FrekeChild
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So Vegas is kind of weird, and there is a company that apparently does all of the wedding photography for all of the hotels, so they have a bit of a monopoly on the place. Well Mandalay Bay won''t let an outside photographer into their chapel for the ceremony. I''ve been thinking of ways to circumvent this and considered having friends take lots of pictures, having a friend who is an amateur photographer pose as a "guest" taking pictures, etc. Finally I decided to give into MB''s silliness, and let them have their hour of photography (1/2 hour ceremony, 1/2 hour afterward). This is included in our package, along with 2 8x10s and 24 5x7s.
Well that wasn''t good enough. Lol. I used to be (when I first went back to school for a BA) a fine arts major, and my interest was in photography. Then it went to art history, but then the foreign language requirement scared me into psychology. So photos are important to me.
They aren''t to my FI. Oh well. So I decided that photos were too important to me to just have the ceremony and pictures of people afterward. I wanted the story of the day. I wanted the shoe shot. I wanted the jewelry shots, I wanted candid photos, and I wanted something artistic. Hotel photogs don''t thrive on that.
Not to mention, they charge a king''s ransom for negatives.
So I started looking. I had some help from the Las Vegas Knotties, and a couple friends who gave me some opinions. And it boiled down to two. One is a girl--probably a bit like me, a little zany and fun. The other was more artistic, serious, and not primarily a wedding photographer.
Well, photographer #2 won. The deciding factor was style. I loved that this photog captured the feeling, the moment as it was instead of putting his own spin on what was going on. I loved that he''s not primarily a wedding photographer, and is instead the Director of Film and Photography at the Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater. And he takes beautiful photos. So he''ll be there for the beginning, take a break during the ceremony and after, and then be there into the reception. Yay!
Jason James Skinner Photography
So I''m excited. And he''s promised to take great photos of my shoes and jewelry. Can''t beat that, right?!
(If you go to his site, be on the lookout for the nude ballerina on pointe, the guy at the piano, and so many more...these are the kinds of photos I would love to have been able to take...)
Well that wasn''t good enough. Lol. I used to be (when I first went back to school for a BA) a fine arts major, and my interest was in photography. Then it went to art history, but then the foreign language requirement scared me into psychology. So photos are important to me.
They aren''t to my FI. Oh well. So I decided that photos were too important to me to just have the ceremony and pictures of people afterward. I wanted the story of the day. I wanted the shoe shot. I wanted the jewelry shots, I wanted candid photos, and I wanted something artistic. Hotel photogs don''t thrive on that.
Not to mention, they charge a king''s ransom for negatives.
So I started looking. I had some help from the Las Vegas Knotties, and a couple friends who gave me some opinions. And it boiled down to two. One is a girl--probably a bit like me, a little zany and fun. The other was more artistic, serious, and not primarily a wedding photographer.
Well, photographer #2 won. The deciding factor was style. I loved that this photog captured the feeling, the moment as it was instead of putting his own spin on what was going on. I loved that he''s not primarily a wedding photographer, and is instead the Director of Film and Photography at the Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater. And he takes beautiful photos. So he''ll be there for the beginning, take a break during the ceremony and after, and then be there into the reception. Yay!
Jason James Skinner Photography
So I''m excited. And he''s promised to take great photos of my shoes and jewelry. Can''t beat that, right?!
(If you go to his site, be on the lookout for the nude ballerina on pointe, the guy at the piano, and so many more...these are the kinds of photos I would love to have been able to take...)
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