Amber B. is an awesome Chicagoan artist I’ve recently started working with. She’s been making custom DVD cases for some of my wedding and engagement photo packages. Pretty neat. It’s fun coming up with ways to personalize them for the clients. Here, she designed the case with the engagement ring that Darin gave Emily. More to come!
When Kate asked me to shoot her wedding, I was pretty excited. She just oozes style. And as evidenced by the following photographs, Travis isn’t too bad himself. Travis, you should tell me where you got your best man’s bow tie….so I can get one too…
We walked around Pittsburgh in the sweltering heat and got some great shots before the ceremony. The locations paired wonderfully with Kate’s vibrant choice of blue and red wedding colors. The ceremony was at Smithfield United Church of Christ, the first church built in Pittsburgh. As we were leaving the church, an untimely monsoon hit but everyone made it to the Warhol Museum for the celebratory festivities. If you didn’t believe me when I said Travis and Kate have style, just check out this reception hall. Fantastic. They even spent three weeks in Paris for their honeymoon. You two were awesome and I wish you the best in life!
Lisa Malanij is one of my awesome friends back in Cleveland. She also happens to be a pretty awesome fashion designer. This was our second shoot together and I designed a much more complex lighting setup to showcase her circle.square collection. We wanted an edgy and high-contrast look that didn’t hide all her design details in shadows. To achieve that I used two gridded softboxes on either side with flags to keep light off the black seamless. A gridded beauty dish was on a boom directly over head and a bit forward of the model for high key. Finally, there was a gridded strobe behind the model and to the right to provide a subtle rim light.