08-14-2009

Punk Rock Wedding

I’m proud to have another one of my weddings featured on Rock-N-Roll Bride, a website for creative weddings with unqiue brides/grooms and just general good vibing weddings.. it’s a great site to check out for ideas if you’re getting married.

This is the wedding of Alysson and David which I shot recently in Queens, NY. The ceremony took place in a quirky, quaint church in Queens and was headed by the grooms father, who is the Reverend there. At the wedding were a few of the original singers of Blondie, another very cool detail. I loved the mixture of people there and the overall feel of the night. One of my favorite parts of the day was when some loud old school punk music came on the speakers and the bride and groom ripped up the dance floor.

Some photos:

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Tre - Man, you are ripping it up lately, dude. Nice shots.

deb - rockin’ shots dude! well done :) )

Willie - Really good work, I love things that are different!!
Great hair colour has the groom :-)

Scott O'Neal - Dude, you are one awesome photographer! I enjoy researching and looking at pics just to get ideas. And this set is truly phenominal! Great shots!

SlickRoss - dayum, these seriously are great shots =),

kinda weird to look at tho, its like getting a close look at a moment in life that i wanted to be part of and feel i was meant to be part of, but simply wasnt

Annie - Beautiful photos. I’d love to list off my favorites but there’s just to many. The red roses against her dress, the cake, Dave and Alysson on the dance floor. Any picture with a kiss =) I could go on and on. Great work.

River - Awesome shots!!!! Almost glamour. Kind of like you were ordered by the punk rock royalty to photograph at the palace! good shots :)

Karen Burger - Those are great photographs! You really captured the feel of the wedding and the style of the bride and groom! I am really impressed!!!

Ruby L'Heureux - Incredible photos, Daniel!! So glad that the “punk royalty” chose you as their photographer.

Uncle Bill - Kewl!

Jes - absolutely love love love the pics!!!! what an amazing day that was!

bibhuti - great couple…

Heather C. - Wonderful photos that not only captured the moment by the essence of who Alyson and David are….of course I knew Alyson way back when but she is even more beautiful now!

Jamie Guigno - I love how you photographed this wedding, really authentic and yet inventive, if that makes any sense.

08-11-2009

Free Wedding Photography

This is a fun story.

As part of my freelance photography career, I photograph a street fashion feature for a website called Racked.com where I find interesting outfits on the streets of New York City and photograph them. The feature has led me to meet some interesting and fashionable people all randomly on the streets of New York.

Last week I saw Jonathan (click that link to see the photo I took for Racked) walking with a group of people and liked his summery style. He had on a nice looking jacket so I walked over and asked him if he’d like to be featured..to which he said “sure thing”. While I was photographing him, someone from the group said, “You know today is his wedding day.” His now bride was standing in the group and I asked where their photographer was. They had a small ceremony and had gone for lunch at Locanda Verde (I haven’t eaten there but I did photograph it for Eater.com you can click that link to see my photos) and didn’t hire a wedding photographer for the day. I said what a shame that was considering how nice they were both dressed up.. so offered my services for a few minutes to do a little free wedding photography, and they were like “Sure lets do it!”

For the short time we had to take a few photos I think I got some nice one’s…FREE-WEDDING-1FREE-WEDDING-2FREE-WEDDING-7FREE-WEDDING-8FREE-WEDDING-9FREE-WEDDING-10FREE-WEDDING-4FREE-WEDDING-11FREE-WEDDING-12FREE-WEDDING-3

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Brad Ross Photography - Great shots and a wonderful thing to do on your part.

Rhys - This was a wonderful bit of serendipity on my daughter’s wedding day! Jane and Jonathan are a great couple in addition to being stylish. You captured the essence of their special day very well.

wedding photographer Perth - Great work, and my hat’s off to you for doing something for nothing! Really enjoyed the two images with the water reflections – and yes quite an interesting jacket :)

brooke bullard - Thank you for taking the time to shoot some of the hippest people around! As a longtime family friend of Jane, there is no one better to receive such a gift. The girl has got good karma! Thanks again-Kind Regards, Brooke Bullard

Bert (uncle) - Lovely couple, lovely photos
Your generous inspiration obviously worked
thanks

DJ Paine - AWESOME STORY! that is brilliant!

Lew D'Souza - Wonderful images! I really like the way you’ve used the puddle to capture their reflections!

Doug Brenizer - Nice and real smooth dude.

Ana - Those are awesome photos. That was so nice of you. I follow your feature on Racked all the time.

Sarah Skinner - How very lovely! As a longtime friend of the MOB’s, I can see the bride’s wonderful grandmother smiling through her radient and beautiful face. You did a very cool thing. Thank you! I love New Yorkers and New York. Winky

Somer - great story and beautiful photos, thanks for sharing

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Bryan - Glad someone mentioned karma … what a great thing you did for a very stylish couple on their wedding day. That “gift” was a huge deposit into the karma bank. Nice work … and great photos (as always)!

admin - Thank you all for the great comments!

Daniel

deb - these photos are sweet and lovely. dosn’t it feel good to do something like that for someone? i feel photos are a wonderful ‘gift’ to be able to give people weather they’ve payed you to take them or not, and to surprise someone with something as beautiful as what you have given this couple makes it all the more special… both for them and for you! congratulations on a few moments WELL spent daniel.

paint munky - you’re going soft in your old age smoothie….
just kidding!…heart of gold, mate.

christy - My partner and I will be gettin’ hitched in coney island on June 22nd and then attending the mermaid parade on the 23rd. She is pretty rad in real life but makes great for great art..if your on the boardwalk that day, feel free to come by our little ceremony by the wonder wheel. :)

christy - My partner and I will be gettin’ hitched in coney island on June 22nd and then attending the mermaid parade on the 23rd. She is pretty rad in real life but makesfor great art..if your on the boardwalk that day, feel free to come by our little ceremony by the wonder wheel. :)

08-07-2009

The hip and stylish wedding of Scott and Kat

Earlier this week I posted some engagement photographs from Scott and Kat which I shot earlier this year in Brooklyn. Recently their wedding took place in Hershey, PA. While I love photographing weddings in New York City, I do enjoy traveling around and had never been to Hershey (well maybe when I was young but I don’t remember).

The bride and groom were a very cool couple, and chose to have the entire wedding party wear Converse sneakers, which made for a few fun photos.

The groom had the idea to print out some photos from our engagement shoot and use them as table markers, which I loved..though that was quite cool (I included a few here in the stream). We used a lot of natural light for the portraits, which I always love doing.. now for the photos:

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Thank you for hiring me to photograph your wedding Scott and Kat!

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Daniel Stark - very nice! love the lb work. sweet angles and nice comp.

best,
daniel

Ting - always love your photograph,well done Daniel! :)

08-04-2009

Engagement Session in Brooklyn – Scott and Kat

This week I’m featuring a very cool and hip wedding couple from Pennslvannia. They found me through my flickr account actually. Scott wanted to do an engagement session in Brooklyn which is perfect because that’s where I live:)

So they came out earlier this year for an engagement shoot and we got some pretty cool photos if I do say so myself. We went around Carroll Gardens, downtown Brooklyn, and took a cool shot with the Manhattan Bridge in the background. We also hopped on a subway which always makes for some funky shots.

Come back Friday to see their wedding which took place recently in Hershey, PA.

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loopykd - Beautiful shots and beautiful couple. They are sooooooo young!

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07-28-2009

My shoot with Morimoto

I was recently hired to do a day long shoot with Iron Chef Morimoto for Henckels knives, at Morimoto’s restaurant in the Meatpacking district. The shoot was a lot of fun, we spent some time doing action shots and then some straight head shots using strobes. Chef really warmed up as the shoot went along, playing around with the food and laughing with everyone, making it a really fun shoot.  I’d have to say the funniest part of the day was him putting thinly sliced raw beef on his face and posing for me. Oh and a shoutout must go to Diana Pappas, who was my awesome assistant for the day and took the last photo included..of Morimoto and me:)

I actually had another shoot there today, this time for Eater.com, where I shot a fish delivery (all the way from Japan), basically from delivery to table. That shoot will be online next week on Eater. I was also lucky enough to be invited to lunch today after the shoot and had some of the freshest most expertly prepared sushi in my life..

This was really a great experience for me and helped my professional food photography portfolio grow. I hope to have more shoots like this in the future.. now check out some pics:

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Bryan - I took Allyson to his restaurant last year for her birthday … one of the best meals we have had in the city. The food, the presentation, the atmosphere … simply amazing. You captured him beautifully … his intensity and his playfulness. Must have been such a great experience. Congrats!

Diana Pappas - Looks great, Daniel! Thanks so much for including me on the shoot. You really captured the professionalism and creativity of Morimoto – and that man sure can wield a knife! Great job!

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allyson - Awesome!

Ivan Makarov - Nice work on the blog, Smoothie. Added it to my Reader.

The magazine is almost done. Will be in touch with details.

Loopykd - That’s great stuff! I especially love the shot with the beef. Creative!

Tre - Great work on the shoot and the blog, Smoothy.

Doug Brenizer - Nicely done, smooth as always.

Knicki Lucrezi - Awesome work on the photos and blog.

pam krieger - Great job- you are right about his warming up as he got into it-PTK

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