Seattle Wedding Photographers Blog Moved to A Beautiful Day Photography Blog
Just a reminder that this is the final post to this blog. It is consolidating and moving to a new location on the website of the same name. The new blog will continue to feature the same great wedding photography as the old but by hosting it on our own server, it will give us a lot more options with the design of the blog and add functionality, like some new style slide shows.
Please change your RSS or bookmark to the new address: Click on blog at Wedding Photographer. It is called “Capturing The Moment”.
Hope to hear from you there soon. Visit my newest website eyeshotphotos.com to see samples of all my work as a Seattle Photographer.
Seattle Photographer Daniel Sheehan specializes in photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations and is a Seattle photographer who creates award winning wedding photography and wedding photojournalism and is ranked among the best the best wedding photographers in Seattle.
Black and White Wedding Photography – The Panoramic Group Portrait
The Panoramic Group Portrait from Kerri and Graham’s wedding at MOHAI was made just after the conclusion of the ceremony on the waterfront by the Montlake Cut entrance to Lake Washington.
Cameron and Charlotte Wedding Panorama
Charlotte Taylor and Cameron Wiemerslage were married on July 25th and just after the ceremony at Salem Luthern Church in Mount Vernon everybody went outside the church for this panoramic wedding large group photograph. Photograph by Seattle Photographer Daniel Sheehan specializing in photojournalism, portraits and photography for publications and corporations, and photojournalistic Seattle wedding photography.
Elizabeth and Jason’s Wedding Panorama
On May 29th, Elizabeth and Jason were married around noon at Pioneer Park in Steilacoom, WA. It was in the middle of this great stretch of fantastic weather we have been having. My speciality is candid wedding photography and the vast majority of wedding photos I make are indeed candid photos, but I really like to capture the moment when everyone gets together and poses for the whole wedding panorama. Most people going to a wedding are not included in the wedding photos. I think they should be. This is the large group wedding panorama portrait of everyone at Elizabeth and Jason’s wedding. OK, well maybe it is not a large group, compared to some weddings where they have more than 400-500 in attendance, but is was large compared to the smaller groups of the family and wedding party. Elizabeth was so sweet and Jason , a Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, getting ready to head out for Iraq soon, looked so correct and dashing in his formal dress uniform.
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.
