Arizona Wedding Photographer

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We have really come to enjoy shooting in the late afternoon Arizona sun. It provides some truly magical results, especially when you throw in a couple ‘extra touches’ with off-camera lighting that really play up the detail and create a unique feel for photographs. We think that it is these small details that take a photograph from ordinary to something that is really worthy to hang on a wall and put in an album.

We photographed Michael and Marissa today at the Mesa Arizona Temple near Phoenix, Arizona. For these photos we wanted to evoke a painterly ‘Caravaggio’ feel, so we used a soft/hard lighting scheme in combination with some late afternoon sunlight.

Sarah and Jerry teamed up on this one, with Sarah clicking the shutter as Jerry arranged lights. Perry Sevey shot did some wedding videography, and did an excellent job as always. For the photo above, Jerry was actually hiding behind that tree on the left, holding a flash which is providing the ’spotlight’ on the bride and groom’s faces.

Another flash was placed behind a shoot-through umbrella camera-left to provide just a touch of fill in the shadows. And the sun finished off the rest of the photo, providing that warm glowing light from the right side of the photo.

Arizona Wedding Photography

Arizona Wedding Photograph

AZ Wedding Photographer

The photo above is a fun shot of the groom spinning the bride.

Arizona Wedding Photography – Bride Spinning

Arizona Wedding Photographer – Bride and Groom

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Arizona Senior Portraits

Arizona Senior Portraits – Erica’s senior portraits at Val Vista Lakes in Gilbert Arizona. She dances, and we wanted to evoke the feeling of stage lighting with the lights that we used. We shot until well after sunset, but came back with some spectacular images.

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Arizona Engagement Photographer

Jerry and Sarah (the photographers at FergusonPhotography.com) teamed up again on this shoot for some engagement photos. Sarah scouted an excellent location in a wheat field near Williams Field Airport. Jerry and Sarah switched off shooting and lighting, holding a strobe in an umbrella above Chase and Kaela and using the awesome Arizona sunset as our backdrop.

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Phoenix Family Portraits

Arizona Family Portraits Photographer – Las Sendas in Northeast Mesa is a great place for family photos, and since Sarah hasn’t had a family picture in a while, and I wanted to try out some new lighting, we decided to do a family portrait session up there.

We arrived close to sunset and started to set up. Since we’d arrived a bit later than we’d hoped, I’d say that the ambient light was around 1/30 of a second at f4 – challenging, particularly if I wanted to maintain the silky smoothness that ISO 100 produces on Canon’s excellent CMOS sensors.

I set up a white shoot-through umbrella camera-left at 8:00, with the sun camera-right at about 2:00. I balanced the flash – a Vivitar 285 – and ended up with it at 1/16 power.

The hardest part was corralling the kids. They just want to play in the grass and the fountain, and I can’t blame them. There aren’t many places in the metro Phoenix area that offer grass, fountains, desert, and cool stone arches. It’s a virtual playground for a photographer and for kids.

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