Haley, Sam and their families were a pleasure to work with. The wedding was at the beautiful First English Lutheran Church in Austin. The reception was at Saengerrunde Hall (next to Scholz Beer Garten on San Jacinto). I love beautiful churches as there are usually so many options for creative image making. One of my favorites that you can see below is to move the bride and groom towards the back of the church, but shoot towards the front. The effect is to capture the bride and groom surrounded by the entire majesty of the church. We typically use an umbrella to light the bride and groom with soft, diffuse light. I also love to put a flash behind the bride and groom for a strong backlit effect. You can see that below as well.
The reception was exceptional primarily because of wonderful family and guests who clearly loved both Haley and Sam. Everyone had a great time and it showed – it makes image capturing that much easier. We also had fun capturing images of the children. They ALWAYS have fun and are so excited to be at a wedding. We love to show them images we have captured on the LCD on the back of the camera. They get a huge kick out of seeing themselves and it adds even more to the fun for them on this special occasion.
You can also see below a number of our fine art creative effects. We first process every image in color to make it the best we possibly can. Our clients receive everyone of these images in full resolution with a copyright release. We then take about 40 to 50 of our favorite images and apply various effects including black and white, selective color, fine art, dual tone and more. Our clients receive these images in full resolution as well with copyright release at no additional charge. This is all part of our philosophy that every package and shoot we do must provide the best digital capture we can for our clients as part of our base package. It just doesn’t make sense to me to charge for this level of service. Charging for these items would imply it would be OK for them not to have them – to me, that would be a disservice to our clients who at a minimum, should receive the best digital capture of their wedding, engagement, bridal as possible even if they don’t elect to buy albums or fine art prints.
