Engagement Portraits

A dear old friend of mine recently asked me to shoot her engagement photos. I had never shot these particular type of portraits so I did major inspiration hunting and spent a good hour location scouting. My favorite spot I found was a boarded doorway with a cute little black and white awning overhead. What I did not think about was that during our shoot it would be right in the sun. We had to wait for cloud coverage to get a shot and then the sun quickly came out again. I shot a few with the natural light, but it was just a bit too bright for my tastes. The shot below was the one and only frame I got off before the sun came out. Luckily I like it. My friend also really wanted a shot involving scrabble (a favorite past time of her and her fiancee). She had seen a picture shot from overhead of a couple on a blanket with a scrabble board. We concocted our own version of this. It was a lot of fun despite the fact that while getting positioned my friend accidentally scraped a chunk of skin off the face of her beloved. I assured them that the shoot could go on with a little photoshop magic.