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When you trust Baty & Company to capture the photographs and video for your Wedding Day you get who you pay for! Steve Baty will be your photographer, with more than 20 years of wedding experience, I am the person to depend on to ensure that your wedding day runs smoothly. We start up to two hours before the ceremony, creating wonderful portraits of the bride, her family and attendants. One of our highly trained professional videographers accompanies me capturing all of the color, sound and excitement that only video can bring  to life.

We cover the ceremony discreetly and professionally. I shoot the still photographs of the processional, all the aspects of the ceremony and recessional. Our video team, that consists of two video cameras with two operators, covers your ceremony from the front and the rear. The primary camera is a Cannon XL1. This digital video format camera uses three pickup chips to obtain crisp colors and sound even in difficult lighting situations. If you wish we can attach a wireless microphone to the grooms lapel to capture the vows. The tapes are later professionally edited by me, using a digital video mixer that provides dissolves, wipes and picture in picture effects. The results are spectacular. I always check with the clergy about special circumstances, traditions or rules that may be unique to each location. We are discreet and professional at all times, but especially during the ceremony we are acutely aware that we are to capture, not create the excitement.

I like to shoot the formal photographs immediately after the ceremony or after the receiving line if it is held at the church. As a former theatrical director I have been trained to create the living tableaus that will become your families treasured memories. I keep the photo session moving rapidly, yet with attention to detail. I am able to do this because long before the wedding day I have discussed a shot selection list with the bride and groom, so we all know exactly what will be done.Then I make the magic.
The formal pictures never take more that 30 minutes, even with the largest of
wedding parties or the most complicated sets of multiple mother, step, father, adopted, extended, nontraditional family situations that you may enjoy
For the reception we follow a photo journalistic style that is as unobtrusive as possible, yet delivers exciting video and candid still photos.