I made some shots in the last days – please tell me if you like them:
How can you save money on photography for your wedding? Do it yourself! DIY wedding photos won't sacrifice your precious wedding memories. Just make sure you are doing the wedding justice by creating a shot list before the ceremony.
As a traditional couple, you will want “classic” wedding portraits. Make sure you get the following shots for your do it yourself wedding album.
DIY Wedding Photo Shot List – Pictures of the Bride and Groom
Have the bride and groom stand in front of the church. Stand back from the couple so you can get their entire bodies into frame. Make sure to get the entire wedding gown in the picture.
Take a few steps forward, use your zoom, and take a close-up portrait of the bride and groom facing forward.
Have the bride and groom turn their heads and look into one another's eyes. Take a close-up.
Snap a photo of the bride and groom standing in front of the church on their wedding day.
DIY Wedding Photo Shot List – Photos of the Wedding Party
Every wedding album needs a picture that includes the entire wedding party. Line up the bridesmaids and groomsmen with the bride and groom in the center. The flower girl and ring bearer can stand in front of the attendants, but do not place them directly in front of the bride and groom. Doing so would block the bride's wedding gown.
Take some wedding photos of the bride with her bridesmaids. Then take some pictures of the groom with his groomsmen.
Make sure you get a picture of just the flower girl and ring bearer. These cute wedding photos will turn out great!
DIY Wedding Photo Shot List – Pictures of Family Members
Family plays an important role in any wedding. Make sure to include them in the wedding photographs.
Shoot the bride with her family and the groom with his family. Marriage unites these two families, so get a shot of them all together as well.
Make sure to get a picture with the grandparents as well.
DIY Wedding Photo Shot List – Photographs of The Ceremony
The ceremony is the most sacred part of the wedding. Don't be too intrusive while getting your shots. Here are some wedding photos you must get:
Each bridesmaid and groomsmen as they walk toward the altar
The flower girl and ring bearer as they walk down the aisle
The bride walking down the aisle and being given away
Close-up of the groom when he sees his bride
The bride and groom standing at the altar (from behind and from in front if you can manage)
The entire wedding party during the ceremony
Bride and groom's first kiss as a married couple
The couple lighting the unity candle
Bride and groom exchanging rings
Bride, groom, and attendants as they walk back down the aisle
DIY Wedding Photo Shot List – Reception Photos
The reception offers many opportunities to capture the spirit of celebration. Take a lot of journalistic style photographs during the reception of guests dancing, eating, and laughing.
In addition to these spontaneous photos, remember to snap the following pictures:
The bride, groom, and attendants in the receiving line
Groom removing and tossing the bride's garter
Bride tossing her bouquet
The wedding cake being cut and fed to the bride and groom (protect your camera from flying cake!)
The couple's first dance and dancing with their parents
The Most Important Tip for DIY Wedding Photography – Be Creative
This wedding photography shot list will get you started. It is not intended to limit your creativity. These are only the basic poses and wedding pictures a traditional couple would like to have in their wedding photo album. Take these basics and add your own ideas to create a unique wedding gift — the gift of memories.
Sources
DFM Photography, Wedding Shotlist Helper, http://www.dfmphotography.com/wedding_shotlist.shtml
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Many of you will remember my BFF Karly of Karly Kim Photography from an anniversary session I did of her and her husband Carlos last month. Well Karly was in need of some headshots for her wedding photography website, so I was the Utah photographer that she chose to do them. We shot at Memory Grove and the Utah State Capitol, but we could’ve shot in front of some dumpsters and Karly still would’ve looked amazing. Karly has to be one of the funniest people I know and every time we hang out it’s nothing but buenos tiempos. She has an amazing sense of humor and an amazing knowledge of fashion. Please take a moment to scroll down and behold some of my personal favorites from the session….
Today, we're highlighting Todd Van Fleet – an outstanding photographer who is participating in The Big Picture – where great agencies and great photographers connect.
In Lander, Wyoming , a small town nestled in the middle of the Wind River Mountains there is no shortage of awe inspiring vistas and breathtakingly beautiful scenery to capture and entice an artist's eye. However, back in the 1980s, there was a shortage of art programs and support for a young Todd Van Fleet, who, even at the age of 8 or 9 knew he wanted to be an artist. But, that shortage did not stop Todd. Nor did that stop his parents from encouraging and supporting him. Whether it was drawing, painting or taking really bad pictures with his dad's old Pentax camera, Todd was driven to express his artistic impulses.
By the time Todd was a teenager, he was satisfying his artistic spirit by taking every elective art class available in his high school. He even appointed himself the sports photographer for the school newspaper. “Because there weren't any classes available, I literally taught myself how to use a 35mm camera on the field and even how to use the darkroom,” he remembers.
Todd was ambitious and serious enough about art that he decided to enter his paintings and drawings in Wyoming's annual State Art Symposium, an event that showcased the best of the state's young art talent. From there he was offered three portfolio scholarships to art schools. He chose the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and moved to Denver in 1994. “Everything was my passion,” he says. Airbrush, drawing, painting in oils, illustration, photography.”
Since getting his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in 1998 Todd has been a freelance artist, creative director and photographer. Today he focuses on his “vintage bicycle portraits” based out of Denver, CO. Todd's work is a direct reflection of his love for everything that he sees a bicycle is; freedom, innovation, ingenuity, simplicity and the wind in your face feeling like a young kid again.
Todd's favorite thing to do is spend time with his wife and two daughters. Quite often they organize cruiser bike rides with their friends and community.
As of October 2009, Todd has been asked to serve as the photo editor for Kickstand Magazine. As you can imagine it is quite the appropriate fit.
As part of The Big Picture, Todd will shoot complimentary headshots of your agency's principals or workspace – allowing you to get to know him and how he works. The trade-off is that if you like his style, you'll use him for upcoming paid work.
To see more of Todd's work, or to contact him about an assignment for The Big Picture, check out his websites here or here.
If you're a photographer who would like to participate in The Big Picture, simply drop us a line and let us know.
‘DC Police’
courtesy of ‘Chris DiGiamo’
We told you this weekend about the DC photographer who says he was detained by MPD officers while shooting a traffic stop in Georgetown. My initial complaint about the account was that the photographer, Jerome Vorus, hadn’t gotten names of the officers who stopped him or apparently followed up with a complaint to the MPD. Turns out, I was wrong.
Via Carlos Miller’s Photography is Not A Crime site, we get a little more followup based on Miller’s phone interview with Vorus:
A few days later, Vorus spoke to a Sgt. Mercer at the police department to file a complaint.
“He said those officers were incorrect and that anyone can take pictures on public property,” he said. “He also told me he would speak to the officers to get their side of the story.
“It was Tuesday and he told me to call him back on Wednesday.”
Vorus called back on Thursday and surprise, surprise, the sergeant was no longer so cooperative.
“He now had an attitude. He said the officers told him I was taking pictures of inside the police cars. I told him all the pictures I took are posted on my blog.”
Sigh.
I applaud Vorus for following through and pressing MPD to be accountable for the incident. Let’s hope he gets a straight answer from them soon.