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^
Monthly Archives: January 2010
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.
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
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.
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
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