When people feel comfortable, they act differently. It's no wonder that for the majority of us, when we are at home, we are comfortable... therefore, we tend to (or not) do things that we won't usually do in public. Well, as professional photographers, one of our jobs is to make our clients feel "at home" and comfortable with us and in front of the camera.
I love it when couples choose their engagement portraits location because it means something to them. Diana asked for a waterfall, but I just thought that that's simply what she wanted. But on the day of the shoot, as we were walking through the VERY muddy path to get to this waterfall, we learned that Diana LOVES waterfalls.
Our next bride, Stephanie, is quite special to us in many ways... Can't believe that we're saying this, but we have been knowing her since she was little. Like really little! Through our church, we got to know her amazing family.... and to this day, we admire them so much. Well, one day, Stephanie was all grown up and started working at the same church that we used to.
As you can imagine, what we do is heavily dependent upon the weather... One of our morning rituals is to check the hourly, daily and the weekly forecast. If there's any chance of rain or other bad weather that could affect our portrait sessions, we contact our clients with our concern immediately to communicate what other options can be. But, how many of you know that Mr. Weatherman can be wrong sometimes?
One of the things that we love doing with our clients is coordinating their outfits for their engagement session. Our brides send photos of their ideas to us and go back and forth with suggestions and more ideas. Ashley wanted an all out glamorous shoot for her session, so when she sent us a photo of her red dress, we were in LOVE!
If you're in the south, I'm sure you'll agree with me that it's been one long, hot summer... Just when we expected it to cool down by the end of Sept, the heat wave continued throughout Oct. We originally had Kelsey + Ryan's e-session scheduled more than a month ago, but we decided that the weather would be much better in Oct.
