Two Become One

This past weekend I shot Lee and Kelly's wedding out in Crown Point Indiana. It was a beautiful wedding even though it rained most of the day. This was at a Lutheran church with incredible stone and wood work in the sanctuary. It had a very traditional look. The Lutherans have some odd rules about wedding photography during the ceremony which forbade me from entering the sanctuary to take pictures during the wedding. So even though I had to shoot from the foyer, I thought the pics still turned out well.

This shot is one I've been using now for about 8 months or so. As you can see, when the rings are stood up in the crease of a book, and you have a light source behind them, the shadow becomes a heart. I like to open a Bible up to

1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter) and make sure some of the chapter is visible. This is one that Lee asked for specifically. We were all in the foyer with bright overhead fluorescent light. There seemed to be no way to get the shadow. One of his groomsmen pulled out a cell phone and used the cameras flash. A pure white LED light. We turned off the foyer lights and after some positioning of the light on the phone, we got a great shadow.

This was shot with my Canon 50D and a Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at 1/60sec at f/4 with an ISO of 250. Lens was at 24mm.

Congrats Lee and Kelly.