Alina's Trash the Dress: Photo Reveal

I have been waiting for so long to finally get to Alina's Trash the Dress photos and be able to edit them and now they are finally done! I just smile so big when I look at these pictures that I cannot contain the joy I feel and the accomplishment I feel with the transformation of them from their original state into that of artistic imagery.

Alina brought the energy on set and along with that, she brought a pair of awesome cowboy boots, some rockin Ed Hardy shoes, a colorful bicycle and some red heels and super fun sunglasses. It was because of the additional styling items that it added that perfect touch to this already amazing shoot.

We, after many months of playing tag with the owners, were able to shoot at this rockin' car junkyard and within it, there were so many photo opportunities. It was a blazing hot day, mid afternoon and the dirt was blowing all over the place and caused a haze in the air and was getting into my camera but we didn't care. We just kept shooting. I cleaned the camera, fixed the haze in photoshop and fell in love with these unique images.

Alina, thanks for being a trooper and bringing your energy to the shoot. We had so much fun shooting your wedding and then your Trash the Dress session. If you ever want to come back to Tampa and finish trashing it, let us know!!

Without further ado, I give to you... the reveal!!

(P.S. There's like a million photos and some I couldn't choose between b/w or color because I did extra enhancements to the b/w photos too so I am going to post both for some of them! :-) ....)

Hope you enjoy!



















and the same one as above but in color. I couldn't make up my mind which one I liked better. I love them both for different reasons!



You would think this girl has modeling experience! I swear, she brought the hotness to the shoot and outshone the bright, sweltering sun!









Color or black and white again? Tough choice. Normally I always prefer color over b/w because color just pops to me but I did contrasty editing and made the black and whites skies almost black to bring mood into them, to create drama and to make Alina really pop out in the photos and it worked so I love them equally!!









Alina's white parasol was another perfect touch for a few awesome photos!







Alina has legs for days. Even in those cowboy boots. She held nothing back and did every crazy pose I asked her to do and it shows!













Alina's new hubby, Donald loves VW's so we spotted this gem out in the junkyard and snagged a photo with it just for him!



Pouting because her groom wasn't there on the day of the trash the dress session.. Alina's pout is soooooo frickin adorable!





Alina then broke the bike out of her tiny car and put it together and put on her Ed Hardy sneaks and we took a few shots right before we ran out of gas and called it a day...



Loved the shadow of her in this shot..



And a close up shot of those kickin shoes!



My favorite from the bicycle shots...



And riding into the horizon... last shot of the day..



That's all folks. Until next time......

Rebecca and Justin : Wedding Sneak Peek

Rebecca and Justin's wedding totally rocked!! Rebecca was a stunning bride, which came as no surprise to me. She radiates beauty from the inside out. Justin was looking quite dapper in his Fedora which I gave him during the engagement shoot. I was so happy when he decided to wear it on the wedding day!

I'll tell more of their story when I post the full reveal.

For now, here are some teasers. Feel free to leave a rockin comment if you adore them!



Latanya totally rocked out this photo of the boys and I went in and did some artistic editing to it to make the boys look spotlighted and to add drama to the sky. We work so well together as a team:



The girls having fun:



Sweet love!!



Until next time....

Sandra: Boudoir Photo Reveal

Sandra was part of my big marathon bash a couple of months ago. I finally got her photos all done up and am happy to share them with my blog fans! Sandra told me she JUST had a baby shortly before the shoot and I couldn't believe it. She is one hot mamma.

Sandra did these as an anniversary present because she's already married. There's always a good reason to give that special someone some sexy photos, ladies!

Here are my favs!!



































Hope you enjoyed!! Until next time.....

Scott "Dude-Oir" Photo Reveal!

Scott was also one of the two guys from the boudoir marathon a couple months back. He was so easy to photograph. He did everything I asked of him without question. He also modeled for us as a test subject.

Here are my favs from our shoot!



























Last shot!



Hope you enjoyed! Until next time...

Jeremy : "Dude-oir" Photo Reveal

As many of you might remember, I shot 2 guys during a boudoir marathon I did a couple months ago. Jeremy was one of those guys and he came out and modeled for me as a test subject. I don't know whether or not there's a market for "dude-oir" photos but I do know that it never hurts to try something new. Who would have thought there would be a market for brides trashing their wedding dresses? But there is a booming demand for it these days!

Here are some of my favorites from Jeremey's set:











Jeremy was so much fun to have on set and he did this awesome superman run amd it made him happy and woke him up for the rest of the shoot. We had a blast trying to capture it!





And just because I love doing anonymity shots when I am working with sexy pictures, I had to do something like this:



Last shot!



Hope you all enjoyed! Until next time...

Rebecca and Justin: Engagement Photo Sneak Peek

Rebecca and Justin are getting married September 26th. Their wedding is just around the corner. We just did their engagement photos over labor day weekend and I've been so slow to blog the sneak peek from their session. I am trying to catch up on all of my editing so I've been a bad blogger and have missed a lot of things to blog recently but I will get them all blogged just as soon as I have a chance!

Rebecca and Justin are such a cute couple and they love one another so much. They were a joy to photograph and I cannot wait for their wedding.

For their engagement session, I got us into the awesome Ritz Ybor and had them dress in 50's attire. We even hired an amazing hair and make up artist, Amanda Craft to do Rebeccas hair and make-up in a pin up 50's style. Rebecca got these ultra cute dresses for the shoot and some red shoes for some pop of color (per my request because I just LOVE color).

Here are two sneak peek photos for now!!





What an awesome couple and an awesome venue to shoot in and doesn't Rebecca look hot?? Justin looks pretty darn good too :-)

Until next time...

Best engagement photos

We just sent an 80 page, 10x10 album design off to be printed and bound. This one is a studio sample for us to show more of our work printed and we had such a great year with engagement sessions so we decided to make it an "Engagement Love" album. We featured six of our couples in the book design and put our favorite photos from each session in the collection.

Looking through them, we just love the variety and the moments captured. Seeing the best work put together in a collection just makes me feel good inside :-)

Here is a link to the smaller flip-book online version. Hope you enjoy it!

You can view the entire book by copying and pasting the following link into a new browser window:

http://albumonline.asukabook.com/album/?key=5ef003f02042