Comments on: For those special moments…

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:06:49 +0000

Thanks, Bride!

By: Dataceptionist

Dataceptionist — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:38:04 +0000

(and Yay- seems the comment section doesn’t hate me anymore!)

By: Dataceptionist

Dataceptionist — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:37:25 +0000

*sigh*
My photography will be a never ending source of disappointment for me concerning our wedding. The photos on his website were beautiful, we loved the work he showed us, he had a copy of someone’s actul album he’d done and we liked the style, liked his personality.

In the end, we have very few pictures that I truly love from him, an album in a great style (magazine style) but without great content.
What I really wanted was “beautiful” photos, and we somehow completely misread him.
My brother-in-law somehow managed to take better photos than him.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:14:47 +0000

Nice one, class-factotum!

By: Blond Bride

Blond Bride — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:21:09 +0000

The photographer I used for my wedding (fabulous by the way) uses regular looking sample shots as well. The work on the site provides a fantastic example of what your shots will look like. And the photogs (a husband and wife pair), while not the Hottest Couple Ever were perhaps the Funniest and Down-to-Earth couple ever. Anyway, their prices were more than reasonable (compared to other photographers, it made me feel like I was getting an awesome deal!) and they don’t make you buy huge packages or anything. Honestly, I loved my wedding pictures. If anyone’s getting married in Northern Virginia/DC, you should check them out: http://www.photosbykelly.net

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:43:36 +0000

I got a lucky fun shot of a wedding as I drove past the basilica in Minneapolis. I wish I were good enough to engineer (or even think of!) this sort of thing: (scroll down to fourth photo)

http://class-factotum.journalspace.com/?cmd=displaycomments&dcid=1806&entryid=1806

By: Chapstick Addict.

Chapstick Addict. — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:44:56 +0000

I was incredibly happy with my wedding photographer and I would recommend him to anyone getting married in the eastern PA area. His prices were reasonable, he was willing to create a package tailored to what we needed, and the pictures were great (better, I think, than some of the ones he displays on his website). We had some car trouble and the Mini we rented as a getaway car wouldn’t start so he used some sort of camera trick to make it look like we were speeding away when, in reality, we were stuck in the reception hall parking lot.

Photography by Christopher
http://hockensmithphotography.com/home-page.html

By: JaneC

JaneC — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:51:46 +0000

The phenomenon of not using the Hottest Couple Ever was one of the things that attracted me to the photographer I am considering–Kawabori Photography (kawaboriphotography.com). They have pictures on their website of people who aren’t skinny, people with glasses, people with gray hair, people with big noses, mixed-race couples, and even one couple where the bride is about two inches taller than the groom. And all of them look beautiful and happy.

Of course, the two photographers are actually the Hottest Couple Ever. But they don’t seem to expect the rest of us to look like they do.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:58:37 +0000

You should post it somewhere, Twistie, so we can see

By: Twistie

Twistie — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:20:26 +0000

I had an advantage in picking a photographer, in that one of my co-workers had a husband who had recently set up shop as a wedding photographer, so I already knew him and what a pleasant, mellow guy he was. Also, another of my co-workers got married a few months before me and used him as her photographer. One look at her album and I was sold. Knowing the couple, I knew he’d not only made them look their best, but really captured their personalities, as well.

My favorite shot in our wedding album is a happy mistake, of sorts. My beloved and I both had round-lensed sunglasses that we were wearing when we got to the site. The photographer said he really wanted to get a shot of us in the glasses. Well, we did our best Victorian serious stance in the funky glasses, and the way the sun hit the glasses made these awesome freaky rays. It looks like American Gothic crossed with something psychadelic from the Summer of Love. When the photographer brought us the album, he was grinning like a little kid waiting for us to spot that picture because he knew that would be our favorite.

It was.