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Week 36 – Tonight, that dream dies

Andrew and Chandler prepare to go off and have adventures together under a sea of sparklers.

This is not the most well-exposed photo of the night, or the most well-focused, and it needed a lot of work in RAW. However, I like it because it seems to have a little bit of that something different, that heart, that a generic photo might not have. I did get some more generic, easy pictures at the Cagle wedding, but this one might be my favorite because it was hard. I suppose you could add in a marriage analogy there somewhere, but I’ll try not to cheapen it that way. This is just two elated people enjoying the night.

Week 13 – An Oklahoma Wedding

Karig and some of his groomsmen sing about friends in low places.

I got to go to Shawna’s brother’s wedding this weekend, which was fun, and (as most weddings do) presented lots of opportunities for good photos. It was dark as a womb in the reception hall, and my flash wasn’t recycling quite as often as I would like, but I did manage to catch this shot which I really dig. It’s not super-sharp and the noise is crazy, but I feel like it’s of “newsprint quality,” which is what I’ve shot for most of my photographic life. A quick black-and-white conversion fixed any other problems — those lit-up trees in the corner were an issue, but I couldn’t crop them out in a 2×3 ration and still keep the rest of the photo that I liked.

All things said, I’d say this photo became successful in post. And there’s nothing wrong with that.