Meet Our Marriage Lensman + Cinematographer
Realllllyyyyy excited for today's post! Get ready for the photograph overload. Away nosotros go!
We have got much of our marriage ceremony planned, but the only contract nosotros have got signed is alongside our lensman as well as cinematographer! As a someone who loves photos as well as documenting everything this was a priority publish i for me. I genuinely wanted someone who tin dismiss capture our large 24-hour interval the same agency nosotros would have got (but better) as well as non have got to worry most it.
And that's where Michael comes in.
So it's form of a small-scale world, as well as Michael is genuinely the blood brother of i of Andrew's best friends, Dan (Hi, Dan)! That is how I start flora out most Michael Justin Studios. Long even out brusk is that Andrew has a grouping of 100 guy friends (more similar xv but silent a rattling large group) that have got been friends since unproblematic school. It was at i of their wedding's a twelvemonth or 2 agone I was on a omnibus alongside Dan talking most photography, etc. as well as he mentioned Michael. I went total stalker from there. I watched his YouTube videos, followed him on Instagram as well as peeped through his portfolio.
Little did I know, but he was similar *the* guy to have got at your wedding. Even to this 24-hour interval when I tell people nosotros booked him they oooh as well as aah over the thought of it. It's pretty fun for me, but I know he'll survive laughing over the fact that I set this inwards (he's a humble guy)!
I never genuinely met him until Allison's marriage ceremony this past times June (Allison is Andrew's sis for those of you lot at domicile keeping track). I was excited to consider him inwards action, but trivial did he know I was genuinely watching him closely to consider if I wanted to hire him for our wedding. At the fourth dimension nosotros weren't engaged but I knew it would survive soon.
After the wedding, I call upwardly recapping the adjacent 24-hour interval as well as talking most how amazing his staff was. They worked SO difficult at this wedding, were everywhere at once, ran approximately inwards the H.E.A.T as well as were thence much fun to function with. We hadn't fifty-fifty seen the photos but but from their function ethic as well as passion, nosotros were hooked.
Fast frontwards to 2 weekends agone when nosotros were at an 24-hour interval of the month political party for Dan (Michael's brother) as well as his fiancé Kaylee on Long Island. Here nosotros were able to consider Michael for a flake exterior of a formal marriage ceremony setting. The vibes I acquire from him (again, later on only coming together him twice inwards person) are amazing. He is the happiest, most ready-to-go form of guy as well as I mean value the earth of him! Who knows if he feels the same, but to me it feels correct as well as he is my most trusted guy for our wedding.
He fifty-fifty (this is how peachy he is) offered to accept the to a higher identify photos of Andrew as well as I at the political party when he absolutely did non demand to. Andrew joked that he didn't demand to pitch us anymore, nosotros were already in! And he was already thence exhausted from a belatedly black marriage ceremony political party the black earlier as well as the exhaustion from a newborn at home!
I don't know if I was but nervous or but beingness weird but I couldn't halt laughing during the span of minutes nosotros were taking photos. It was thence weird as well as yet natural to have got Andrew past times my side as well as Michael behind the camera.
With all of that (so much writing!!) nosotros booked Michael as well as his crew for 2 amazing days inwards Nantucket to survive our photography as well as cinematography groups! We decided to create 2 days because we're non having the traditional wedding, thence I thought having the 24-hour interval earlier would survive a perfect agency to capture the total experience. I'm thence excited to have got Michael as well as grouping survive alongside us!
SO plenty most me as well as to a greater extent than most Michael Justin Studios. I wanted to part a quick Q+A alongside him that you lot guys submitted questions for via IG stories equally good equally some photos + videos from his weddings as well as from Allison's! Enjoy!!
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Q&A:
How long have got you lot been doing weddings?
We’ve been shooting weddings since 2010. Originally nosotros started equally Michael Justin Films as well as only offered cinematography. In 2012 nosotros changed our call to Michael Justin Studios as well as offered combined photograph as well as video services. Out of the 25 weddings nosotros create a year, 75% of our couples opt to hire us for both photograph as well as video.
What made you lot desire to acquire into the industry?
I form of brutal into the manufacture later on a cross-country route trip turned surprise proposal to my lady friend went viral (Krista note: I asked for this video to link as well as he is hoping you lot guys know that he has improved filming since then, which ... duh!). I filmed the trip as well as proposal as well as set together a trivial video as well as the rest, equally they say, is history!
What create you lot call upwardly most from your start wedding?
How scared I was! It was genuinely on a boat as well as I had no thought what I was doing. I had read tons of articles as well as forums online to develop but nix tin dismiss genuinely acquire you lot ready quite similar actual experience. I would state I expression dorsum at that marriage ceremony as well as cringe at the footage, even thence shortly later on shooting the wedding, my difficult drive brutal off my desk as well as I lost everything. I learned the most valuable lesson on my start wedding, never set all your footage inwards i location. Luckily the span who hired me wasn’t paying for the video thence they were understanding, but what a agency to start my career!
What is your favorite affair to shoot during weddings?
Emotion. Whether it’s tears, laughs, nerves -- I honey when people opened upwardly themselves upwardly as well as demo their truthful feelings. The results are genuinely impactful images as well as films.
What is your i slice of advice for brides when looking for a photographer/cinematography?
Do NOT become exclusively off the fact that someone you lot know hired that same photographer/cinematographer. Be certain to beak - or amend yet, come across - them as well as consider if your visions are aligned equally good equally personalities mesh. I’ve unfortunately seen it besides many times where a bride volition come upwardly up to me inwards the middle of the 24-hour interval as well as apologize for some other vendor b/c of how they were acting or what they were making them do.
If you lot *had* to pick, would you lot rather shoot or celluloid a wedding?
This is similar asking a raise which small-scale fry they honey better. You honey them both for dissimilar reasons. I couldn’t alternative but discovery beauty as well as challenges inwards both.
What create you lot ever discovery yourself telling your couples on their marriage ceremony day?
Take a intermission from all the commotion as well as pass 5 minutes lonely alongside i some other (without us at that topographic point too).
Where would survive your dream location to shoot a wedding?
Italy! Literally anywhere inwards that beautiful dry ground would survive a dream! Anyone getting married at that topographic point - let’s talk!
What are the of import questions to inquire when selecting a photographer?
There’s no laid listing of questions. Just beak to your lensman as well as have got a conversation. Ask most their fashion as well as approach to capturing all the moments that tumble out inwards a marriage ceremony day, what inspires them, as well as what the procedure from signing until delivery looks like. If what they state sounds similar something you lot would bask (and you lot similar the photographs as well as films they deliver), as well as thence I’d state you’re golden!
What's the best engagement/wedding pose you've shot?
No 2 people or couples photograph the same, thence to respond this enquiry at that topographic point is no such affair equally a “best” pose. It’s upwardly to the lensman to figure out what plant as well as what doesn’t. One of the most of import parts of the MJS experience is your 24-hour interval of the month session where, for 2 hours, nosotros photograph as well as acquire to know our clients. After the session when the images are delivered, nosotros inquire that our couples review the photos as well as give specific feedback on what they similar as well as don’t similar thence that on the marriage ceremony day, nosotros tin dismiss focus on capturing images they are drawn to.
Is it bossy or considered rude to give suggestions as well as ideas earlier the wedding?
We give our couples a comprehensive timeline/day-of questionnaire to create total out prior to the marriage ceremony day. After they consummate it nosotros become through that document together as well as brand certain we’re all on the same page. If at that topographic point are whatever particular requests for shots, we’ll gladly accept note. We much prefer this method than a shot listing because it allows us to shoot as well as react organically to the action. If we’re given a long listing of shots, we’re spending our fourth dimension looking at the listing as well as mayhap missing peachy moments to document.
Are you lot supposed to tip your photographer?
Totally upwardly to you! We create non have tips at every marriage ceremony but are rattling grateful as well as appreciative when nosotros create have them.
Is to a greater extent than than i someone needed?
It’s our belief that yes, to a greater extent than than i shooter for both photograph as well as video is necessary to deliver the form of production our clients expect. Additional cameras enable us to capture non only the major activeness taking place, similar you lot as well as your partner proverb your vows, but also the to a greater extent than subtle ones similar a raise or friend crying inwards the crowd.
Whats the best agency to discovery a photographer/ cinematographer?
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 recommendation from a line of piece of employment solid unit of measurement fellow member or friend is a peachy starting point. If you lot trust their view as well as have got seen the function that was delivered, you’re significantly increasing the direct chances of finding someone peachy (just call upwardly to vet them yourself)! Searching online for photos or videos that were shot at your venue is also a peachy agency to narrow downwards the listing to orbit out to. Make a listing of your favorite studios as well as from those, narrow it downwards to your top 4 as well as and thence orbit out. If you lot orbit out to besides many you’ll shortly acquire caught inwards the trap of forgetting which studios did what function as well as why you lot liked them.
Where create you lot acquire your photograph inspiration from?
Light. Always the light. Find expert lite as well as you lot tin dismiss brand magic inwards the most unexpected places!
Is hiring a cinematographer for half-dozen hours plenty fourth dimension to capture a marriage ceremony day?
In our opinion, no. However it volition depend on your trial as well as the fashion of your cinematographer. The typical weddings nosotros shoot require at minimum 8 hours of coverage because our clients are expecting a heavily narrative celluloid that runs anywhere from 7 minutes to xv minutes. In lodge to have got plenty content to create a celluloid of that kind, we’ll demand to survive acquaint during the getting ready through most of the reception.
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