More of Yesterday's

Here are a few more images that I shot while doing the engagement photo's yesterday. I wanted to put them on last night but decided to divide the images so there wouldn't be quite so many on one blog.





OK so I just had to put one image up of the cute couple.

An evening doing engagement photos.

So we went up into the canyon tonight to take engagement pictures for my daughter and well I have decided that even if I am doing another job I will stop and take other pictures as well if it doesn't prevent me from doing my best for the couple. Here are some of the images that I grabbed on the fly.

Combine a Wedding, Fall Day and a Niece

Last Thursday and Friday I had an opportunity to photograph a wedding for a beautiful young couple. The wedding was in an LDS Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah and the day was simply a beautiful fall day.

 SO as I worked on the pictures today I just couldn't resist sharing a very few of the 2,400 images shot between Thursday and Friday. There was the wedding, the Open House, and the following day the reception in a gorgeous canyon. The grooms little nieces became good friends and also the subjects of a fair number of the images. I was stunned by how well the couple was able to pull off the romantic look and a couple of the images show it. 

I just had a great time and want to thank the couple and their parents for the opportunity to photograph their special day.

A Walk in the Park

There is a park in the mouth of Provo Canyon in Utah that is really a beautiful park. I was there a couple of years ago photographing a wedding and decided while waiting for the wedding to start to go ahead and take a few pictures of the flowers. The first picture is looking from the park to Mount Timpanogos which this park is named after. The rest of the images were of some of the flowers that were in bloom that day in the park.

Yellow Roses

I would say something but the Beauty of a Rose always speaks for itself.

Depth of Field

One of the principles of photography that has always kind of baffled me is that of Depth of Field.
So every now and then I just go out and practice doing it to see what I can come up with. The sunflower and the barn however have been the easiest to use to see the differences of any pictures that I have ever shot.

If you look closely at this first image everything appears to be in focus.  It was taken with a slower shutter speed and a smaller in physical size or larger in numeric value of the shutter opening. I don't know the specific setting but considering that I was doing this with an old Canon A-1 film camera the Aperture would have been f-22 while the shutter speed probably around 1/60th of a second. Light going in slowly through the small opening in the lens.

Then with the next two I would have reversed the settings using an f2.8 aperture and probably 1/400th of a second exposure. Now these are not the numbers actually used since I don't have my readings from the camera like I can have now with the metadata that is automatically recorded in a digital camera but they do represent the dramatic change in settings that would have occurred. A lot of light instantly through a large lens opening.

The other major differences then also in these two pictures is where I would have focused the lens. In this one that is next I focused on the sunflower.


And in this image the focus was set on the barn.Most of the small point and shoot camera's are built with the small aperture and then the speed set automatically by the camera.  It is the lack of opportunity to use the principles of photography in those little camera's that has always made me have to have a camera that I could adjust manually.  That is when photography not only becomes more challenging but also a lot more fun.

A light study

You may recall a couple of weeks ago when I went out to do a light study. Here are a few more of the images.

 I selected these because they really have no significance to composition, they are just images with lights and darks. The last one however was a surprise to me when I opened it into bridge and saw something that I hadn't noticed when taking the image. I just saw a spider web in the small pine tree and liked how the light was coming from it in the early morning sun. The center piece of the web really took me by surprise when I saw it on the computer. You never really know what may come from a picture especially if you are shooting it for a different reason and your focus is only on that reason.