May, 2009
You may remember Becky and Christian’s photos a few blog posts ago. While I was photographing them we ran into their friends from Yale Law School, Ken and Ashley. Two days later I’m photographing their engagement session too! My wife, Kelley, met us when she got out of work and joined us for a walk around campus
Wow. What a trip into Manhattan we had. Jenay and George love to go into the city, so I figured I’d take a trip with them and do their Get To Know You Session too. I had a few ideas up my sleeve that I was able to do, like photographing on the Brooklyn Bridge at night. Let’s just say this was one of the longest sessions I’ve done, and I was exhausted at the end!
Moe`uhane is Hawaiian for “dream.” This custom home was built by a builder, for his own family, as his dream home. He wanted photos not only for himself, but for his company website too. The home and the land it’s on is just beautiful. I’m posting a few generic photos from the shoot as I don’t want to expose too much of their personal space on the blog, but let’s just say the walk in closets are amazing.
I know I’ve been around Yale a lot lately for photo session, but this time for a good reason. Becky and Christian met at the Yale Law School! So we took a walk across campus to the law school and took plenty of pictures in between.
As I type this, it’s Thursday morning. After the last 3 days, I can’t wait to start this wedding season. For you non-photographers out there reading this, you probably won’t recognize the names above. Denis Reggie and Joe Buissink are the #1 and #2 wedding photographers in the world, and I just spent 3 days with them at Denis Reggie’s house in Atlanta.
I was in Atlanta for a few shoots over the weekend, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to stay for the conclave for various reasons. Now that I’ve gone, it would have been a huge mistake not to go. There were only 12 photographers with full access to Denis and Joe. Even over lunch and dinner we were able to ask anything we wanted to. And what they showed us over those 3 days made a lot of sense to me. It is already changing the way I think when I shoot and how I run my business. All for the better.
Here are the 12 of us with Denis and Joe. I hope to get some more images in from the other photographers that were there!
And a very special thanks to Denis and Joe for teaching us more than we can be thankful for.
Here’s logo update #2! For the second year in a row I placed #1 in the New Haven Advocate Readers Poll! Clicking the link will send you to my results listing.
My interview is at my results listing. There are some things in the interview that either weren’t really accurate, or just not really what I was hoping for to shine through in my interview. Here’s the interview below with the points I was hoping to convey in { }.
“Richard Esposito’s REPhotoDesign is leading the way in documenting the special moments in people’s lives, especially weddings. Esposito offers a hybrid package: He takes pictures and records short video clips of key moments in the ceremony {actually it’s throughout the entire wedding day}. (That’s just one of 15 packages total.){There are 5 Hybrid packages available to my clients}.He makes sure that his customers have many options available to them so they can remember the most precious moments of their lives. Plus, he makes back-ups of the images he has captured and gives customers a copy of the negatives. And then, he keeps an entire set of his work on a site separate from his house. In other words, he’s got you covered. With four Emmys as a video editor for NBC during a seven-year career there {7 year career in television but only 3 years at the NBC affiliate WHDH in Boston}, it’s easy to see that Esposito brings hard work and creativity to his business. He even holds “get-to-know-you-sessions,” working with couples to get a feel for how they deal with the camera, even helping one future husband practice looking into the camera lens instead of off into the distance, helping to ensure the couple got the best shots of their best day.”
I thought her discussion of my storage techniques for my photographs was a very common piece of information to include… it is something that all photographers do, but apparently she felt that I was unique because I safeguard my clients precious memories.
There was no mention of a few things I had talked about during the interview that I hoped would have gone into my bio. The things that I was hoping to stand out were: the weddings and engagement shoots that I do across the US, as well as my portrait and commercial services being launched.
Envy you both. Glad you had a good time. Maybe one of those days I and can fly out to see them both.
6.05.2009
that bridge shot kicks my rump–