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Over the course of a wedding day, it is always interesting to spend a little time looking at the details of the preparations. Sometimes we just end up with great photographs for the album page backgrounds, other times we capture something that is important for the family to have a memory of. But it’s always fun and you never know quite what to expect. I don’t know if the guests notice many of these little details, but we do!

 

The Capitol angel hovers past our vantage point

Sometimes being in the right place at the right time is everything. That’s one of the things that distinguishes professional photographers from the rank and file. Recently we were camped out at the Texas State Capitol (one of my personal favorite places to photograph at night) doing some building photography. When we got home and took a look at the photographs we found that we had captured this very rare moment when the Capitol angel floated by right during the exposure – what an amazing event to capture! You probably won’t ever get a chance to see her with your own eyes so I thought we might post this photograph so you can believe…

I came across an excellent blog post today that I thought would be useful to Light Walk readers. Each of these ideas is standalone; you can implement any or all of them. In my experience each of these ideas can really help to make the wedding day move along well, with awesome photography. My favorite one is #1, simply because it is really all about getting to know your photographer and learning how to work together before the big day. Obviously that can be done lots of ways, but the best is to simply work together in creating a portrait of some kind (could be an engagement, a bridal or any other type). Enjoy the read and be sure to comment on junebug’s post so they know what you think!

10 Tips For Getting the Best Photographs on Your Wedding Day

So, you’ve bought some digital negatives from your photographer. What do you do with them? It’s essential that you take the effort to preserve them! You have some prints, you have perhaps an album or two from the day and you have the digital negatives. One idea behind the digital negative is that you can recreate an album or a print if needed in the future, say, when someone spills coffee on the album, or your kids think it might be fun to color on the pages… You might be tempted to think that the computer is a safe place to store these digital negatives, after all, it’s new and cool technology. It will take care of you! Well, read on to see some ideas to make things more secure than that.

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I am a father. It’s a true joy in life! So when I’m photographing a wedding I look for “father moments”; points in time where the love and emotion a father feels toward his daughter break out of his normal “fatherness” and shine for everyone to see. These moments are sometimes brief, sometimes long, but always there. Obvious times are walk up the aisle and giving away his daughter, and perhaps the first dance. But, other times come and go as thoughts run through his mind about his little girl when she was five years old, or when she went off on her first date. I love to be nearby, ready to photograph when those things pass through his mind, so I can perhaps capture a moment in time for remembrance later.

Here are a couple of photographs taken over the past few weddings we’ve been a part of that might just capture these kinds of moments. My life is always enriched to be a part of these moments; I hope they bring warmth to your heart like they do to me…

Just Waiting Before the Walk

Father - Daughter Dance

Watching from the Side

Dancing for the First Time