Posts Tagged ‘Church’

Buckhead Church : Services Shoot

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

My wife and I have been going to Buckhead Church since we moved to Atlanta in 2003. The church, the people, the volunteers and the amazing speakers (Andy StanleyJeff Henderson, and more) have played a huge role in shaping our family over the years. We are so blessed to have a church like Buckhead…not to mention the kids’ programs, which are amazing and have our oldest Adler excited about church every weekend.

A year and a half ago I was hired to come and shoot images of Buckhead’s services. I spent a whole day coming to each of the services and the rehearsal. It was an awesome experience, and I learned a LOT about the inner workings of Buckhead and how they pull off 3 services almost entirely with volunteers. Needless to say, I couldn’t have been more excited, and honored to be asked again to shoot more images. In June, I shot images for North Point Online, but was restricted in that the interest of each photo really needed to be in the corners AND needed a different look and feel. This time around, I was just asked to shoot primarily the worship services and the production team so that the main website images could be refreshed.

It was a great day getting to shoot Carlos Whitaker and James David Carter…both super talented and great leaders. These are a few of my favorite images from the day.SHP_Buckhead09-6037SHP_Buckhead09-5958SHP_Buckhead09-6339SHP_Buckhead09-5858SHP_Buckhead09-5905SHP_Buckhead09-6221SHP_Buckhead09-4 SHP_Buckhead09-6642SHP_Buckhead09-6127SHP_Buckhead09-6511

North Point Online is LIVE

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

A month or so I was able to work with North Point Ministries to shoot some images for their new online project North Point Online.  Basically, they needed some images of Buckhead Church that would help make the site sorta feel like you were walking around Buckhead Church on your way to the service. Eventually, the images will probably rotate which will be pretty coolio.

The site is live now, but the first official service will be held on August 16th and from then on, every Sunday during the 6pm ET service, people all over the world will be able to attend Buckhead Church and hear from our amazing pastor Andy Stanley, as well as our other amazing pastors such as Jeff Henderson…seriously, how lucky am I to get to hear these guys speak in person?!  Well, now you’ll be able to experience the entire service online, so check it out!  It’s a really amazing site, that’s pretty much the first of it’s kind.

I’m constantly amazed at our church and how creative they are!  Thanks to North Point and Buckhead Church for letting me participate in something bigger than ourselves!  I feel truly blessed to be a small part of NP Online.

So…for the photography, it was an interesting challenge because (as you’ll see) the video and content pretty much takes up the majority of the screen, so I took on this project with the intention of putting the interest of the photography in the corners, at the bottom, and away from the center of the photographs where it would usually be blocked by the video.  I hope you like ‘em…

Check out NP Online (here) and follow them on twitter (here).

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