Aspen

Aspen, Co

While in New Orleans hanging out with, undoubtedly, some of the coolest wedding photographers on the planet, I was chatting with Joe Photo about a personal art project to challenge myself and my skill at a wedding.  Joe asks if I have a wedding on the coming Saturday, I say no, and he says I have a wedding in Aspen – come and shoot it with me…   ummmm yeah…  (big thanks to my beautiful wife for allowing me to jet set a little).

Laine and Bill.

2nd shooting for the ultra hip Joe Photo in Aspen at a beautiful private estate with a gorgeous bride and groom….. what could get better?   It rained, which added that extra special feeling and mood.  Did you know that I absolutely love rainy day weddings?

So while 2nd shooting for Joe with one camera (my primary) I decided to split my shooting personality and attempt (at the same time) to try my project.  This project: “50 frames”  is an idea that has been sitting in my head for some time now,  the gist of it is to shoot a wedding while only clicking the shutter 50 times. To challenge myself to become an even more aware shooter and to see if I could represent a wedding story with only 50 clicks, keeping every frame, good or bad.   While shooting with my primary camera for Joe, I had my backup camera loaded with a very small CF, the preview LCD screen gaff taped up and the menu functions and delete buttons all inaccessible.  50 frames, no reviewing to see if I got the shot or not.  Almost like I was shooting film again.

Below is just one of the frames from that camera.  Though I think I did well with the project and it proves the fundamental concept in my head, I considered this a mild failure because I got distracted with such a beautiful wedding and I was just happy and excited to be 2nd shooting with Joe that I didn’t put a whole lot of attention toward the project.  In the end, I only shot 36 frames on the taped up camera (which, ironically is the amount of frames on a 35mm roll of film).  If you want to see all 36 frames from the project click here.

One Big Thank You to Joe Photo,  for allowing me to tag along and shoot with one of the giants of our industry… thank you!

.jmc.