in exchange for your time. If you are shopping for a wedding photographer let me know – I am looking for bridals and weddings to photograph.

Angelina's bridal photography - taken after her wedding