Couple Portraits - In Love - Charleston SC - Day Two

On an unrelated, non-photography, note. I did not have the internet for a week and it was torturous!! I am so spoiled. I find it hard to believe that for the first year and a half of my marriage we did not have any internet. Of course, it doesn't help that I work from home and rely on the internet to keep me connected to the outside world. Add to that most of my bills are paid online and you have a recipe for disaster.

Moving on, I continuously worked on these amazing images while I had the internet outage and am ridiculously excited to share them with you all. I LOVE them! If it wasn't for how sand is ridiculously annoying the way it gets into everything, I would want to shoot at the beach ALL the time.

Whereas I enjoyed stretching my skills by

shooting with them at night, there is nothing

like shooting in beautiful sunset light.

I love how you can completely change the way an image

looks by changing your position relative to the sun.

Here's the first shot. . .

. . .and here's the second. . .and all I did was move ever so slightly in order to allow the sun to shine through a bit more.

I love how it accomplishes such a different and more dreamy feel.

This was my favorite image that I posted on my Facebook page the other day.

There's something I just love about driftwood on the beach.

BEAUTIFUL!!

It is truly a wonderful thing when a couple that has been together for many years are still able to have fun together and be goofy.

Spencer had a great idea involving these posts. This

was my take on the idea before he explained it better. . .

However, this is what he meant.

I think I like his idea better than my

interpretation of it.

I love the difference there is in a photograph when you use only natural light and then the effect using a little bit of flash can have on the effect. 

For example, on the left is natural light and on the right is just a little pop of flash to ensure they were illuminated well.

Like I said, these guys were fun and up for anything, even

getting completely soaked for the chance of a good picture. . .

. . .or two. . .

. . .or three or four or five. 😄

And since they were already soaking wet we decided

to re-enact the scene from "From Here to Eternity".

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Couples Portraits - In Love - Charleston SC Photography - Day One

A little bit ago, Spencer and I made the journey to Charleston, South Carolina to photograph two of our favorite people. Spencer's oldest brother and his wife. We had already captured the love between his middle brother and his wife so it was only fair that we do the same for them.

We broke our shoot up into two days because we wanted

to get some fun night shots as well as some beach shots.

SO I am breaking the blog post up in two as well.

This one is for day one.

On a previous trip, Lee and Janelle had driven us to

see this train station to see if we agreed that it was the

perfect place to take pictures someday.

We agreed.

I have this old set of luggage that I saved from my

in-law's garage sale some time back that I love to

bring out for photo shoots. With this one it was

particularly fitting.

I love she shot, he shot images. The above image on the right is my view. . .

. . .the image below is his view. 

Here's another. The above image on the right is my view. . .

. . .the image below is his. I love the variety that the far away and close images give in contrast to one another.

We had some fun playing around with some night shots.

This is me trying to step out of my box a little.

Then we went to downtown Charleston for a few fun shots.

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