Posts in Category: Friends

A Night at the Fair

On 2 Sep ’10 by Bill W. With 1 Comments - Friends, Lightroom, Photography

This post includes several photos from Frontier Days, a yearly summer festival at Frontier Park in Arlington Heights, IL. I brought my Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens and my Nikon D50 body, the lightest setup I own, and tried to capture as much low-light imagery that I could. I would have brought my tripod, but I wanted to stay as mobile as possible.

All these shots were edited in Adobe Lightroom tonight after sitting safely on my external hard drive for a couple months. Classic: I take a bunch of pictures, transfer them to my hard drive, plan on editing them, forget about those pics, check back on them, decide that there were some “post-worth” images, edit, and post. Expect several entries in the future to old pictures – possibly several years old.

I also won a stuffed monkey in the shoot-the-water-gun-into-the-small-hole-for-$3, but I gave it to my friend Kelly. What am I going to do with a stuffed monkey?

The Scharnett Wedding

On 1 Sep ’10 by Bill W. With 4 Comments - Friends, Nikon, Outdoors, Preview, Wedding

My last blog post was a selection of pictures from a wedding where I WASN’T the official wedding photographer. The photographer for Zac & Lisa’s wedding was a guy who kept referring to himself as “Uncle Brian,” making corny jokes, doing strange dance moves, and making everyone feel a little awkward. I’m sure his pictures were nice, but he pretty much stuck to the formals – nothing extremely creative, from what I saw.

Thankfully, I was the main photographer for Paul & Anne (McLain) Scharnett’s wedding. I say thankfully because the weekend was a TON of fun. I lived with Paul for two (or three) years in college – it’s all a blur now; and I knew Anne really well since she lived in the girls’ house next door to our guys’ cooperative. This wedding was a mini-reunion of sorts, which every “Koin-Strat” wedding seems to be. But, being the photographer, I got to spend most of the ENTIRE weekend with a group of great people.

I hope the pictures that I deliver will portray the love and excitement that Paul & Anne share for each other. Since this was my first wedding and I was shooting solo, there are a couple things I would do differently in the future. But overall, I’m happy with the pictures so far – I’m still a little ways from being done with editing them all. Here’s a bunch that are done. Click on any of them for a larger version. ENJOY! And comment if you have suggestions/thoughts/criticisms. I’ll be posting several more pictures in the future. Keep checking back!