Mary Sledd’s Blog | Austin Wedding Photography and Stuff

Ok. I got something online. I didn’t look at all of them and I didn’t make any corrections yet… but here is an idea of what it might look like. Ryan - thanks so much for modeling. Sean - thanks so much for letting me use your kitchen!

Fun times. There is a story behind this photo.

Photographed the band Mondo Dio tonight. They maybe Swedish? I was pleasantly surprised that the lead singer played under the white flood instead of the red one. I still haven’t figured out how to get a good rock photo if the subject is only illuminated in red light - it throws off the meter and the white balance beyond repair.

I want to do more work for big glossy magazines. Truly sophisticated color photos loose so much of there umph when they are transformed into black and white halftones.

Percolating ideas for life cereal photo shoots. I have a few solid ones I just need to find models, locations, costumes, and a lighting tech.

Drunk people who talk to me at shows SUCK!!! People act like because I have a camera in my hands they have some excuse to come up to me and start a conversation … how irritating. Drunk people also scare me. They are unpredictable and can not be trusted to act in rational ways. Try working with $6000 of delicate equipment around your neck and see how you feel when some drunk idiot starts giving you a hard time. It is the worst part about my job.

I’ve been on a cat trapping spree. I’m trying to trap the cat that keeps attacking my cats at night. He is big and black - I’ve seen him in action. Last night it was poring down rain and I had baited the trap with a pound of Tilapia. I didn’t think to spring the trap and I caught a big grodey possum! Scott, the nicest guy in the universe, came over and let him out of the trap. He arrived in sandals so I gave him some tough guy boots. It was pretty funny.

Yikes. Today I photographed Kayla’s bridal portraits. Things were going well until SHE FAINTED. Ok maybe she didn’t faint but she got really faint and we had to stop. I’m used to having a really limited amount of time when I work with children, but it took me quite by surprise to have to stop in the middle of the shoot.

I took the photos with Matt’s Visatec lights. They are made my Hasselblad so they are SUPER nice. I’m going to buy his. Too bad they cost like $2000 to get a fancy full setup.

I’ve decided I need to start getting bridal magazines to research the kinds of things brides see and what they are told to look for in photographers. Nothing says man repellant like a single girl with subscriptions to all the major bridal mags. Oh well.