Way Too Early Engagement Shoot
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One day while enjoying a few laughs with my wife over our 7yr-old son's infatuation with his summer babysitter, the thought occurs to me that she'd make a perfect amateur model. Long story short I offer her the chance to get some free pictures taken and extend the offer to 1-2 of her friends. Best case scenario, I get to add a few shots to my portfolio. She elects to bring her boyfriend of 6yrs (yup, you read that right!) They've been together since middle-school. Anyway, C&C is much appreciated, I'll hang up and listen...
Background - Early Sunday morning, deserted town square in small town TN. Photos taken with a D40 and cheap 55-200mm lens.
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2. The sun did most of the work but I also used a gold reflector for fill.
3. The boyfriend wasn't a big fan of PDA so it took him a while to warm up.
4. Way more comfortable on his guitar
5. I thought these 12ft oak doors had potential but straight out of camera they were kinda blah.
6. High key attempt
7. Still a little tense
8. I cut off her toes :whip
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10. He wasn't comfortable at all in the above pic so I said something kinda off the wall to break up the tension. Much better result.
11. She's a looker...
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One day while enjoying a few laughs with my wife over our 7yr-old son's infatuation with his summer babysitter, the thought occurs to me that she'd make a perfect amateur model. Long story short I offer her the chance to get some free pictures taken and extend the offer to 1-2 of her friends. Best case scenario, I get to add a few shots to my portfolio. She elects to bring her boyfriend of 6yrs (yup, you read that right!) They've been together since middle-school. Anyway, C&C is much appreciated, I'll hang up and listen...
Background - Early Sunday morning, deserted town square in small town TN. Photos taken with a D40 and cheap 55-200mm lens.
1.
2. The sun did most of the work but I also used a gold reflector for fill.
3. The boyfriend wasn't a big fan of PDA so it took him a while to warm up.
4. Way more comfortable on his guitar
5. I thought these 12ft oak doors had potential but straight out of camera they were kinda blah.
6. High key attempt
7. Still a little tense
8. I cut off her toes :whip
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10. He wasn't comfortable at all in the above pic so I said something kinda off the wall to break up the tension. Much better result.
11. She's a looker...
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12. Boyfriend served as my reflector holder. He was determined to hit her with the high beam instead of just a glancing blow. Still managed to get a few keepers.
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16. Came up with this one on the walk back to the car...
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18. And finally
Ironically I was processing these on my laptop while waiting for my son's baseball practice to end and one of the moms came by to look over my shoulder. She informed me that my sitter was in fact this year's prom queen. As a dad I got a sick sense of satisfaction in that my son's first crush was local royalty.
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The day of My son's First birthday, I was doing some promo shots for a stripper. My wife brought my son to the studio as we were going to lunch when I finished. The the girl had a severe maternal streak had to have a hold of him and clearly he was quite taken with the bright, spangly costume she was almost wearing.
I got some great shots of them together which I thought he'd love in later years. While showing them to some friend at his party a few days later, I got worried when a very " straight" friend of my wife's started calling for me and saying she wanted to talk to me about the photos.
I walked over and she asked what I thought I was doing getting him a stripper for his 1st birthday? Before I could say a word, she called me an idiot and said it was his 21st I was supposed to get him a stripper for, not his first birthday!
Much to everyones hushed tension, she thought the pics were awesome and her comment cracked everyone up.
I said the girl offered to come to his 21st and do a routine with her walking frame as long as he liked grey haired women with false teeth.
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#16, had me go "huh?"
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