You’ve chosen your wedding photographer, signed all the papers, and have your wedding date reserved! What’s next? Engagement photos! Some brides get more nervous about engagement photos than the wedding. They picture themselves, and their fiance standing in front of their wedding photographer, in an awkward place not knowing what to do. I’ve so often…
This post is continued from my earlier post, “How I almost didn’t become a photographer”. In fall of 2005, we moved to Portland, Oregon. We found a little house to sublet in East Portland, with a big yard and great neighbors that liked to bring us fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from their gardens. In 2006,…
At a wedding I photographed in Washington DC this past weekend, one of the bridesmaids asked me what she could do to look her best in the photos. She told me that she is getting married this fall, and was concerned about her own wedding photos mostly. She said an article about how brides should…
Most of my wedding clients choose to do engagement portraits. I think engagements photos should represent who you are as a couple, and a big part of this is where you choose to do them. How should you pick a location for your engagement photos? Instead of answering this for clients, I like to turn…
I recently found myself talking about this wedding to another photographer. I thought for fun I would do a feature blog post on it. It’s from 2009 but just so distinct I thought worth highlighting. It is a catholic church wedding, and the groom’s family is Nigerian. The wedding reception followed Nigerian customs, and welcomed…
