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Small California Winery Wedding

 
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Mar 25, 2011 13:30 |  #1

We do a bunch of weddings here in the Southern California Wine Country (Temecula Valley Wine Country).

Last weekend we did a wedding at a very small winery venue. Right in-between the rain - yes it does rain in California!

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Mar 25, 2011 15:54 |  #2

Beautiful! I would've loved to have seen the bride and groom in that 5th one but otherwise I love these!

Can I ask what lens you use? Specifically on the first three?


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Mar 25, 2011 17:00 |  #3

PeaceFire wrote in post #12092223 (external link)
Beautiful! I would've loved to have seen the bride and groom in that 5th one but otherwise I love these!

Can I ask what lens you use? Specifically on the first three?

Image One: 15mm 2.8 Fisheye

Image Two: 16-35mm 2.8 wide

Image Three: 16-35mm 2.8 wide

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Mar 25, 2011 21:43 |  #4

Great work, and what a beautiful location.


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Mar 26, 2011 00:31 |  #5

Very nice.


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Mar 26, 2011 10:36 |  #6

mmartin wrote in post #12094121 (external link)
Great work, and what a beautiful location.

Martin:

Yes the location was beautiful. But it certainty had its challenges and some unique aspects to our day.

This wedding was at Gershon BACUS Vintners in the Temecula Valley Wine Country. We have photographed well over a 100 weddings in the Temecula Valley Wine Country. BACUS was a first for us.


To Start ... the reception was indoors as would be expected for this time of year.
But the venue prides itself on a romantic ambiance mainly candle light with some splash of light from the DJ

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Challenge one: Use on off camera flash with radio control but maintain the mood of the indoor wine tasting room where the reception was held.
Especially difficult with a lot of fast movement where even super high ISO would not work without some artificial light control

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Challenge two: The videographer team. Very nice couple and we got along just fine. However they had little experience working in cramped quarters.
Having rented most of their equipment the novice ability (or lack of) to stay "stealthy" was obvious

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Challenge three: Small venue with no shade.
Time to get creative and use what nature provides us!

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This is the time having a team of three for our weddings pays off.
In this image I had an assistant hold a large large California Bounce Scrim to block the very high contrast sun.
Assistant #2 positioned an off camera radio controlled fill flash

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Unique one: The couple hired an oil painter artist.
Blank canvas at the beginning of the reception. Used a cell phone camera to get close up images of the people.
by the end of the evening a completed very nice piece of art!

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Unique two. One of the nicest cakes I have seen in long time. Simple but elegant
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Mar 26, 2011 14:03 |  #7

nice quality job ;)




  
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