Charleston South Carolina is a very romantic city; the history, the humidity, the active nightlife…so if you’re getting married here, leave some time in your day to connect with your lover and take some romantic evening portraits. I recommend dusk, because the lighting helps your eyes relax – and the colors in the sky change giving your pictures a variety as dusk falls. Anywhere from the downtown historic streets of the French Quarter to the beaches of Sullivan’s Island or James Island make for wonderful locations.
In these few recent video posts, I’ve taken snippets of my life and shown how they add up to make me a good wedding photographer, here’s the installment from Providence RI: … Read more
This was my last wedding in Lima, my once-upon-a-time hometown, where My wife and I bought our first house, and where the sky invites the face of god. It reminds me of the amazing tropical thunderheads I’ve seen in Puerto Rico and the Bahamas. I am so grateful I was blessed to experience this August evening.
Just a technical note of interest – the web is the best place to view these photos because of the amazing Electric Magenta, or Fucia color of the sky. It is nearly impossible to reproduce that coloring in a print as explained by wikipedia:
When electric magenta is reproduced on paper, it is called fuchsia and it is physically impossible for it to appear on paper as vivid as on a computer screen. In order to reproduce it, a small amount of cyan printer’s ink must be added to printer’s magenta to make fuchsia, and therefore fuchsia is not a primary color of pigment–it is the color of printer’s magenta that is one of the primary colors of pigment (along with cyan and yellow).
The name fuchsia was chosen as the alias for electric magenta because that is the color name for the color that in printed reproduction is its equivalent.
Since prior to the introduction of personal computers magenta was synonymous with printer’s magenta, colored pencils and crayons called “magenta” are usually colored the color ofprocess magenta (printer’s magenta) shown above.
So while we experience it – it’s not yet something that we can fully capture!
I just thought that was a beautiful analogy to a photograph.
…the first section of four short films about our business. We’re totally excited to share these with you over the next couple months as we book new weddings, meet new people and get used to our new home in Charlotte – anyone in the world can meet with us through our site. A BIG thanks to Andrew Marzano the producer of our series.
I have to dedicate this first video to My wife, the love of my life – who’s inspired me to such great heights of experience, and such great depths of understanding.
With this post, I’m initiating a new category in the site called ‘Love Note’ where anyone can send in a love note that will be published as a public proclimation for the 5-10,000 people who visit this site every month. We’re open to any kind of media, and will help you host and present it. I hope to see us develop this into a little bit of a friendly competion – since my love note to My wife started with a big production budget – I’m winning!
But like the old horse says, “when you are real, you can’t be ugly” – so don’t be intimidated, start sending it in!!
Wendy & Billy finalized their album from their Adirondack mountains destination wedding. My wife and I were both there to capture this amazing event, it’s so fun when clients hire us to work together. You may recognize their mountain sized photos populating the rotating headers here in the journal, or recognize them from their preview gallery from September 16th, 2006. Sometimes it takes a while to get to greatness……
…..over a year later I hope it shows in their album design.
