Photo Love Stories Blog

This is Natasha writing this… this is me.

Before our session started we wandered around our location and “modeled” for each other to see if we wanted to use certain locations for shooting.

Amy and I both got new lenses that we used for the first time during this wedding, so it was fun to play before the bride and groom got there.

This was a location we ended up using, but I’m not sure if I was aware Amy was using me to test the spot.

Amy and I taking pictures of each other at the same time… haha!

Groom and Amy seeing if they got any cell phone reception and wondering when the bride was going to arrive.  They were joking around and laughing about looking dumb while holding their phones in the air, as if that would give them better reception.

Best way to get your subject to pose in the way you want them to?  Model it for them.  I’m pretty sure that’s what I was doing here…

Bride and groom in the spot Amy was testing out earlier…  and me shooting some details at the reception.

Sometimes you can’t get the angle you want so you blindly shoot something then look to see if it worked.  This one I actually got a pretty good picture of.  LOVE the new wide angle lens I got!

Tip of the day: Watch out for reflections.  I noticed this one and adjusted so I wouldn’t be in the shot.  And again with the rings.  Sometimes it’s really hard to get out of these reflections though, and then you just have to photoshop later.

This is one huge benefit that Amy and I have with working together.  We had a sick little guy in this photo and needed to get this group shot as quickly as possible so he could go home.  Here I am organizing the group while Amy is ready to shoot as soon as we have everyone where they need to be.  Group shots are usually the hardest with large groups because there’s usually someone or several people who don’t really want to be in the shot, so it really helps to get them done with efficiently and quickly, no wasting time!

Amy found the perfect location to shoot some details… next to the garbage.  Just kidding, it was by the garbage, but the garbage was NOT in the picture.  It just happened to have some nice rocks and have good lighting.

I surprised Amy by shooting her here behind my back, not watching what I was doing.  She laughed and I shot another surprise picture.  Amy using her HUGE new lens!  We are in love with this one, the pictures have such creamy beautiful backgrounds.

It’s such a monster that you have to get into funny positions to hold it steady.

That’s us during the wedding.  The wedding photos will be coming soon!

So since Amy did a post about me, now it’s my turn to do one about Amy.  I thought I’d talk about what Amy adds to our business.  Obviously we both do the shooting, but we have nicely fallen into certain roles where we each feel comfortable shooting or other business stuff.  When it comes to the business side of things Amy handles a lot of that.  Infact, so much so that I often feel really bad that I’m not doing enough!  She’s such a go-getter with all this, making sure we’re on top of the bills, knowing when our taxes are due and studio rent and everything else.  She balances our accounts and makes sure everything is organized with our money.  She is usually the one that puts the websites and slideshows together of our couples, and a lot of the time I’m the one that does the blogging here.

When it comes to shooting we’ve found a nice rhythm of who does what.  I’m the poser, I usually organize the group photos and she takes the main photos.  I get the candids.   We’ll discuss beforehand who will stand where and what type of photos we are going to be in charge of, like if Amy has a wide-angle lens on, she’ll shoot the wider shots and get the reaction of people seeing the bride and groom for the first time, and I’ll shoot with my longer lens- the close-ups of the couple coming out of the temple.  Amy is really great at getting the shots that include the landscape in them while I’m taking the portrait photos, close-up of the couples.  Here’s Amy getting some details of the flowers with the temple in the background before the couple has come out of the temple…  notice the camera she’s using, yep, film.  She brought this along this day to get some fun ones with her old camera.  She took them with her DSLR at the same time, but also got some fun ones with film.  Maybe we’ll have to get them printed and hang them up in our studio.

More with the film camera.  The flowers were so pretty and everything looked like spring!

At Tina & Shaun’s wedding we got to work with Brad from ForeverMore Media, so here’s one for him.  It was great working with him!