Last weekend, I visited with Lindsey and Robert (and their lovable pooch Karma) so we could make some maternity pictures in celebration of the upcoming birth of their baby daughter. I enjoyed getting to know them and look forward to meeting the new addition to their family!
I feel compelled to share this article because, to me, truer words were never spoken. If anyone ever wonders why I don’t show detail after detail after detail shot, it’s because of this: people will always trump stuff – in pictures as in real life – and will always always always dominate my shooting at your wedding or event and in what I show on my website and blog. And my clients? *MY* clients feel the same way – they want pictures of the real people in their lives having real emotions and interactions with each other. Stuff is just stuff.
Rage Against The Machine – Musea Blog
To my way of thinking, this blog post is a must-read, not only for photographers but for clients alike.
We’re up to Image No. 8 from my website, and this one is from Aliza and Ben’s wedding in 2011 at Congregation Tifereth Israel and The Westin. I remember when it was mentioned to me that Ben and his groomsmen would be having traditional shaves at the Mug & Brush and would like for me to stop by for pictures. Uh, YEAH! An old-school barber shop, with tattooed hipster barbers wielding straight razors with grace and elan? The answer to that is soooo yes. I always love an opportunity to photograph something out of the ordinary.
This shot made my website not only because of its uniqueness generally, but because of its intensity: the intensity of the groomsman’s stare along with the intensity of his basically having a knife on his face, at the mercy of the barber whose view I’m pretty much blocking with my head and camera. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.
