Jill and Nathaniel, Engaged! | Boston waterfront engagement photos

Shang — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:00:49 +0000

“Just letting you know, we don’t really know what we should be doing!” declared Jill and Nathaniel as they arrived at the engagement session and handed me a box of delicious cupcakes (nom nom nom). Worry not, that’s why I’m here! After a while, they quickly stopped noticing the camera and Nathaniel even showed off his goofy side! Jill and Nathaniel spend many of their summers at Nathaniel’s parents’ summer house down near Buzzards Bay – which is where they will be getting married in the fall of this year. So we built their engagement session around Boston’s waterfront as well. Props to them two for toughing out freezing conditions – Boston’s spring has not started off very warmly. We explored many areas and ended up with very colorful scenes. Jill, I know you have been dying to see these on the blog, and it is my pleasure to show this dynamic set!

We did what we could to warm up every now and then – such as ducking inside the ICA

We had gorgeous weather that day (after clouds that threatened but did not bring rain)

Jill just fits so well into Nathaniel’s arms

They really, really love the water. Wherever we went, Nathaniel would say to Jill “wouldn’t it be nice to live right here and see the water?”

This is one of my favorite spots in Boston. It’s secluded and peaceful and I’ve had a couple of pretty significant personal moments in this place. Jill discovered this spot separately on her own.

heehee

Yummy sunlight

We rounded out the day at the North End. I love all the colors we can get there

I fall in love with red. All the time

This is a couple that embodies gentle hearts and giving spirits. I cannot wait for your wedding day!

Thank you Karman for assisting!

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Apr 29 – May 1 – Boston
May 13 – 15 – Ann Arbor
May 20 – 22 – Boston
Jun 11 – The long-awaited return to Boston for the summer!
Jun 14 – 16 – New York City – available for shoots

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Victoria and Vlad | Boston Lifestyle Photography

Shang — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:34:23 +0000

Today’s post features once again, Victoria and Vlad. This time we decided to leave their little boy at home and have just a session between them two Victoria had great fun vision for this shoot: edgy, sexy, and colorful. I of course jumped on it, after all, I love it when clients wholeheartedly throw themselves into a session and let me run with it! I don’t know how long it took Victoria to also choose outfits, remember poses from our inspiration folder, but we were SO happy at how the weather turned out, but I’m so happy at how we worked hard as a team to make this happen.

After a record 3-hour (!) session, here are the best of the best. AYes, each and every one of these photos are retouched to bring out the artistic feeling that we had behind the photo. I never, ever just take photos and present them, not even people working in film would leave a shot unmanipulated. To the technical people: No preset LR actions (I don’t have Lightroom yet, so it is painstakingly done through Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop), this is all done mostly using my own method of combining many Â masking and adjustment layers as well as spot touchups. I shot all photos on 50mm or 85mm prime lenses on my D700. We were on location at MIT’s Stata Center as well as outside the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art).

I love the colors in this one! [just Victoria]

I was going for a very industrial edit here with the iron curtains

I love this little sculptural piece that we found at MIT. The grass was amazingly green (see the full gallery for more shots on that grass)

V&V asked for a ring shot and I’d been a little tired of all the stretch-arms-out-and-show-ring photos that I’d taken with recent engagement sessions. Given their rings were fairly large, I asked them to hold their hands together and I really liked how strong Vlad comes across in this photo

Love Victoria’s shoes! She brought 3 or 4 different pairs

I like ending on a cute note

Thank you guys for your energy and your continued support of me! You are so fun to work with and thank you for continuing to push me to explore more! See more photos from the session here

Today’s post features once again, Victoria and Vlad, their previous posts are here, and here. This time we decided to leave their little boy at home and have just a session for them two. Victoria had great fun vision for this shoot: edgy, sexy, and colorful. I of course jumped on it, after all, I love it when clients wholeheartedly throw themselves into a session and let me run with it! I don’t know how long it took Victoria to choose her outfits, remember poses from our inspiration folder, but we were SO happy at how the weather turned out, and I’m so happy at how we worked hard as a team to make this happen.

After a record 3-hour (!) session, here are the best of the best.

I love the colors in this one!

I was going for a very industrial edit here with the iron curtains

I love this little sculptural piece that we found at the center. The grass was amazingly green (see the full gallery for more shots on that grass)

Moving to the ICA… it cooled down and there was shade

Love Victoria’s shoes! She brought 3 or 4 different pairs

I like ending on a cute note

Thank you guys for your energy and your continued support of me! You are so fun to work with and thank you for continuing to push me to explore more!

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Jill and Nathaniel, Engaged! | Boston waterfront engagement photos

Victoria and Vlad | Boston Lifestyle Photography