Last Friday's Wedding ~ One of my all-time favorites!

[jamiewexler]

Last friday I had the opportunity to shoot a wedding for a beautiful couple who were referred to me by their wedding coordinator, who was a good friend of a bride I shot last summer. I love how referrals work!

Anyway, I was a bit more nervous than usual for this one, because the bride came from a bit of a celebrity family. You can find out their identities at my new blog (http://www.jamisonwexler.com/blog), but here are a few of my favorite images:

1.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer0314a.jpg

2.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer0391a.jpg

3.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer0501a.jpg

4.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer0849a.jpg

5.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer1065a.jpg

6.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer1094a.jpg

7.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer1147a.jpg

8.
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/ErrinSamer1264a.jpg

and a few more here: http://www.pbase.com/jamisonwexlerphoto/errinsamer

[chuckw]

Great job, these look fantastic 3 and 7 are my favorite.

[sblais]

Great shots Jamie!

Love #4.

#7 seems a bit underexposed, esp. the background.

While there is some emotion in #8, I don't like where the guy sitting seems to be looking...

[gheesom]

Number 7, is just great, the composition, the lighting, its all great. I like your blog, but I must admit never to have hearing of them.

[capturedexpressions]

#7 is fantastic. I thought the exposures is what you were going for, very romantic! Very nice work! I am a bit worried about my first African American wedding. The engagement pictures were a very difficult shoot. Yours look perfect, any pointers? What kind of lighting did you use?

[gheesom]

Great shots Jamie!

Love #4.

#7 seems a bit underexposed, esp. the background.

While there is some emotion in #8, I don't like where the guy sitting seems to be looking...

I really like the exposure its all about the couple for me in that shot.

[capturedexpressions]

What kind of lens were you using in image 3?

[jamiewexler]

Thanks guys!

...
#7 seems a bit underexposed, esp. the background.


It took a lot of photoshop work to get the background that dark ;). The original showed everything - and it distracted from the focus of the image. I chose to do a lot of burning to make sure the focus was on the couple. A lot more photoshop than I normally do, but I liked the results

...I am a bit worried about my first African American wedding. The engagement pictures were a very difficult shoot. Yours look perfect, any pointers? What kind of lighting did you use?

I wish I could give you a magic bullet answer, but the fact is that good exposure is good exposure no matter the skin tone. If you used a handheld incident meter to determine the proper exposure for a scene, it would read the same, ignoring the tone of your subject's skin. What will be fooled is your camera's reflective meter. Darker skin tones will cause it to overexpose a bit. Makes it a bit easier to blow out the dress. My advice is to watch the histogram, just like any other wedding, and watch for the blinking highlights where they shouldn't be. Best of luck!

What kind of lens were you using in image 3?

Canon 17-40 f4 on a 5D.

[capturedexpressions]

Thanks so much! They are just beautiful! I should burn in more, what a great effect!

[Grace]

I absolutely love all but 1- its nice but the rest..are just fantastic! LOVE them!

great job jamie- did you wear the vest? ;) :)

[Big Mike]

Canon 17-55 f4 on a 5D.
Isn't that an EF-S lens? (on a full frame body?)

[jamiewexler]

Isn't that an EF-S lens? (on a full frame body?)

Oops - just fixed it :oops:

[CyberPet]

Beautiful, Jamie! I think I love #6 the most, but I looooove the light in #2... heck, all of them looks great!

[Toogy]

Jamie!! I absolutely LOVE #3, I love the background, almost like you panned the shot. Also really like #7 & #8.

Great job!

[Padawan Dad]

Jamie, stop it. Your making us all look bad! Great work as usual. Love #2... great use of lighting.

[song4themoon]

wow, those are stunning pics! Great Job Jamie!

[picturecrazy]

holy geez, #3 is just plain fricken awesome! major kudos. sorry that's all i have to say, nothing really productive... ;) congrats on scoring a celeb wedding!

[Scarlett Nic]

Jamie although i dont post in this section often i do admire your work. You are extremely talented and these images just proove it. I love the lighting on number 2, and numer 6 is just so special.

(psst Jamie.. checked your blog and i think you are ayear behind in the date!2006 should be 2007);)
Nic

[jamiewexler]

Thanks again everyone!

Kathy - I did wear the vest...all day :lol:

Oooo Scarlett - good catch. I'm always living in the past!

[WilliamL]

i like all of them...

[jslice]

Jamie, they are really nice and the locations look awesome. I just realized that I am spending way too much time looking at your pics and need to get back to PP.

[motogeno]

Wow Jamie! Very inspiring as usual! Well you should get some really good referrals off of your celebrity wedding!!

[csm328]

#3 should be hanging in a gallery. Great composition, crop, angle, colour and DOF. As you can tell, really like it :)

[highway0691]

Fantastic Jamie!
I'm so impressed with how vivid no.5 is. Would you mind sharing what lighting/lens you used to get this effect?
many thanks
Damian

[jamiewexler]

Happy to Damian!

I shot that one with my 70-200 f2.8 IS at f2.8. All natural light. As I was shooting them in front of the church, I looked over at this little patch of shade beside the church, and noticed how soft and warm the light was there. So I moved them over and shot a whole series of tight poses. I wanted to make the background as creamy as possible (since there was a busy road on the other side of the trees), so I shot the lens wide open. I stood on a bench to get just a little height on them and get the most flattering angle possible.

[Eoseni]

Jamie, WOW.
No 3 is my favorite simply for the way you arranged the group! (Was that arranged? if so, WOW WOW!)