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Robyn || Trashed with Authority

So that wedding dress is just hanging out in the closet, eh? Well, strap it back on and let’s Trash The Dress! Robyn (of Corey and Robyn) is a Major in the Canadian Forces and jokingly mentioned doing a TTD on a military base. She said it, her husband loved it, I had the epiphany and there was no saying no from there. Nerves got the best of her a few times (as well as a few trips to Afghanistan) but we locked-and-loaded last week. I am pumped, she will freak out (in the good way). Enjoy.

Trash The Dress photo shoots have been huge south of the border for a while now and bride’s in the Great White North are getting curious about what a TTD really is. I think it started with destination weddings when brides would jump in the ocean and photographers were making beautiful images of the phenomenon. It has been adapted over a few years and does not necessarily mean that your dress will be destroyed. Since we don’t have endless bodies of warm salt water up here, I like to put my own spin on things. I think of them like the anti-engagement portrait. I keep my engagement session very casual, natural and lovey but my TTD’s are more editorial-fashion in nature and I take time to develop a killer concept and efficient execution. Also unlike my weddings and engagement portraits, I have done a lot of  ”post production” work on this image to make it really dramatic.  Dig it.

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Pamela + Serge / Fireworks

A preview of Pamela and Serge’s wedding at the Beantown Ranch earlier this summer.

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Jill + John

Jill + John
September 2009
At The School House

The nicest light of the day and the Bride and Groom were nowhere to be found!

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Katie + Vince

Katie + Vince.
Saunder’s Farm, near Ottawa.
Good times.

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Tara + Michael

Tara + Michael
Restaurant E18hteen, Ottawa

Vero + Dan

Veronique + Daniel
Restaurant 18, Byward Market
July 2009

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Laura + Maurice

This was one of the good ones. Laura and Maurice are two crazy doctors from British Columbia that came to town and threw a huge party. They hired me site-unseen with a recommendation from Lynn at Weddings Unveiled. Things were a little stressful in the morning, but everything was groovy by ceremony time. They gave me more time to shoot portraits than any other couple and really gave creativity some breathing room. We even had time to hit the bar before getting back into action at the cocktail reception. Congratulations Laura and Maurice!

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(Blair * Tony) / Remote One = Emily + Josh

This is my buddy Tony Caldwell (on the right). It was our good friend John Major’s daughters wedding and Johnny was going to try and shoot it himself  - so we crashed the ceremony with a car load of cameras, lights and remotes.

Tony and I saw the arch that the couple would be standing beneath, looked at each other and knew what we had to do. We whipped out our wide angle lens, super clamps, magic arms, Pocket Wizards and remote cables and went to work. This was not the first time I have used a remote camera at a wedding, but it is the first time that I used a remote during the ceremony. It takes a healthy amount of trust to let the photog hang a serious piece of hardware behind the bride and groom. We were able to make frames that no other bride and groom would get from any other photographer-duo.

We set the remote camera up to specifically make this image (below). It also made a nice image of John walking his daughter up the aisle and lifting the brides veil. That little black dot above the grooms head is me, shooting with a very long lens and remotely triggering the camera hanging above their heads.

This is one of the image I made while on my belly. I was able to make this great image of the couple walking towards me and get a great shot of them from behind walking down the isle simultaneously. Dig on that.

This is what can happen when a client trusts their photographer(s). This is what happens when a photographer cares about what he does.

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Definitions:

Remote Camera – a camera triggered fro afar by the photographer.
Pocket Wizard – a device that allows the photographer trigger a camera from afar.
Super Clamp & Magic Arm – devices to secure a remote camera to… whatever.

Pollyanna + Mark

Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Ceremony: St. George’s Catholic Church
Portraits: Central Experimental Farm Arboretum
Reception: Travelodge Hotel and Conference Centre

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