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Engagement Session with Pets

We have all seen engagement sessions with neat locations, scenes, poses and even props. Speaking of props, how about considering your pet as part of the engagement session? Many couples will be preparing to enter married bliss with a four-legged furry friend as part of that mix.

What better way to enjoy an engagement session than with your furry friend?  Pets not only add some great images to the session but they add a level of comfort and fun all at once. Any nervousness you or your fiance’ may have is quickly dissipated with the fun of a pet included.

I love this image above of this dog running out ahead of his family to be to make sure all is well. So before you make your engagement session appointment, consider that sweet new addition to your family to be!

A Photo Booth For Your Wedding Ceremony

I know many of you have seen the popular photo booths at some weddings in Atlanta. I think it appeals to our sense of nostalgia and a wish to go back in time to a simple era of being a kid at a dime-store or local mall to get a cute candid image of oneself and a friend.

Sometimes a group of friends all crams into the photo together, making an instant candid keepsake. Recently we have begun offering the photo booth option for our wedding packages. It has been interesting to see how people interact with the fun props, hats, pretend mustache or red lips on a stick.

This is an image from a recent wedding at my church. What I find fun and interesting is that often times it is the 40+ crowd that has the most fun with this. It takes very otherwise serious middle-aged adults and transforms them into little kids again having fun.

If you have not thought about adding a photo booth coverage to your wedding, think again. It will keep your crowd around, engaged and having fun. Your wedding will become one of those memories where people say “remember how much fun we had at so and so’s wedding” comments.

Wedding Photography in Lawrenceville, Georgia

This bridal portrait above will probably go down in my book as one of my favorite bridal portraits ever. There are so many elements that I love about this portrait. We had a great small area to work with over by the side doors of this local wedding venue.

They had these majestic looking doors and I had the privilege of working with a beautiful bride named Kristen. I just loved the back of Kristen’s dress. The extra-long veil really added to the dress nicely. I had Kristen turn her head and arms slightly to the left and we opened the doors behind her so that the closed doors did not give you that “post coming out of the head” look.

This way the slight opening of the doors draws the viewer eyes directly to the subject. The lighting was close to the middle of the day and the brightness of that time helped to reflect a lot of light on the surrounding objects like the table and the sofa. Simply a wonderful keepsake. A great day for wedding photography in Lawrenceville.

Engagement shoots aren’t just a great opportunity to relax a couple’s nerves ahead of the big day – they’re a chance to ease your own!

No matter how many years of photography experience you have under your belt or which school of photography you attended, it’s just a bi-product of human nature to be nervous when working with new people. As photographers, however, we get enough practice at handling these inevitable nerves – after all, just about every day involves working with new people.

But how best to relax the couple, who are entrusting you with massive responsibility and have probably only met you once or twice?

Projecting Confidence

Naturally, keeping your own nerves in check is vital; not necessarily by ignoring them altogether, which is often impossible, but by learning how to put on that ‘professional mask’ that suggests to the couple “Hey, you’re in good company. We’ll get through this and have fun doing so!”

Remember exactly what the engagement shoot is for: a chance to connect with your clients in an informal setting. It’s not supposed to feel like an intense examination, so don’t let it (and make sure the couple is aware that everyone is together to play around, have fun and get to know one another).

More importantly, still, don’t forget that your clients have already chosen you because of they already like you and your work. That’s half the battle already over before you begin.

Now, Where Did that ND Filter Get To…

It might sound somewhat obvious, but it’s vitally important to know exactly where your lenses and equipment are packed for both your primary and secondary camera. Leaving for a shoot in a hurry and throwing everything in a case haphazardly will only have you scrambling around trying to find things during the shoot itself; being flustered is rarely a good look.

Similarly, make sure you do have a secondary camera. Packing

enough equipment to supply a whole documentary crew isn’t necessary but taking a spare is always a good idea to avoid awkwardness if and when cameras and lenses go wrong.

Unfamiliar Lovebirds

Chances are you’ll notice a very common occurrence when beginning a shoot: the couple will act like their complete and utter strangers.

Nine times out of ten they’ll loosen up without any kind of encouragement, and if you think about it, the initial hesitancy is entirely natural; unless your clients make their living as professional models, they’re not likely to be very comfortable in front of the camera the best of times, least of all when being commanded to ‘act naturally’. Remember that to the couple, someone wielding a Canon 6D can look as intimidating as an armed TSA agent!

A very quick way of quickly dissipating this discomfort is simply to call out the elephant in the room. Point to the gap between the posing couple and jokingly suggest you could drive a station wagon through it – there will be a lot of uncomfortable giggling to start with (which is fine) but you’ll all relax into it very quickly with some mild cajoling.

Take a look at the images above from Atlanta wedding photographer, Lynn Brown. They are a good example of a couple that is having a good time during their engagement session.

Guiding, Not Posing

You’ll tend to find that couples don’t need a lot of heavy posing once they’ve loosened up a bit. Do let them (and encourage them where necessary) talk, cuddle up, the odd peck on the cheek… it all helps lighten the mood, and quite often you’ll get some fantastic natural shots which you wouldn’t have been able to pose yourself. Just be on hand to offer gentle guidance when uncertainty

Don’t Force the Romance

If it’s a nice day, invite the couple to sit or recline on the grass next to each other, or even throw leaves around; always look for opportunities to break from the script and use the unique environment around you.

Lastly, one neat trick is to take a few shots of each partner individually. This will give you the opportunity to have the other one join you at your side, then vice-versa – psychologically, it breaks down any subconscious ‘photographer’ and ‘us’ boundary that might exist.