Sara Michele Photography

So I bought a new camera!!   Finally saved up enough benjamin’s for a Canon 5d Mk II (been saving for this darn thing for the past 10 months).  Ismail and Ina’s wedding was the first time I got to use it, and now I am completely in love.   The low light capabilities on this thing are fantastic, I’m thrilled that it has HD video built in, but the very first thing I noticed is how much wider everything looks.  That full frame sensor really is a big deal.  I’m not sure the technical specifics of it, but most digital cameras (even SLRs) have a cropped frame.  So a 24mm lens really isn’t 24mm.  With my fancy new full frame camera, I now get a full 24mm.   So that’s the exciting news going on in my world. 

On to Ismail and Ina’s wedding photos.  I’ll start it off with one of my favorites.  Ismail and Ina’s party was held in Windsor, Ontario so I got to shoot some of their photos on the river walk, right off the Detroit river.  I love the Detroit city skyline in the background =>

The next photo is the very first shot I took when I showed up to Ismail’s brothers house where everybody was getting ready.  This photo almost got immediately deleted, because its totally under-exposed.  Way too dark.  But looking at in the computer, I decided that I love this image, and even though it is “technically” not perfect,  its art right?  Art doesn’t have to be perfect. 

A couple photos of the handsome groom:

I’m loving Muslim weddings…get ready, get in the limo, go take pictures, then go to the party and dance.  Skip the ceremony!  Woot!

Ina made a gorgeous bride, I love this candid I captured right before she got the limo.

The next one is another mistake. But its also another mistake that I decided that I loved too much to delete.  Maybe I should start making more mistakes?  Or maybe I just have bad taste in photography…haha.

Stopped at the river front for a photo session.  The rain held off just long enough to be able to get some nice outdoor photos.  It started pouring down while we were driving to the hall.  Very close call.   I’m pretty happy with the way these turned out.