As wedding photographers, we through around the term of photojournalism as our style. To be honest, we’re not photojournalists. We take pictures at weddings. It’s tough work, and it may seem like a warzone at times, but photojournalists are out there risking their lives to show the world what is really going on in places like Libya.

Below is a photo of missing New York Times photographers who have been covering the fighting in Libya. Read the story here:

A huge part of the wedding day is focused on the bride. The dress. Her hair and makeup. Everything comes together for a perfect memory. We like to capture everything that went into the preparation in a modern, clean portrait of the bride.

Our 2010 brides were amazing as always, making our job as wedding photographers easy. Here are some of our favorite editorial-style portraits of these beautiful brides.

If you still want to see a few more of our brides from years past, check out this selection of wedding photography. And don’t forget our previous post on groom wedding photos.

I’m always amazed at how we consistently have such fun couples as clients. Emily and Jarred no exception.

Their wedding ceremony was at the Bartlett Arboretum down in Belle Plaine. It was well worth the drive, as it is definitely in our favorite venues now. After their gorgeous ceremony, we all traveled north back to Wichita to the Crown Uptown for the reception.

In our continued effort to catch up on our blog, here are some fun photos with Jenny and Ryan. We recently delivered their wedding photos, and they’re both so nice, and you’ll never meet some one more bubbly than Jenny.

Our first senior portraits for the 2010 class

We’d done my cousin’s wedding photos a while back in Baxter Springs. My cousin’s cousin then asked us if we could do his senior pictures.  He was having them done this summer because he was growing his hair out for a musical he is going to be in this coming fall. Nick does about everything. Sing, piano, basketball.

While he was up in the Wichita area, I took him to a Steinway where he just played for a while as I set up lights and shot him having a good time.  Next, we went to Chisolm trail park, and then to a gym for some basketball pictures. Here are a few from his senior portrait session.

Here’s a Mosaic Photo promotional…well um, mosaic that we designed.  In it, there are quite a wide range of photos. Families, seniors, weddings. It is a collection of highlights for us in the last few months from the defining moments in their lives. A collection of diverse elements forming a coherent whole.

So if you need a portrait or wedding photographer, let us know. Contact us at info [at] themosaicphoto . com

Merry Christmas from Mosaic Photo

This is one of my favorite photos that I’ve taken. This was a fixed display at an annual light display at Botanica: The Wichita Gardens. It was a too dark to balance the lights with the sky, but that gave me a little bit more flexibility in my shooting. I had brought along my tripod with a cool ball head. I played with a few different techniques, zooming the lens during the exposure, changing the focus depth, and camera movement.

Quickly, I saw that I could mimic the movement of snow swooping down. This shot was a thirty second exposure, with the camera stationary for the first half of the exposure. Then, I moved the camera with my tripod head’s natural arc for the rest of the exposure. This movement gave a nice motion trail.

Little was done in post processing. A custom white balance let the blacks go to a deep blue and also shift the whites to magenta. This image was used for a Christmas card at Lawrence Photo to send out to its friends and clients.

From your friends at Mosaic Photo, Merry Christmas.

I had the privilege of shooting some senior portraits for a really cool guy.  It was a lot of fun, and I was happy with the results, as was Jake’s family. That’s success in my book.

Jake is an avid drummer, and a great athlete.  Plus, he was open to do pretty much anything we could think of. So we went up to Wichita Heights to take some pictures on the baseball field. Then we grabbed a drum set and headed down to Old Town for some pictures there. C.J. and Laura took over from there and headed to Oak Park.

Generally, I have a few to several images in my head going into a shoot. From there, I usually think about my lighting scheme. I like definition and clarity in my images, but I also like to setup my lights so I have some room to interact with the subject and react. This time, I used my mad drawing skills and drew up what I was looking for in 4 or 5 shots. Here are a couple: 

I really don’t know why I went ahead and shot the pictures – the drawings are so lifelike. Just for clarity and completeness, the second portrait is lit by two reflective umbrellas and a bare strobe pointing back at the camera for some separation from the background. 

There were a lot of photos I really, really liked. Check ‘em out at the sharing gallery:
http://themosaicphoto.net/p117059846

Finally, let me direct you to our $100 senior portrait promotion.

A time-crunch photo assignment at a local youth rally.

September 24 was a nation wide rally, See You at the Pole, where students gather around their school’s flagpoles and pray for their school and nation. Many places, there is a city-wide rally that evening. Our friend over at Campus Ministry Network gave us a call and asked if we could take a few pictures to send out to the rally put on by a church in Asheville, North Carolina. The organizers out in Asheville wanted their upstart group to see what was going on in Wichita. Our assignment: deliver 3 to 5 images to Asheville.

Oh yeah. We had 15 minutes to deliver the pictures. Because of the time difference, the event here in Wichita started half and hour before it was over in North Carolina.  Before the event, I made sure I had wireless access at the church and sent a test email to the tech guy for the east coasters. Once the event started at 7:00, I allotted myself 8 minutes to get the pictures taken so I’d have plenty of time to send them off. I wanted to get at least three different looks. So I started at the front corner of the sanctuary and worked around in a circle. By 7:11 I had sent off 5 images.

The result was a mix of detail and wide shots, with a mix of ambient and flash.