Friday, November 19, 2010

Dominic+Dorys Engagement Session

Yes, I know today is Friday which means I'm supposed to post a photo of the week. But I had the greatest engagement session recently, and quite honestly, I can't wait till next week to post it.


So...first off, I love photographing people in love. For one, they're happy and it truly shows and that makes ALL the difference in the pictures. Actually it makes my job pretty easy. I just need to capture the love and happiness that's already there. Dominic and Dorys are very much like this. They're in love. They're happy. They photograph really well, because nothing is forced. All I have to do is let them be them...happy and in love. (Plus they're extra amazing because they're bringing me to Mexico to shoot their wedding in December. Seriously? Can't wait!)

You might recognize this first photo's location from my Photo of the Week blog post two weeks ago.
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After being downtown, we headed up to the foothills, one of my favorite places to shoot.
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I'll end with one of the last pictures we took that day. We had photographed well past the just before sunset light, and we could start to see the lights of Boise come on. As we were walking back to the cars, Dominic had the great suggestion to get the lights in the background. The lighting was still beautiful so we snapped a few right there on the road. Awesome suggestion Dominic! You guys are awesome!
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5 comments:

Pappa Perkes November 19, 2010 at 12:53 PM  

Best work yet! Great, rich color and texture!

Favorite photos: [Counting each set as a photo], ONE [kiss under the stairs!]; EIGHT [her on his back! INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL!]; TWENTY [standing in the hills--AMAZING COMPOSITION!].

Other "honorable mentions": NINE, TEN, EIGHTEEN, & NINETEEN. Oh, heck! They are all good!

Can't wait to see what you and Luisa are able to do photographing this beautiful couple at their wedding in Mexico!

Aunt Tea November 19, 2010 at 1:35 PM  

i truly love your eye. do you mind saying which lens and aperture you were using in the field?
really. beautiful.

Nate Perkes November 19, 2010 at 1:54 PM  

@Aunt Tea...for sure! Don't mind at all. I'll treat each photo group as a single photo so there are 22 in all.

Photos 1-10 (All the downtown shots): 50mm at 1.4
Photos 11-14: 70-200 at 2.8
Photos 15-19: 50mm at 1.4 (notice the different perspective in that first shot even though the framing was almost the exact same as the 70-200 above shots...blog post on this coming soon!)
Photos 20-22: 70-200 at 2.8.

HUGELY important note (at least I think so): Every image in this post that is taken with the 70-200 is wracked out to 200mm. I will not put this lens on (usually), unless I am using it at 200mm. This is just me, and my personal style, but I will take many steps back so that I can use this lens at 200mm. Again, blog post on this coming soon...hope this helps and makes sense. : )

Aunt Tea November 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM  

That was a fabulous answer! Thank you! While I can't wrangle that lovely 70-200 into my budget yet, it helps to ponder the what and how of things. I love that you go all the way out to 200, totally makes sense to me.(I usually lurk-found you from creativelive. wish you posted more LOL-and your mom!)

cindy November 19, 2010 at 3:17 PM  

Loved them all!
I'm the same way, when the 70-200 goes on, it's all the way out baby!! And I shoot with the 50 1.2THose two lenses are the absolute BEST!!!

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My name is Nate. I am in love with a few things in life: my wife, taking pictures, the outdoors, summer, and food. I hope you enjoy some of my photography work on this Blog. Feel free to shoot me an email or leave a comment. Thanks!

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