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The Brenizers
318 Warren Street #C7
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
United States
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Recipe: A9 + 50mm @ f/1.2 + high-speed-sync + magbox + little area of grass that with careful composition we can make look like we’re deep in nature instead of on a Weehawken rooftop + an awesome couple. When a photographer comes in from out-of-town, they see everything with new eyes. I good-naturedly joke that every out-of-town photographer shooting their first wedding in NYC, no matter what the venue, posts at least one random photo of the Empire S For a very long time I’ve had a mild obsession with digital cameras’ ability to see in low-light better than the human eye, perhaps because with the cameras I started with you had to know every trick in the book to achieve it. With a stan Sharing a quiet moment at the end of an amazing wedding. It doesn’t take 300 images to get some fun effects with the #brenizermethod. Sometimes the simplest way is to try to extend the frame you’re already shooting with one or two more. Sometimes the best shot isn’t the action but the reaction, those moments that remind you that after all the planning, work and long nights making a wedding happen, you absolutely had the time of your life. Our secret weapon is that after well over 1,000 weddings, we are still thrilled and excited every time. There are a lot of factors for this, but one of them is learning to be thrilled and energized by all of the different challenges of a wedding day. This was a lovely little moment from Heather and Peter’s wedding shot at 50mm f/1.2 with Canon’s brand new camera … the 5D Mark III. OK, it was a little while ago. Often I like to go back into the archives just because it makes me Our central effort in our jobs is to create images that people will enjoy for years to come, especially ones that our clients jut enjoy more and more over time. This also means that it’s a heck of a lot of fun for us to look back at weddings th You can go very deep down the rabbit hole of photo geekery when it comes to depth of field. The most important level is also the simplest: Does the depth of field make the photo better or worse? But then very quickly it gets into math. Start with fig Do you remember a time before smartphones were ubiquitous and people just enjoyed and experienced weddings in person? 
I don’t. This one is from 2011, time of the not-low-light-friendly iPhone 4. So if you wanted a photo from a wedding, you br One of the central skills of wedding photography is being able to work really, really quickly. While in editorial and commercial work you may have to take portraits in just a few minutes, you usually have had time to set up, test, scout, etc. In wedd Nothing has given us a deeper joy over the arc of our careers than seeing the couples’ stories that we documented on their wedding day continue and grow in joy and responsibility to each other over the years. And Omar and Mayra’s story an Alyssa and Aaron wanted to be photographed in the middle of the street. We said, “OK, if we’re going to do it, let’s really do it.” Something too-often forgotten is that photos should always be less dangerous than they look. I think this is the most 2021 photo we’ve taken. It shows where we’ve all come from and where we’re heading. We know that there is tremendous privilege living in a place where the vast majority of wedding guests are vaccinated. We Throwback: 13 years, 7 months, 29 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes, 3 seconds ago. Still adorable. Right from the start, we always loved images that were timeless. We don’t want people to say “that must have been 2007” or “that mus Sometimes the perfect lens is a deeply imperfect ones. Modern first-party lenses with coatings up the wazoo, though we love them for most situations, make dreamy flare like this close to impossible. We wanted to make Celina and Brian’s anniversary shoot special for a lot of reasons, but the most simple was the wonder that is Mohonk Mountain House. I (Ryan) fell in love with it when I shot a wedding there in 2007, and ever since has followe We are sitting here marveling at all of the amazing moments from Sarah and Robert’s recent wedding when we realized “Wait, what? We haven’t posted more from their gorgeous engagement at @skylandsmanor_frungillos? What could have hap We love backyard weddings, especially when they are in places emotionally resonant with the couple. I doubt when Peter was a little boy running in these woods he imagined having such sweet moments there with his new wife. 2020 had been set to be our biggest destination-wedding year since at least 2014 until … well, you know. But now that we are fully vaccinated, we couldn't have picked a better wedding to break our no-fly streak then Cheryl and Peter's. We alw