03.15.10 / and anyhow, behind the camera / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: best long island ny wedding photography, bride's choice award wedding photographer long island ny
I won the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards for excellence in Quality of Service, Professionalism and Value for Cost. The winners represent the top 5% in the area and are determined by brides’ reviews. So a big thank you goes out to all my couples!
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02.23.10 / and anyhow / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: new york long island wedding photography albums
All good things come to an end. And so, I’m announcing that I’ll no longer be offering the Coffee Table Book to new clients.
No, it’s nothing you did, dear Coffee Table Book. Your sleek lines, your polished covers, your sumptuous pages were rich in detail and beautiful. I thought we would last forever.
But alas, I’ve fallen in love with another.
The wedding albums I now offer… heads turn when they enter a room. People just can’t take their eyes off of them! They sit there, looking at them, spellbound.
How could I resist their alluring charms?
Especially that one from Italy?
It’s not you. It’s me.
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As beautiful as these Coffee Table Books are, we're going to all albums, all the time.
10.05.09 / and anyhow / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: wedding holiday cards
all images/designs © G.E. Masana
Way personalized. Custom created just for you! No two sets will be alike (unless there’s a very, very scary coincidence).
Here’s your chance to send out some pretty cool looking, unique holiday greeting cards to your loved ones and friends this year.
Here’s the deal.
1. Pick from a variety of decorative backgrounds.
2. Decide what you want it to say on the outside. “Peace love joy”, “Merry Christmas” or “Happy holidays” or anything else you wish.
3. Decide what you want to say personally on the inside.
4. Choose a picture from your wedding. (Want a new picture? See below.)
I’ll customer create the finished design for you and the whole set of 4¼x5½” (size when folded) holiday cards are only $2.50 each. Less than what you’d probably pay for generic cards at a store.
Includes the envelopes.
25 cards minimum order.
Call to place your order way before Christmas, okay?
Like, around now.
Want newer photographs of you for the card?
I’m doing mini photo sessions for only $45.
It’s quick, fun and easy.
Not to mention you don’t have to get married all over again.
Session Dates: Oct 18th, Oct 25th and Nov 1st.
Book your time slot now. C’mon, it’ll be fun.
Call 516.991.4184
09.24.09 / and anyhow / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: new york wedding photographer
If you’re a visual artist like me (or business or any other type of artist) you can have, not a “profile”, but a “page” on Facebook. It’s kind of like a profile, but not really. Anyhow, that’s what I have, and they had these really long awkward URLs for people with pages. Mine was www.facebook.com/pages/GE-Masana-PHOTOGRAPHER/143935490633 Whew. Really, really too long for a business card and too much to remember!
So they finally made it available to create a boutique URL and www.facebook.com/newyorkweddingphotographer was available! How cool.
So I took it.
Ummmm, “Themostinterestingmanintheworld” was already taken, but not by the dos equis dude.
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09.14.09 / and anyhow, behind the camera / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: prospect park wedding photography
So what does a wedding photographer in NYC do on a free weekend off? Well, I spent a day in Prospect Park, in Brooklyn. Haven’t been there in a couple of years.
I have to tell you, it abounds with architectural splendor! I haven’t photographed a wedding there in a while, but there are a couple of really cool venues to host a wedding reception in the park, and there are so many spots for great images all around that maybe, just maybe, you ought to consider it if you’re planning your wedding in the New York City area.
For the reception venue itself, there’s the Picnic House and the Boat House, right on a pond. It’s charming. Has that old world look. Made me feel like I’m in Europe circa 1901. I took these with a little point n’ shoot, capturing a few details that grabbed my eye. There’s so much in the way of ornate details and statues and carvings and, well, thought I’d give you a heads up about it. Even without a wedding, it’s worth the trip to take it in.
Here are a few photos to feast on:
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great venue for wedding in brooklyn
Can you imagine your wedding guests strolling along the water's edge here?
This would be such a cool setting for a wedding photo in Prospect Park.
I mean, just look at this beautiful detail!
All these amazingly cool structures for wedding photography in the park!
Okay, so, this has nothing to do with Prospect Park, or wedding photography for that matter, but it made me laugh. Here’s what happens in Brooklyn if you don’t move your car when you’re supposed to. I caught this image later that night.
I toldja ta move da friggin' car.
08.14.09 / album design, and anyhow / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: coffee table wedding book, contemporary wedding album
Bridal couples are looking for something different, rather then the same old, same old (well, that is to say, just the hip couples are). And I don’t blame them. After a while in this industry, my eyes search for new and unique too.
That’s why I mostly feature Hardcover Books. They look amazingly cool, are very contemporary and to tell you the truth, are stunning. And now, there’s a new style out.
It’s the Hardcover Book style, but with firmer, lay flat style, hinged pages. They’re more durable, they’re glossy and OMG, WoW!!! Do they make a difference! It’s amazing. The book takes on this new dimension beyond the traditional album. It’s more like a story telling art book.
So I thought I’d render them as larger 22×14 and 28×11 size books and I have to tell you…they’re impressive! You’ve never seen anything like this. I sure haven’t.
Introducing… The Wedding Story Art Book.
(Pictures don’t do it justice. You REALLY have to see it in real life to believe it! It’s just jaw dropping!)
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06.30.09 / and anyhow / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: brag book, mini wedding album, wedding photography
I was fooling around with a wedding client’s images from the Wedding Book I had created for them, and the idea came to me to pare their book down in size and pages to something like a paperback version with a snazzy glossy cover the bride could carry around in her handbag.
Yes, you read right. I said “snazzy”.
Then she’d be able to easily take that along to work or school or wherever she goes and show off snippets of her Wedding Book to everyone. Even strangers on the subway.
So I went ahead and made one and sent it off to her to see what would happen. She loved it! She wrote me when she received it:
"it looks as amazing as everything else we've seen you do for us. People always ask if I have pictures, and it is so perfectly convenient to bring that around rather than the heavy unabridged version. This will make it so much easier to show off our wedding memories."
I just like creating things, ya know?
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06.20.09 / and anyhow / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: wedding day rain, wedding photography
First of all, don’t listen to the weather forecasters that Monday for your Saturday wedding. They’ll just make you jittery and nervous and to paraphrase Shakespeare, there’s many a mile ‘tween their forecast and what actually happens. I remember during a drive to a wedding on the radio hearing the forecast for storms coming a scant few hours later that very same day – and nothing happened.
But it’s good to have a back up plan in case of adverse weather anyway.
But, hey, that reminds me of the time I shot a wedding in a raging Nor’easter. Gather round kiddies and let Uncle Jack tell you all about it.
At one point during the reception, some of the bridal party came up with the idea to run outside and grab a photo real quick (think “they had been drinking, maybe?”). I figured “why not?” (I was so young and brave). We all ran outside, winds were blowing, patio chairs were overturning, hair flying, branches swaying, people were screaming out of a sense of adrenaline infused fun, I fired off a few quick shots while we were pelted with driving rain and just as fast as we ran outdoors we dashed inside – and no sooner had the wind slammed the door hard shut behind us that the awning over the door came crashing down.
So you say, “It may rain”? A few drops of rain? That’s what you’re concerned about? Ha! A mere pittance of moisture! Why, the Scoffing Photographer laughs at the threat of mere rain.
But click here to read a post about how I do handle it if it rains on your wedding pictures.
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05.02.09 / and anyhow / Author: G.E. Masana /
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Tags: modern classic wedding style, wedding photography
I shoot weddings in a variety of styles, just depending on whatever’s best for any particular image.
Bridal couples tell me that they’ve been looking for someone who can photograph in a “modern but classic” way, and they say I do. So I tend to believe them, though I’ve never actually defined it. But I think I know what that means…
Sometimes, it could mean something like this:
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