Destination Weddings (eBook)

The Photographer's Guide to Shooting in Exotic and Unexpected Locations

Javon Longeliere (Fotograf)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
128 Seiten
Amherst Media (Verlag)
978-1-68203-177-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Javon Longeliere (Atlanta, GA) is one of the most sought-after wedding photographers in the country. His talents have been well awarded by the top professional photographic organizations and his breathtaking images have often been featured in top industry magazines including Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, The Knot, and others. Clients everywhere have taken notice: he has been hired to photograph destination weddings in stunning locales such as Paris, Costa Rica, Spain, and the Bahamasplus U.S. destinations including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Texas. His work is dynamic, fresh, contemporary, and utterly inspiring. In this book, Longeliere presents 120 of his favorite destination wedding images and teaches readers how he conceptualized, composed, posed, and set up the lighting. Readers will learn sure-fire strategies for capturing the best-possible images of every noteworthy wedding event and detailfrom the bridal preparations, to the ceremony, to bride-and-groom portraits and group shots of the bridal party and family, to the fun and fast-paced action at the reception. This must-have book will help new and seasoned wedding photographers everywhere think outside of the box, polish their skills, put their best foot forward, and create breathtaking images at their every wedding.

Autor

lt;div>Javon Longeliere is an international wedding and lifestyle photographer with offices in Atlanta and Valdosta Georgia. He and his wife Dawn started Javon Longieliere Photography in 2001. For the past 15 years, they have been traveling all over the world shooting weddings and portraits! Destinations have included Paris, France, a chateau in the Loire Valley, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Spain and the Bahamas. Inside the U.S., they have been to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Texas. He is now one of the most recognized and sought-after photographers in the country.

The body of work that Javon has produced has caught the attention of publishers both nationwide and in local areas. His images have appeared in Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, The Knot, Get Married, the Atlantan Brides, La Bella Bride, Atlanta Weddings, Central Florida Bride and “I Do” for Brides. As well as capturing the attention of commercial markets, he has also captured the attention of his fellow photographers. Javon’s images have been published in two of Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Albums, which feature the best work that year for 2004 and again in 2005. He was also featured in the professional monthly periodical for WPPI as a “Member of the Month” in September of 2006. He was interviewed by the New York Institute of Photography in 2005. In April 2006, he was interviewed by The WB television network for a special on weddings. His work has also garnered over 20 international awards given by 3 of the most prestigious organizations in the industry, PPA, WPPI and WPJA. In 2009, he was ranked #16 in the world by the Wedding Photojournalists Association and #1 in Georgia. In 2011, he began offering photography workshops for both professionals and amateurs.

Javon has also earned the Certified Professional Photographer (CPP) designation from Professional Photographers of America (PPA). PPA currently recognizes fewer than 2,500 CPPs in the world.