Random musings from December…

Posted on 27. Dec, 2009 by Symbol Photography in Expecting, Wedding/Engagement

As Boston Wedding and Portrait Photographers, you acquire a visual record of your work over the lifetime of your career.

And while we don’t yet have a lifetime worth of photos, we are certainly working to that end… And along those lines, occasionally you surprise yourself with a technically fantastic photograph. While it may not be one of the ’stand out’ photos people see sometimes on blogs, we still feel it’s worthy of mentioning here – though nary a human, with the exception of a fellow photographer, may appreciate.

That said…in Boston Wedding Photography, it’s almost a guarantee that you’ll need to prepare differently for locations in the Winter vs. other seasons. For example, the sun goes down at 4:45pm and this can sometimes be a severe limitation for those looking to do fun, group shots outside, especially if you have an evening wedding.

We wedding photographers needs to be creative during these times to ensure we are delivering the quality photography clients expect. We have a few photos to share and do our best to share a short explanation on why these photos are interesting, from a technical point of view.

This photo is interesting, as we knew the Colonnade might become a bit stale after a few rounds of shots and since we only had the evening light, we wanted to explore a location nearby and decided to use the Prudential Mall instead. We scouted a few locations and found this one, nice area with a single light shining down. We really liked the clean curved lines in the background and how the light only lit the couple:

Here was another lucky find this time of year – large Christmas ornaments that we thought would make for a festive backdrop and the couple loved it..

Lastly, this is the really technical photo we were speaking of. We did a long exposure on this one, used a remotely triggered flash inside the Boston Colonnade Smart Car. We love the playful aspect of the Smart Car and decided that night or day, we were going to find a way to use this in our shot. You can see the cars in the background moving while we dragged the shutter. The flash inside the car had time to fully burn in the scene inside the car as well. Had we not used flash here, it would have been too dark and you wouldn’t see their faces. We just love this photo…

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