I’m going to try something a little different with my blog posts.  Instead of just posting the same pictures I post in my galleries and Facebook, I’m going to post a lot more here, although many of them won’t have any Photoshop work or touchups like pictures in my main gallery.

I had a really busy couple of weeks with 5 weddings, the beginning of May seems to be everyone’s favorite time to get married.  I wanted to highlight this wedding at the Conway River Walk because it’s a location I haven’t done a wedding before.  I’ve been to this area a number of times for various things, but never for a full wedding ceremony.  It really is a beautiful location if you want to get away from the beach.  I would have to say I wouldn’t recommend a reception at the peanut warehouse unless it’s a really cool time of the year.  They really need to get some air circulation and some large fans through the building and it would be fine.  But I’m always hot so you can’t really take my opinion on it too much.  This couple was a lot of fun and we got some really good shots.  I hope you enjoy some of the pictures below.

Working hard on the bride's makeup - Conway River Walk

Bride getting on makeup in the window light - Conway River Walk

Groom and father waiting for the ceremony to begin - Conway River Walk

Bridesmaids walking down the isle - Conway River Walk

Here comes the bride - Conway River Walk

I can't remember what happened here, but I like his son in the background - Conway River Walk

Bride smiling at groom during the ceremony - Conway River Walk

Music that got everyone crying - Conway River Walk

Groom getting a hug after the ceremony - Conway River Walk

That's a big bridal party! - Conway River Walk

She will get a kick out of me posting this one. - Conway River Walk

Bridesmaids having fun after the ceremony - Conway River Walk

Bridesmaids trying to lift up the groom - Conway River Walk

What a beautiful spot for family pictures - Conway River Walk

Picture by the lake surrounded by trees - Conway River Walk

Bride and groom in front of the old Conway bridge - Conway River Walk

Walking down the Riverwalk together - Conway River Walk

Groom having fun - Conway River Walk

Another Riverwalk shot - Conway River Walk

About to kiss by the old building - Conway River Walk

We had a little audience for some of our pictures - Conway River Walk

Kiss under the old Conway bridge - Conway River Walk

Bride and groom on the train tracks - Conway River Walk

I always have trouble making blog posts when things start to get busier.  So I just wanted to post a few random pictures from this month. I decided to talk mostly about the first picture I highlighted below.  This was a very difficult situation, as soon as I saw where they were having the ceremony I knew it was going to be a problem.  The sun was very bright outside, almost fully up in the sky.  The ceremony was held under a beach shelter right on the edge of the bright sunlight.  If you have ever tried to photograph something like this before, you might know what would happen.  If you let the camera make the decisions, the couple would be almost completely dark because it’s trying to adjust for the bright background light.

I long ago started shooting on manual, so I would expose for the couple and not the background.  This way the camera’s own adjustments would not cause the subject to come out really dark.  However, there is still a problem.  If you just expose the couple properly, the background would then be completely blown out, it would just be a very bright glow behind the couple.  The couple would have kind of a flat, lifeless light on them with an annoyingly glowing background.

So how do you fix this? Well it really comes down to having the proper equipment.  I have these things called Pocket Wizards, they allow me to have a flash on the camera and also another flash off of the camera that is controlled by radio.  You can control another flash through  the built in infrared in the Nikon flashes, but it never works very well.  The Pocket Wizards work the same way, but they are much more reliable especially in sunlight.  Although you can let the flashes decide how much power they need to put out on their own, under this difficult lighting, I thought manual would be better.  I set my on camera flash (that had a tiny Lumiquest softbox on it) and my external flash both to 1/2 power, that seem to be a pretty good compensation for the outside ambient light without overdoing it.  If you notice in this picture, there is a nice light coming from the side of the couple that makes them look more three dimensional.  You can see some shadows from his hand and her arm, these are not from the sun but are from my external flash.

If this sounds too complicated, to make it more simple.  If you are trying to photograph a backlit subject in the shade, use whatever flash you have available, even just the little one on the camera.  Set your camera to manual and keep taking shots until you see the couple is as bright as they need to be.  I hope you enjoy some of the pictures below.

First kiss - Myrtle Beach State Park

That's a lot of groomsmen

Having fun dancing with dad - Dunes golf and beach club - Myrtle Beach

Leaving wedding with flower pedals being thrown. - Dunes golf and beach club - Myrtle Beach

Getting a kiss - Grande Dunes - Ocean Club

Running towards the camera - Myrtle Beach State Park

Happy little girl sitting on the old tree - Myrtle Beach State Park

Cute family of 5 standing around the old tree - Myrtle Beach State Park

Flowergirls getting ready for wedding. - Grande Dunes - Ocean Club

Lots of color - Grande Dunes - Ocean Club

-Myrtle Beach State Park

Bride and groom sitting in pretty light from the trees - Myrtle Beach State Park

Bride looking at the ocean - Myrtle Beach State Park

Kiss on the cheek - Myrtle Beach State Park

Sparklers -

I made it through my first two weddings of the year.  It’s always hard to get back into the swing of things after the few slow winter months.  It’s hard to believe it’s almost April again and it will soon be the summer. My first wedding it rained the entire time, but we were still able to work with it and they had a nice indoor backup location.  The second wedding was also inside because they were afraid of the weather, but it turned out to be beautiful and we got some great pictures after the ceremony.

I think I’ve really stepped up my game this year by starting to use prime lenses more (prime lenses are fixed and don’t zoom but offer other advantages).  For a long time now I’ve used very expensive top of the line Nikon zoom lenses, but even though I had a 50mm prime I didn’t use it often enough.  Now with my new Nikon 85mm f1.4 lens I’m doing probably 90% of my wedding shooting with prime lenses.  The look is just so wonderful even compared to the very best possible zoom lenses.

There are a lot of tricks I’m getting better at when using a super shallow depth of field (really blurry background) like you see in most of the pictures below.  If you notice the point of actual focus is very small.  The problem with shooting like this, as you see for an example in the first image, if I was to accidentally focus on the tip of the bride’s nose, the eye would be out of focus.  There is such a small focus area to work with that if I mess up, the picture is ruined.  Now with a subject that doesn’t move it’s pretty easy to do this.  But the big trick I’ve been learning is to rely much more on the camera’s continuous focus mode.  Nikon’s high end cameras have excellent predictive focus, if a subject is moving towards or away from you they will actually predict where the subject will be for the next shot.  I’ve found that, for example during dancing, using continuous focus is the only possible way to do this.  I could spend a while explaining why, but I really don’t think the shots I’m doing would be possible with a camera from just a few years ago. At least not with the overall consistency across large numbers of images I’m getting.

I hope that didn’t get too geeky.  Just looking at the pictures below you can see how cool using a prime lens can make a picture look especially when there are small lights hanging in the background.  It turns them into beautiful rounded discs of light.  Also, with even a boring hotel background, it turns it into soft blurs of color that look almost like a painting.  I think as I get better at using prime lenses my photography will really improve this year and hopefully I can keep making images that clients really love.

Bride closeup getting makeup put on - Watchesaw Plantation

Making the most of the rainy day - Watchesaw Plantation

-Watchesaw Plantation

Getting a hug from dad -Watchesaw Plantation

Trying to find some nice spots out of the rain - Watchesaw Plantation

First Dance - Watchesaw Plantation

Bride making a last minute check in the mirror -

Bride looking at groom during indoor ceremony - St John's Inn - Myrtle Beach

Bride backlit by the sunset - St John's Inn - Myrtle Beach

Matching shoes - St John's Inn - Myrtle Beach

Pretty bride backlit by sunset - St John's Inn - Myrtle Beach

Bride and groom first dance - St John's Inn - Myrtle Beach

Bride and groom dancing with pretty bokeh from the lights -

Bride dancing with father - St John's Inn - Myrtle Beach

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I purchased a new lens, the Sigma 85mm EX DG HSM f1.4.  This quick review is from using a full frame Nikon D700 camera with this lens. I typically only buy Nikon lenses, so I have some top of the line lenses to compare the Sigma too, such as the latest Nikon 24-70 f2.8.  Nikon’s high end lenses have incredible optics and lens coatings that really control typical problems like chromatic aberration and lens flare.  My main concern is taking the highest quality pictures possible, currently Nikon’s 85mm f1.4 lens is $1700 vs $1000 for the Sigma which is a nice difference, but the big problem is you just can’t buy Nikon’s version.  I checked all of Nikon’s authorized dealers and I just can’t find it in stock.  I had read really good reviews of the Sigma lens from photographers such as Ryan Brenizer that I really respect, so I decided I would give it a try.

First of all, the lens has beautiful Bokeh, or the nice smooth out of focus areas in the background and foreground.  At f1.4, you are going to get a very shallow depth of field, a very small area of the picture that is in focus.  However, different lenses even at the same aperture, can vary a lot in the quality of the out of focus area or Bokeh. The out of focus areas of a picture can be as important as the in focus areas. I included the first shot below, not as an example of a really good picture, but because I wanted to show the quality of the Bokeh.  If you notice there is very little flare from the sun, even in the harsh lighting conditions.  The spots of light coming through the trees have turned into beautiful rounded discs, this means there is a high quality rounded aperture.  Of course I knew the Bokeh would be nice from the reviews I had read.

Focus and handling of the lens is really something you need hands on time with to know if it works for you.  My Nikon lenses such as the 24-70 and 70-200 focus extremely fast on the Nikon D700 body.  I knew the Sigma would not be that fast, but I’m pleasantly surprised with how quickly and spot on it locks the focus.  I occasionally miss focus on a shot, but it always seems to be my fault. When you are shooting wide open at f1.4 you have to be really careful to keep your subject in focus, it’s almost impossible if they are moving.  I actually was more afraid of shooting at f1.4 than I should have been, almost all my shots had almost perfect focus, or at least close enough it looked good.

To sum up my quick review, so far I’ve found the Sigma to have excellent focus, beautiful Bokeh, and fast performance.  I haven’t tried it in low light yet such as at a wedding reception, so I will see how it goes.  But so far I’m more than happy with the results I’ve been getting.  I hope you enjoy some of the shots below, they were all shot with the Sigma 85mm wide open at f1.4.  I’ll update this after using the lens more this summer, so far it seems like an excellent addition to my always growing bag of gear.

Note: If the things I talked about in the post sound confusing, there are lots of links that explain everything.  You will learn a lot if you check them out.

Update to this article: A few days after I wrote this I actually found the Nikon version of this lens in stock at the Nikon store for $1699.  I ordered this and will likely be returning the Sigma.  Everything I said about the Sigma is true, it’s a fantastic lens.  So why did I get the Nikon?  It’s all about build quality.  I was getting frustrated at my recent wedding because it was raining and I knew the Sigma is not weather sealed.  While the picture quality is fantastic, I use my lenses so much and in such harsh conditions I decided I should go with the Nikon.  Nikon builds their high end lenses like a tank, and while the build quality of the Sigma is fine, I decided I would prefer the weather sealing of the Nikon.  But if you aren’t a pro, get the Sigma.  It’s great for normal use.

This image is just here to show the quality of the Bokeh

Sunlight hitting the veil - Bridal Portrait - Myrtle Beach

Pretty sky - Bridal Portrait - Myrtle Beach

Bride sitting on steps with a bit of soft glow effect - Myrtle Beach

Nice soft light from the sunset - Myrtle Beach

Bride sitting in the grass - Myrtle Beach

Nice sunset -

Couple hugging in front streams of sunlight through the oak trees -

Streams of sunlight at f1.4 - Myrtle Beach State Park

I’ve had a lot of really nice engagement portrait sessions this winter.  The weather has been fantastic, I’ve noticed I had more work this winter then last year probably because of the nice weather.  I actually don’t have anything scheduled this weekend, but I have a couple of engagement session for the next.

I’m getting a new portrait lens the Sigma 85mm f1.4.  You might wonder why I’m not buying the Nikon version of this lens.  I almost exclusively use Nikon, my go to lenses the 24-70 f2.8 and 70-200 f2.8 are fantastic.  Ryan Brenizer, a photographer I really trust, reviewed the Sigma lens and really loved it.  With the problems in Japan, Nikon lenses are so expensive and hard to get right now, I just decided to go with the Sigma instead.  The reason I’m mentioning this, is this will probably be my new lens for engagement pictures, at least for many shots.  For example the Bokeh, or out of focus sun coming through the trees in the first image, with the 85mm prime lens at f1.4 would be much creamier and and softer.  It makes for a really amazing look.  It’s harder to use a prime lens of course, because you have to zoom with your feet.  Also accurate focus is critical when shooting at very wide apertures like f1.4.  I’m going to give the lens a good try and I’ll probably write a review myself as well.

The couple featured below was a lot of fun.  They haven’t set a date for the wedding yet, so I was just doing engagement pictures separately from the wedding.  They were very happy and couldn’t stop smiling at each other, it made for a lot of fun candid shots.  I hope you enjoy some of the pictures below.

Engagement portrait in front of the oak trees - Myrtle Beach State Park

Couple sitting on the oak tree in black and white. - Myrtle Beach State Park

Can't stop smiling - Myrtle Beach State Park

Couple having fun under the pier in black and white - Myrtle Beach State Park

Nice hair light - Myrtle Beach State Park

It's hard when your told to look at each other romantically - Myrtle Beach State Park

Kiss in the sunset - Myrtle Beach State Park

Sunset - Myrtle Beach State Park

Laying together in front of the pier - Myrtle Beach State Park

Peeking around the pier - Myrtle Beach State Park

The title of this post probably just turned off most readers, but if you make your own website you should read on.  Anyone who has followed me for long knows I’m into website design, not the out of date Flash sites, but using modern techniques like HTML5 and CSS3.  You will miss a lot of subtle effects on my website if you are not using a modern browser, of course everything will still work.

I figured if there is a company that knows subtle style it would be Apple, of course after their leather bound iPad calendar app this could be argued.  Their website uses very little color, just some very slight shades of grey, except for their products that really pop off the page.  You might notice my website tries to do the exact same thing with my photography.

I was studying Apple’s website, and like the way boxes that contain information look, for example on their store page.

It might be hard to see in this picture. But the box has a very slight gradient that gets much stronger near the bottom of the box.  There is also a very slight drop shadow on the bottom that makes the box looked slightly raised off the page.  I don’t know how Apple does it, but I thought I could do this with CSS3.  This means the effect can be done without using any images or gradients made in Photoshop.

While you could try to figure out the code for this manually.  The gradient generator from Colorzilla.com http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ is fantastic.  It can create gradients similar to Photoshop that have color stops that work in most web browsers, even older IE versions. What the color stop lets you do, is instead of having a gradient that changes shade evenly from top to bottom, you can do, like Apple does, and have it change very little until the bottom portion of the box where it increases.  Here is the exact code I use to get a very similar gradient as well as drop shadow on my boxes like on the Apple Store website, even a slight roundness to the corners. To put a box like this anywhere on your page just use something like . . .

<div class="myBoxes">Whatever I want inside</div>

Then in your css file . . .

.myBoxes {
padding: 10px;
background: rgb(255,255,255);
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	background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%, rgba(253,253,253,1) 75%, rgba(247,247,247,1) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */;
	background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(255,255,255,1)), color-stop(75%,rgba(253,253,253,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(247,247,247,1))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */;
	background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(253,253,253,1) 75%,rgba(247,247,247,1) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */;
	background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(253,253,253,1) 75%,rgba(247,247,247,1) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */;
	background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(253,253,253,1) 75%,rgba(247,247,247,1) 100%); /* IE10+ */;
	background: linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(253,253,253,1) 75%,rgba(247,247,247,1) 100%); /* W3C */;
	filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#f7f7f7',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-8 */;
	-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 0px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.5);
	-moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 0px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.5);
	box-shadow: 0px 1px 0px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.5);
border: 1px #CDCDCD solid;
border-radius: 5px;
}

This may look complicated, but play around with the gradient generator and you can make your own easily.  Or if you want to try my code, just paste this into your CSS for any <div>. There is a small hack you have to do to get it working properly in IE9, but it explains how to do it on Colorzilla’s site.  I hope any web developers find this helpful, if you do or if you need more explanation let me know in the comments below.

This is my first time visiting the Magnolia Plantation.  It’s a very nice area, it reminds me a lot of Brookgreen Gardens.  Unlike Brookgreen though we were allowed to go wherever we wanted to do the pictures and spend as much time as well.  I had a lot of fun walking around for an hour or so with the couple and finding places to do shots.  The first time to an area takes a bit of experimenting and exploring around.

We had some pretty strong early afternoon sunlight which can be difficult at the beach or in an open area, but being in a nice area with plenty of trees and shade it’s not really a problem.  In fact the strong sun gives some nice Bokeh from the pinpoints of light reflecting off the trees, you can see this especially on the first image.  You can tell if someone has a really good lens not by looking at what is in focus, but by looking at the quality of the out of focus areas.

I really liked the old fence where the horses were as well, you can see a number of shots from that spot below.  The bamboo was really cool as well, but what I really wanted was evening sun showing through the Bamboo, and I couldn’t really get that, I’ll try again at this couple’s wedding in December. It should be very nice and will be later in the day so things should go even better.  Let me know in the comments if you like the pictures.

Kiss on a bridge, shot with 70-200 f2.8 - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Kiss in front of a lake, push process black and white - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Kiss on an old oak tree overlooking the lake - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Under the gazebo backlit by sunlight - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Couple sitting in the bamboo, you can see where people carve their names. - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Couple kissing in front of the horses - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Another shot by the horses - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Getting a piggy back ride - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Looks like they are having fun - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

The sign says that horses may bite - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Couple laying together on the gravel walkway - Magnolia Plantation Charleston

Now that things have slowed down some I’m going to try and go back and blog about some of my previous weddings and events.  This couple was married the day before, and just wanted to do some portraits of the two of them.  The Myrtle Beach State Park is really a great place for pictures because of the options like the oak trees, the pier and the really nice dunes, all in the same location.  Also, it’s out of the Myrtle Beach city limits, so you don’t get in trouble for doing picture there.  The only thing is, you have to be really careful about getting on the dunes.  I still see other photographers getting in trouble with the park rangers sometimes.  I saw this one photographer recently not only up on top of the dunes and getting talked to by a park ranger, but also waist deep in the swash trying to photograph a model, which is highly contaminated with bacteria.

Back to this couple, the evening turned out to be great with some really nice colors in the sky.  I was even able to catch some of the seagulls flying by in a few shots, which is really cool of you happen to get it.  This is a good example of how you can get some really nice pictures no matter how big your wedding is, I just did this like I would do any set of family or engagement pictures and got a lot of nice shots.  I hope you enjoy some of them below.

Couple sitting on oak tree root

Bride leaning against oak tree - Myrtle Beach State Park

Bride and groom leaning on oak tree - MB State Park

Bride and groom leaning on oak tree - MB State Park

Kissing through the oak tree - Myrtle Beach State Park

Couple laying in front of the dunes

Bride leaning over behind groom in front of the sand dunes

Kiss in front of the Myrtle Beach State Park pier

Bride standing in front of the pier

Black and white portrait of bride and groom in front of Myrtle Beach State Park pier

Groom giving bride a flower

Smiling in front of the pier

Couple walking into the sunset - Myrtle Beach State Park

Bride with pier going out of focus in the distance

Couple under the pier - Myrtle Beach State Park

Couple leaning foreheads together in front of the sunset

Couple sitting in front of the sunset - Myrtle Beach State Park

Couple sitting in front of the sunset - Myrtle Beach State Park

Bride sitting in front of sand dune backlit by sunset

Groom lifting up bride for a kiss

Bride getting a piggy back ride

Bride and groom jumping in front of the ocean

Kiss on the pier

Walking hand in hand on Myrtle Beach State Park pier

This is the first wedding I’ve done at Litchfield Plantation.  It’s a very beautiful area, I always like the Litchfield / Pawleys Island area with all the moss covered Oak trees.  It’s so pretty if you can get the light coming through the trees just right in the evening.  One of my favorite bridal portraits ever was down in this area.  Just in case you are not familiar, Litchfield is about 20 minutes south of Myrtle Beach down business 17.  A lot of the best spots, with the beautiful trees, are away from the beach near the intracoastal waterway.  I’m going to post some extra pictures below of the carriage ride and some shots of the location that you won’t see in my galleries or on Facebook.  I hope you enjoy them.

Update:
It sounds like this will be my first and last wedding at this location.  I had a client telling me they are turning this into a housing development or something and no longer booking events.  I guess they had financial problems.  Oh well, it was a pretty spot.

Oak trees at entrance to Litchfield Plantation

House at Litchfield Plantation

Bride standing in front of the oak trees backlit by the sun

Bride meeting her carriage horse

Bride arriving on carriage

Bride arriving on Carriage -Litchfield Plantation

Bride arriving on Carriage -Litchfield Plantation

Bride arriving on Carriage -Litchfield Plantation

Bride arriving on Carriage -Litchfield Plantation

Bride and groom in the sunset

It looks like they are in love

Bride and groom laying the grass

Emotions during dancing

Toast to bride and groom

This is quite a best man speech

Bride dancing with father

Kingston Plantation seems to be one of my usual spots, like the Grand Dunes, that I end up going to frequently.  It’s nice when I get to work at the same location multiple times, I can really get to know all the good photo spots after a while.   It’s also nice because it’s out of the Myrtle Beach city limits so you don’t have to worry about getting fined by trying to take pictures on the beach.  This couple was a lot of fun, I got a lot of just casual, fun shots of them as well as really nice posed shots as well.  I know it’s hard to relax at a wedding, but if you can and just try to act silly and not worry about things too much it makes for a lot better photos.  I tried to pick out some shots to highlight that were more unique to this wedding.  We did a lot of normal poses of course that turned out great, but I tried to highlight some that were more candid or a bit different.  I hope you like them.

First look at the bride - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

Passing the rings among the family during the ceremony - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

Minister giving ring to groom - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

Bride putting ring on groom - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

First kiss - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

Kiss in front of the bridal party - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

Nice shot of the groomsmen - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

This group was causing me problems - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

Groom picking up bride for a kiss - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach

Hug during first dance - Kingston Plantation - North Myrtle Beach