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The eternal question of getting your picture taken – just what do you do with your hands? The biggest myth about engagement sessions is that you must know how to pose. You don’t. A big part of why I set up Boston engagement sessions with my couples is to give you the tools that will take the pressure to perform off your wedding day (at least as much as we can).
Your Boston engagement session isn’t just a box-ticking exercise, it’s a rehearsal that is going to help make your wedding photos look and feel effortless (or at least feel a little less awkward). Before a chaotic wedding day distracts you, an engagement session gives you a chance to break the ice with your photographer, breathe, and learn to enjoy being photographed together.
When you get engaged there’s a little montage that flashes before your eyes: drinking champagne while twirling around in a dozen dresses, cake samples, a riot of color swatches, cake samples, the overwhelming scent of a thousand flowers you’ve never heard of, cake samples, imagining yourself on a Cape Cod beach or at MFABoston, and that one beautiful moment as you stare over at your beloved before…
With a background in photojournalism and visual storytelling, I believe the best wedding photos rarely come from a shot list – they come from the thousand small moments that unfold naturally throughout your day. I never want your Massachusetts wedding to feel like a staged photoshoot created for Instagram.
Sometimes when I work with couples I have to remind them that it's okay to be affectionate. It's understandable, not everyone has a lot of experience in front of the camera and you feel so nervous and awkward about what kinds of weird things your face could be doing (which is why an engagement session can be just the right level of exposure for camera-shy couples) but Ozzie and Nick didn't have…
"Lust and mystery sparkled in her scintillant eyes, cruelty lurked in the curl of her full red lips. Each movement of her supple body was subtly suggestive. Her coiffure imitated that of the queen's, on her feet were gilded sandals..." - A Witch Shall Be Born, Robert E. Howard
When planning your dream wedding, it’s easy to imagine everything going perfectly—Uncle Dave leaves the jorts at home, vendors arrive on time, and the sky stays clear. But Plymouth weddings (and New England weddings in general) involve a hundred moving parts, and something always veers off plan. The best way to keep weather from derailing your day is simple: have a backup plan—especially for your…
New England couples want to pack as much of a party as they can into their wedding day. But when you start thinking about wedding photography coverage, the question comes fast: what does “full coverage” actually include? The rehearsal dinner? The after-party? Brunch the next morning?
“Ninety-nine percent of lenses are better than 100 percent of photographers,” is a quote from wildlife photographer Scott Bourne that’s always stuck with me. There’s a temptation in photography circles (that often gets pushed onto couples), to believe that better gear is all you need to make better photos. But in our day-to-day work when most photographers are stressing their gear, it’s usually…
A wedding album shouldn’t be like a high school yearbook – stiff, staged, and static. The first look, the first dance, that kiss – these are the iconic moments that wedding photography was meant to capture. This is when motion and emotion collide and create a kind of magic.
