New Jersey Wedding

Back on December 12th I second shot a wedding with Kate Leigh in New Jersey. 

Nov. 12 Wedding: Part Two

Back on November 15th I worked as an associate photographer for a wedding shot by Shira Weinberger. Shira hired me as a second shooter because she ran across my blog while searching on google for NYC second shooters. That’s proof for you that it pays off to have a blog. Here are the highlight photos from the day. I was with the groom for the beginning part of the day and then met up with Shira and the bride for some portraits. We were losing light fast and the weather wasn’t cooperating with us so we ended up having to finish the shoot in Grand Central Station. From there we headed to the ceremony and reception.

Wedding at Tribeca Rooftops: Part Two

Last Saturday I was the associate photographer, with John Woodbury as the primary, at a wedding at Tribeca Rooftops. Like I said in a previous post, this was the first wedding that I tried using an off camera flash. Over the last couple of weeks I picked up the necessary equipment at B&H to make it happen. It made my job so much easier. In the past I would have the flash on my camera and just bounce the light off the ceiling. That works well when there’s a white ceiling but if there wasn’t I’d be in trouble. And this is a wedding that I’d be in trouble trying to bounce the flash off the ceiling because the ceiling in the reception and ceremony area was skylights, all skylights. I set up my light in the corner of the room with a shoot through umbrella. This provided a nice light for most of the dance floor. 

The below photos were lit with the Canon 580EX speedlight with a 60″ shoot through white umbrella.

For the above shot I used a 1/8 speed grid from Honlphoto. The grid cuts the degree of light coming out of the strobe so instead of having the strobe light the entire scene it lights a much smaller portion of the frame, in this case from the groom and best man’s torso up. It creates a nice mood lighting.

I got the above photo while testing my exposure before the ceremony. He was putting on a tap dancing show for me.

Having to think quickly for these shots I turned my speedlight (while on camera) sideways and had it bounce of the white wall to camera left (or for the below photo, behind me)

November 15th Wedding

Back on November 15th I worked as an associate photographer for a wedding shot by Shira Weinberger. Here are just a few photos from the day. More to follow now that I’ve gotten the go ahead to post them. I’m starting to get really interested in still life and landscape photographer. Where as before I was really only interested in people photography. 

Wedding at Tribeca Rooftops: Part One

I was an associate shooter tonight for an awesome wedding at Tribeca Rooftops.  The primary shooter was John Woodbury. The venue was gorgeous and the couple was a lot of fun. This was also my first wedding shooting with a flash off camera. It made my life so much easier! Here’s just a preview of the venue and some photos when I returned home. More photos to follow soon. I’m beat and going to sleep.

Whitby Castle wedding

On Saturday I was the second shooter at a wedding with Kate Leigh photographer at Whitby Castle in Rye, NY.

First wedding of the season

I did my first wedding of the season back on June 21st. Here are some photos from the event.

I head out to Cannon Beach tomorrow to shoot my first wedding for Powers Studios as a second shooter. Hopefully I’ll get more work through them this summer.