a very intelligent man once told me to stop with the excuses when things are not ideal and just “make it work”. maybe that man was tim gunn from project runway or maybe it wasn’t. that’s really neither here nor there. the point is that weddings are unpredictable and anything can (and will) happen at a moments notice. would i want every wedding to be held outside at a gorgeous location a few hours before sunset so all my pictures were blessed with amazing light? sure, but that just isn’t the case for a wedding photographer. a good wedding photographer needs to switch gears throughout the day. at one moment they may be a fly on the wall taking a truly photo journalistic approach and a second later cracking jokes as they pose the bride and groom for a natural looking portrait. as photographers, our heads are consistently filled with f-stops, shutter speeds, lens selection, composition and lighting. do we really need to add rain into the mix for more of a challenge? i guess so.
julia+pat planned the most ideal outdoor wedding at the dumbarton house in washington, dc. except for one thing: they forgot to send mother nature an invite and she decided it would be a good day for a rain shower. the call was made at the last minute to move the ceremony inside, probably to shelter all the guests from the rain and keep the girls hair from getting all frizzy. a little water in the air definitely didn’t stop the bride and groom from venturing outside afterwards for their portrait session. remember what i said above – yeah, that’s right : it was time to “make it work” and julia+pat did just that, in a big way. you two rock! i wouldn’t mind shooting every wedding from now on in the rain if i had troopers like the two of you. plus, as you’ll see in the photos below, rainy days can often times equal = A-mazing light. enjoy.
you may recall the amazing light that julia+pat were blessed with during their engagement portrait session in new hope, pa -you can revisit it here for a refresher : julia+pat engagement session
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Gorgeous shots!
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