I was so excited to take on the challenge of shooting this event. This gorgeous family's youngest celebrated her Bat Mitzvah last spring and I'm just now getting around to blogging it. The location was at a popular restaurant at the bottom of one of our local ski mountains. The service was super relaxed and meaningful and this lovely young lady did a wonderful job. You can see how proud her grandparents are in their smiles. We started early evening outside with some harsh sunlight so I made sure to bring my softbox to help create some more flattering light. Golden hour is hard to come by when you live in a valley. Really though, these teen girls had such gorgeous skin--they made my job so easy. The collection below starts with some formal photos and ends with some fun party shots.
For the service the family requested no flash. Lucky for me the room had some large windows and we had a sunny day.
At the reception I set up a gelled flash at one corner of the dance floor and used a gelled Magmod Bounce modifier for my on-camera flash. I really loved the result. Letting in a lot of the ambient light showed off the DJ lights and made for some fun colorful images. I threw in a prism and some LED lights in front of the lens for a couple of shots to mix it up a bit. Of course, I dragged my shutter for a few photos too. I will do a post soon on some fun creative techniques to add an extra layer to your images. The green screen was another company, I'm so curious to see the resulting photos!
Fun night!
I hope I get to photograph another event like this soon. Such a blast!