I recently had another chance to do pictures of a wedding proposal along with engagement pictures after. This client saw my last blog post and wanted to do something similar, so I guess people do sometimes read my blog. Something cool about being a photographer is you can count all your camera gadgets as a business expense, which, if you are like me, is where a lot of money goes anyway.
I mentioned before that I recently got a small Olympus OM-D mirrorless micro four-thirds camera, mainly to take hiking and for fun, but I’ve been able to incorporate it into my work a bit. Getting a good macro lens for a full-frame camera like my Nikon D800 is extremely expensive, and I only use it occasionally, so it’s hard to justify. But I got a 60mm (equivalent to about 135mm in a full frame lens) macro lens for my Olympus camera, and I’ve done some amazing closeups of brides’ rings and things like that recently.
However, I wanted to be stealthy for the proposal and not look like a big photographer with a huge camera, so I decided to try using my OM-D and the 60mm lens to get some candid shots. It did quite a nice job. The only problem was that I meant for him to take her further away from the pier to propose. There ended up being a bunch of people right in the background. Oh well, it’s hard to be perfect. When I asked later, his fiancée did say that she saw me taking the pictures, so I guess I wasn’t quite stealthy enough. But I didn’t notice her looking at me, and it didn’t seem to bother the moment at all, as far as I could tell.
Then, of course, after the initial proposal, I went to my usual gear of the Nikon D800, Nikon 85mm f1.4 lens, and my off-camera flash. When you switch to expensive big camera gear, you will notice a difference in the quality of my little Olympus camera. When it comes to camera sensors and lenses, for portraits, bigger is always better. Without going into too much detail, the bigger a sensor and lens are, the better the blur or bokeh in the background. I hope you enjoy some of these pictures below. Please don’t forget to like and comment below if you do, or pin some to your Pinterest board.
