I have been working for the last few months on defining my style and have stepped outside of my comfort zone quite a bit. I am shooting mostly natural light now and I have all but abandoned my zoom lenses in favor of primes. This has been very challenging for me and I have had a lot of moments that I have debated my skill at all as a photographer.

Then weddings like this past Saturday's come along and all the pieces fall into place for me. Great light, beautiful couple, fun day. Now this is why I am a photographer!

Enjoy!
Steph

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Great work! I can't really say any more than Keep it up! Primes are a great way to force you to push yourself more. Physically working for the framing makes you need to think quicker to get it right. You're definately rockin' it.

Perfect!

I love #7

Great job!! I love #3!

Don't you wish they could all be like that? My wedding Saturday was at a church with a beautiful foyer lit by natural light, but we didn't go in there. We had to stay in the gym with no windows with candles on the tables. It also had a great garden area, but we had about 7 minutes there at the end.

Great job! I especially love #6 and #8!

Wow--great work, Stepahnie! I love 3,5, & 7! I also love primes--I'm the second shooter at most of our weddings and I keep my 50 1.2 on my camera for about 75% of the wedding.

Beautiful work Steph!! Really nice light too!
Candy

Thanks everyone!

I was just so happy to finally have something that I am proud to call my own. It has been an uphill battle (and will probably continue to be until I have practiced it a ton more!) to stick to my primes, wide open, natural light. It was really hard going from taking 1000 images where 90% of them are good to taking 1000 images where 40% are good. The reason I am sticking to it is that with the 40% that are good comes 1% that are amazing!!!! That is my reward!

Thanks again for the compliments.

Steph