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photos from danielle & dallas’ wedding

D'Arcy Norman — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:44:59 +0000

I didn’t get copies of the photos from the borrowed camera until just recently, and just finished going through and editing. This is the first wedding I’ve ever shot, with any sense of responsibility for capturing the whole thing. Lots of rookie amateur mistakes in there. It’s amazing how fast things happen in a wedding, when you’re trying to capture it all. And how quickly the lighting goes south – the wedding took place on a beach, just before sunset, so we had amazing light for most of it, and then harsh oblique shadows at the end. I didn’t have any lights aside from the on-camera flash, so things got messy in a hurry. Thankfully, I pumped off about a thousand frames – whittled down to 80-something.

It was an absolutely beautiful ceremony – both in the setting (on the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico), and in the casual relaxed fun feeling throughout – the bride and groom were both laughing through much of the ceremony. So much fun.

If I were to shoot a wedding again, I would do things a bit differently. For starters, I’d use my own camera (mine was out of action that week – sensor far to messed up to risk shooting a wedding with it). I’d shoot RAW (the borrowed camera didn’t have room on the card to handle more than JPEG if I was going to shoot around 1000 frames. I’d have proper lights. I’d maybe have 2 cameras ready – one with a long lens for closeups, one with a wide lens for catching the scene.

We actually had 3 shooters for the wedding – myself, my nephew Jordan (brother of the bride) and his wife Kelsey (who was a bridesmaid, and has a fantastic sense of artistic direction) – photos on their faceplace, and my son (9, with his own camera). With them all combined, I think we actually did a surprisingly good job at shooting the wedding.

keepers from the mexico wedding

D'Arcy Norman — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:57:04 +0000

I whittled the first batch of photos down to 62 decent keepers. I couldn’t make myself edit the set down any more. That’ll come later…

the wedding venue

D'Arcy Norman — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:06:11 +0000

not an ugly spot to get hitched at…

a week in playa del carmen

D'Arcy Norman — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:37:07 +0000

My niece got married on the beach in Playa del Carmen last week, so we tagged along. So nice.

The bride asked me to photograph the wedding, but my DSLR is a bit under the weather. I wound up shooting it on a borrowed DSLR – the first real DSLR photos I’ve shot in about a year. I need to pull mine out of the basement and get it back in working order again. I still haven’t seen the photos, but the ceremony was beautiful and fun. I think my fave shot of the entire thing might have been a quick Instagram I shot on my phone, though…

Here’s the gallery of photos from the trip. Minus the 1000-or-so still on the borrowed DSLR somewhere…

14 years ago

D'Arcy Norman — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:29:19 +0000

On the beach at Magen’s Bay, Charlotte Amalie, USVI. Seems like a lifetime ago, and just yesterday.

wed

D'Arcy Norman — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:35:27 +0000

two of our good friends got married today, in a beautiful outdoor ceremony – in calgary, in october. absolutely spectacular, in all ways.