I’m posting this from my seat on a flight from New York back to San Francisco right now. In-flight wifi is a beautiful thing! It was a short, crazy, whirlwind of a trip, and the first order of business was to head from the big city to Patterson, New York to photograph the wedding of a very good friend of mine and his new bride.
I haven’t started processing these photos just yet, but I wanted to post a few that I really liked from that day since I pretty much have 5 hours to kill here on the plane. Here goes!
Met with Dennis (top) and his lovely bride Anna in a small country home in upstate NY this past Saturday. The quiet, humble couple preferred to keep the “getting ready” shots to a bare minimum, so we instead focused on covering other moments in the house as they happened.
Just a quick plug for my second shooter. I worked this wedding with my cousin and best buddy, Josh Libatique. He’s a portrait and wedding photographer from New York, and his experience and skills were very welcome that day. Here he is, getting ready to go at the bride’s house:
Josh and I grew up together, and have always shared the same hobbies and interests, so go figure here. We had a blast shooting the wedding as a team!
Here’s Anna meeting Dennis for the first time in her wedding dress. Such a happy looking couple!
Anna’s parents are very sweet people. Took this shot as the couple exited the house on their way to take a few images before the early morning ceremony got started. There was so much emotion on the parents’ faces as we departed.
We only had around 20 minutes or so to get some formals of the couple at a nearby park, but I was able to get some fun images anyway:
Rush rush rush! After a very brief shoot in the park, off to the ceremony (which was also very brief), then the reception at a small but pretty italian restaurant. (Haven’t processed any of the ceremony images yet)
The reception was brief but fun. Great tasting food, and friends I haven’t seen in forever. It was like a big happy reunion!
It was never difficult getting an amazing smile from the bride!
Of course, watching image slideshows of the couple when they were dating always makes for fun expressions from the observers:
The bride and groom did a meet and greet with every table, of course:
Did the whole take-a-picture-of-each-table thing, but of course I’m not posting all of them! Dennis and Anna also paid a visit to our table:
Though our work ethic reflected otherwise, we were actually guests of the bride and groom, not just photographers. Since Dennis is such a close friend to me, my wife, and Josh, we shot the wedding as our gift to him. Here we are at the “photographer’s table,” Josh’s parents seated to the left, and mine to the right. Handed my main camera to Josh to get this one. Half the time, the table had more camera gear on it than food and decor. =)
Handed off my second body to Josh while I took the table meet-and-greet photos. Apparently he took a moment to catch me and Bridget in action!
Then, the dancing started:
Got some really fun images of friends really getting into it!
At the very end of the wedding, a bunch of us old friends got together for a final group shot. We’ve all been really close since childhood, and [almost] all of us are married now! I set up the shot and handed the camera to my uncle, whose sense of humor easily got us into a goofy mood for the shot. =)
That’s all I got for now! It’s going to be a very busy week as I process the gazillions of other images I took from the day. Just wanted to get a few highlights out there.
Also, on my last post, I wrote about my first impressions of the new Nikkor 24-120 f/4 VR lens I just acquired. I used it extensively for this wedding as well as in the streets of New York in the days that followed, and I continue to be impressed by it. It certainly made an excellent wedding lens! Sharp and quick focusing. Love it.
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Camera Specs:
Nikon D700, Nikon D300s // Nikkor 16mm f/2.8 FE // Nikkor 16-35mm f/4 VR // Nikkor 24-120 f/4 VR
Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR // Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G // Lots of other stuff
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beautiful stuff Jon!
…and it looks like you guys made great use of the gorgeous lighting.
What a nice wedding present. Great job on the photos.
jonathan,
you did a fantastic job – even my face hurts from so much smiling!
Your wife also took some picture or she’s just holding the off-cam flash?
Very nice set. I like the mood of it. It’s clean, simple and full of emotions. Lot’s of wedding photographers are spending a lot of time in post processing like textures, lot’s of blurring etc but your style really works. Good job Jonathan.
Awesome shots! Amazing lighting too! Hey, since you’re shooting with a D700 now, you won’t be needing that Tokina 535 any more eh?? 🙂 If you ever want to sell that lens, let me know 🙂
Thanks everyone! Appreciate the kind comments! =)
Wowie: Bridget actually did do some shooting for me during the wedding, but she was mostly my VAL (Voice Activated Light-stand)
Brian: Sent you an email! =)
Hahaha! Well it’s really hard to find a buddy who wants to be VAL. So she should be well compensated hehe joke.
Absolutely excellent work. I am looking at both the 24-120 and 16-35 and your images enhanced my desire even further for theses lenses.
Thanks for your posts.
Very fantastic job.jonathan you are great.let me know how to get a 24-120 Lens for my D90.