A couple weeks back I headed out to shoot Nicole and James’ wedding out on Long Island with my friend, and AMAZING photographer, Angelica Glass. If you aren’t familiar with Angelica’s work you have to check it out, she is a true artist. Her work is so true to who she is, very cool to see that authenticity.
I got to New York City on Thursday evening and immediately headed into town to a couple of bars that I was not even close to cool enough to be in lol! I kept looking around and thinking “I remember the 80′s and this is more ’80′s than the ’80s were!” We also ate at some BBQ place that really did a number to my gut, it took me over a week to get over that food poisoning! Good times, right? Gotta love being super sick 2,500 miles from home and having to shoot a wedding!
Well, the good news, besides the fact that I felt okay for the wedding day, is that Nicole and James ROCKED! They were such an hot couple and truly in love with each other. Funny thing; they met because of a prank phone call, how great is that! They were totally down to shoot whatever we wanted and were not shy about their vices at all…quite a refreshing change from all those who go sneak a cigarette out back haha!
One fun fact about me shooting this wedding (for any tech geeks out there); I shot the entire wedding with my 1DsMKII, a 50L 1.2 lens, a set of pocket wizards and a 580 flash! Lol, I’ve always wanted to just shoot an entire wedding with just one focal length!

Great dress, great shoe, beautiful bride; what more could I ask for!?

This picture really sums up the weather, it was a cold day!

Nicole figuring out her dress

Yeah, nice to have good looking grooms too :)

With the cold, finding a good spot for the guys was tough but we made it work

I tried to adapt my style a bit so it would work better with Angelica’s

Beautiful details! You should have seen how much food there was. It was like, eat, dance, eat, dance, eat, dance and on and on!

In addition to his day job as a banker, James and his buddies all do a bit of DJ’ing so the company brought in quite a setup, it was rocking!

Every had a great time. I had to throw in the groomsmen dancing, too funny! They were a great group.

I had to throw in some Colin Michael style while I was there :)

Thanks to Nicole, James and their families for being so gracious. And a huge thanks to Angelica for flying me out to shoot with her, can’t wait to do it again!

  • corey: colin this is bangin.. man i love the lighting it looks so mysterious how'd you do that.. im really lovin the work, Corey (12.22.2008 12:45am)

  • Nicole: Colin, we love you (and we stalked you and found your site!!! LOL) The photos are gorgeous! Thank you SO much for coming out and photographing us. You were awesome and we enjoyed having you there! We had the best photographers and we are so thankful for that.

    Love Nicole and James (12.22.2008 03:24pm)

  • Mike Richards: Dude, thats banging right there!!! Keep up the great work man, always love to look at your stuff! (12.29.2008 05:02pm)

  • MattDJ: Absolutely stunning wedding!!! Awesome to see it all in it's 50mm glory! :-) (12.29.2008 10:03pm)

  • Scott Andrew: Hey Colin. Such a sweet set, man I love that 50L and hope to shoot a whole wedding with it one day. (01.03.2009 08:09pm)

  • chris stewart: DUDE WHATS UP??????? Holy crapolla!!!! you frickin rocked this wedding. all the shots here are off the chart. I lover the shot of the groom smokin with his white shirt in the room and the bride is smokin hot as well. Awesome work bro. (01.11.2009 12:09am)

  • Tim Halberg: beautiful wedding man!!! and great shots! (01.21.2009 05:44pm)

Okay, I went underground for the past week and finally got my website update done… Yay, what a relief to be done!
If you haven’t seen it, check out ColinMichaelPhoto.com and see the new design. Many thanks to my friends at Big Folio (especially Jeff, thanks Jeff!) for all their help getting switched over to this new design.
I chose to organize my images there in a totally different way and added in some new content. I think the design is much more dynamic and showcases my work better. I also added in an Engagement/Day After and Boudoir sections as I’m always shooting those but didn’t put up a lot of it as I already had 100′s of images up. There’s so many great images from all my awesome couples that I had to make some room!
Over the next few months I will add many more new images so check back often as with my new site it is so much easier to add in new content!

  • jenbabae: I have been looking forward to your new website since you posted some info about it. I checked it out and I absolutely love the new layout. Imagine my surprise when I also found pictures of us and our event on there. Great way to start my (late) day. Thanks! Keep up the awesome work and hopefully one day we can call you for some family or baby portraits. ;) I did experience pictures being cut off in my browser window. What is the ideal resolution I should be looking at it from? (12.19.2008 04:26pm)

  • colinmichael: Hey Jen, how could I not post a couple from your amazing wedding?!
    I'll talk to my web guys about the cutoff. It's because the site is optimized for larger screens, I have the same cutoff on my Macbook screen. You can click the "fullscreen" button at the top right and it will be a bit better. (12.19.2008 04:34pm)

  • Brenna: Your new site is beautiful! (01.29.2009 11:13pm)