Something Old into Something New

It's the height of wedding season in Charleston. I have been attending a lot of weddings lately, camera in hand... ready for action. But as luck would have it, it seems that all weddings have the same action... different faces, same pictures.

Like many situations we photogs find ourselves in, after a while you begin to think to yourself... "If I have to take one more boring, ordinary picture of this scene just so the client will be happy, I won't be able to look at myself in the mirror tomorrow."

So at the reception of a recent assistant gig, I had a little fun with the dance floor. I chose the dance floor because, in my opinion there's no image more awkward than Uncle Ernie frozen in mid Chicken Dance.

For these I created a bit of motion with reduced shutter speed. It's tricky to balance capturing just enough focus with just enough motion to convey the scene, but keep it intact. It's prone to a LOT of throw away images, but I think that the reward is well worth it.

These are my best so far, as I fine tune the details. I'd love to know if they are only interesting to the easily bored photographer or if this technique is viable as an alternative to the typical static dance shots... So, comment away...

Pictures in the Park

She is sooo cute! I admit it... I have turned into one of those people.... you know the kind; You say hello and ask them how they are, they launch into a story about Fido's latest antics and provide a picture to illustrate....

haha

Sunshine Wedding

Some people seem to go through life with the sun always shining on them. I love meeting people like that because I feel that when I am near them, the sun is shing on me too. Ashley & Clay were that sunshine couple. I knew it before I even met them by the buzz around their arrival for their nuptuals.

How appropriate that the sunshine couple chose black white and yellow as their colors on this sunshiniest of days. Enjoy a few suny snaps of the day:

Since leaving my post at the Charleston Center for Photography I seem to be the busiest that I have ever been! Catching up on projects was the original goal, with what I thought would be free time but I have had so many new opportunities arise that I am trying to keep up. From covering Charleston Arts events and shooting weddings to assisting another local photographer, building my very own brand new website and getting a new dog I have been hopping. And let me tell you, I am lovin' every minute of it! I am taking a breather today to blog about it all, mostly because my days are such a blur and when things settle I want to remember what went down! So look for much more, so much more in the very near future... until then here are a few fun images of the new addition, Peanut!

(More about Peanut soon!)