One Saturday morning Kathleen gave me a call asking me if I could shoot her and Ryan’s engagement portraits this coming Monday, MLK day… Ryan is such a busy man owning a restaurant in Dallas and what not that he doesn’t get to come down to Austin much. I’m glad I was available! The original plan was to head to the Wild Flower Center, but we didn’t realize it was closed on Mondays, so we went to the next best park, Mayfield Park, then head to South Congress for a more fun and edgy environment. Low and behold I ran into THREE of my other wedding photographer friends while we were there, small world. South Congress is such a common place for me, and many other photographers, that I am constantly trying to find ways to make it new, different, and exciting-which wasn’t a problem with these guys :)
As always here are some of my favorites!
Brenizer Method^
the car reflection is just plain money. It is the most unique use of a reflective surface that I have ever seen. I am totally blown away by how cool it came out.
Beautiful images. Love your style and the shot with the red wall!
They are all great! My fave would have to be the one just above the Brenizer Maethod shot. Awesome!
They’re all so awesome.. I love the different color backgrounds! Great job making this session stand out from all of your other wedding photog friends ;p
Caroline, these are so fun and colorful! I really like the one of them reflected on the car.
Great session with beautiful couple! Loved it!
Beautiful, beautiful images… great choices of locations, too! Kudos.
Great shots Caroline. I love the foreground blur in some of the first couple of shots and the reflection in the car with them blending into the bokeh is a really cool idea. Good eye.
Great shots, I bet they’re thrilled with these. Your processing and composition are both excellent!
Great session!! Love the photo with the car!! I always hate cars in photos! But that is a great idea!
That car reflection shot is freaking cool!!
Great session! I really love the perfect car reflection shot!
Lovely set! My fave is the one with their reflection on the car. Well done!
Her second outfit is divine. I love how the colors pop out, especially against the red wal!
A couple weeks ago I got to shoot at Sonya & Brian’s engagement session at Mayfield Park in Austin, TX. They’re pretty darn cute :) They’re getting married on what has to be the most popular day of 2010, Oct 16! I can’t wait to shoot the wedding out by Enchanted Rock!
It was my first time shooting at the Mayfeild park and I will definitely be shooting their in the future.
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The black and white one with her looking to the side is ace.
Amazing… I was the peacock wrangler…
So. Much. Goodness. And ben, I could go so many places with that comment…lol
Last night I shot Jessica & Chris’ wedding at Vista on Seward Hill in Austin, TX. I knew after shooting Jessica and Chris’ engagement session that it was going to be a fun wedding to shoot. The lighting was gorgeous and so was the weather, despite the incoming cold front. The dance floor was packed the whole time and Anthony (the manager/DJ for VOSH) helped make that happen.
Cake credit!: Austin Cake Studio
Enjoy some of my favorite photos below as well as a slideshow at the bottom!
Sincerely,
your friendly fine art Austin wedding photographer- Sweet Caroline Photo
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This is the first time I have visited your blog and the first word that comes to mind is. “WOW”. The photos ALL have an understated elegance. Simple and beautiful. I love this work. :)
Fantastic, and the shot of the bride getting ready to throw the bouquet is superb!
ditto on that bouquet shot! totally awsome!
Every single image shows a moment captured, complete with movement and emotion. Well done, Caroline!
Beautiful wedding! Love your processing.
Awesome photos, and I love you slide shows. I love the framing of the first photo.
Hi Caroline, this is the MOH Karen. I have to thank you for doing such a beautiful job capturing the wedding! It was gorgeous and you made it look even more so. I hope you had fun! You really got some amazing shots that show Jess and Chris’ love. And I freaked when “Real Love” started on the slideshow. Perfect song.
Long time photo viewer, first time commenter. I love your style. Diggin’ the bridal party shot!
Great job! I really love the one of the bride with all the bridemaids.
Great wedding! I really loved that slideshow!! Awesome work as usual!
OMG! I Love the shot of the bride getting ready to throw the bouquet! SO FUN!
Beautiful photography. Love the bokeh in 5!
Beautiful pictures. I love the purple color theme all throughout.
Dang girlie, I really like the slideshow. Very nice work. You rock! Also you really make me want to push to get my 5D mkii and go all primes this weekend :-)
I love the first image, I am so feeling that kind of style right now. And I love the bouquet toss shot too, just awesome.
Loving the one of bride and the bridesmaids. And the kissy one, seriously gorgeous bokeh! Gorgeous wedding.
Man, I love those first three shots on the Slideshow! ;) Great job as usual!
Beautiful work, Caroline! I love your style!
Caroline, gorgeous photos as always. I really love the colors and post work on the shot of the bride and groom kissing. It’s a stunning image.
Okay, since some people don’t really know the difference between a straight out of camera (SOOC), standard edit, premium edit, and black and white edit- I thought I’d go ahead and share. The image I used for the examples is actually a ‘Brenizer method’ photo in which I used multiple photos (in this case 37 of them) to create one bigger one, similar to a panorama it helps create a telephoto lens look while maintaining a large view of the scene.
This first picture in the post is the first picture I took for the Brenizer method.
This is the entire Brenizer method photo put together, unedited, and straight out of camera.
This photo was edited in LR2 and is my standard edit for color, contrast, exposure, vignette, curves, and white balance.
This photo has a premium edit where I used a various sort of actions (mostly TRA) and a good amount of dodging and burning to help the couple pop a little bit more.
All photos on my blog and slideshows are edited this way, (as of fairly recently), the client will receive all premium edits that I do for the slideshow which usually consists of around 60-80. They will also receive a file of all the standard edits as well. I edit photos to black and white when I feel that the photo calls for it.
This photo has my black and white action applied to it in Photoshop (which again is mostly TRA)
Photographers have anymore questions? Feel free to ask me here.
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The method is really awesome. I *love* your premium edits. The color is amazing. Your work is simply gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!
Your editing style rocks! I really like how you grab color wich almost seems nonexistant and make it pop. The ‘Brenizer method’ works really well for this shot too. I can’t wait to give this technique a whirl.
I love the color in the 4th picture.
Nice walk through Caroline. I like the wide Brenizer shot!
It looks great so far! I can’t wait to see the rest of them.
I am one lucky girl. Today was one of those rare Saturdays that I didn’t have a wedding planned…. I recieved a call around 11am this Saturday morning asking me to shoot at Austin’s wedding venue, Villa Antonia, for Mr. Ron Parks wedding photography- at first I wasn’t sure I wanted in until I found out it was for one of my favorite bands, Blue October’s, guitarist!! I, of course, could not turn the opportunity down. I am soooo glad that Ron invited me along (huge huge huge thank you for inviting me, did I mention that he’s also a really nice guy?), I also got to shoot with the recent newly wed Amy who I was anxious to shoot with anyway. Ben was a little jealous of the situation since he was already scheduled to 2nd shoot another wedding, so he showed up about 20 minutes before their departure. I tried not to act like a giddy school girl in front of the guys but on the inside I was really excited. I had a blast shooting the fun crowd. The live music by Taxi & Danny was awesome, not to mention I like them even more because they played my song… you know… ‘Sweet Caorline’ by Neil Diamond. ;)
CB & Betsy Hudson were super sweet and the wedding was gorgeous! I wasn’t planning on making a slideshow but I simply just could not narrow the images down to 20 or so… Is it really cheesy that I wanted to use a Blue October song to go to the slideshow pictures? Oh well, I did anyway.
I can’t wait to see the rest of the photos by Amy, Ron, and Julie.
Bride + Blue October
I love cute flower girls!!
My favorite picture of Mr. Justin Furstenfeld himself. :)
We had to take them away from the party for a little bit to get these more intimate portraits.
And of course, CB sang to Betsy, soooo sweet!
They knew the whole dance to “all the single ladies”, again, awesome.
Sincerely,
your friendly fine art Austin wedding photographer- Sweet Caroline Photo
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Those guys are soooo awesome!!! I have met them a few times before but never anything like this. GREAT JOB on the photos… they will be proud… ;)
These are beautiful. I love the first group shot and the b&w of the B&G is really nice. The processing is perfect.
Yeah for you!
LOVE it! Great job capturing the event. I love the lighting setup you used at the reception. Looks like it was a rocking party!
Awesome shots! Good job. Fast!
Awesome, awesome job Caroline! Love the images!
This wedding is so rock-n-roll, awesome!!
Oh my gosh the slideshow is so freaking awesome!!!! Some of those bride+groom dance shots are amazinggggg!
HOLY COW awesome!!!!! Looove these!! Love them.
These are absolutely amazing Caroline, congrats!
Great fun photos! Enjoyed your work!
Oh yeah, you rocked it.
What a rock and roll wedding! It looks like a blast and I love the way the photos look… almost 3d… do you have a magic camera or something??? Very nice work!
Your photos, somewhat appropriately, are rocking.
Wow. These are gorgeous photos. It was a beautiful wedding. It was such a private ceremony, I’m really surprised they allowed you to post these! Nice work!
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This past Saturday I shot Diana and Keegan’s Austin wedding ceremony at Covenant United Methodist Church and the reception at Mercury hall. Since we knocked out all of the group photos before the ceremony Diana, Keegan, and all 16 bridesmaids and groomsmen, immediatly headed to the party! Mercury hall is now one of my favorite venues, not to mention the whole group was a blast! There were so many people on the dance floor that I had to squeeze my way through people to take photos (thanks to Justin from Complete DJs, he played a great mix of music). Also, I love me some same day slideshows! Since Ben and I had a good 20 minutes to drive between the ceremony and reception site, while I drove Ben uploaded images to create a little slideshow for everyone to see at the wedding, fast uploading card readers are one of the best inventions ever :)
Special credit to Becky from Stress Free Events for constantly keeping me updated with what was going down.
Well what can I say, 2010 is off to a great start, enjoy!
I didn’t get to spend too much time getting a good portrait of the couple since it was FREEZING cold outside and it was dark by the time we had a chance, so I found this cool little mirror in the hallway to the bathroom, pointed a tungsten gelled strobe towards them, and here we go :)
This is one of my favorite photos ever taken, I just love the calm and collected look of the flower girl while everyone is laughing and talking around her- I spent a lot of time in photoshop to get the images just the way I wanted it.
Order prints from the slideshow here- the rest of the photos will be uploaded within the next 2 weeks.
Sincerely,
your friendly fine art Austin wedding photographer- Sweet Caroline Photo
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Very Beautiful and elegant wedding. The flowergirl was absolutely precious. Wonderful Job!
Beautiful set – I especially like the one with the bride peeking through the blinds. I want to know what she was checking out!
Love the picture with them in the mirror!
My absolute favorite photo was the black and white shot of the grandmothers blowing bubbles which was taken after the ceremony. I didn’t see it on the blog, but during the slideshow at the reception, which was a great touch! Loved it! Great job.
I love that slideshow Caroline. Aside from the beautiful ceremony it looks like a fancy party! Great work capturing the action.
Wow, that first image is powerful. Nice lighting there.
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