In the spirit of Christmas-tide, I thought I would do a post on Liana, and how cool she is. Here are a few shots of Liana doing what she does at weddings.
Oh and that includes...... holding dresses, fixing dresses, holding lenses, finding lost things (she has to do that a lot, since she's with me), holding children, doing monkey impressions (for children, and occasionally a needy adult), holding lights, testing the light, standing infront of things to see what they look like with a person infront of them, holding babies, throwing veils, testing the light again, getting me food, reassuring me that everything is okay, driving, taking photographs, sorting memory cards, carrying bags, telling people how amazing they look, arranging things so they look pretty, consoling crying babies, fixing hair, fixing veils, fixing buttonholes, location scouting, holding branches out of the way, finding lost guests, arranging people for group shots, TESTING the food, and putting up with me.
Quite a lot really.
Thanks Liana.
Oh and that includes...... holding dresses, fixing dresses, holding lenses, finding lost things (she has to do that a lot, since she's with me), holding children, doing monkey impressions (for children, and occasionally a needy adult), holding lights, testing the light, standing infront of things to see what they look like with a person infront of them, holding babies, throwing veils, testing the light again, getting me food, reassuring me that everything is okay, driving, taking photographs, sorting memory cards, carrying bags, telling people how amazing they look, arranging things so they look pretty, consoling crying babies, fixing hair, fixing veils, fixing buttonholes, location scouting, holding branches out of the way, finding lost guests, arranging people for group shots, TESTING the food, and putting up with me.
Quite a lot really.
Thanks Liana.
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When we passed through Wellington last week on the way home from Taranaki, I managed to visit the Brian Brake Exhibition at the Te Papa Museum. I hadn't heard of Brake before, but I found his work inspirational, especially his early black and white documentary images.
(image from Te Papa website)
New Zealand boasts a lot of very accomplished landscape photographers, so it's great to see portrait and documentary work on this scale.
(image from Te Papa website)New Zealand boasts a lot of very accomplished landscape photographers, so it's great to see portrait and documentary work on this scale.
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Well, here we go again... :)
I'll be in the UK next year for the European summer (in Wales, ha!), and I'd love to shoot a couple of weddings whilst I'm home. Let me know if you, or anyone else fancies having me as their photographer. I'll bring along my newly acquired New Zealand accent, ey.
Image above from Aislinn and Tom's wedding in Winchester this year...
I'll be in the UK next year for the European summer (in Wales, ha!), and I'd love to shoot a couple of weddings whilst I'm home. Let me know if you, or anyone else fancies having me as their photographer. I'll bring along my newly acquired New Zealand accent, ey.
Image above from Aislinn and Tom's wedding in Winchester this year...
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I was chatting to a lady recently about her daughter's wedding photography. She admitted the photographs were not her cup of tea - too many black and white documentary images, and not enough posed family photographs. Sounds like my kind of photographer! Her daughter had organised the photography to her liking, but the mother was disappointed that she didn't have a posed photograph of her husband and herself together.
At the weddings I shoot, I don't suggest specific posed photographs unless a couple has written them on my 'group photographs' list or if they ask me at the wedding. More often than not I am busy shooting all the events and details of the day and don't stop unless asked.
Here's a tip for any of my brides and grooms to be for this coming wedding season.. Let your guests know that I am primarily a documentary photographer, and if a guest or mother of the bride wants a shot of themselves with their husband/child/auntie I am more than happy to oblige. Just ask!
I'm just back from Winchester where I photographed my cousin Aislinn's wedding. Elmer was in attendance, and was looking very dapper in his new baby wedding outfit!!! This is him at the end of the night with my sister:
Liana:
oh my gosh look at him ooooh what a dude!! love his outfit...he's grown too, even a few weeks makes a difference though his outfit is very big boyish hee. miss you guys!!
(08.25.10 @ 12:19 AM)
Steven the Husband:
You're right there Liana! He's starting to look like a proper grownup little boy. You can see how he's changing. On skype he still looked the same but he was sitting down. It's the ever increasing height, at this rate he'll tower over me by the time he's four
(08.25.10 @ 07:44 PM)
Two:
He really looks like you in this one Steven!
(08.25.10 @ 08:13 PM)
Megan:
Hi Sinead - I had exactly the same experience! I especially found a photographer that did candid, natural photographs as that was the style I loved - and yet my mother was not impressed - expected lots of posed family shots (we got a few, but I want candid photos rather than posed). To me it's up to the bride and groom to get the photos they want :-)
(09.11.10 @ 05:48 PM)
Sinead Photo:
I agree Megan. There are all sorts of personalities at weddings, but whatever the bride and groom want is my priority. Thanks for the Elmer comments everyone! x
(09.13.10 @ 01:28 AM)
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Well done Liana! I trust the pay matches the job description?? M x
(12.24.11 @ 12:09 PM)thanks Monica! Not wanting to sound ungrateful after that fantastically well posted rave about me but I must say since you asked that payment doesn't always match..that would be the lollies payment. Sometimes there is either none or they are covered in gravel. I have considered taking this matter to the employment courts but have decided that when driving I will just stop outside a shop and order her to go buy some. Though being the great assistant I will probably just take her purse and buy them myself. Sour snakes are the best, they make us pull funny faces. PS thanks 'Nead' you're the best :)
(12.24.11 @ 05:53 PM)Listen, "lollies" are still lollies if they are covered in gravel. Be grateful you get any at all. I might go on a diet next wedding season.
(12.24.11 @ 10:10 PM)bring the lollies or the monkey impression gets it...and I know how much that monkey means to you. Its your 2nd most popular catch phrase just behind 'Lush'...'do the monkey Liana'...lollies are are an important part of a staple diet, right up there with your well made sandwiches :) ♪♫do the monkey ooh ooh ah ah, do the monkey ♪♫
(12.24.11 @ 11:02 PM)Enjoyed recent photos of the gorgeous Elmer
(01.05.12 @ 05:53 AM)