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A photographer’s first wedding couple is always special to them. It’s the first couple who says “We trust you with this important day, and know you can do the job.”
Or in my case, it was friends who had eloped in Italy and had amazing photographs taken, and figured as a hobbyist photographer, I’d be able to at least do a good enough job at photographing their cocktail reception back home with friends and family.
Indeed, my first wedding ever was six years ago in the summer of 2010 when I was a meteorologist with a Rebel XTi and a wide angle lens. Oh yes, I shot a wedding with a wide angle lens. Our good friends had eloped in Italy (so baller) and wanted to have a small ceremony and cocktail reception back home in Boston with all of their loved ones. With the real wedding already documented, all Keith and Paula were looking for was someone to snap images of the evening with a slightly better eye than an aunt with a point and shoot. They trusted me and my eye, and I’m pretty humbled by that, even still.
Nowadays, looking at the family photos shot at 10mm, the slightly blurry ceremony photos (shall I call it ‘soft focus’? so hot right now.), and images of my husband giving his best man speech that are so red, it’s glaringly obvious that the only white balance adjusting tool at my disposal was iPhoto, I literally cringe.
But when Jon and I spent the past weekend in Georgia visiting Keith and Paula those imperfect (to me) images are printed and displayed in their home proudly. They don’t see a terrible white balance or the distortion of wide-angle images, they see their family, their friends, and the special night they celebrated together.
Even still, I figured I owed them some updated photographs that were shot a bit more professionally. I didn’t want to take time away from our visit to do a full photo shoot, but during our weekend in Savannah, I did make them stop and pose for me a few times. And in honor of their wedding anniversary tomorrow, I wanted to post some of them. Keith and Paula, thanks for indulging me and my “WAIT STOP the light is perfect there!” all weekend.
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I make whimsical art for color-lovers and California dreamers. I'm based in Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C. where there are most decidedly no palm trees in sight.