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.
Cool idea. Gotta try that sometime.