We started the session with a few studio shots.
It was an absolutely beautiful day and the crisp Fall sunshine gave a beautiful natural backlight to this image
Amanda was not too thrilled about the idea of lying on the ground, but she was brave and took one for the team. And I LOVE the way the pictures turned out!! Thanks, Amanda! :-)
Random factoid about yours truly: I am TERRIBLE with names. I will never forget your face and WHO you are, but your name? Yeh. Not so much. In the picture below, this fact worked in my favor. As I was looking through the camera, giving posing instructions, I mistakenly called Alex, "Adam". And didn't catch myself before I did it AGAIN!! Well, the couple found this to be hysterically funny and flashed these beautiful, big natural smiles at the camera--which I caught!! LOVE IT!!
I'm definitely going to remember to call them by the wrong names on their wedding day, just to get those awesome smiles, again, LOL!! :-)My wonderful niece Savannah (which in the original Latin means "incredibly talented assistant who works for tacos") was my P. A. that day and she grabbed a couple of pictures of me working. Here I am setting up the shot...
And here is the resulting image...
The day of our session was also Amanda's birthday and she arrived at the studio armed with a beautiful bouquet of roses given to her by her mother. Naturally, we incorporated them into some of the portraits
I made a collage of images we did behind the main house, with the sun angling over the roof. It gave an almost ethereal quality to this set of portraits. I SO dig the ethereal!!
We took a whole bunch more great images, but I'll just leave you with one final picture that I thought was TOO adorable.
That last one kind of says it all, eh?
I'm looking very forward to capturing Amanda and Alex's Big Day in a couple of months!
