From a recent shoot with the gorgeous Molly at a fantastic residence.
Gowns by Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear
Model: Molly
Make Up & Hair by Gabbi
Camera: Hasselblad H4D40
Lighting: Profoto
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Molly Enchante
Nomad Photography shoots Enchante Bridal
Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear (59 Wollongong Street. Fyshwick. Camberra) is the place to find our perfect gown for any occasions.
From bridal to formal, including flower girls and christening , cocktail and event.. They carry a wide range of products and brands (including Vera Wang..) in any size from 2 to 14..
For your next event, make sure you stop by and talk to the very friendly team to assist you in your choice for the perfect gown.
Gowns by Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear.
Model: Kaye
Make up artist / Hair stylist: Gabbi
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Medium format with Molly
St Valentines and we went out, under the sun to have some fun with some gorgeous gowns from Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear.
Molly is our model of the day and Natalia is the talented MUA & Hair stylist for the shoot.
I packed my Canon 5D Mark III and my Hasselblad H4D40 planning for some fashion and scenery shots at the newly opened National Arboretum Canberra.
When digital cameras came along, we have assisted in a continuous race against the pixel counts. Cameras started from a mere 2 mega pixels to now carry almost 40 mega pixel in what has been the standard for the SLR sensor size, also known as full frame, of 24 x 36 mm.
Pushing the limits of physics to increase pixel counts has some downside effects, aside from the noise and file size, we are facing the optical issue: lenses can no more resolve the resolution of the sensors.
Need less to say that the primary weakness of dSLR is dynamic range, partially due to the size of the pixel (ability to store light) and also because of the files size of 14 bits.
I wanted for the shot to see, what I already knew, the difference in term of sensor size vs the pixel counts.
Below are images form a same fram, captured with the Hasselblad H4D40 (40 mega pixels and a bigger sensor compares to the dSLR’s one).
The series of images are from screen captures of my 30″ Apple Cinema display (2560×1600 pixels). The first image shows the full image and the subsequent images are at 100% crop of various parts of the images.
The last image is the FULL SIZE images practically converted from an Hassleblad raw file into JPEG without any post.
For the tech and strobist bits:
Camera: H4D40 | Lens: HC 100mm f/2.2
Speed 1/400 f/8 ISO 100 (basic exposure, sweet sixteen, for a sunny outdoor shoot)
Because the model was back to the sun, I added some fill with a Quantum Qflash TD5-R with an inversed dome at 1/2 power (about 75 Ws)
Model: Molly
MUA & Hair: NataliaGowns by Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear (59 Wollongong St Fyshwick ACT 2620. COntact: (02) 6280 9869)
Images copyrights NOMAD PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Click on the image below to open the full size image, in a new window, out of the Hasselblad H4D40 (5.8MB).
Sweet Exposure
Photography is not only about capturing the moments during the golden hours. Life happens 247 and we can just not afford to freeze life and wait until the sun sets or before it rises to take that ‘perfect’ exposure.
Knowing how to interpret ambient light will free you from the worry of quality of light.
This is a repost from my other resource site that I thought may be useful for my regular photographer visitors of this blog.
The technique of exposure under the sun carries a cute name of sweet sixteen.
When shooting under the sun, a good starting point is to put your aperture at f/16 and at a given ISO setting, your shutter speed would be at the inverse of that value.
For example, if your ISO is 100, your shutter speed would be 1/100 second.
A more in detail post about this technique, and illustrations, can be found here
Samantha & Cameron’s Wedding
Samantha and Cameron’s wedding is a very particular one for me and for several reasons.
Jo and David, Sam’s parents, came to see me to book our services to capture Sam and Cameron’s wedding as a surprise wedding present.
After a short chat and a look at my work, Jo decided that I was the perfect photographer for her daughter’s special day and we went onto finalising the paperwork.
The connection between Jo, David and me was so easy and genuine that I felt part of the special event and was already planning the day (photography speaking) in my head.
Later, back at the office, when entering the details in my database, I realised that I haven’t checked my calendar and it happens that I had a wedding booked for the same day almost a year before..! It was for the wedding of Jessica and Mark from a previous post here.
I must say that I really don’t double book for my services because I want to be the one they choose to capture their precious moments but also I think that my brides and grooms, and also the parents of my brides and grooms, come to me because they love my photography, my style, the way I tell the story, and by double booking I can not offer them what they come to me for.
However, for Sam and Cameron’s wedding, I was feeling so connected to them and their family that I couldn’t just cancel on them. I had to do something to withhold my clients expectations and to provide the services that they came to me for.
I immediately rang Jo and explain the situation. I also said that although I could not be their photographer, I could organise someone to do the job as good as I would and even better.
I am still humbled by the trust that Jo had in me and what I did was to offer to have not one but two awesome photographers to cover Samantha and Cameron’s wedding.
And I did. I flew two photographers from Sacramento, California, (TomKat Photography and Acynosure) over for a week to to cover this wedding. I wanted to make sure that they have enough time to get the jet lag out of the way, enough time to get used to the weather (in the US is the end of Autumn and start of Winter) and also I wanted them to be here soon enough to introduce them to Jo and David and also Samantha and Cameron.
Sam and Cameron’s wedding was also special because it was like nothing I’ve captured before, in a very original way.
Samantha and Cameron’s wedding was to be in the Corroboree park with some 200 guests.
The guests were their family, with a special mention to the healthy and young 99 year young grandma, and some awesome performing artists. They had an open venue with barbecue and open activities including jumping castle, yes, jumping castle, face painting, live band, circus, juggling artists and even the flames twirlers…
The wedding was even live with FaceTime with a family member who couldn’t attend, on an iPad.
After finishing Jessica and Mark’s wedding coverage, I stopped by the park and the party was still going strong.
We farewell the newly wed couple and their parents and headed home with a lot of memories and a good feeling of having done a good job. Fulfilling our clients’ expectations and most importantly having help them preserve their precious moments.
Scroll all the way down to check out what happens when three photographers get together to shoot two weddings on a same day.
We would love your comments and suggestion on how we could further improve our services to our brides and grooms.
Thank you for visiting and now, place to the images.
Photos by TomKat Photography and Acynosure for Nomad Photography
Edited by Nomad Photography
Jessica & Mark’s Wedding
It was a warm day and the sun was high in the sky when I left home heading to Jessica parents’ house.
I have met Jessica several times before the wedding, as I would with all my couples prior to their weddings, and have quickly sympathised with her, her parents and Mark, her future husband.
During our meetings prior to the wedding day, I’ve learnt to know a bit more about Jessica and Mark which helped me in capturing their story the way they are, naturally.
Jessica even created a pin board, on pinterest to share with about the type of images she’d like to have for her own wedding. That was a cool idea and through that pin board we could share and exchange ideas of images during the bridal party session.
Jessica and Mark’s wedding was one of those glamorous weddings that I really enjoy capturing because I can add a touch of glamour and fashion into a the special day of my couples.
Let’s leave place for the 38 images.
Photos by NOMAD PHOTOGRAPHY – Wedding Photographer
PS:
If you are interested to know, I used a Canon 5D Mark III and a Canon 1Dx to shoot this wedding with a couple of L series lenses.
I’ll put up a post with the feed back about the gear I use for wedding in a couple of days when I get my head out of the editing :o)
