If you've come here looking for more work after visiting our website you're crazy....just kidding, you've come to the right place! This is a place where Mike and I can showcase some of our most recent work--if you're here and the last post is from months ago just remember that our priority is always keeping up with our event editing and getting images to our clients on time! Sadly, the blog, while we love it, doesn't always make it to the top of the to-do list. Rest assured, we'll be back, we always are! In the meantime feel free to get in touch via our contact form!
Mary and Aaron were pretty open to where they wanted to meet up for an engagement session but thought apple picking and bringing their very cute puppy needed to be part of the plan! We have a favorite orchard up on a hill in Littleton that we love to go to called Nagog Hill Orchard and there is always such gorgeous afternoon light there! As you can see from these images the light didn’t fail us this time!! And by the way, every time there is a French Bulldog involved in a shoot I WANT ONE!
10/9/10
Joe and Missy…I don’t even know where to begin with these two! They’re adorable, completely in love…and friends with my cousin Ryan who only had wonderful things to say about them! We have an awesome film from their wedding day to share as well…but we’re waiting on some finishing pieces for the new film company before we share that and I really can’t wait to share that with all of you! So without further adieu…Joe, Missy, The Boston Public library…awesome and amazing wedding day!!!
August 7, 2010
Aasia is Indian with a big big Indian family…and she fell in love with Keith who is Italian with a big big Italian family…so together they joined forces and had an absolutely gorgeous Indian/Italian wedding at the Sheraton with over 475 guests! When we met with them pre-wedding it was great to just have a chance to sit and chat and figure out what it was about their photography on their wedding day that they were most excited about. For them, it was the people. They did make their way around to every single table to say hi to their guests, but they wanted us to know that the thing that they were both most looking forward to was seeing candid images of a lot of their guests! With close to 2000 images from the Henna Party and the Wedding day I’m sure they have that! Actually at the wedding Mike and I were talking about how it would be really interesting to match our images up against the guest list and see just how many of the guests we managed to capture…unless someone was hiding from the camera we most likely have an image of them!
It was such an amazing day where two cultures collide….my favorite part may have been seeing all of Keith’s friends come out in traditional Indian clothes or maybe when Aasia’s nieces and nephews recited and adorable poem filled with marriage advice…or actually, maybe it was the dance off! Ehh, who am I kidding, it was all amazing and made Mike and I wish that everyone celebrated like they do in Aasia’s family–the colors, the passion, the emotion, the attention to family…it was all wonderful!
We got this a while back and the second I opened it I grabbed my camera and took some pictures…it is such a beautiful wedding invitation for the wedding of our awesome photographer friends Rich and Ashley Pizzuti (and soon to be Pizzuti) and we’re honored and beyond excited to shoot their wedding in just a few weeks!!!
So it started about 2 years ago…we were bitten by a little bug called DSLR film…actually, Mike was bitten first probably in conjunction with our friends over at Team Yu Photography. I started by mourning a lost partner…I knew that he was going to tackle film like he had photo–absorbing and learning everything he could at all times and I knew he would be good at it. That meant that I was going to have to shoot stills with someone else…but the passion, the love, just the way he talked about film it wasn’t going to be me pouting on the couch that I wanted my shooting partner all to myself that made him stop. I’m glad I didn’t…because now I’ve fallen in love as well, and I’ve fallen hard. Actually we’re not shooting this weekend and all I want to do is crash a big beautiful wedding and make a film…I’m the editor and man does editing film really tickle my need to tell stories (I was a creative writing major at Wheaton when I graduated). So a new era is coming to MKD Photography and Team Yu Photography…and we’ve been dabbling here and there, but for real we are about to jump in. A price list, a contract, a website, a business name…it’s all in the works…and we couldn’t be more excited!
This first video is the first time that we were all together…Anna and I shooting stills, Mike and Tony shooting video. They don’t have all of the equipment they want, but they just wanted to get their feet wet. Sitting down to put it all together I was impressed with what they were able to capture without a Steadicam or a real slider…and I am really really happy to share the wedding of Jess and Jeff with you.
This second wedding was shot the weekend before…and if they didn’t have all that they needed for Jess’s wedding, Mike was really behind for Jamie and Steve’s wedding. He was still a primary photographer for the day, Tony and Anna weren’t with us, and he was squeaking in footage here and there when he could. He was shooting with our Nikon which isn’t nearly as amazing as the Canon…but again, when I sat down to edit this film it came together beautifully…and really just confirmed that the direction we are headed is the right one…if this is what he can accomplish while limping I can’t wait to see what he can do with the right tools and time!
The future for us includes more amazing weddings with couples who have stories to tell–our vision is not to just document the day as a “wedding” but to portray the couple who just happen to be celebrating their wedding day. We’re getting everything we need to make this work–a steadicam is already in Mike’s hands and if he could sleep with it he would. A slider is next up. The Canon equipment comes with an awesome partnership with Team Yu Photography and LensProToGo.com right up the street who makes it easy to not buy equipment right before Nikon is about to launch a whole new line of video capable 1080 cameras. We have the equipment to record sound…the vows, the toasts, the little moments that you just want to hear again. Did I mention I’m excited?! I can’t wait to see where this is going!
