Engagement

Amanda and Stefan: Saved for a rainy day

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  I know Amanda from Austin and was thrilled to hear that she was engaged.  She and Stefan are currently attending BYU-Idaho and so they came down to Utah to do the engagement shoot.  We started off at Trolley Square in downtown Salt Lake and finished up at Liberty Park.

 

I tell you though, I have not ever shot outside when it was raining quite that hard!  Snow yes, rain no.  It was awesome!  Everything was reflective and looked especially vibrant and alive.  Thomas was running around like a crazy person trying to keep the equipment dry and I totally ruined a pair of shoes but it was completely worth it!    To top it off, both Amanda and Stefan were fabulous and were perfectly happy to go out, get wet, and have fun.

 

Just look at how alive and green everything is when it rains...  It just screams out SPRING.
I loved all the difference expressions they had for the photos . I think this is the first time someone has given me the peace sign at an engagement shoot though.  Peace, Love and Photography, y'all!

Lovin' in Provo

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A baseball love story...by Emily the Intern.  

 

Danica and Ryan were a super cute and super fun couple. I arrived early so I had the opportunity to hang out with them for a few minutes before Whitney got to Provo and they seemed suuper shy. Danica even warned Whitney earlier in the week that she was going to have to work her magic with them and claimed that she and Ryan were going to be awkward. That couldn't have been further from the truth.

 

 

 

Here's the deal--if you're totally in love and could stare at each other for hours and love to laugh and have fun with each other, you're going look awesome in photographs. Having Whitney as your photographer helps, too. Not only was this a great shoot for me as a budding photographer, but it also helped me get some ideas of what poses I wanted for my own anniversary shoot that Whitney was doing for my husband and I a few weeks later.

 

We started off on Center St. in Provo and seriously, I love downtown. They've really improved it since I first moved here (five years ago as a freshman at BYU) and I love all the nook and cranny awesome and beautiful places you can find while walking around. It's also so fitting that we shot the engagements there, since these two met at a music show nearby.

 

 

Can I just tell you how much I love this shot shown above? One, I really love Danica's shoes... and maybe her skirt... and belt... and cardigan. Two, Whitney totally concocted this shot on a whim--this was just where Danica and Ryan made an outfit change and it was in-between locations. As they were changing Whitney scoped out the area and I could see her mind racing with ideas of poses. Three, I love the adorable-ness (yes, totally a word) of them holding hands underneath the table. It's like they were having a little moment and forgot we were even there.

 

And now for the finale. Little did I know, Ryan is a super devout baseball fan and a huge Boston Red Sox fan on top of that. Since my husband (whose name is also Ryan...confusing, I know) also loves baseball I asked him how big a fan he really was he said something like, 'Think of the biggest baseball fan you know. Now think of the biggest Red Sox fan. Put them together and I'm even more.' I wish I could remember his exact words, but he said something like that and he totally wasn't kidding. Even though my husband, Ryan, is at the top of his fantasy baseball team (whoop, whoop, haha) I would definitely have to agree that Danica's Ryan is the biggest baseball fan I know. And Danica's got a soft spot for the sport as well. She played softball in high school and as Whitney was suggesting poses--like, having Ryan show Danica how to hold a bat--she quickly tossed the suggestion out. She could totally hold her own and knew how to hold a bat thank-you-very-much. So they're totally a perfect matched and it showed.

 

 

Congrats on being awesome, Danica and Ryan!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sneak Peek! "Downtown Smooch"

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  Kandis and Greg are absolutely incredible to work with!  Stand in the middle of the street?  No problem!  Have a romantic moment with dozens of cars driving by?  They can handle it. I'll post more later, but this photo is from their engagement shoot in downtown SLC, and it is the realization of something I have been itching to do for months now.  Every time I drove by that spot, I said to myself, "I've GOT to get a couple there... it would be awesome!"

 

And awesome it was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kirra & Brandon: Awesomeness at Saltair

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Ok,  I can't say enough about how much I loved this engagement shoot!!!  Kirra and Brandon were so fantastic to work with- they would intuitively do what I normally coach people to do, they had the most amazing smiles, and they were just plain fun.  We shot 100% of the time around Saltair near the Great Salt Lake, but ended up with an awesome variety of locations and looks.  

I love that area, but particularly around summertime you have to make sure you slather on the bug spray!  I ended up with 14 bites just on my left leg, and gave up counting after that.  I also ended up sacrificing a pair of shoes - as you see in the picture below, I crossed over to the other side of the little lake on the beach and the "almost-looked-dry-but-apparently-wasn't" path to my spot ended up eating my footwear.  I finished the shoot barefoot, and brought home a souvenir in my shoes that was almost as cool as those little beach in a bottles that you can get in Hawaii.  Just a bit smellier.

 

The amazing thing to me is that Kirra and Brandon were so in love it didn't even phase them.  They were happy to go wherever I asked and smile, because they were together.

 

These guys seriously just laughed and giggled the whole time.  I loved it!

If I picked all my favorites from this shoot this post would crash my server, so I put together a slideshow to Kirra and Brandon's song to let y'all see some more.

 

Diamonds are this girl's best friend

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I love being a photographer.  I get to meet new people, hear their stories, and find a way to best portray their personalities through the photos.  It's a challenge, and it's always something new.  

When planning engagement ideas with Danica, she had no doubt in her mind that we'd need some on a baseball diamond.  Both she and her fiance are devout followers of this American game.  Ryan said "think of the most baseball obsessed guy you've ever met, then think of the biggest Red Sox fan.  Combine those two and you've got me."

 

So on the shoot, I was searching for ways to perfectly show this part of their relationship.  And I got it.  Literally screamed for joy when I got this photo.  Between the sky, the lights, their pose... it was perfect.  So I had to share right away!  You can look forward to a post with the rest of their photos next week.

 

BreAnn & Joseph- Engagements in Utah County

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BreAnn and Joseph are getting married in Washington DC, but they are both out here in Utah going to school.  We shot their engagement photos around in and around American Fork, and had a great time.

I was really excited with some of the results that we got using some variations on the lighting setup we do.  Lighting can make for such an awesome, dynamic element in the photo, and can really help create that super romantic mood.

 

 

I loved the interaction between these two.  In every photo, you can totally see the sweetness Joseph shows BreAnn and just how comfortable their relationship is.  Take a look at their full gallery here.