Henry Baker of Baker Studios

Kim and Mike – September

Kim and Mike’s wedding was in early September. I started at Kim’s parents home in Foxborough and then we were on to church, St Mary’s in Foxborough. St Mary’s is a beutiful Catholic Church, in the middle of Foxborough. It has a beautiful side yard, a very nice look to the facade and a long looping driveway.

Inside, the setting is modern. The modern look is not as dramatic or striking as the architecture of the older church’s.

I needed to photograph a number of groups of family immediately following the wedding service and needed to do this on the grounds of the church. Many of the children in these groups would be going home and would not be at the reception. The reception would be at the Highland Country Club in Attleboro.

Every wedding has a life of it’s own. This wedding was different in many ways and there was a lot of photography that needed to be taken at every stop. It is so important in these feature rich scenes, to work quickly, think about your flow, and try to utilize all of the scenes, in different sets of images.

All of the settings were beautiful, the weather was perfect and our couple attractive. What made this wedding special was that Kim was a happy bride and Mike a very easy groom to work with.

At Kim’s mothers house, we spent at least 45 minutes with her family and with Kim. I photographed a variety of scenes with Kim, her parents and her sisters. There was a lot of posed work and some photojournalism.

At the church the ceremony was colorful and it was all photojournalistic. After the service, the receiving line presented me with a 15 minute delay, waiting for all of the people to pass through it. I photographed a number of candids of people going through the receiving line as well as interaction with groups of guests. I also located groups of families and photographed these family groups in nice scenes on the grounds of the church. Care was taken to make each families background scenes different.

I then took our bride and groom back into the church to photograph our bride and groom in a church setting. Given our time line, this session had to be brief. There were a number of families with young children waiting for us. Having the children in a good mood, with happy faces is important. I can’t keep them waiting.

I photographed all of the family groupings in the side yard. Always careful to change directions so that the backgrounds were always different. I was careful to keep the groups in the shade, to control the direction of light, get a great quality in the color of the images, and control and add depth to the backgrounds. It also helped to keep all of our people comfortable and present us with a smiling groups.

It took 30 minutes, but we photographed all of the family groups and children.

At the country club, the emphasis was on our bride and groom and our wedding party. Their was a scene the bride wanted to be photographed in and had arranged with the Country Club staff. I did multiple groupings with our wedding parties and parents and photographed our groups several times being careful to have totally different backgrounds and looks.

The reception party was well attended and my goal was to photograph and feature our bride and groom having fun at their party. This was all as it happened with minimal direction.

It was a long day and our couple new there would be a lot to show them. Mike and Kim committed to an album design and I met with them to design their album with them. We finished the design session in one night, but it was a good 4 hours of their time. It was worth it, knowing they had complete control of the album design process. One nice feature was that there was no limit on the number of images per page. It just had to look good and be tasteful. I didn’t want to cram images in, just to up the image count. It is never about the count, it is about the look.