Jorge R Gonzalez Visual Artist
Excellence in Visual Arts
A Beautiful Mississippi Wedding. More details to follow, for now I hope you enjoy the images. We had wonderful time in this beautiful traditional southern wedding at Heritage Family Church in Brookhaven Mississippi. The stressful job of a wedding photographer only becomes worse when it happens to be your own son’s wedding. Usually most weddings feature lots of getting ready images of the bride but hey he is my son so guess who was the star on this one 😉
I started some 30 years ago in working on images in black and white. I was taught the process of developing in a small kitchen of a college dorm. It was in England and I became captivated by the process especially seeing the image come to life on the paper once it was placed in the developing tank. The smells and the total process of the darkroom was amazing to me. But that was years ago and now digital is here and it is not going anywhere.
It becomes easy just to click and whamm the image is there. A bit of Photoshop and we have an image in what ever filter color we could want. We could try to keep the nostalgia and the romance of the process but after all is said and done the final image is what counts, sure there are differences.
Yes the darkroom process is great but getting the image is better, I don’t believe that we have to do zen photography where we meditate on the process. Its about getting the image, getting the moment, getting the memory.
I wanted to show a full wedding and felt that going black and white on every image would help to keep the continuity. I will be posting the best from Becky’s wedding. We had a blast at this wedding specially during the formal group pictures where I was almost hanged from the ladder that I was using.
She was a great model on that day that we went shooting her bridal pics. We took, well I lost count maybe 800 or more images. It was a very rewarding experience, both for her and for myself. Not only did we worked great together but she has a very elegant face. I love the photographer and bride relationship; it is more than just getting a product done, is about, for what many feel one of the most important days in a womans life.
She is not just a model this is totally for her, just her the camera and the vision of the one behind the camera trying to work everything to bring all the beauty possible out of her. I truly believe she had a wonderful time even though we went to two locations and spent about 8 hrs in the shoot.
It is all for the bride, my time, the equipment, the vision. It is all for the bride no one else.
