Michigan Wedding Photographers | Michigan Wedding Photography | Lansing Wedding Photographer

Just one for now from Brooke and Mark’s September wedding at The English Inn.

A little something different…

A few months back I shot this magazine cover for Sport magazine, but just recently picked up a copy to finally see it in person. The feature article was about the progression a soccer player goes through from youth if they are to end up playing college, professional, or Olympic soccer. On the left, the shot just as it came out of the camera, on the right, the terrific job they did making it a cover.

And since I know there are some fellow photo geeks following along, here’s the technical info.

Camera: Nikon D3 with Sigma 85mm and a 3 stop ND filter. 1/250, iso 200, f5.6.
Lighting: Scrim flying camera right covering subjects in shade. Einstein in 35″ octa camera right. SB800 high, back, and left of subjects. SB800 gelled warm in small SBIII softbox hidden by the adult subject and lighting the boy’s face.

A really fun break from weddings!

This was actually a two-part engagement session. The first day it was dumping snow, so we just took a few quick photos, had a snowball fight, then went and warmed up with some coffee. Then two days later we got a beautiful day to shoot a bit more, even if it was still below freezing.

I met up with Sarah and Jared a few days ago for their engagement photos and in the hour leading up to it I kept watching the weather radar on my phone as a massive storm was fast approaching. We started by hanging out and having a drink, which was especially nice because I hadn’t met Jared before, and during that time the storm fizzled to a light shower. Good news, right? Well, it left behind about 1000% humidity on the already 90 degree day. Somehow they stayed looking great in the heat, I know I didn’t, and we made some great photos.

Two quick (and very different) favorites from an engagement session earlier this week with Kat and Gavin. They’re having a Steampunk themed wedding in October. That should be pretty amazing.

Tricia and Joel are getting married in just a few weeks (at The English Inn, I love that place), so we did a quick engagement session last week in Tricia’s parent’s neighbor’s yard (apostrophe frenzy!). Yeah, that’s a nice yard. The river was flooded and we couldn’t get to their hammock, which is too bad, I’m sure we would have had some fun with that.