Favorite Film Images from Weddings over the Past 7 Years

 My Favorite Film Images from Weddings over the Past 7 Years:

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priti’s slippers. priti wore these shoes to her farewell brunch in india after her week-long wedding extravaganza. i just had to get a photo of them, especially against the mehndi {henna} and chiffon dress…
anjali‘s portrait. what beautiful skin, there was no retouching on this photo. the amazingly talented Susmita Patel did her makeup.
 
marina and leon‘s wedding took place on the edge of a cliff in negril, jamaica. marina, a fashion designer, brought her own aqua silk fabrics to drape over the tables. what beautiful colors and a gorgeous setting for a wedding!

joy and bob looked so elegant and dapper at their PAFA wedding in philadelphia. we did a unique portrait session on a white backdrop adjacent to the gallery of their reception. this left us with tons of really creative and clean-looking portraits. (you will find more photos of this wedding on oh joy’s blog as well as on my weddings website.)
“100 degree breeze” is the title this photo on my weddings website, which accurately describes the amount of heat on that day. i arrived at this location in rajastan, india in the morning, to shoot as many shots as possible, before the bride and groom arrived. the canopies (and the pool) were a beautiful and functional idea, shielding guests (and bride having henna painted) from the sun.
please see more on priti and jaouad‘s wedding page.

Priti’s mehndi (henna) ceremony. thankfully the sun was starting to go down as the henna was being painted, what a hot day for mehndi! notice how everything is fuschia…priti had everyone wear hot pinks on this day to match her decor… more here…

caroline and damion at the penthouse 15 loft in manhattan. what a cute couple, and i love the silver balloons!

jade‘s dress and stance is beautiful here on the bridgehampton, ny beach in late summer.

one of my all-time favorite portraits. i made this one of dana in the w hotel in union square before her wedding. this shot ended up winning fifth place in a wpja creative portrait contest.

david and his groomsmen (including his dad, how cute) on a dock in chatham, massachusetts last september.
guelay and her maids before the ceremony at the brooklyn botanic garden (bbg). i love how they agreed to be posed in different directions at different angles from the bride, making for a really elegant and sexy group portrait.
eric and sarah chose a gorgeous time of year to be photographed. their wedding was up in westchester, at estherwood mansion, at peak season for colored leaves!
this is one of my favourite kiss images. the light is perfect on jade and chris and their white attire and the canopy (no, not a chuppah) keep everything in the photo looking so clean.

angel orensanz foundation (a former synagogue in the lower east side of manhattan, where sarah jessica parker got married) is absolutely stunning at every angle. i love how the lights project radiant colors against the altar just as the bride and her dad are walking down the aisle. perfect.

Happy Father’s Day!

happy father's day dad! here are a few photos which I love, with you in them.
thanks for being a great dad, and I hope you have a fantastic weekend. i'm looking forward to seeing you in montreal next week!
xoxo

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laurie, dad, sophie the cat and me seated in the living room. it looks as if it might be winter as laur is wearing nana's knitted hat and we're both wearing flannels…

i took this photo of my parents, in 1986, with my dad's minolta camera. i love this picture. the pose, the way my father carefully holds his glasses. apparently he introduced me to photography at a young age… thanks dad!

dad, oscar and me seated in the living room on trafalgar ave. dad always had a fondness for cats, and they always flocked to him…

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dad in genoa. he's so striking!

dad and laurie in santa margherita, liguria, italy. i love how relaxed this photo looks.



dad and I dressed up for laurie's wedding. again, look at how dapper and handsome he is!

My Little Niece Sat Up Today!

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                                                                        Alexandra, I miss you!

I did this photo mini photo shoot back in March, on black and white film, with black velvet. It was the last time I saw my little niece in person. My sister said she sat up today all by herself for the first time! I cannot wait to see her in three weeks in Montreal. How she must have grown…


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An image to tide me over until my film from Italy is developed…

I took these photos on my last trip to Florence, back in January '06. I shot this while I walked over the Ponte Vechhio from the Duomo side, south, on the way to find Beatrice Galli's yarn shop. Her beautiful shop* is just around the corner to the right. Check out her yarns and chat a bit (ma, ho bisogno parlare italiano). She is really friendly and has many stories to tell, she has been situated there for 30+ years!
*The ribbons and tweeds are out of this world. It is now my favorite yarn store EVER.

Nothing but FILM

Update: Since I posted this blog post (2009), I bought a high end digital camera!

It’s been a few years now, and I’m shooting both digital and film photography at weddings.

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as you might already know, i shoot exclusively with film!
 
my film:
 
i’ve always been a film shooter, ever since i graduated from RISD in Photography. from my first wedding shoot onwards i continued to shoot film. even as my assistants shoot with film and with digital SLR’s, i continue to be a medium format film shooter at wedding.
medium format is larger than the commonly known 35mm film and thus provides a larger negative with more detail in the enlargement. not only is there more detail in medium format film, but the colors are truer than digital, natural and saturated in color and rich in black and white tones.
 
my studio:
 
up until last year when i moved my studio and bought an apartment in park slope, brooklyn, i had a black and white darkroom. i printed fiber prints for clients in that darkroom, including the many pages of the cookbook: The Way We Cook” by Sheryl Julian and Julie Riven. the cookbook took a week to print, but i loved every minute of it. (especially while i learned new indie music that my friends gave me to get through the week in a darkroom-chemical infused room ;-).
at the time, i had a bit more time to develop negatives in tanks by hand and to print contact sheets. now that i shoot so many local and destination weddings per year, there isn’t enough time to be in the darkroom anymore (but it’s nice to breathe in cleaner air).
 
my labs:
 
since then, i found 2 incredible labs in manhattan to develop my b&w and my color film. they use the dip and dunk method which is similar to the agitation in tanks in the darkroom needed to provide the film with an even and timed coating of developer, stop bath and fixer, similar to developing it by hand…
 
my printer:
 
after the developed film is dry, mary, my amazingly talented and award-winning printer at my manhattan color lab, makes gorgeous 4×6 prints, which my clients are so extremely happy with.
i trust mary entirely with my wedding clients’ film (mary, you’re the best, thank you).

Shooting at Blue Hill at Stone Barns

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Nothing is more gorgeous than the light at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, at the "magic hour".
These photographs were taken in early December 2007, before my clients' Jill & Eric's wedding began.
A Most Creative Affair in Westchester planned and coordinated this party…
More photos from the wedding to come…

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