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Engagement Photography Tips
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By Christopher MaxwellAre You Serious?
If you are -- don't be! When you go out to have your engagement photos taken by a friend, you need to have a good time. Focus solely on your fiancé and your love for them. Enjoy spending time with them! Too many people focus on the camera and get nervous and uptight: and it shows in the photos.Hopefully your fiancé; is the only person in the world that can help you forget about everything else - which would include the camera...
Do Your Homework
Planning for an engagement session will usually improve the quality of the results. Here are a few steps I would suggest you take as you begin planning:Run Google searches for "engagement photography" and "engagement photos." Look for images that you think you and fiancé could imitate. Print off about 20 of your favorite images. Go over them with your fiancé and narrow the list down to the ones that both of you really like and think will be possible. Then, show those to your friend who will be taking your pictures. Whittle the samples down even further based upon their thoughts and feedback. Try to end up with 5 or 10 sample images that everyone is excited about.
Look closely at those sample photos to see what types of location are being used and what the lighting looks like. A lot of engagement photos are taken in either a park or city location. I would suggest driving around and scouting possible photo locations for the session. But don't just do a "drive-by scouting"! Get out of your car with your camera and take actual photos inside each park of the locations you think would work best. Compare your snapshots with the sample photos you printed off.
You can also do internet research by looking at the web sites of local wedding photographers. While your previous search for engagement photography would have returned nation-wide results, the goal of this research is to see where the local wedding pros are shooting their engagement sessions. You'll likely recognize some of the parks and buildings that they are working in and near.
Lots of Photos
Hopefully your friend will be using a digital camera. That way they can take lots of images without worry about film expense. Sometimes the difference between an average photo and a great photo is simply changing the angle and perspective of the camera!This point was really driven home to me with some recent engagement photo sessions I have done. I am in the process of creating an eBook to help couples take top-notch engagement photos. I had another photographer help me out with several engagement sessions. Together, we shot about 600 photos during each two-hour engagement session. During the session, I would often setup and take photos of the couple. While I was doing so my assistant would be moving around and photographing the same scene at different angles. Afterwards, I would look at the photos I took and also some of the side-angles my assistant shot at those same times--and there is often a night and day difference between the two. The couple didn't move or change their pose; the only difference was the angle at which the image was taken!
So, once you have found a good location for your photo session and you and your fiancé are in position -- let your photographer snap away! Don't limit the shots they're taking!
And again: have fun with the session. Smile a ton. Laugh a lot. Make the photo session a special memory that you and your fiancé will share for a lifetime.
Christopher Maxwell is a professional photographer based near Kansas City. He is in the process of creating an eBook full of Engagement Photo Tips. You can visit his site to receive notification when his Engagement Photography eBook is available.
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