a simple combination of elegance and light
I was trying to figure out what to post and then ran across these. Please tell me that my brother and I weren’t the only ones dressing up in paper Pilgrim and Indian costumes?
As a professional photographer, I will almost always shoot multiple images of the same thing. Why you ask because there is nothing worse than thinking you’ve captured a magic moment in one frame, only to see that there is something wrong. Had you’ve shot one more frame you would have nailed it. In general, at a typical wedding, I shoot about 3,000 images. Then in post-production, I edit the images down to somewhere around 1,000 images. Due to the fast pace of a wedding there simply is no time to zoom in on each frame in camera to make sure people have their eyes open, so I overshoot to guarantee I get the shot. I overshoot both formals and candids. Believe it or not, candids aren’t often captured in one frame, even though they appear to be.
I recently discovered that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. He’s a lefty and I’m a righty. Somehow we always seem to aligning ourselves my right hand and his left hand. Generally, when we got to dinner it’s my right hand bumping up to his left hand while trying to eat with a fork. I thought about complaining and bring it to his attention so we could change our alignment. After careful consideration I think it’s sweet the we always bump into each other.
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; its making a big deal out of the little ones.
