by carly on August 6, 2010
Before Grace and Richard’s engagement session, I had never shot a portrait session at Quail Hill Community Park in Irvine. What a cool location! I felt like I was inside an Anthropologie catalog. Grace and I did a fair amount of consulting prior to the portrait session, and I could tell she was really into the whole photo thing (the balloons were her idea). I could go on and on about what a fun time we had frolicking through the wide open meadows at Quail Hill, how Richard is such a good sport for pretending a balloon was whisking him off into the distance, and how much I love Grace for putting my business on Yelp and writing the most amazing review EVER, but I will just let the pics do the talking. Thank you Richard and Grace for an awesome afternoon! Can’t wait for you to see all the images!
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When Rosie and Kory told me they wanted to play around in the ocean and get wet, I knew I had a fun engagement session ahead of me. Rosie expressed to me that she definitely wanted photos on the beach, but she also liked the hip, young, urban look, so we decided to shoot their session in downtown Laguna Beach. I had just renewed my business insurance (thankfully), so if a wave took me and my cameras out (which almost happened a few times), it wouldn’t be the end of the world, haha! This adorable couple hails from Utah, and will be getting married at the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City this summer. When you two have babies, you better bring them back to California so I can photograph them! Or just fly me to Utah 
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When the bride-to-be and I are making plans for a double date (and doggie play date) by the end of her engagement session, I know she’s made the right choice by hiring me. Creating beautiful images is only a small part of what it takes to be an exceptional photographer. Anyone who practices enough can do it, hence the surplus of Orange County wedding photographers…Building rapport with your subjects and creating beautiful, real, natural looking images is another story. It has nothing to do with photography, and everything to do with relationship building and psychology. I knew my Chapman University education would come in handy; thanks Dad! Anyways, here’s some images from Kira and Colin’s downtown Laguna Beach engagement session! They’ll be tying the knot in August at the beauteous Casa Romantica in San Clemente.
The smell of baking waffle cones was giving us all a serious gelato craving, mmmm!
I added a textured overlay post-production in Photoshop to add a little more interest to this image. I kept it fairly subtle since there’s already several things going on in the background. 
Kira’s cute, red shoes were begging for a photo with the telephone booth…
Me gusta backlighting! It’s especially flattering on Kira. 
Awww! Can’t you just see how much Colin adores his future wifey?!
I was busy setting my cameras, but luckily managed to capture this 1 shot at just the right moment…
Pretty background huh? Too bad it’s directly next to a smelly dumpster, so I snapped a bunch of frames super fast and we got outta there!
The shaded sidewalks in downtown Laguna Beach are perfect for these kind of shots. 
Sorry Colin, had to blog this one! What fun is an engagement session without at least 1 cheesy photo?
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by carly on March 2, 2010
