Patrick Hall was born in Charleston, SC and has lived in Alaska, Alabama, and Tennessee. After graduating from college in 2004, Patrick traveled throughout the southeast before calling Charleston home in 2006.
During the first 2 years in Charleston, Patrick spent most of his time learning how to craft interesting photos with both wedding professionals and lifestyle photographers. It was during this time the idea to share his newly learned talents with young couples became Patrick's primary goal.
Today Patrick works full time as a commercial wedding photographer in Charleston, SC and enjoys shooting extreme sports, fashion, and commercial images during any freetime he may have left :)
For the last two years or so I have been setting up a “photobooth” at many of the weddings I have shot. Surprisingly, I have found out that a lot of my clients were initially confused about my photobooth because it is technically not a booth at all. If you have ever been to a friend’s wedding and they had a photobooth, typically it is an old fashioned booth with a curtain like you would find in a mall. Those older photobooths can be a lot of fun but what happens when you want to get a bit crazier or want to include more than 2 or 3 people in you photograph? Well that’s why I designed a photobooth that wasn’t a booth at all! This photobooth takes up a small area usually just outside of the dance floor and individual couples or large groups can stand infront of the white screen and instantly take a bunch of creative photos that the bride and groom will see when they receive all of their wedding photos. The pictures are immediately displayed so everyone around can see, and it’s always a huge hit at the reception. I’ve given the band or DJ a run for their money on many occasions, but what I usually find is the photobooth helps encourage people to get up out of their seats and participate even more at the wedding and on the dance floor. Here are a few of my favorite photos from 2010.
If you have not checked out my other photography based website, www.fstoppers.com, it is basically a blog that features behind the scenes videos of photographers and videographers working on their current projects. Since Lee Morris and I launched it back in Feb, it has become one of the most exciting projects I have been working on outside of wedding and commercial photography. To help inspire other photographers, we decided it would be fun to try to organize a normal fashion photoshoot but instead of using a professional camera we would use the worst camera we owned: the Apple iPhone 3Gs!
I have never experienced posting a viral web video before but over night we had the most highly viral video of my career. Within 8 days, the video had been seen by over half a million people world wide and was featured on thousands of big named websites. Our own website was crashing, my email was being swamped with notes from people from every country, and our site had 10x more viewers than before the iphone video. It was fun having Lee doing all the photography as I filmed the whole shoot. I’m scared we may never top this Fstoppers Original video but it was a blast to create. I hope you feel inspired!
I think Misty and Adam have known each other longer than any other couple I have photographed. They were good friends back in junior high school and years later as fate would have it, they fell in love. I first met Misty and her bridesmaids during her Bridal Shoot in downtown Charleston. I knew her wedding was going to be easy to photography because she was one of the happiest girls I’ve ever met. Living in Mount Pleasant, Misty and Adam decided to get married at the ION Creek Club. They had such a fun band and their friends made great use of the Photobooth. Check out their wedding photos below!
I think I met Brent and Blair back in the winter when they called me up to talk about having a wedding out at Kiawah Island’s Sanctuary. Kiawah Island is such a great place to have a wedding and it was fun hearing what this couple had planned. I knew their wedding was going to be fun from the first time I met them and shot their engagement photos. Usually it’s the guys who do not want to spend too much time taking photos but Brent came to the shoot with more ideas than I did. Having couples that are really affectionate towards each other and at times goofy really makes the photos come to life. At the wedding, Brent and Blair were surrounded by really fun friends (including Halle and Brian). Even the real Clemson Tiger mascot showed up during the ceremony. All in all a really fun time out at Kiawah Island and the wedding photos turned out great.
As a wedding photographer, one thing I always enjoy is shooting weddings all over the southeast. When Jim and Lauren first called me, they told me their wedding was going to be at the brand new Seabrook Island Club House called Ocean Terrace. I was pretty excited for them since I have heard so many great things about the Ocean Terrace in the short time since it was built. Although we faced a short rain storm that pushed the wedding ceremony up a bit, the day as a whole turned out really great. Seabrook has some amazing golf courses which always produce great wedding photographs. Check out a few images below and watch the slideshow to see the full wedding.
If you enjoy watching behind the scenes videos of photoshoots, you have to check out my other website Fstoppers.com. Back in April I was given the opportunity to fly up to New York City to film a behind the scenes video on legendary headshot photographer Peter Hurley. The experience was great both from a creative standpoint and from a networking standpoint, and I’m glad to call Peter a friend. Check my latest Fstoppers video and enjoy the fun personality that is Peter Hurley!
Jamie and Keith are a young fun couple from Charlotte, North Carolina that wanted to do something different so they invited all their friends and family to Charleston for their wedding. These wedding photos were taken at Middleton Plantation just outside of Charleston and they were married in the octagonal garden on the north side of the property. After the ceremony, we walked around the plantation and took some really fun photographs. I also setup a wedding photobooth for their reception which was a big hit. Check out the slideshow to see Jamie and Keith’s entire day.
Patrick Hall is a wedding photographer based out of Charleston South Carolina. You can view more of his wedding work at www.patrickhallweddings.com
Angela and Russell warned me that when you are the daughter of a state senator, you have to invite a lot of people to your wedding. With over 400 guests, they were not joking! Their wedding was a blast up at the Grand Strand Resort up in North Myrtle Beach, and their friends took some of the most outrageous photobooth pictures ever. I also don’t think I’ve seen a cake covered with butterflies made out of sugar before either Enjoy the wedding photos below
Enjoy the wedding photos below
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