The Pieces....

In our circle of friends, we refer to them as "the pieces"... Otherwise known as Jason & Meredith Reece... We had the honor of photographing our friend's wedding this past June. Needless to say everyone had a great time...

Here are some of the details:

The Venue: Athenaeum in Downtown C-Bus

Food: The Athenaeum catered the event in house

Cake: Bakery Gingham

Party Favor: Reece's Pieces (of course)

THE BAND: Katty Whomp Us... Sounds weird but this group rocked the house and kept everyone on the dance floor until the Athenaeum staff had to boot everyone out... I honestly think the party would have went all night otherwise!

Honeymoon: Ireland & Wales

Here are just a handful of photos we shot and edited... The rest can be found by clicking here

CONGRATULATIONS TO JASON & MEREDITH!!!

What will they come up with next?

Imagine this... Hiring a photographer and a videographer simultaneously... No, I don't mean that the photography studio/photographer offers video service as part of their repertoire. I mean the same person doing it all with one device!

Technology is headed in this direction and fast! This year I invested in Canon's newest creation - the long awaited EOS 5D Mark II. I was just hoping for two features - a self cleaning sensor and a bump in resolution.... Instead Canon threw us all off our chairs... They decided to include 1080p video (that is 1080 x 1920 widescreen video)... This is BluRay quality video on a digital SLR camera body...

All along there has been video on point and shoot cameras - that has been around for several years now. This is cutting edge stuff for a pro camera body.

I recently shot some video at a family member's wedding (didn't do the photos for obvious reasons). I have yet to fully edit it because I shot several hours of footage in hi-res video... My PC cannot even push the video it is so intense. So... I am traversing into a Macintosh Pro in the fall to learn all about this revolution before it comes an industry norm.

Here is a video I did shoot and edit when I bought the camera... I am very impressed with what I could do with a few hours of learning... I now need to learn more intense software to make the videos more interesting and professional looking.




(right click and view on YouTube for the HD version)

Canon gave a photographer a beta version of this camera late last year and here is a link to what an award winning photographer shot in a weekend at a very low budget:


http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2326

My guess is that in the future (near) that the resolution of the video portion of the cameras will be 6 to 10 megapixels (or more) and we will shoot the wedding in moving video and take clips out for the photographs... In 10 years or so, it will be 20 megapixel video where we take screen shots out for photographs...



I don't think this is an end to the still world, but a whole new beginning!