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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Almost fully booked for 2012!!!

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It’s been an amazing year for us, and we’re now in full swing of booking season for our 2012 season. We’ve been accepting weddings for 2012 and have almost hit our halfway mark! Thanks so much to all the amazing couples who have decided to use us for their wedding so far we are so lucky to have clients like you. With all of your engagement shoots that I’ve been doing I’m getting really excited to begin the 2012 wedding season! To all the couples still looking for a photographer please don’t hesitate to contact us to talk about your wedding details we would love to see what we can do for you! We have a limited number of spots left, so please contact us to set up a consultation as soon as you can.
Hope to hear from you soon,

-David-
David Abel is the owner of David Abel Photography & specializes in Wedding Photography. He is a Richmond VA photographer with a very clean and timeless style, as Richmond Wedding Photographers,David Abel Photography travels all over the city and knows all the “sweet spots” to work as well as the best wedding vendors to work with. David Abel enjoys espresso, woodworking, and has an obsession for lions.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Gingerbread Cookies & Film

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This past week I finally got around to developing some film that I had shot back around Christmas, yea that’s right I said develop. I’ve been getting back into film lately and have found why I loved it when I was in College. Film is so mysterious, you never really know for sure how things will come out until you get the images back, and it’s slow. So slow that as soon as you send a roll off to be developed all you can think about every waking hour is if they turned out how you saw them in you minds eye. The anticipation just kills you, 2 weeks is much to long to wait for film! I still love it though, because I feel like it makes me slow down and think about every detail in the frame before I press that shutter because if I don’t I’ve just wasted money. It’s almost like it pushes me to be better before each exposure. I’ve shot about 4 more rolls since this I can’t wait to get back more rolls (currently bitting my nails as we speak) but I hope to do a lot more personal work with film!

This is my new addition to our camera bag, it’s a medium format camera and man is it lovely, lens has bokeh goodness that we all hope for when we purchase our 50mm 1.2′s or  85mm 1.2′s, and it’s different. Different in the way that when I look through the viewfinder prism it’s like I’m looking at things differently, the same feeling when I use my Hasselblad 500c, like I’m looking at things through new eyes or a different perspective. I can’t wait to get started on some personal projects with this thing it should be a lot of fun!


-David-
David Abel is the owner of David Abel Photography & specializes in Wedding Photography. He is a Richmond VA photographer with a very clean and timeless style, as Richmond Wedding Photographers,David Abel Photography travels all over the city and knows all the “sweet spots” to work as well as the best wedding vendors to work with. David Abel enjoys espresso, woodworking, and has an obsession for lions.

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Kia Gregory - January 16, 2012 - 11:49 PM

New eyes and an awesome perspective for sure. Can’t wait to see your personal work!

Kieran Wagner - January 18, 2012 - 2:19 AM

That’s no “simulated” grain, to be sure. Mmmmm…. the mingling scents of gingerbread and fixer!

David Abel - January 19, 2012 - 3:11 AM

Thanks Kia, I’m currently waiting on four rolls of film, such torture!

David Abel - January 19, 2012 - 3:13 AM

Definitely real grain, so much more noticeable on 35mm format than on 120 format, love the look of it though!

Friday, January 13, 2012

My new video

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I’ve been holding this one back for a while now, it’s a video that we started in april 2011! And was finished not too long ago, I’ve just been holding off until some of the other changes that we’ve been making get close to being finished, and I’m excited to say that they are! Soon we’ll be able to show you all a new site, logo, office, and packaging! I can’t wait! This is just one of the few things that we’ve been working on, but I hope it wets your pallet! Have a look!

-David-
David Abel is the owner of David Abel Photography & specializes in Wedding Photography. He is a Richmond VA photographer with a very clean and timeless style, as Richmond Wedding Photographers,David Abel Photography travels all over the city and knows all the “sweet spots” to work as well as the best wedding vendors to work with. David Abel enjoys espresso, woodworking, and has an obsession for lions.

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Kieran Wagner - January 13, 2012 - 12:50 PM

Really nice, David! These videos can be so cliched but NOT this… outstanding job, sir!

tiffani sunshine - January 14, 2012 - 12:32 AM

ummm….this is pretty awesome and so very YOU. very well done. love it!!!!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Thunder or Lightening?

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Photograph by Angela Stott Photography

Each time I speak to a client I always ask them when they knew they were the ones for each other, and the answers always vary, but what I’ve found is that they always fall into one of two categories. Lightening or Thunder. The ones who’s love is like Lightening, is love that begins with a sudden and instantaneous flash of blinding light that is so beautiful that you never want to look away. For the ones who’s love is it is like slow moving thunder intensifies with each moment as it draws closer until it’s presence can no longer be ignored and seems to shake your world to it’s core. Each couples story is always unique but I’ve found that it all boils down to thunder or lightening. For me it was lightening, I can remember the exact moment that I knew I was going to mary my wife. We were at a wedding believe it or not, and she was a bridesmaid, there was a moment during the ceremony when the bride and groom did something funny and she turned to me and scrunched up her nose and laughed. As she finished laughing we looked at each other and kept smiling. It was in that moment that I knew that she was the one for me, and that my life would change forever.

Which one are you? Leave your story in the comments below!

-David-
David Abel is the owner of David Abel Photography & specializes in Wedding Photography. He is a Richmond VA photographer with a very clean and timeless style, as Richmond Wedding Photographers,David Abel Photography travels all over the city and knows all the “sweet spots” to work as well as the best wedding vendors to work with. David Abel enjoys espresso, woodworking, and has an obsession for lions.

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