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November 5, 2014

Clint and Abbey’s Wedding in the Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple

Abbey and Clint were married in the Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple. We shot some portraits with them the day before the wedding. I was pleased with the enter shoot. Here are a few of my favorite images from the wedding portrait shoot and the wedding day itself. Enjoy.

This next image is one of my favorites. Most of the time you are taking a portraits, but for very brief moments during the shoot, you catch their true personality and expression. That is what I live for as a photographer… the perfect little moments. Most of what I do leads up to these little moments in the portrait session.

All of the portraits are lit by Profoto B1 Off Camera Flashes. The sun you see peaking through the trees is actually a B1 off camera flash. Looks great! When the sun isn’t cooperating, make your own sun.

Now this next shot, the sun is actually the sun. FYI. But I love this shot. The bride’s mother said it looked like they were in the garden of eden.

This one is all about the dress and the shoes. I like the like glimpse of the shoes.

Just a little cool drama. Sometimes I want to do something a little different… I like the drama here in this day for night look.

The details on this wedding are quite fun. I love the brown paper bag luminaries. They had great variety of them.

And nothing entertains me more than photographing children at weddings and rehearsal dinners.

On the wedding day, the clouds were threatening rain, but held back until the minute we finished the family portraits and as we started walking back to the temple, the clouds began to unload. I couldn’t have asked for a better situation. We got out portraits without incident, but I got a great series of shots as the rain forced the wedding party to run for cover! Perfect!

The reception was in a local Chandler church building. But the entire room was draped in white with beautiful white feathers and chandeliers and twinkle lights. It was very well done. I played around with various overlapping compositions to describe the room, but I think this shot gives the best description of how the room felt.

During the toasts, one of the groomsmen sat next to the grooms grand-father to translate. I was drawn to their relationship throughout the reception. It was touching. Oh and I also love the light. All of the light during the reception is provided by two Profoto B1 off camera flashes on either side of the reception room.

A kiss is far more interesting in context.

I love the emotional responses to the toasts at this reception. There was a lot of love circulating in that room. I love feeling that kind of love and closeness.

During the most emotional groom’s toast I have ever witness, the groom’s grandfather stood up and made his way to the groom’s side to show his support. I don’t think there are any words to describe now touching this scene really was. So, I will let the photo do the work.

Brides make grandfathers’ face light up like nothing else.

Oh the anticipation of a wedding cupcake! She can hardly stand it…

The M&Ms were a party favorite. They had a photo of the Bride and Groom on them. It was pretty cool.

Congratulations to Clint and Abbey. It was an honor to be a part of your wedding day.

Wedding Slideshow Music by __ Courtesy of Triple Scoop Music

Photography by Jared Platt, Platt Photography

Wedding Location: Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple

September 19, 2014

Breanna and Rimo’s Wedding in Gilbert, Arizona

Congratulations to Breanna and Rimo. It was such an honor to be a part of their wedding. Breanna and Rimo were married in the Gilbert, Arizona LDS Temple with a reception at Noah’s in Chandler. Enjoy the slideshow.

September 15, 2014

On Location with Profoto and Nikon in TTL

We went out along the Salt River in Arizona for our webinar on TTL lighting control with Profoto equipment. In our first shots, we had our model wear a fantastically non-traditional wedding dress by Simply Bridal. Samantha, our model, was a an absolute champ. Balancing in that form fitting dress was quite a challenge in our out of the water. We had a great time and got some fantastic images. Here are the images we used in the webinar, and you can see the full webinar online, just follow this link to Profoto’s webinar page.

For this month’s webinar for Profoto, we took our crew and a kit of Profoto B1 off camera flashes out to the lakes in the desert of Phoenix, Arizona. This time, instead of shooting Canon, we were shooting with a Nikon D800 on the Profoto Air Remote TTL for Nikon. Now Nikon users can also take advantage of the TTL abilities of the Profoto B1 lights. Join me on our Profoto webinars on September 17, 2014 for a free webinar on shooting in TTL and Auto Camera Modes.

August 21, 2014

Boxing at the Duce with Profoto

We spent the morning in a boxing club and event venue in downtown Phoenix, Arizona called The Duce for a complex lighting webinar for Profoto (the light shaping company). In this webinar we wanted to create a difficult lighting scenario where we had to build the lighting completely from scratch. Our boxing motif was a perfect opportunity to add a little incongruous wardrobe change, and that was a fantastically non-traditional wedding dress (provided by Simply Bridal. Although this was a stylized photoshoot, I think it proves an interesting point… that couples could do a better job at thinking outside the box when it comes to their wedding and engagement portraits. If you are a couple that is hiring a photographer or a photographer who has been hired by a couple to shoot an engagement session or a wedding portrait session, work together and encourage each other to get a little more inventive on the photo session.

Here are the favorites final images from our stylized portrait session.

You can see the entire photoshoot and a discussion about it in an hour long webinar here. Watch he brief trailer for the webinar below.

Coming up on Wednesday, August 27 at 10 am Pacific time is the latest Profoto lighting webinar with myself and the Profoto B1 off camera lights. Register online at www.profoto.com/live and tune in as we build a complex lighting scenario from scratch.

Music on this teaser is courtesy of Triple Scoop Music.

June 23, 2014

FREE Webinar for Non-Professional Photo Enthusiasts

I teach professional photographers around the world the best post-production methods to help them get their job done. But there are so many more photo enthusiasts in the world, who need help organizing, editing and sharing their images and these courses are sometimes a little too pro-centered. So I have developed an online workshop for you all! Here it is…

Starting Wednesday, June 25 through Friday, June 27, I will be teaching a webinar on photo organization, editing and sharing for non-professional photo enthusiasts. If you are a mom, dad, photo student, nature lover, or anyone who has a camera and needs help navigating the organizational nightmare of saving photos on the computer, this is a great opportunity for you. The webinar is FREE. Just go to www.creativelive.com (look on the CRAFT channel) and sign up for LIGHTROOM FOR SCRAPBOOKERS. You can watch for free starting on Wednesday at 9AM Pacific Time. You can watch this on your computer, your iPad or even your phone. The course is FREE when you watch it LIVE. You can purchase anytime access to the course for only $59.

Don’t worry, if you are not a scrapbooker, that’s OK because we are talking about photo organization, editing photos and sharing them. It’s not all about scrapbooking. It is all about photos and just happens to be the right fit for people like scrapbookers who want help wight heir photos. So join me on creativeLIVE, no matter who you are and get a super easy, basic, nuts and bolts look at a workflow for personal photography in Lightroom.

May 31, 2014

Ellie’s Senior Portraits

We photographed Ellie for her senior portraits a while ago, but I thought I would share this behind the scenes slideshow. Making senior portraits is one of the most enjoyable things I do as a photographer because it is a collaboration between me and an incredible and unique individual who is just bursting out into the world ready to conquer! I love it!

Enjoy the slideshow and watch for more slideshows and photo posts throughout the summer months.

Location: Chandler, Arizona

Slideshow music by It Takes Two to Tango, courtesy of Triple Scoop Music

Senior Portrait Photography by Jared Platt, Platt Photography

May 20, 2014

Free Webinar with Profoto: One Light Portraits

On May 21, join me at Profoto.com/live on location for a real senior portrait shoot.

Those of you who do not live in the US might wonder what a senior portrait is. It is simply a portrait taken of a student during his or hers senior year of high school. In this case, I am taking you on a real senior portrait shoot, which we have filmed just for you to see our lighting techniques.

We bring a single flash to the shoot and utilize simple yet effective lighting techniques that make lighting a portrait simple and beautiful. This webinar is not just for senior portrait photographers. Any photographer wanting to create beautiful portraits fast on location will have plenty to learn.

The webinar will take place on May 21 at 7PM CET (May 21 at 10AM Los Angeles, 1PM New York, 6PM London, 7PM Paris // May 22 at 1AM Beijing, 2AM Tokyo, 3AM Sydney).

Go to www.profoto.com/live to sign up or watch live.

May 3, 2014

Jackie and Vince’s Wedding in Scottsdale, Arizona

Jackie and Vince enjoyed a very beautiful wedding in Scottsdale, Arizona at the old Mission Church in Old Town Scottdale and a reception at The Sanctuary. Everything was beautiful and everyone was so much fun. In my next post, I will post a few of my favorite images from the wedding. Until then, enjoy the slideshow.

Slideshow music by Fisher, Courtesy of Triple Scoop Music.

Photography by Jared Platt, Platt Photography.

Reception Location: The Sanctuary

Wedding Location: The Old Mission Church, Scottsdale, Arizona.

April 22, 2014

Webinar: On Location with Profoto

Profoto Webinar with Jared Platt from Jared Platt on Vimeo.

Tomorrow (April 23, 2014 at 10 AM PDT) begins a series of Profoto webinars with me as your host. We will be tackling challenging problems with light with minimal gear. Our first photo shoot takes place in a dramatic desert landscape near Phoenix, Arizona. We create beautiful light with one B1 Profoto Off Camera Light and a variety of light shaping tools. Don’t miss the webinar. Ask questions live. See you tomorrow online!

Watch live (and sign up) at Profoto.com/live

March 18, 2014

William and Erica

Here are a few of my favorite images from William and Erica’s wedding. It was a large wedding, but it felt small. The people were all so nice that it just felt like I was amongst family. That is a good indication that things are going to be wonderful.

I enjoyed working on these images, as much as I enjoyed shooting them…

Now, I don’t care who you are, this next one has to make you smile.

Erica is such an adorable person and beautiful women. She was working on some very important curls, so while she was using this plastic, portable hair drier, I had to get a picture.

These curls are apparently well over 24 hours of work, so when you see Erica’s hair in her dress, don’t think that kind of coolness comes without some skill and planning. And she pulled it off wonderfully. I find myself getting a little giddy when I see something as cool as her hair was on the wedding day. Not because I love hair, but because I love to see something unique and beautiful and super cool come into place.

So as erica was brushing out her hair, her maid of honor said. “you look like a black and white photograph.” So I immediately took a black and white. This photograph and many others are in black and white because of that statement. It changed the course of the photos of the wedding. I like that interactive nature of weddings. Letting the circumstances sway the images means that the images become something much more real and meaningful. Thanks to a cute little statement on the wedding day, I saw the entire wedding day through a deferent lens.

First off, I think William’s last name is awesome. Secondly, I can’t begin to say how grateful I am to those who are and have been a part of our armed forces. Thirdly, I love the composition of this image. So, I love this image. There is a companion image that shows the groom and the best man in this same pose and it is a very casual and supportive gesture, but I much prefer this image because it is so metaphorical.

This is the Bride’s parents back yard (and music studio). I never wanted to leave…

I spent a long time looking at the getting ready photos after selecting them considering what they should become. I am generally very good at choosing a style and direction for a photograph and just making it happen, but this set made me stop and think for a long time. The bride’s love of books (a theme that would show up in the reception hall) was on full display here. The warmth of the wood, the room, the light in the window, her hair and the presence of her grandmother (who I wanted to take home with me), all pushed me to this warm treatment with a push back into the past. I will be playing with these same images on my workshop on creativeLIVE.com in a week (March 24-26, 2014) and if you join me there, you can see the original shots. I can’t imagine them with any other treatment.

So soft and beautiful.

The portrait session became a total of five or ten minutes tops. There were a few delays on getting the dress right because a sewing kit had already left for the church. And we had to leave soon, so it was a quick run out into the snow for a few photos. And while I love the color in the image here and it makes a nice portrait, I fell in love with the black and white for my favorite shot in the series.

This black and white got my attention for a long time. I really had a lot of fun with it. Including turning on that light and creating a little extra glow from the light onto her hair, etc. I am so pleased with this one. William (the groom) should be printing this one for his office for sure.

Who doesn’t love candles?

The candles were all over the place. Like a gift from the bride and her family to me. This one is another one of my favorite images. But it required a little extra editing because there was a little something in the background, a groom, that was crowding up the image. So, sometimes, I do use photoshop… but not often. And I will show you the original on creativeLIVE.com in a week, then it will be in the archives forever, never to be seen again.

When you have a car like this, you have to use it well. Man it was cold out though… SO COLD!!!!

Erica was a trooper though. She was brave enough to take off her warm furry cape. And here I was with coats and hats and scarves (no gloves) and I was still freezing! I think it was about 10 degrees outside when we took this photo… I will say it was fun, because taking photos is fun, but the cold was not as fun.

Thank you William and Erica for trusting me with your wedding day. It was such a pleasure. God bless you both and your marriage.

Photography by Jared Platt, Platt Photography

Slideshow music courtesy of Triple Scoop Music

Location: Independence Missouri

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