A photographer’s photographer

I got a call from another popular metro Atlanta wedding photographer asking me to photograph her wedding. Naturally I was flattered, but I asked why? She said that she had seen my work, loved my unique approach to lighting and was confident that I would do a great job.

I visited with her at the hotel where she would prepare and the wedding venue and talked about lighting, wedding flow, rehearsals and so on. When all in order I got to the hotel on time and started photographing the preparations and then drove to the wedding location, Flint Hill in Norcross.

The wedding went very smoothly, with only one technical glitch, due to the venue’s professional staff and I got a lot of really good images, so good that when I emailed some proofs to the bride she wrote back - “Allan….they are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! Thank you soooooooo much!!!”

The glitch was simple… I didn’t fully plug in a cable so I had to quickly switch to the on camera strobe that most wedding photographers rely on (not me) and take a few shots. I then fixed the problem in under 30 seconds and used my standard lighting thereafter. Here is a typical on camera flash photograph and a shot using my lighting technique, both as proofs, in other words right out of the camera. You be the judge. I’ll post a slide show later.

Off-camera flash. Look at their feet, they are jumping for joy!