Why I Like This Picture – Melissa and Phil

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Posted in Columbus Athenaeum,Columbus Ohio Photographer,Weddings,Why I Like This Picture

Another image from Melissa and Phil’s wedding, this time at #12 on the website.  Melissa and Phil’s reception was held in the Oak Room at the Columbus Athenaeum, one of my favorite venues.  In an effort to make a different type of image from the typically arranged toasts, I squeezed myself behind the head table to get a fresh view.  In addition to focusing on the clinking champagne flutes, if you look at the righthand side of the frame, you can see the person toasting, holding the microphone – all the elements in one picture to tell a complete story, even though it’s not shot straight-on or in an obvious way.  That’s why I like this picture.

Why I Like This Picture – Karen and Zach

Monday, March 18, 2013 Posted in Columbus Ohio Photographer,Weddings,Why I Like This Picture

The next image in my Why I Like This Picture “website edition” is a recent award-winner from Fearless Photographers.  At the getting-ready portion of Karen and Zach’s wedding day, I alternated spending time with Karen and then with Zach.  During my time with Zach, the guys mostly did nothing, which is not unusual.  Zach shaved and put on his shoes, and the other guys just hung out, waiting for the next part of the day.  At one point, I looked over to see one of the groomsmen lying in repose on the hotel bed.  What made the composition on this one was, again, symmetry – the equal alignment of the lampshades with the bed centered between – and that I chose to bend my knees to be more level with the groomsman.  To have stood at normal height and to therefore have shot down on him would’ve totally wrecked the composition, to my way of seeing.  And positioning him at the bottom of the frame gives the viewer the sense of lying on a bed where the view is more of what’s above than what’s below, which is what he’s seeing.

Thanks to Fearless Photographers for recognizing this picture and giving it an award!

Why I Like This Picture – Jen and Alan

Sunday, March 17, 2013 Posted in Columbus Athenaeum,Columbus Ohio Photographer,Weddings,Why I Like This Picture

Number 10 on the website won an ISPWP award in the category of Kids Being Kids, and is from Jen and Alan’s wedding reception at The Columbus Athenaeum.  This poor little guy had been in a suit all day – hard for a guy of any age, I’m sure – and, at the reception, decided it was high time to start shedding some of it, starting with his shoe and then his sock.  Which, of course, led to close inspection of his cute little foot.  I love how he is completely enraptured by the bottom of his foot and completely oblivious to me.

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