This year, I have been intentionally covering less weddings due to other photography commitments; hence the scarcity of wedding related posts. I also decided that instead of the wedding posts which feature numerous highlights from a wedding, I will, for now, be posting single photos that I really like, reviewed from weddings shot this year.
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My daughter Beth will be 22 months old in 2 weeks’ time. Recently, after looking through the weekly/monthly sets of photos that I had captured of her since her birth, I decided to put together a compilation of photos that feature her hands. The first photo was taken about an hour after she was born.
I keep in touch with some parents whose children’s 1st birthday parties I have covered and I see significant developments (features, physical, speech, social, etc) in their children each time we meet up. I personally find it very rewarding to be able to photo-document my daughter’s development. My wife and I browse through the photos once in a while and always marvel at how much she has changed over the past 21+ months.
The following are a selection of photos featuring Beth’s hands. The photos range all the way from her first day to August this year.
A month ago I posted on my tumblr blog that during one of my weekly street shoots I had tasked myself with framing most of my shots vertically (see Tumblr post HERE). My main source of reference and inspiration came from Saul Leiter’s book Early Color (I wrote a review of the book HERE).
The exercise of framing my shots vertically turned out to be an interesting one. I estimate that around 90% of my photographs are framed horizontally. Initially on that day, when I brought the camera up to my eye I found myself automatically framing what I saw through the viewfinder horizontally. I had to constantly remind myself to compose vertically which did not come naturally to me. I was not so concerned with shooting people which really freed me up to concentrate on the exercise.
As a additional nod to Saul Leiter, I also wanted to see things in color so every shot was taken with the intention of it remaining in color instead of being converted to black and white. I played around a lot with light, reflections and color during the shoot and am quite pleased with the results. I am thinking that I should implement for myself a vertical shooting day once in a while to force myself to see things differently.
The following are a selection of photos from the shoot.
