As many of you know, I shot a wedding last weekend as a second shooter.  I worked with the lovely and talented Lindsey Beckwith who has been my second shooter on a number of occasions.  Second shooting was a fabulous exercise in forcing myself to shoot something other than the "obvious" shot during a wedding.  It gave me a chance to hang out with the guys and really work out my wide angle lens.   I don't usually go into a lot of detail about each shot so this will be a fun opportunity to talk about what I was thinking while shooting.

In this first shot, the light from the doorway (right) provided all of the light I needed for this shot.  The architecture of St. Paul's Shrine, provided framing for the action that was going on...the Father of the Groom greeting guests.  St. Joseph is looking on.


You really need to study this image to see all of the action.  The architecture (a recurrent theme for this event) of the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the Arcade allowed me to frame the image to include a good number of the guests, the actual time that the first dance took place and the lovely people I was working with.  It's a wedding "Where's Waldo."

Finally, my favorite image from the day.  It's rare that receptions are held in such voluminous settings.  The scale of the venue allowed me to really emphasize the grand architecture as being secondary to the emotions of the day....Dad's smile is the focus of the image.