It's engagement season right?

tenoverthenose

This is from last night. I met the couple and just wandered around the streets outside of their house. So much fun to just walk around with no plan and make things happen.

As always, more and the full story on my blogosphere.

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Agnieszka

Very nice set! Love the first one!

Did the same just the other day + Once I actually walked into a couple that got engaged *that* day! ... that was fun!

ShepsMom

Awesome! There is nothing better then binge spontaneous! I always tell my couples that i plan Nothing. I use what i see and what comes along the way, I will bring people/pets/cars/anything that i can in the picture where i see it fits. Couple's love it!
Nice set!

Qarik

#2 rocks!

newb

#4 is by far my favorite. Love the lighting.

mpriest13

I LOVE #1!

tenoverthenose

Thanks everyone for sharing the love! I am beyond stoked that so far just about everyone who has seen these has a different favorite It's pretty rare that I actually plan out a location to shoot in, but in Yosemite I have already shot in most of the places that are easily accessible (but thank god, not all of them). This was different in that as we walked I had literally never set eyes on anything that we saw before hand. I really had no expectations whatsoever of what to find (never thought we'd wander into tennis courts for examples) whereas for the most part, working in Yosemite I can go anyplace and find rocks and/or trees

@Angie that's a crazy story about running into that couple!

Shima

#1 is totally my favorite of these, great work!

tenoverthenose

Thanks Cat! It's amazing what one straggly bush next to a muni line can look like at from the right angle.

Qarik

tenoverthenose wrote: »

Thanks Cat! It's amazing what one straggly bush next to a muni line can look like at from the right angle.

yup, that's where the "eye" comes in. It's easy to shoot in gorgeous places like I just did in SF city hall... can't find a bad back drop if your tried. But finding little slices of gorgeous in the mundane..that just fit the camera frame..is challenging and satisfying. It feels like your created something out of nothing.

Shima

tenoverthenose wrote: »

Thanks Cat! It's amazing what one straggly bush next to a muni line can look like at from the right angle.

Mmmmmm bokeh

Out of curiosity, what do you charge for couples sessions? (feel free to PM me if you don't want to post that on here)

r3t1awr3yd

Can you explain the lighting in number 4? I'm enamored by it also...

tenoverthenose

Shima wrote: »

Mmmmmm bokeh

Out of curiosity, what do you charge for couples sessions? (feel free to PM me if you don't want to post that on here)

That was the one and only shot I took all day that was wide open. Normally I don't like to shoot my 85 at 1.2 just because of the difficulty focusing. Not sure how in this picture I managed to get them in focus - they were rocking back and forth and goofing off. I really wanted to tell them just to stand still so that I could get the picture in focus at 1.2, but I didn't want to kill the mood. Most of the frames from this spot are all in perfect focus - I got VERY lucky.

As of right now (this will be funny when someone googles this in 2018) I am charging $750 for an engagement session with a $200 print credit. I've tried my best to set up all of my shoots so that I make the same amount no matter what I am shooting, be it a wedding, engagement, studio session, etc. But at the same time I REALLY want my clients to have products in hand and be able to show off the photos. Most times they end up buying more than the original credit

tenoverthenose

r3t1awr3yd wrote: »

Can you explain the lighting in number 4? I'm enamored by it also...

Of course, this is SUPER EASY lighting that looks way cool to me. It's a single light with a tight grid (the tighter the grid, the smaller the lit area) about four feet higher than the couples head pointed at them and the garage door on a downward angle. As the circular light pattern hits the garage door from that angle, this is the shape it produces. My camera was directly underneath the light in order to keep it on axis. Of course this is very hard light, which is why it is so contrasty and cool, so it works better on some subjects that others.

tenoverthenose

Qarik wrote: »

yup, that's where the "eye" comes in. It's easy to shoot in gorgeous places like I just did in SF city hall... can't find a bad back drop if your tried. But finding little slices of gorgeous in the mundane..that just fit the camera frame..is challenging and satisfying. It feels like your created something out of nothing.

Don't kid yourself Daniel, it still takes the talent you have to create those great shots even in SF city hall.

r3t1awr3yd

tenoverthenose wrote: »

Of course, this is SUPER EASY lighting that looks way cool to me. It's a single light with a tight grid (the tighter the grid, the smaller the lit area) about four feet higher than the couples head pointed at them and the garage door on a downward angle. As the circular light pattern hits the garage door from that angle, this is the shape it produces. My camera was directly underneath the light in order to keep it on axis. Of course this is very hard light, which is why it is so contrasty and cool, so it works better on some subjects that others.

Ah, grid. So it was snooted. All I wanted to know

tenoverthenose

r3t1awr3yd wrote: »

Ah, grid. So it was snooted. All I wanted to know

Well a snoot would make it look quite a bit different. The falloff of the grid is what makes the lighting here. A snoot (at this distance) would have a much harder transition.

r3t1awr3yd

tenoverthenose wrote: »

Well a snoot would make it look quite a bit different. The falloff of the grid is what makes the lighting here. A snoot (at this distance) would have a much harder transition.

I grid my snoot so I'm pretty sure I could recreate this light with me gridded snoot, yar. (I'm not sure why I turned pirate there at the end lol).

I'm still gonna go home and play anyways lol

tenoverthenose

Definitely go play and experiment! It's always better to play with it and figure out what works best for you.