Danielle's Boudoir - Reveal~!

This entry was originally posted on June 9th but I decided to bump it back up to the top because it's one of my favorite shoots from the year! Danielle's photos have been voted a favorite amongst most of our new boudoir client inquiries. They love that it's more than a shoot on a bed and it's pushing clients to think of creative, out of the box ideas for thier own shoots!


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We had so much fun shooting Danielle's boudoir photos! They're finally done and I just got off the phone with Danielle and showed them to her in a private gallery on my website and she squealed the entire time! It is so rewarding to make someone feel beautiful and sexy when they see their photos! Her fiance is going to be one happy man on the wedding night! Danielle ordered a boudoir album too and we're going to start designing it as soon as she chooses the photos she wants in it! I can't wait to order it and get it in and show it off on my blog!

As usual, I have a hard time narrowing photos down to just 5-10 to show and this session was honestly too amazing to not show off the range of amazing photos we got!

We did a non-traditional boudoir session for the most part. We got a few bedroom shots but mostly, we did a Top Model kind of session with Danielle.

Hope you enjoy!





I just love this next photo with just a hint of her lips. It leaves the viewer imagining what the rest of this beautiful, sexy woman looks like:



We planned our timing perfectly for these terrace shots to take advantage of the sunset. We brought our studio strobes and brollyboxes with us and played with the lighting so we could keep the warmth and beauty of the sunset background.













We played with shadows for the next couple shots:





Danielle has the most amazing dimples!




I freaking love this shot:



I had to take a picture of just the view. We might make this shot the album cover since it sets the tone for the shoot:



We headed back to the room after we lost all the pretty sunset outside and Danielle changed outfits into a more bridal-esque ensemble. She rocked it out and looked totally cute and sexy!



A close up of that beautiful face!



Leaving something to the imagination again!:





Danielle's veil is so beautiful and we just had to use it in some of our shots!







I just love colored shoes!



The room had a pretty awesome shower so we went into the bathroom for some shots. Most of them are too sexy to post on the blog but Danielle did give me permission to post these 2 shots:



And I just love this one! She was drying off and Latanya actually snapped this photo through the shower glass on our way walking out of the bathroom. (I should note that Latanya and I took turns shooting this session so the work here is mixed between us. For those of you who don't know, Latanya is my dedicated second shooter for weddings and she helps me with all of my other shoots too.)



Then we got to go into this amazing wine cellar for photos! It has colored lights set on a timer in it and the lights change every couple of seconds. So, if you notice the colors change, it wasn't an inconsistency in our lighting. It's because the lights actually changed colors every couple seconds!





This is the only shot we got when the light turned into this awesome sunset looking colors. Unfortunately, Danielle had been laughing and we didn't get a "sexy" pose out of her with this lighting but I still loved the photo so I wanted to share it!







After the bar closed, we used it for some more photos!



Danielle's eyes are to die for in this next shot!





Rawr!



This wall was freaking awesome!



Last shot!



Until next time.......

My addiction to posting a million photos!!

Most of my clients love that I post SO MANY photos on my blog! I truly am addicted to showing tons of my work that makes me happy when I look at them. I feel like it's like sharing a piece of my inner self. A lot of photographers just post their favorite 3-4 wow images on their blog and don't post a complete story. Every photo I take won't be a wow image but they connect the dots of the story and help to unfold it. I don't think I'll ever be the photographer that can pick just 3 or 4 pictures.

With that said, the photos take up a lot of room on my blog. Some times, I post 40 or 50 images from one event. So, I've decided to feature my absolute favorite images as solo shots and to put others in a collage board. These collage boards will be for cohesive images to all go together and it will just be one compressed file. They'll download faster which will be a plus for clients on slower computers.

This is the first one I've made and is a sneak peek into the next wedding photos I am going to be posting up on the blog!



Hope you dig it. I managed to get 8 unique photos into this one image design and it works for me because they're so cohesive. :-)

Until next time....

Erin and Brett : Wedding Photography Reveal

Again, Erin and Brett... I am so sorry that it took me this long to blog your fabulous wedding pictures but I am so happy to finally be posting them!

Erin and Brett are goofy and funny and silly but so in love. The way they feed off of one another is amazing. I truly believe when I look at them together that they will be one of those couples that do last through everything that is thrown at them and that their love was meant to withstand the tests of time.

These are our favorite photos from Erin and Brett's big day!





The light streaming into the window was soft and beautiful and this portrait of Erin shows just how truly beautiful she is!



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Since Erin and Brett did a first look (posted below this entry), we had time to get some cool shots of the two of them alone before the ceremony. These are some of my favorites.









Erin and Brett had such a sweet ceremony and their pastor was hilarious. He told a lot of jokes and made me laugh a few times!



Erin's bridesmaid was touched by the ceremony..







At last!!!


I adored Erin and Brett's wedding cake so I took a million shots of it and they had some cute little details here and there too.







Erin and Brett's sweetheart table:


Mmmm yummy!


Love the favor boxes and how they're the same colors as the cake and the linens!




Kids can be so adorable. This little guy was the ring bearer and he was just too cute for words. He liked to pose for my camera and he liked to follow me around. I wish I could have taken him home with me!



Brett and his guitar..


Speaking of guitars, Erin and Brett used another guitar as their guest sign in book. We LOVE unique ideas like this. They're so fun to photograph and to display for years to come!

Here is my abstract take on a guest signing the guitar...


You can see the fathers reflection in the window giving his toast. I love how it makes it a different kind of shot.


And Erin got very emotional during this part


I went into the bar area and noticed that I could see Erin and Brett through these blinds and I just had to snap a photo. I was feeling so inspired to do different, artistic things with compositions and framing for this wedding!




Erin and Brett's first dance:




Brett's mother's eyes were tear filled during their entire mother/son dance. This shot gives me goosebumps every time I look at it.


Cute moment with the ring bearer and flower girl


All the safe shots were out of the way so that's when I started really going crazy, dragging the shutter, creating motion blur, thinking outside of the box. I think we got some pretty awesome stuff at this point..

















The DJ.. saw this reflection in the window and took it..










Yes, that is their ring shot.. the rings are on the tuning bars of the guitar..


last shot..



I know this was a massive post. But we loved so many. That's why it took me so long to blog them because I knew it would take me forever to link them all! :-)

We hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as we enjoyed creating them!

Until next time....