Probably the greatest honor I feel as wedding photographers is doing a wedding for another wedding photographer. After all, these people spend each day looking at this stuff, and know exactly what they like. But it was an even greater pleasure when that photographer is someone like Michael Stravinos, who is not just talented, but has been a friend, a workshop student, and collaborator.
And then you add that the wedding would be at the fantastic George Peabody Library in Baltimore, a place I’ve wanted to shoot in ever since I first saw it? I jumped at the chance. It didn’t matter that I also had to be in New York and Pennsylvania that weekend…this was going to happen.
It was amazing start to finish, filled with tears, laughter, Greek dancing, beautiful details, a solemn church ceremony…dripping with meaning and emotion throughout.
For the photographers out there, this was my first wedding with the Sony A9, and apart from the more technical aspects it was incredible to be able to shoot all of the events of the day completely silently, getting angles during prayers and at moments of peak emotion while intruding as little as possible. I always want to capture the real emotions so that you can look back and feel what it was like to be there in the midst of it, and this has been a helpful tool.
