Wedding Photographers-Craig and Katie
Seattle Wedding Photography Here are a couple of photographs besides the panoramas I made at the wedding of Craig and Katie March 7th. I was shooting it alongside Laurie Matanich and it was a lot of fun. They are such a great couple. These pictures taken before the group panoramas were made. It was a cold and snowy and rainy day at the Red Barn Studios near Chehalis Washington. Before it started to rain Laurie made the formal portraits outside under an overcast sky. When the rain and snow came later, we were all safe and warm in the 1937 gothic barn, a former dairy barn, turned into a unique venue for weddings other social gatherings by Laurie and her husband Jason.
Laurie shoots some group portraits.
Katie and Craig right after they walked down the aisle at the end of the ceremony.
Black and White Wedding Photography
Katie and Craig and their friends and family outside the Red Barn Studios near Chehalis Washington
In my previous post everyone at their wedding got together and posed for a group panorama portrait indoors on the spot where the ceremony had been held minutes before because we figured the weather was too cold and wet to go for the outdoors shot. At the time, it seemed like the best we could do under the circumstances. Afterwards every one went downstairs for the cocktail hour and I packed up my lights and camera. As I headed out to the car with my gear I noticed that there was a break in the weather. The rain and snow had stopped and the sun was almost out, just hiding behind a thin veil of clouds.
My confidence in the indoor shot was a little shaky and so when I saw the clear weather I consulted with Katie and Craig and they agreed to go for a second chance and got everyone out on the deck for a second large group wedding panorama. I wonder if you would help me decide which panorama you would chose to have printed and hang on you wall if it was your wedding panorama? Please leave comments below.
I really like these panoramas in black and white. Not that I have anything against color photography, most of what I do is in color digital. But these digital photographs are converted easily into black and white photographs. They have a timeless quality I like. They look like they could have bee made 50 years ago.
Any way I do not think black and white wedding photography will ever go out of style.
Wedding Panorama Portrait
Katie and Craig and the people who came to their wedding
Katie and Craig were married at the Red Barn Studios near Chehalis Washington on Saturday March 7th. It was a cold and snowy and rainy day but we were all safe and warm in the 1937 gothic barn, a former dairy barn, turned into a unique venue for weddings other social gatherings by Jason and Laurie Dix who converted it with the help and support of friends and family.
Katie and Craig and their friends and family got together and posed for this group panorama portrait right after the ceremony right on the spot where the ceremony had been held minutes before. We figured the weather was too cold and wet to go for the outdoors shot we had talked about originally. We set up some additional lighting and it seem like the best we could do under the circumstances.
I was pleased when I saw the negative as I had some fears that it would have been filled with some nasty shadows. I could not really see the photograph since we were lighting it with strobe lights. The available lighting in the barn is kind of low for this old panorama camera which still uses rather slow black and white film for the photo.
To be continued…More photos from this wedding to come in the next day or so.
Candid Wedding Photos from the Italian Alps
Stella and Rob wanted to get married in January in snow country. They wanted to ski an have fun with their friends and family and they choose the South Tyrol, the Italian Alps, to do it.
It was a winter wonderland. They had everybody hike up a mountain for an hour then watch their wedding ceremony, have a hot mull wine and dance. Then everyone hopped on a sled and flew down the mountain. It was fantastic and the weather was perfect.
Here is a selection of photos that tell the story.
And so it went. A fabulous wedding celebration.
A Beautiful Day Photography – Seattle Wedding Photography
Suzzanne and Kurts wedding last year on the Skansonia on Lake Union.
I started blogging last summer and tried a couple of different versions of blogging software including Blogspot and WordPress and finally settled on this style from WordPress. It is called the Ambiru theme originally designed by Phu. It has been further customized for a Beautiful Day Photography by Neetnet, the web design firm run by my wife Jana. She widened the format to allow for the much easier posting of large format photographs. That had been my gripe about the other themes available for blogging. There do not seem to be any off the shelf blog themes designed to show big pictures and that to me is primary for a photography blog of any sort. I am lucky to be married to a talented web developer.We will very soon be linking the website A Beautiful Day Photography to this blog as the official blog.
