Weddingbee Blog

I was looking for a few basic things to make for fantastic photography: great candids (which the whole wedding photojournalism craze is perfect for), bright, bold colors, and strong composition. All at a reasonable price of course. I had actually found my perfect photographer way back in the summer, but I ended up buying my first house in the fall and due to all the craziness I lost out on the local photographer!

But I still adore her photos so here’s an array of my favorites, and a little something to the right to show how great her low light photos can be without a flash totally flattening out the image. (Flash can be evil, especially camera-mounted flashes… look for photographers that use “fast lenses” to shoot in low light without the need for flash).

Here are some great shots from Melia at Lucida Photography. I adore candids:

I had been so against photoshop, coming from a film background and developing my own negs and prints since I was 10. I think it stemmed from something really basic - an instructor that had disapproved of cropping my images when I developed my prints, saying all the cropping should be done from behind the camera. But these particular effects of hers create such a great sense of movement into the image:

Her love of industrial settings!

And composition that I adore: