Well, not any added flash flavor value as we recently decided to take on natural light on one of our most recent trash the dress sessions in Belize.  We had an opportunity to shoot an amazing couple (Josh + Lara), lots of energy and every other 2 minutes, Lara kept making me think she was a paid actor playing the perfect fairy-tail bride out on an adventure to trash the dress, no rules, no expectations...just fun.

Read about their wedding plan here.

Technically, these images were difficult for me to make and without the proper gear and technique, these photos are tough to duplicate.  One of the things I've been noticing is that its tough to stand out and be different in the photo market.  As a photographer, I'm constantly challenged to make technically better photographs.  I encourage you to ask yourself, are you doing the same?

Shot a few images in the ocean.... bloody flare... perhaps we should embrace the flare!

An abandoned fishing shack, miles away from any shoreline.  More on the photo shack here. 

I think I got lucky with these next two frames, shot only 3 seconds apart from one another.  We didnt have much time for this, it just happened quickly.  I was using my 45 Tilt / Shift lens (with no tilting or shifting though) keeping in mind thats a manual focus lens.  I stopped down to F16 and shot at 1/30th of a second to get the motion in the dress.  The first frame (timestamp 5:08:01) was shot at ISO 400.

notice in the corner, I had no tripod so the 1/30th slow shutter was made possible due to the 55 gallon trash can that I improvised to be my make shift tripod...it worked :)

This next frame, timestamp 5:08:04.  Just a quick pan and suddenly I've been lucky enough to freeze motion on the moving guy vs the b&g standing still(ish).  Anyway, this technically seemed difficult to pull off.... each frame almost targets different concepts.  45 T/S lens, shot at F16 at 1/30th ISO 400. 

Beautiful sunlight, everything here was shot using available light, such a gift to us this day. Shot this one with my 50 at 1.6, 1/3200 shutter.

This last one was one of my fav's.  I shot this laying down on the beach, using my 135MM lens 1/500 F2.2.

Sorry for the No flavor post... just thought I'd add some inspiration / something to look at on this blog that never gets updated :)  Thanks for your patience!  Let me know if you like em :)

cheers!
matt

More Josh + Lara Wedding photos here

More Josh + Lara TTD photos here