Liana and John Mildura wedding.
Or that should read Liana and John Mildura wedding… One we prepared earlier. You see we set this post to auto publish… and it didn’t. So sorry guys.
Almost certain we have never started a wedding post before with a drink. Maybe this could be the start of something.
When you have a room with amazing natural light. Plus three good looking young men all dressed up ready for a wedding. The photo opportunities are endless.
Simply love this shot of John. So much so, that it has made an appearance in our portfolio pages. Fantastic natural light, a room with lots of space. Plus tons of atmosphere along with a good looking groom. What more could a photographer ask for?
Talking about beautiful people. Take a look at our amazing bride, Liana. Wow, just Wow. We shot a whole bunch of poses in this location. But this is my favorite. Simple pose, lovely light, equals classic beauty.
For a quick change of mood. A high-key close up of Liana. All available light with the veil providing a hint of soft focus to add to the glamour look.
I don’t want you to get the idea we only use natural light. We carry a full set of artificial lights with us to all weddings. We even used some of those lights at home with Liana. But not in the above photo. Again, the available goodness flowing around these accessories was just too much to resist.
Moving right along. We skipped a large chunk of the day. Did you notice that? I love the walking out shot. The big challenge is to find a new and acceptable way of capturing it. Why Acceptable? Well there are lots of ways of shooting the walking out image. Some. while very creative, are never ever going into the wedding album.
It’s been a long time since we last photographed inside Rio Vista. As always an amazing location. Also great place to show off the full length of a beautiful bridal gown.
Formal and yet informal bridal group shot. We went for the desaturated toned look. Sometimes you can have just too much colour.
Other times…. Show me the colour. natural sun flare with a soft filter.
The very same light, without softness. Should we hash tag this #NoFilter? Maybe not… I’ve always been a sucker for late light straight into the camera lens… Only fitting really we end this post with a walking into the sunset image.
Our thanks to a whole bunch of amazing people who made this day so very enjoyable to photograph. Liana and John you guys are amazing. Thankyou.
To be totally honest we love shooting beauty images. While on the honesty trail, we don’t shoot anywhere near enough of them. That can be either because fewer people want or need beauty shots or as times change, clients are less aware of what photographers can do. The later is very much a factor in a lot of commercial photography. Clients only want us to do what they can do on their phones.
Our photo-walk guide, Max. iso 100, f4 @ 1/90th of a second 120mm. Light reflected from gully wall opposite. Aperture prioity exposure to blur background.
Our photo-walk took us down what is called “The Gutter”. The high sun angle was not our friend for the walk. Our challenge. To fined photos that worked in a great location with poor lighting. iso 100, f4 @1/3000th (in hindsight I should have gone down to f8 which would have given me slightly sharper result as f8 is this lenses sweet spot.)
Making use of old fence post. Easy low angle. Using blue sky for some colour and contrast. iso 200 (because I forgot to come back down to iso 100 after a previous shot in shadows) 1/750th of a second at about f11
Some of our team in the gutter. Including Max, if you can fined Mr camera shy.
We found an old gate after leaving Spring Hill for the trip home. iso 100, f2.8 @ 1/800th of a second on a Canon 70D with 200mm lens so roughly equivalent to a 320mm (because of a cropped sensor).
The longer we drove. The bettter the light became. We stopped to play with some low light flaring out over the landscape. iso 100, f2.8 @ 70mm 1/500th of a second, focus point is tuft of grass in the forground. Wide open apeture to give shallow depth of field.
We were talking about our wonderful Australian landscape. I think the words were something like. “You take an old tree like that one, silhouette it against a sunset like this and………” Jammed the brakes on. Jumped out of the old troopy and ran as fast as my old legs would carry me. Got there 30 seconds too late. Brilliant colour had already turned to average. But no complaints, a good way to end a great day. iso 100, f6.7 @ 1/250th 200mm lens. Cropped square to avoid a tree that I didn’t have time to run around.
I wasn’t going to post any pre-wedding images today. But then I spotted this one of Dani and her flowers. What is there to say. Dani is beautiful, the flowers are as well. Mother nature popped in to deliver some amazing available light.
There is something about garden weddings. Especially when the weather is great.
Every now and then, the lighting gods turn up with their little box of magic. This was one of those occassions. mark and Dani were in the right location. All it took was a suggestion. Hey Mark… “Give your beautiful bride a kiss.” Bingo, let’s move on.
And the lighting gods just kept on giving. Of course, it didn’t hurt that Dani and Mark were able to move quickly to opportunities as they arose.
New extensions to Ampelon Gardens, now give us wide open spaces to play with. Ideal for shooting with groups. Talking of groups this team rocked it.
We always love to include lots of foliage in our Mildura wedding photos. If it just happens to be rich golden colours all the better.
There are a few more of Dani and Mark’s wedding photos over on our 
A high vantage point over the Murray River for a formal portrait of Jenninfer and Anthony, celebrating their engagement.
When in Rome!!! Well, when in a beautiful garden somtimes you just gotta get a whole lotta garden in. I love this spot.
Up close with Jennifer. Once again beautiful models and a location providing classic glamour lighting.
We should call this image, “Road Trip”. We decided with Jennifer and Anthony, we should take a small detour. This image is not quite as we had planned. However, certainly worth the stop.
Back home for Jennifer and some refreshments under an Avenue of London Plane Trees.
A stolen kiss in the garden. We were just lucky someone had parked a vintage car in front of the marquee.
And wouldn’t you know it. There was a vineyard nearby. Luckily, Jennifer and Anthony where up for a stroll.
From the vineyard into the marquee. Which was all lovely, bright and white. Except for one little piece of black material.
We just had time to cut the engagement cake. Before heading off to our final location for the day.
You guessed it. A sunset. An orange sky, water and a couple in love. Another case of over-shooting. We love this photography caper!
Then like most weddings, we were surrounded by beautiful girls.
Naturally, there were the amazing locations… And stair cases. Maybe we should call Broken Hill the city of stairs. The effect used here is one of Excitations profiles called Silver. Appropriate for the Silver City or should that be Silva City.
Did I mention seriously cool locations to shoot in…. I mean this stuff was real… No photo trickery, just amazing places to shoot.
Finally we get to a shot of the stars of this wedding. Jessica and Dennis. Not our usual style, shooting with an ultra wide lens, but I fell in love with the amazing light on this balcony. The very unconventional pose can be credited to our beautiful couple. These guys were just a pleasure to work with. Although I’m guessing they thought I had lost my mind setting up this shot. I’m calling this shot “Loose Canon” On account someone may have accidently left a spare Canon Camera on a table in the background. Better get rid of that before anyone spots it.
In keeping with our vibrant warm urban feel. We shot this walking down the street and just letting the amazing warm light bounce every which way. All the time I’m sure Jessica and Dennis are thinking we had really lost it.
From the city to the bush… Well not really bush but a very nice bit of open country with a little outcrop of rocks and native vegetation. Plus, we had a beautiful vintage car to play with. This was a great stop and yielded some fantastic photos.
Same location for this shot. Just moved in closer and softened the light down and ……. Well you get the idea.
Dennis gets a bit of loving in return and the light from a big open sky starts to glow.
Jess looking amazing as our big sky lights up the twilight. Late evening is a great time to shoot portraits and rarely does evening light get better than this. The only other ingredient needed is a stunning bride… As fortune would have it… There was one on hand.
Ok, now I’m officially in love. I can’t think of any other location where you have perfectly manicured lawns and 50 metres away…. This. Awesome semi arid Australian outback scenery. That, I think is what made this Broken Hill wedding so amazing. Terrific people, fabulous locations, the loving care and attention payed to personalising the entire day.