Have you ever seen a wedding dress, an article of clothing, or anything for that matter with a different style, but a style that you must have? Then only to loose the original website or magazine clipping and unable to find it again?
I have found the best thing ever to satisfy this need, matching our own individual styles - its pinterest.com. Pinterest allows us to spot pics online, like that cute wedding dress, and pin it to our virtual board so we can come back to it later, on its original website. No more keeping those annoying tabs open, no more trying to remember to go to this or that website, just pin and forget it! Pinterest has become so popular overnight that it drives more web traffic to other sites than Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined. Wow, can you believe that, combined?!
Do you remember the like button for Facebook on a website? Lets move that a couple of steps forward now and PIN IT! We don’t need to continue pressing the like button so everyone can see it anymore, we are building boards of images of our likes and interests! Those likes and interest then become a bulletin board of similar articles. So those Diesel jeans that I really want can now be posted on my Pinterest and the same for that entire outfit that I found on GQ’s website, allowing me to not worry about forgetting about what that outfit looks like or where that website was. Voila~because of Pinterest my life just became A LOT simpler allowing me to worry less about remembering all of those tedious websites, or leaving the tabs open on Safari.
After redecorating my personal wardrobe, I can also decorate my home using Pinterest by pinning the paints, furniture, and shag rugs onto my Pinterest board designated for my home décor project. I can find the paint that I love the most from doing a simple Google search then post the original website to my Pinterest, allowing me to move on to choosing the bookshelf! So much more efficient than having to write down the sites or adding them to the book marks page.
Going back to our wedding, using pinterest we can PIN EVERYTHING TO OUR WEDDING BOARD! We can pin the wedding dress, our favorite Maggie Sottero or Paloma Blanca gown, the bouquet, the cake, we can even pin the venue and the photographer! What better tool to communicate with your wedding vendors than an iPad or phone connected to your Pinterest account showing all of your favorite ideas for your wedding!
As for me, the photographer, I will be using Pinterest to exhibit my latest and most imminent pics. However, using Pinterest allows me to show you the artists who inspire me by pinning their art. I can also share with you the quotes that inspire me the most and keeping me going from day to day. I hope you will come pin your favorite interest with me! The following are my most successful pins so far. Let me know if you want an invitation to Pinterest, which at this time is still by invitation only! Until next time Keep Pinning!
Click here if you would like an invitation to Pinterest.
Enjoy!
Ciao,
David Wright
{Brentwood,TN} – January 30, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation's leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce David Wright Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography!
The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, David Wright was selected based on his stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.
David Wright is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.
“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate David Wright Photography for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”
We are happy to announce that David Wright Wedding Photography is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.
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As you have seen in the last 3 food photography posts the foods and menus photographed for Dinner4Two's 2012 website and promotions. Now lets take a look at the series of ads created to help promote and sell Dinner4Two's cookware sets.
Creating an ad for a company or magazine requires not only a certain skill level in lighting and photography, but also understanding the message of the client and how to interpret the message in a two dimensional format that quickly captures the interest of the reader. The scene and props used in the ad must convey the message of the client while maintaining the client's own branding and presenting their message/products in a very favorable manner. These ads show not only Chef Dave preparing one of his masterpiece dishes, but also the client's own target market, the new bride and groom. The positioning of the models and their own personal mannerisms help convey to the reader fun, very much in love, young couples starting out on their new marriages with the best cookware that will serve their families for years in healthy food preparation. The ads are fun, shows slices of everyday life, and are using the best cookware available from Royal Prestiage's Dinner4Two.
The first series was created of Chef Dave as he prepared the food for our photo shoots that you saw previously. The second set is of my assistant Sarah and her fiance' Tyler. The last set was shot a the 2011 Parade of Homes in Annandale, Brentwood's kitchen chosen for its fabulous kitchen and magnificent "zebra" veined granite, the most spectacular piece of granite I have ever seen. This is what compelled me to use this kitchen. The model's here are Jason, whom I photographed for an ad when he was still a senior in high school and now finishing medical school and his fiancee Kayla.
So please enjoy and later I will show you the makings of the last ad, pretty interesting.
Ciao,
David Wright
Photographing food is a specialized art requiring exquisite lighting, strong compositions and patience.
Although the food coming off the grille or out of the pan has to be quickly styled for the shoot, the photographer has only seconds to capture the savory flavor of the dish before the freshness and color dissipates.
The set, dishes, props and lighting all have to be worked out and be really for the delicious dish so when it arrives in its fanfare, followed by one last adjustment, the shutter begins firing. But wait, what if the client sees a change or something shifts within the food ensemble, or one of the lights is not quite what we wanted? Now what, the dish has begun cooling, colors are changing, liquids and sauces have begun gelling. Out comes the secret bag of tricks to revive the food, new life has to be breathed back into the dish. Some photographers use glycerin, water misters and cooking oils to keep the foods fresh looking and from becoming dehydrated.
Enough technical aspects of food photography, now to see the final foods prepared and photographed for Dinner4Two.
Enjoy,
David Wright
Shrimp Pasta
Blue Cheese Turkey Burger with Applewood Bacon and seasoned fries, yum!
Very nice fillet and seasoned potatoes
Sea Bass and Asparagus
Close up of Sea Bass
French Toast and Apple Wood Smoked Bacon
Quail with Pomegranate Sauce and Artichoke
Another view of the Quail
Close up of the Quail for Two and Artichoke
I really do love variety in photography. Makes me a better and more rounded photographer I do believe. By photographing different products, locations, and lighting scenarios, I have the opportunity to be even more creative as I work out different lighting methods, create lighting modifiers, filters and reflectors to bring out the very best in my own interpretation of how the product should be presented while pleasing the client.
Food photography is a perfect example. Food is one of the more difficult subjects to photograph. Not only is the lighting different, but the food has to be fresh and still hot as I fire away the camera. The scene has to be created to bring out the message each dish is to represent and then set up the lighting that makes the food believable, appetizing, and so appealing to the consumer they must purchase the product.
The most difficult part of food photography? The silverware. Silverware is very reflective and my lighting must build reflections on the silver to bring out its metallic properties while building depth and form in the object to make it believable and not lost in the table scape.
Last week, my staff and I created over 3 days 19 menu items and and ad for Dinner4Two's website presence, bridal shows and magazine ads. Dinner4Two is part of the Royal Prestige family of stainless steel cookware. Chef Dave from Tampa, Florida flew up and created the recipes while we photographed them straight off the gas grille. Below is only a few of the many images from our shoot and I will post more later.
Enjoy and wish you could have been there with us as we savored each and every meal, after photographing them of course!
Bon Appetit
David Wright
You may have seen Kayla's beautiful rustic bridal portrait session at Legacy Farms in my last post. Now you must see her gorgeous rustic country wedding, complete with a barn, wedding tent, and pumpkins!
Kayla and her family took an old barn in a field and transformed it into a beautiful wedding venue. The barn door openings were fitted with white drapes and flanked with mounds of flowers, hay bales and pumpkins for accent. Additional Fall flower arrangements were placed on pilasters and marked the entrance to the ceremony site in front of the barn. Entrance to the wedding and reception site was heavily decorated with flowers, pumpkins, candles, a hand-painted wedding sign, mason jars with candles hanging from trees and an antique table used for the guest registry.
While the wedding and reception site west of Columbia, Tennessee was being completed, photographs began with Kayla at her home and Max at his. We photographed the guys in downtown Columbia around the Maury County Courthouse and the local storefronts. Later we brought Kayla and the bridesmaids to the James K. Polk Home and used their beautiful gardens for the girls and family before going to the wedding. Kayla was chauffered to the wedding in a beautifully restored vintage 1939 black Packard by NashvilleWeddingCar.com. The reception was ravishingly decorated and served with a wonderful Southern buffet by the very friendly staff at the Copper Kettle Columbia. The wedding and dinner portion of the reception were serenaded by stringed chamber music and later a rock 'n' roll band finished the night Southern style.
Please do enjoy these beautiful views of Kayla & Max's wedding.
David Wright
Kayla had been searching for a great location for her bridal portrait that resembled her outdoor wedding theme and location. When I directed her to Legacy Farms near Lebanon, she instantly saw its beauty and potential for her perfect wedding portrait and how its rustic and rural theme fulfilled her dreams for a fall Tennessee portrait in a historic setting.
If you haven't visited the historic Legacy Farms south of Lebanon, Tennessee, you should do so. It is a fabulous estate including an 1850s Greek Revival farm house with its two story portico with "Southern white columns", a covered bridge, beautiful reflection pond, garden with water fountains and an early 1800s log house as well as a new conference center for meetings and receptions.
Kayla chose a Maggie Sottero Satero gown with its customary lace up back and a short veil. Kayla is like me, she loves color, especially red, and for those you who know me my favorite color is red. Kayla's wedding shoes were red and accented with gemstones!
We started the bridal session with some full lengths to really show the beauty in this gown followed by some closeups. And you will see in her flowers the beautiful fall colors of the flowers accented with pheasant feathers. Kayla really loves the texture of rustic wood and the small horse shed and log house were perfect for her. Perhaps one of the most fun and enjoyed portrait was of Kayla sitting on the 1850s Empire style sofa in front of the mansion with her red shoes in the air. The portrait her family chose was the full length of her and gown in front of the pond. What a wonderful portrait that image presented.
Please do enjoy Kayla's portraits and tell her hello on Facebook.
Tomorrow, I will post Kayla & Max's wedding!
David
