April 7 Wedding

[coreypolis]

Well it was a fun weekend out in Moses Lake. 2 crazy square dancing kids tied the knot, and Victoria G (Tish) helped me out. It was a day for the record books with a solid 5 minute ceremony, Gavin calling some square dances and a twix bar to bribe the ring bearer to come down the aisle! The groom is a fellow wedding photographer himself.


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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/viperx27/Seim/Seim-5.jpg

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[sugarzebra]

They are all very good and unique as well. Great job Corey and I especially like the second last shot.

[Tish]

She was so full of laughter--#2 is my favorite, followed by number 5. I'm insanely jealous of both! :lol:

[coreypolis]

She was so full of laughter--#2 is my favorite, followed by number 5. I'm insanely jealous of both! :lol:
You have to post your shots, they're stunning!

[Tish]

The weather was GORGEOUS, as you can see from Corey's pics.

Here's a few:

The reason I still keep my ancient 100mm NON USM (read noisy as hell) macro:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/215/451915740_01b321aca5_o.jpg



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/238/451915742_fbe252f627_o.jpg



Yes, this is the same pose as Corey's last one, shot from the side!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/224/451916880_290dfc37bd_o.jpg


The wedding was very casual, and the reception was held in a square dance hall. The bride changed into a dancing dress & the groom turned out to be one heck of a dance caller!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/451916902_852cbb3468_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/451916884_2fba2638f1_o.jpg

Definitely a unique wedding!

Oh, and a PS to jamiewexler: The mojo worked. :) The best shots WERE on your old 20D!

[lil_miss]

I love the ones of them lying on the edge of the lake ! :) Looks like beautiful weather too.. they're fantastic :D

[Woogie]

Awesome pictures as usual, corey. I love it out there at Moses Lake.

[mmahoney]

Very nice work (except #3 which makes me a little sea-sick .. some tilt shots really look good and add to the composition but some look like they are taken just for the sake of taking a tilt shot)

But overall nice clean & creative work.
Mike

[zacker]

love the look of the 3rd to last in the OP.. what did ya do to it? great series!!

[JMHPhotography]

Nice work... to both Corey and Tish. :)

Corey I love the cross-processed look of the railroad tracks photo... and Tish... that bride standing in front of a mirror? or doorway is absolutely GORGEOUS! It's definately worthy of being published in a magazine or book.

[bcap]

Corey, GREAT shots! I especially like #2 and #5. What did you use for lighting? Natural?

Trish - excellent shots as well!

[MagicallyDelicious]

Lovely shots!

[gateruner]

Those rocks look painful on the back though. Comes close to a trash the dress shot.

[coreypolis]

Corey, GREAT shots! I especially like #2 and #5. What did you use for lighting? Natural?

Trish - excellent shots as well!
thanks all!

Mostly natural, some fill flash on some, and a little help on some others.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/viperx27/Seim/Seim-22.jpg





We has some other fun stuff but the backgrounds weren't really the greatest ever ;)


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[bcap]

Corey - thanks for the "behind the scenes" pics. Do you have more? I am very interested (as I'm sure others are) in these to see how you come out with such incredible shots.

Please pardon my ignorance and lack of knowledge for certain outdoor lighting - but is that a silver reflector to bounce back the light (I don't think it is) or a transparent one to block the harsh sun (I think it is this one)?

[bcap]

Sorry for the massive questions ... did you use any kind of GradND filter?

That first one - the blues in the sky are so vivid and deep, yet it looks like you didn't overexpose the dress.

Care to share your technique with us not-so-experienced photogs?

[coreypolis]

Corey - thanks for the "behind the scenes" pics. Do you have more? I am very interested (as I'm sure others are) in these to see how you come out with such incredible shots.

Please pardon my ignorance and lack of knowledge for certain outdoor lighting - but is that a silver reflector to bounce back the light (I don't think it is) or a transparent one to block the harsh sun (I think it is this one)?
that reflector is white on one side, white gold on the other. Its usually used to reflect light back in, but when you do that it often makes them squint. So in this instance we used in just to scrim some light from them. so the direct sun wasn't on their faces.

But this creates a couple of problems, they're now in less light than the background and they are in a cooler color temp enviornment. So I expose for the background, hit them with some fill flash to bring them up, and use a diffuser with a warming filter on it to warm them up. Probably a little too much, but thats the way I like it :)

There aren't many behind the scenes shots because I tend to use as much natural light as possible.

[coreypolis]

Sorry for the massive questions ... did you use any kind of GradND filter?

That first one - the blues in the sky are so vivid and deep, yet it looks like you didn't overexpose the dress.

Care to share your technique with us not-so-experienced photogs?


Just expose for the deep part of the sky. The whites will stay clean, but you'll lose a bit of shadow detail, but in this instance thats fine. Under exposure will cause the sky to look like that. I didn't use any filters, ND, polarizers or even a UV. So I lost some detail in the shadows as a results, but I'm fine with that ;)

[bcap]

Great Corey! Thanks so much.