Costa Smeralda wedding - Mina & Sumit - part 1

I have so many great shots from Mina's and Sumit's wedding in Italy that I just have to do more than one blog post. This first post is all about the details and the preparations, the time of the day when all the waiting soon will come to an end and the bride and groom will meet for the first time on the wedding day!

Mina wore something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue on her wedding day and it was all perfect. The family's 150 years old (or something like that) veil was so beautiful, her new dress was perfect for her, she had her mother's ring on her right hand and her shoes really were "Something blue". All of you who are SATC fans will understand what I mean!

Yes, Mina is quite short and I just love the photo below!

While I was covering the bride's preparations my husband Teno, who was my assistent during this wedding, spent time with the groom who of course had to get ready as well. Teno is actually the one who introduced me to photography when we met in 2001, and it felt good to have him by my side!

I will post part 2 of this amazing wedding in a couple of days or maybe a week. It may take some time because I have soooo many pictures to go through and I have so much work. But, I love it!

Destination wedding photographer - Costa Smeralda

Mina and Sumit, I simply can't express how lucky I was to be your wedding photographer and I had a great time with you, your families and great friends! I fully understand your love for Sardinia and I know that your love for each other will last a lifetime!

I have thousands of photos from this destination wedding week but I simply haven't had time to look at them and do a blog selection. But I assure you I will post more as soon as possible!

Black and white stylish summer wedding in Stockholm

Anette and Peter married in Stockholm and I just love the locations they had chosen, Berns hotel, the wedding at S:t Jacobs church close to Kungsträdgården and dinner at Operakällaren. The tricky thing was that their wedding was the same day both as Stockholm marathon and an event in Kungsträdgården, which meant that the city was completely crowded with people. But, despite that we managed to get very relaxed portraits even though we had a lot of people passing by looking at us while shooting. We started at Berns and then simply walked towards the church and used the photo opportunities on the way.

Anette and Peter, you were great!

I particularly like the series below. I found this fantastic tree in Berzeli park and I think it was just the perfect place to shoot at!

I have seen many brides with coloured shoes by now, but I had never before seen a bride with the perfect black wedding shoes. Now I have!

After walking through the crowded Kungsträdgården, we found the silence close to the wedding church S:t Jacob.

Relaxed family portraits with a lot of love and a baby

85 mm f1.2: ISO 500, 1/500, f1.2

A beautiful woman. A handsome man. An early summer evening in the beginning of June and the gorgeous couple's cute baby. Yes, being a photographer is sometimes really easy!

I often get questions about my equipment and how I how I use the light. The truth is that in my opinion the question of light is simple - I just love to use natural light, just like in all these photos! This time I have added information about lenses and camera settings for each photo as guidance. As you can see I used only two lenses, always used wide open. Camera: Canon 5D MarkII, manual mode.

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/500, f1.2

Bright sun could be really difficult, but the sun can also be a photographer's best friend, just look below!

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/1250, f1.2

135 mm f2.0: ISO 100, 1/400, f2.0

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

135 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/500, f2.0

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/500, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/500, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/500, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

135 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/320, f2.0

135 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/320, f2.0

During the shoot I got the idea to this shot, but it was quite obvious that Ida was much more interested in the flowers below her than in looking at me and giving me a smile..... This was actually the only decent shot I got from that particular moment but I don't mind if it's only one when it looks like this!

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2 and 85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/1250, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

Both 85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

85 mm f1.2: ISO 100, 1/800, f1.2

Elegant city wedding couple with a lot of style!

This Saturday's wedding had some special challenges as regards finding the locations for the portrait session. But, as you can see it's possible to find places like this even in Stockholm city the day for the Stockholm maraton! More to come in a few days! I promise the photos are worth waiting for!

Helen & Jonas at Ulriksdal - The dream wedding!

What if a project leader should marry another project leader, do you think it would be a perfectly planned wedding? Well, in this case there's no doubt Helen and Jonas had a perfect wedding yesterday and even the sun and the rain played their parts - some rain for a happy marriage and sun for the outdoors photo session!

The sparkling wedding rings are were made by Gunnar Fahlström.

Helen had a beautiful designer dress, Cosimma from Melissa Sweet's collection at Priscilla of Boston. I just love the floral details!

The bride and groom met each other in their wedding clothes for the first time in the garden at Ulriksdal's castle. I tried to keep myself in the background and used my 135 mm f2.0 lens to capture the moment.

Helen chosed pale pink roses for her bouquet and it was perfect for the romantic photos they had asked for.

The first of the portraits below was shot with 16-35mm f2.8 at 20 mm and f2.8. For the other portrait shots I used 85 mm f1.2 wide open.

Just look at Jonas' face when he saw his bride walk up the aisle whit her dad - pure love!

And as always, last but not least, many thanks to my assistant! This time Thomas Ljungberg did all the hard work carrying my stuff throughout the portrait session! He also made sure we had four umbrellas with us but luckily we never had to use them! You can see some of his photos from this wedding on his blog here!

My network of wedding photographers inspires me!

One could say that we are competitors but I really prefer to say that we are colleagues and during the last year we have also become close friends! I talk about the great wedding photographers Erika Gerdemark, Anna Roström at Smallpigart, Alicia Swedenborg, Jenny Hammar and Lieselotte van der Meijs with whom I have had many fun and inspiring meetings.

What ties us all together is the passion for our work but also the will to inspire and be inspired. This helps us to grow and develop creatively. Now you can find our web site at Weddingphotographers.se!

Although we are all based out of Stockholm, we travel all over Sweden and the world to photograph weddings. We have separate companies and different ways of working, but we have the common goal to help our clients get the best photos they can get and constantly strive for a healthy wedding industry, both for photographers and our clients!

© The photos above by Helén Karlsson

Photographers - Join me on a wedding tomorrow?

brollopsbilder-romantisk-kyss I just got a message that my assistant for the wedding tomorrow can't come with me which means that I have an opening for you if you want to join me and see how I work! The wedding is in Solna (Ulriksdal). Text me at 070-175 43 24 or e-mail at linda@lindisima.se.

These photos are from a May wedding 2009 at the same location.

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Marie & Johan - A couple sweet as candy!

I love sweet candy. I love weddings. I love colours. I love beautiful dresses and details. And yes - I loved to photograph Marie's and Johan's wedding portraits in Uppsala! As you can see they had chosen both pink and turquoise as their colours for the wedding and I think the combination is great for such a happy day as a wedding day!

It's true that all brides are beautiful but it's also true that Marie definately is one of a kind! Just look at this photo, shot with 85mm f1.2L wide open and please notice that I have done nothing with her skin in the post processing (except for colour enhancing etc.)! The extremly short depth of field and her completely flawless face was a match made in heaven and made my work as a photographer pure joy!

Her hair decoration was made by Prickig Katt.

The photo below absolutely is one of my favourites!