Hey Gang,
Happy Monday! I have to admit I’m so fortunate to be attracting such amazing couples or is it that they just have good taste for photography! *LOL*. As I love sitting down getting to know my couples most of the time they want to get to know me too and the question that comes up most often is how long have you been doing this for? For me though it wasn’t really a question on how long but more when. What I mean is when did I realize that this hobby called photography became more than just a passion that maybe I could have a career in it. It was this photo of the kids that made me want to capture these intimate moments that will forever be cherished. Its sad to think if I wasn’t there with my camera this moment would not exist; sure it happened but would we have remembered it? That’s exactly why I love weddings, it’s for the moments! I’m honored to be the one to historically document my couple’s first steps of their family. I want to believe that every year that passes these photos become more treasured and I want people that weren’t at the event to look at these captured moments and say “I can tell you have a great time!”
The following photo was taken with F-word….film. I still have my Minolta xe-5 with the 50mm 1.7 Roccor lens, this image is tad soft but it was a manual focus camera. A side note I remember when digital was relatively new and the argument was that the quality was nowhere near 35mm film. Today the same argument stands with 2-1/4 medium format film; I wonder what we’ll be saying in a few years?
Back to work with me! xoxo
by Bassem Wahba
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