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These people. This wedding. Just wait.
Thank you Tatiana for letting me play at this gorgeous Monday wedding.
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Lovely in any reality
This photo makes me happy because of geometry, and because I always love working with Tatiana, who was primary shooter at Greg and Whitney's wonderful wedding, and gave me space to play.
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Anything for the shot, but leave the danger and dirt to me
I had a fantastic time in San Francisco, and shooting Alex and Betty's wedding was by far the best part. This was a shot where my twin doctrines of "anything for the shot" and "I'll be paranoid so you don't have to be" bumped heads with each other. Alex, Betty, and most of their friends are photographers, and had been told about this great spot to get a photo with the Bay Bridge in the background. One problem: It was a 45-degree trail of loose dirt through underbrush in the darkness: Not really wedding dress friendly.
We were all willing, but it struck me why it made me nervous: No way I'm going to let a bride to a dangerous thing if, instead, *I* can do the dangerous thing. So instead of going down the path I scrambled up a hillside of loose dirt, taking a dive in the process. This is why a) we buy tough cameras and lenses and b) I wear untearable, easily washable pants to weddings instead of easily shredded designer stuff. The groom, of course, captured some of the process here:
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Layers of a Lovely Day
Sometimes the problems solve themselves, at least when you have brides like Jennifer, awesome enough to brave a forest trail in a gorgeous couture gown. We've had this strange but beautiful thing where all the rain and nasty weather has fallen on weekdays. The New York Times even had to point out that there is no reason for special seven-day cycle in the weather. Me? I credit karma.
Apparently the reason that sometimes you come to my site and there is no site there is that someone out there has been attacking ryanbrenizer.com for a long time. We're working on fixing it, but in the meantime, please hold back for a bit, Mr. Cyber-Jerk. I have so much great stuff coming to the blog this week, from gorgeous weddings to camera reviews, that we'll probably bring the site down all by ourselves.
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Rockleigh Rain
The first time I shot at the Rockleigh Country Club, it was just 36 hours after Hurricane Sandy destroyed the region. This time, during the reception everyone's phones started clanging with flash flood warnings. So our reaction? Let's go out in it! Thanks to the Michelle and Michael's willingness, an intrepid Tatiana assisting, a helpful wedding guest, and four umbrellas, we made this shot work in the driving rain.
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The Most Coney Island Wedding Photo Ever
Even if nothing else comes of it, I am so glad we've been working like crazy this week to film an educational video about flash composites just so I could take this picture.
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This one goes to 50,000
I've mentioned before that the Brenizer Method -- like any large panorama technique -- will compress noise away at a given print or display size, similarly to how a something shot at ASA 800 on large format will print with less grain than a 35mm shot.
And I wasn't kidding. The sun goes down FAST over the mountains in Chile, and so just a few minutes after sunset is was already incredibly dark, and even at f/1.4 I had to shoot this at ISO 51,200! One part D4 magic, five parts panorama compression.
(Of course you can learn more about this with nearly three hours worth of instructional video here: http://brenizermethod.vhx.tv/ )
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Quick Hit from this weekend
Be sure to watch me in the only double-length session of CreativeLIVE Photo Week on Thursday at 10:45!
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