Photographing Steffani's wedding was a real treat. Her and her new husband, Mark, just seemed to enjoy posing. This image might appear to be posed...but it was not. They were just standing there talking to each other. One of the bridesmaids thought it looked great so she ran up and adjusted Steffani's train. Other than that, this shot is just a natural pose. I love to shoot stuff that just happens naturally at weddings.
The Grand Island Mansion is near Rio Vista, CA and it is a fabulous place to have your wedding or private events.
There's a certain magic that happens in nearly every wedding. Capturing that magic in still photography and video is an artform that many attempt and few master. I continually strive to master the art. It's a life long pursuit in a changing world of wedding photography that keeps on changing....and talk about change....Last night I went to a local bridal faire. It was very elegant. Its great to see how styles have changed since I started doing weddings back in 1982. Gone are the boofy dresses with huge sleeves and tons of petticoats. Now the dresses are elegant, simple. really beautiful.
Then I noticed the DJ services. When I first started DJ service back in 1982 I was using records, reel to reel tape and cassette tapes. I almost invested in an 8 track system too. Fortunatley I didn't waste money on that huh?? hahahaaha. The DJ's in the 80's and 90's brought huge sound systems to the shows and to the weddings. They would have piles and piles and crates full of records and tapes everywhere. But now all you see is a laptop and a pair of speakers. Nothing big at all. I made the transition from carrying all those heavy records to just playing MP3 files back in 1994. I was tired of lugging around all the weight. One of my DJ buddies had told me about the thing called a Fraunhauf encoder. So I managed to find it online and downloaded it. One by one I started converting all the music in my library into MP3's. It took hours and hours to convert an entire CD back then. Since I had thousands of CD's it took me a little more than one year to convert my whole collection. Then, storage was a problem. All those CD's took up lots of space on the harddrives. So I bought bigger drives. I remember paying $1800 for a 1.7 gig harddrive made by Micropolis. It was an AV certified drive. That meant that it was made for playing audio and video files. Back in those days harddrive were not fast enough to keep playing a video without making the video start and stop all jerky. Those days are gone now. All you need is a cheap laptop and a pair of speakers and a wireless microphone and a mixer and you're an instant DJ. There are tons of people who think that's all you need. Most of them are lousy DJ's too. hahaahah. Being a DJ is much more than just a sound system and some music.
One thing I really noticed last night was the cake collections. Cake decorating seems to have become a science as well as an artform. 2 decades ago a cake was a monstrosity with many many layers and a bunch of greasy cream frosting and lots of flowers. Now a cake is a work of art. I would love to just have a few sitting around the house for decoration. But I'm sure they wouldn't last very long with everybody stealing a piece here and there LOL.
Something else that I really liked and have not seen too often was a fruit bouquet. It looks like a flower bouquet but it's made from cut fruit. I was talking to the ladies at that booth and they handed me the largest bouquet and told me to take it home :) Of course I just had to do that. I love to eat fruit. The bouquet had white chocolate covered strawberries, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, pineapple and grapes all over it. Definaltely high on my list of preferred wedding treats.
I had orginally gone to that wedding faire to shoot photos of the fashion show. Little did I know that I would go home with a bouquet of flowers and a greater appreciation for the artistry of cake. I'm looking forward to the next show soon.
In a previous post I mentioned Brent and Angela's first dance. I decided to post a series of those photos. Usually a first dance is a romantic moment on the dancefloor but they decided to make it goofy and fun. Leave me a comment and tell me what you think :) The guests had a great time laughing at Brents antics. It's certainly one of the most memorable first dances I have seen at a wedding. Contact Me
There's nothing like a man playing piano to woo a lady and if that man is the groom and that lady is the bride, even better. Angela's bridal party thought it would be cool to do photos like this, so here it is.
When Angela walked down the aisle at her wedding she stopped for a minute and smiled at her mom. Angela was escorted by her son.
Colorizing photography is a classic effect that has been around for decades and it still looks good.
Angela was one of the most chill brides I have ever had the pleasure of photographing. She just made everybody around her so happy to be at her wedding. Her wedding was relaxed and fun to attend. You should have seen the first dance. It was unlike any first dance I have ever seen before. Brent was a gas!! LOLOL They had choreographed all kinds of moves together and made quite floorshow out of the moment. Contact Me
Weddings are filled with traditions and different kinds of art. These are Shivans hands.
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