Our engagement session with Jason & Emily had a bit of everything: Austin Landmarks, Tears (mine), Laughter (theirs), Sweetness, Silliness, Airplane Enagement Sign (not theirs), and a sweet sunset over Downtown Austin. Let me back up a bit to put everything into context.
First the Landmark, Emily said on the phone while planning the session that her and Jason are both Austin transplants so they wanted to have their session be almost as tourists. To do the cheesy “Welcome to Austin” Sign, get some skyline shots and then be up for whatever. I have to admit that at first I was apprehensive about the Welcome to Austin sign. “It’s been done before!” shouted one side of my brain. “Do It Better” shouted the other side of my brain in the voice of my wife. So I embraced the “Do It Better” side of the brain, yes my wife always wins, and set out to make the best “Welcome to Austin” sign photos. Ever.
Quick tip for shooting landmarks bigger than people, pull the couple away from the sign. Give the couple room to breathe and let distance be your friend in conveying scale. (For those Strobist fans out there, giving distance allows you to light in 2 different planes.
Second, my tears. While shooting with my fancy new fangled digital cameras I pulled out my just-restored-last-week 70’s era Rolleiflex belonging to my late Father in Law. The leather strap gave up hope and the vintage camera went plummeting to the asphalt post-haste. I was stunned and a bit shocked. I am still not sure if everything is functioning and another trip to Precision will be required. The shutter mechanism was stopped up at first but we fired a few shots off and everything seemed to be working; fingers crossed.
The laughter, sweetness and silliness is evident in this selection of photos on the blog. Jason and Emily (mostly Emily) went from tender moments to Sherlock Holmes Faces to fake punching each other and back to sweetness. After the punching photo I was on the ground laughing so hard we had to take a short break. Did I mention they are a super fun fun fun couple? Let me check my notes, yep, they are and I did.
The airplane engagement sign flew directly over us with asking Carah Faye to marry a cell phone number, I hope the number was in Carah Faye’s contact list. Pretty sure she said yes because we saw a couple, um, celebrating not far from where we were taking sunset photos on the walk back to our cars.
And lastly, just like all my clients, I figured out a way to get them in the water. Jason & Emily were both good sports about rolling up their jeans and standing on a slightly submerged rock near Lou Neff Point (btw, does anyone know who Lou Neff is/was? google returns nothing). Fun spot to get water, skyline and a happy couple all in one shot.
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Josh loves a good adventure and some of his favorite wedding and engagement shoots have involved “getting crazy” or going somewhere special to the couple.
Josh is a Texas native and long time Pflugerville resident. He started his photography business in 2009 and has never looked back. His photo business even allowed him to be daddy-day-care before his two sons reached school age. Over the years his business has expanded to include just about every type of photography including automotive, editorial portraits, corporate events, sports and food. Through it all, he has continued to love wedding photography for genuine moment, the fast pace and the diversity of subjects it offers. Josh is a co-founder of North Austin Pfoutographic Society and a resident instructor at Precision Camera & Video in Austin, Tx.