Abby and Michael Richardson | Wedding | Krutch Park | Knoxville’s Market Square
It was quite hot during this one. 90+ degrees, muggy, and threats of thunderstorms. Not the best for an outdoor wedding. BUT! A brief storm DID come, but right before we were to start doing photos, and it ended almost as quickly as it started. So that cooled things off a bit and the sun stayed out the rest of the afternoon/evening.
It was a very nice ceremony held at Krutch Park in Knoxville’s Market Square.
From 2:30 until around 10, I shot continuously. Ended up with nearly 1000 images. Here is but a small sampling of the images from the wedding ceremony and the reception.
I could publish a posing guide from this shoot
Only one other time have I photographed a model that was so fast and comfortable and easy at posing as Shae. At first, I was concerned that our one hour and a half or so shooting window would limit how many images we could get. By the end, I had shot nearly 700 images! One pose right into the next. I found myself giving her actual direction very very rarely. Usually she was one step ahead of me.
Not only were we able to get 700 images, but she was able to get in more than a half dozen outfit changes. The bad thing is, I now have to sift through 700 images. The good news is, they’re all so good and should require so little editing that it won’t be difficult to get some quality photographs at the end of the day.
Update to the update
I updated the way my web galleries work. I think they’re a lot smoother than the old way. Unfortunately, the version of the site building software I have made those galleries not viewable in certain versions of certain web browser. Aarg!
After much flustration and searching about, I was able to find an update to make them work. So http://www.samcomerphotos.com is now up with some new images and some new pages.
Long-awaited update
Tonight I updated my website. There are some new photos of models I’ve photographed here in Knoxville, as well as some new wedding photos. I’ve added some pricing information to make things a little more concrete. It’s been a long time coming, though it’s not drastically different from how it was before. But now that I’m blogging and shooting more, I will be making updates to the site more frequently. Everything should be working and linking the way it’s supposed to, but I’ll be checking back with it over the next couple of days to see if it needs to be tweaked any.
I’ve shot so many things in my career, from high school reunion photos to commercial photos for advertising to little leagues to running races to magazine spreads to you name it. If I haven’t done it, I’ll figure out how. If I can’t do that … well, I’ve been around long enough that I know a lot of other photographers in Knoxville who could probably pull it off.
Check it out. If you have any suggestions or critiques, please let me know. I’m definitely more a photographer than web designer, so it’s iWeb on the Mac to the rescue!
Photos in the park
Today I had lunch in the park. I work pretty close to a nice little park near downtown, and I often commute by bicylce. It’s nice to ride down there and sit on a park bench, reading a magazine, enjoying a sandwich, checking out the scenery. Today the temps were in the low 80s and the humidity was remarkably pleasant for June in Knoxville.
I like shooting in places like this. There’s water (though, in this particular area, you really can’t get in it. In fact, I’d recommend not even looking at it funny. There are signs everywhere saying “Avoid bodily contact.” Of course, I see people letting their kids swim in there al the time, so what do the people who made that sign know?)
But I digress …
So there’s water, a lot of green green grass, some really nice trees, and a pretty neat old stone staircase that goes up to an abandoned building. And you know what? I have yet to shoot a model in this area. Hmm. I need to get on that. It IS a little too public for some things, but for most of the work I do, it would be great.
Maybe for my next shoot.
