Dieu Donne Wine Estate – Roy & Elana

  Elana and Roy were married in busy busy December at Dieu Donne wine estate, and had the ceremony at St Georges Church at Solms Delta.  They were a pleasure to work with and such nice people.  It was great getting to work with both of them, as besides being nice people they are both good looking and are photogenic, so for me its a bonus as I get to make them my “schmodels” for a day!!

I worked with my good friend and awesome photographer Lebo Moleko, who also works as a photographer at the Pixel Foundry.  So that made my  life way easier…not that it was tough working with great people, just that we were real busy and I have tons of gear that I haul around so its tough doing that by myself.

I have a new website coming out and I was hoping to have it online by now, so I have been holding back on all the work that I want to publish, however it looks like a couple more weeks, so I decided to post some of the work now.

Dieu Donne is a real nice venue to shoot at and has great staff (which is a big deal to photographers, as we have to sometimes be pushy with the staff as they dont take us in to account, or care much of the time about our role at the event), It has a stunning view like the above image, the only thing is that everything is on a hill so it can be tough for the bride to get around, and I have a knack for trying to shoot in the most uncomfortable places.

I hope you like these images, Im really liking exploring different colour balances and lighting.

For those that wonder how I get my lighting effects, it is all done on 600 Watt battery powered Profoto lights, with a grided softbox.  I like other ways of lighting too, but at a wedding everything is so rush rush and often very windy, so its tough to start bringing out all the other lighting tools.  If I have lots of time, then I do like to bring out beauty dishes and multiple lights.  Then again for that kind of lighting I also need a second assistant, and recently I started working with Fran of Francoise V Photography who is great and is helping me with that too.  Check out my upcoming work to see different lighting scenarios.