Boston Engagement Photos…..
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Wow Spring is almost here. We are all looking forward to the warmer weather. Colleen and I have been busy designing and are looking forward to our shooting season to open up. I really miss photographing each weekend seeing what each day will bring. Until then we shoot as much as we can. We just finished a few engagement sessions both in Boston and the North Shore. Here below we put an engagement Vplay together for Caroline and Jason. There wedding is July 4th at the Boston Harbor Hotel. We were able to photograph inside the dome area for the Engagement Session. I love the daylight there. I hate using flash. People usually over-light with flash and you get this cheesy ‘hi its me and my uncle shot this’ look. If we use flash it is because we have to and at that usage should always be light. Enjoy the engagement session images and check back mid-July for their Wedding Day Vplay-It will be great! Erik
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Locked and Loaded
Posted by Erik | Filed under Erik's Thoughts, Recent Events, Wedding
Wow. 2008 has started off with a bang. Both Colleen and I are revved up and looking for images that are hidden and shadowed by the skin of a Wedding Day. We see and capture those fractured moments that wiz by us like a visiting Dragon Fly on a petal of a Day Lily. Our Images are caught within the fabric of the lives of all who attend the Wedding Day. Look at these images from Castle Hill in Ipswich. It was so hard to pick only these few. There are hundreds more all A+ and awaiting their fate….vPlay, vShow, Album, Wall Canvas or Photo-who knows where they will end up. We captured them and now those moments seen have come and gone. I know you think my opinion is tainted, but maybe there is more than the ‘hire me’ aspect of me as a Wedding Photographer.
I am amazed that there is a population of Brides that do not put the priority of their Wedding Photography first or close to the top of their Wedding Day attributes. When it is all said and done, what is left after the Wedding Day-not much-memories-thoughts-feelings-a folded and boxed dress-perhaps some dried flowers-a top of a cake that will be tasted then tossed a year latter-perhaps a video that will be watched only a few times…. and the Photography. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS hire a professional who will deliver your Wedding Day images as if the Wedding was that of their closest friend. There are only a few photographers that go deeper than scratching the surface of what could be or could have been captured.
A long time ago ~2002 ish when I started being a ‘Wedding Photographer’ as a friend doing a favor, all I wanted was to capture 2-3 great images that I was so proud of. Images that were executed at a level above most shooters out there. Images that encapsulated time in a frozen second. Now, it is so hard to pick those great images out of what we capture. We have 100-200 images that are our favorites of each wedding and they all are so different. It is such an unbelievable feeling to show up on a Wedding Day equipped with the skills, knowledge and experience that allow us to see capture and extract what we do.
We are like walking image-seeing machines. We see things that most do not even know can be captured, then extract what is needed to show our vision, and then move on. We are trying to keep our ‘here client look at these images’ at around a 1000 count, but ouch…. it is hard to narrow them down to our 1000 count! We are regularly shooting 5000 plus images on a wedding day, and of so many different attributes the ‘crunch-down’ is hard to navigate. But those images that were meant to be quickly rising to the top and shine through the multi image edit.
It’s an odd thing. We have developed a skill to weave in and out of a Wedding Day with the stealth of a cat, not stomping on anything, steering the direction we travel, and seeing the Matrix…but throughout our Wedding Day travels we still have a blast…
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