Time of Day

Time of Day.
Probably the most important factor in outdoor photography.

Below is Prince of Peach church and school in Carrollton, TX.


This was my ultimate choice, about an hour and a half before sunset.

Here's the same shot, but with cloud cover. Depending on the day, you might have to wait anywhere from a few seconds to 30 minutes to get some nice good sunlight.


Golden Hour:
Right when the sun is on the horizon. Everything looks golden and this is the "ideal" time to photography. There are exceptions, like in this case.


Early Twilight. This is the phase where the lights outside as just slightly dimmer than the ambient light.


Twilight. This is usually a winner. The outdoor lighting is strong enough to act as accents, but the ambient still does good work.


Late twilight.. I don't have a photo, but as a general rule, you never want to photography at pure night. When a client asks for night shots, I make sure they're late twilight shots. Like this:

Notice how at "night", you wouldn't see the top of the bridge or all the post or even the water edge.


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Christine and Andrew Engagement

Christine and Andrew's engagement was a lot of fun. We started at Galatyn Parkway in Richardson, TX. There are some fountains there at the Renaissance Hotel that they really wanted photos in. Shown below:



But before it was dark, we made our way to Mockingbird Station on the Dart train.
























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UNT Aerials of the New Stadium - University of North Texas

UNT is where I earned my undergraduate degree, so I was very excited when they contacted me about getting aerial photos for them of the new stadium (and a few other aerials on campus). Here they are:











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Meredith and David Wedding

I know David from the helicopter industry. He's a pilot and a dang good one at that. I used to fly with him alot before he moved out to West Texas to herd cattle from a helicopter. .. what a job.

He met his gorgeous bride Meredith out there. I was delighted to photograph their wedding.






photo by Sarah Carroll actually. ^






David's family came all the way from South Africa to be there! Pretty awesome.


The rings.










Everyone loved the miniature cows on the cake.


A lego helicopter cake decoration.

They had a pretty short wedding and reception. Then threw a party that night. Inbetween we had a photo session with just David and Meredith. We got some great photos out of it.







We made our way to the airport where we had an old crop dusting airplane waiting for us to take pictures with!























The party wasn't part of the wedding photography, but I took my camera as a nice gesture (:
The helicopter / aviation community is pretty small, there were a lot of people there that I knew and it was really neat to see everyone I usually work with in one industry.




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