Soft Window Lighting

August Weddings  because I also celebrate my anniversary in August – what is that you ask? 

Yes it was here  in Phoenix. 

Photographing a wedding at this time of year does involve some tricks of the trade. 

First never never speak of the weather (lol) no one needs to be a meteorologist to figure out

the temperature out there.   

So work on bringing the outside in with your bride and groom, I had some beautiful windows with a fabulous folage

tree backdrop,

this also provided a wonderful soft directional light on my wedding couple.  (Soft Window Lighting)

We also worked on a upper story porch with a shade over hang that provided easy access to the  

indoor ceremony site for a little cooling off for the Bride and her Bridesmaids.   The gentle back light  provided

illumination on the bride’s veil and the

 backdrop was enhanced again with the folage of the trees.

The Rainbow!

 Wedding Photography should capture the fun and excitement of the day!   Meet Christian and Nichole – we photographed all the traditional photos, some at the church and most at the beautiful location of Val Vista Lakes, at the end of the formals one of them suggested this very fun – Trash the dress image – No there is not a second image of the bride and the groom hitting the water!  This worked as a very fun capture the personality of the Bride and Groom image.  

 Some fun journalistic style wedding images are semi posed within a natural  setting.  While preparing to start a grouping of images with the bride and bridesmaids this natural backdrop of the maids was created while posing the bride and little flower girl.

 Yes we really did capture all the traditional wedding images – but at the conclusion of the wedding party session who could resist a quick strike a pose portrait of this lively group!  This fun, capture the moment image, takes only a few seconds to create but adds the essence of laughter and captures the  unique personality of the bride and groom and their wedding entourage.

So at the end of the day, make sure your photographer takes a few extra moments to create and capture the fun of your special wedding day.

 Patty Kaufman – www.itsUphoto.com