I got lost on the way to the church, but so did everybody else ...

I shot a wedding at this little church in LaValle Wisconsin a few weeks ago. My GPS took me to the middle of a farmers field. The farmers wife comes out and laughs and says "Must've followed your gps looking for Avent Chrisitan eh". Apparently lots of folks looking for the church end up in the middle of the farmers field. Farmers wife handed me directions to the church and off I went. Next time I'm using a map ...

The digital photo age - from wedding shoot to wedding show in less than a week!

Rachel & Nolen got married last Saturday at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI. It was a medium sized ceremony with a reception across the street at The East Side Club. The proximity of the two locations and the fact that the wedding was held at a botanical garden setting made it easy for me to get plenty of great shots without spending a lot of time traveling with the couple. Rachel and Nolen booked me for four hours of photography, so efficiency was called for. It was a nice wedding, and a great party. Rachel and Nolen sure know how to cut a rug. Since the ceremony was inside with strong back lighting I metered for the correct exposure of the subjects (I don't use flash on ceremonies) and set the camera to a manual exposure of F/5.6 at 125th/sec at iso 400, then left it there for the ceremony. Later it was necessary to increase the contrast slightly in Photoshop to overcome the softness caused by the strong backlight coming through the windows.

 

A note: if you put your camera on maual as I did here don't forgot to it back in auto mode when you're done ;-)

We had a nice brief walk throught the gardens and then on to the reception

All in all it was a another beautiful wedding day. And Rachel and Nolen got their photos in less than a week, thanks to the modern age of digital photography.      Terry

Madison WI photographer Terry Talbot

http://www.talbotphoto.com/