Chrysler Museum Wedding Photography - Huber Court Pictures

Posted on February 27, 2008

The Chrysler Museum of Art - Huber Court is a wonderful place to have a wedding, and your wedding photography will be spectacular (well, if I photograph it, it will be!) I’ve gotten quite a few calls and emails about doing wedding photography at the Chrysler, so I thought it might be a good idea to put up some images that I’ve done there. These wedding photographs are all from the same wedding.

This is a detail shot of Huber Court taken from the front of the aisle looking back toward the main doors of the Chrysler Museum. This particular wedding had HUGE glass pedestals along the aisle filled with pink and white rose petals.

This is an image I made of the Chrysler Museum exterior using an old Nikon D100 using a 10.5mm fisheye lens. I was standing roughly 6 feet from the statue although it looks like was farther away from the perspective of the photo. (that’s why I like my fisheye lens)

Here is another image made with my 10.5mm fisheye lens of Huber Court at the Chrysler Museum. You can see some of the majesty of this great place from this perspective.

Here’s an image during the ceremony at the Chrysler Museum from the ground view on floor level.

Here’s an image during the ceremony at the Chrysler Museum from the elevated view from the balcony window at the rear of Huber Court. (fortunately, they let us use tripods for wedding photography there, normally, tripods aren’t allowed in the museum)

Here are some more ceremony photographs done during that same wedding, as well as the couple having a private moment after the ceremony upstairs above Huber Court afterward.

So, if you’re looking for a photographer to do your wedding at the Chrysler Museum, look no further ! Click Here

Wedding Coordinator Head Shots - Portrait Photography

Posted on February 23, 2008

I had the pleasure of shooting some head shots for a new local wedding coordinator / event planner that has moved to the area from the great state of Texas.

We talked a bit about the look she wanted and I decided to use some window light with a couple of kicker lights to fill in the shadows. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the session.

The look achieved here is done partly in the camera, and partly in post with photoshop cs2. (not to mention what I jokingly called “the Texas tilt” which of course is a slight head tilt). Shooting in window light can yield some great results if you PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE and remember that even though it might look great to the naked eye, once the camera meters the shot, the shadow side is going to be DARK unless you kick some light on it to even out the exposure of the face.

It was a lot of fun, and I hope I see a shot or two on her site in the near future. So, if you’re looking for a Wedding Coordinator, check out Platinum Events by Lindsay.

Photography From My Florida Jaunt

Posted on February 13, 2008

I spent a few days down in Cocoa Beach, Florida from the 6th-11th. My parents rent a condo on the beach, and my 21 year old daughter works in Vero Beach. With air fares being as cheap as they are right now before spring break, it was the perfect time for me to hit the road (without professional camera gear for a change!) and just kick back with some of the family.

There’s really no way for me to escape photography though. It’s a part of me. It would be like a runner not traveling with running gear. (oh wait, I’m a runner too……and I DID bring that with me and used it all but 1 day!). So, I DID bring a point and shoot Nikon Coolpix S51 camera with me. It’s a little 8 megapixel camera that I picked up this past fall. I actually ran the Marine Corps Marathon with that camera. (yes, I ran a marathon carrying a camera the whole 26.2 miles, and I took around 100 pictures during the race).

I like the fact that I can shoot this camera on Manual and pick my own ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. I’m not a big fan of that GREEN setting with a flash blasting everything in sight.

So, between fishing and sitting on the beach, I just played around a little.

Seagulls are always fun to shoot. Of course, with the limited zoom of this little toy camera I had to low crawl up to the bird to get this shot. I think it thought I was going to feed it.

Going down there, I was unaware that the Space Shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to launch, but it was a nice surprise to be on the beach fishing when it did. I couldn’t have asked for a better view. The sound was DEAFENING when it went up. Pretty awesome sight.

That’s my dad there feeding his pet pelican “Pete”. My daughter grabbed my camera and got this great shot of the little fish my dad caught mid air as he tossed it to the pelican. Pete was always nearby when we were fishing. My dad has been feeding that same pelican for 15 years (if you hear him tell the story!) Maybe fish stories and pelican stories are in the same category?

This is a closer view of Pete the Pelican! I had to use my “low crawl up the bird method” to get this shot. I thought he was going to flap me to death when he took off. He DID get me with his feet when he launched himself into the air. He went straight at me over my back.

This is my daughter and I on the beach. This was a case of my dad grabbing my camera and ordering me to grab my daughter for a quick picture. That was our uniform of the day in Florida! I WAS mindful of sunscreen though thankfully. I used to live there and remember all the times I couldn’t MOVE after a day on the beach from the sunburns I used to get.

My mom brought some stale bread down the beach to feed the birds and I got a BUNCH of Alfred Hitchcock like “The Birds” pictures. I escaped this without being the target of a seagull waste dumping attack thankfully!

Lastly, back in the condo, a window light portrait of my daughter using “short light”. Short light is having the key light on the side of the face away from the camera so that the shadow side of the face is closest to the lens. It’s a technique I like to use in wedding photography quite a bit if the conditions are right.

So, even with a little Coolpix, you CAN get a few cool pics.

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