It was a wonderful shoot with Barrie and Ari, who were game to cross a highway and brave the winter-like temperatures and winds of a riverside night for this.
We are glad also for the magic sauce that allowed us to be comfortable shooting portraits for the gorgeous ambient at 1/100th, 135mm f/1.8, ISO 8000.
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Grand Central engagement photo /
Man, we love looking back at pictures and re-seeing them through new edits. We love the color of city lights, but a beautiful black and white moment also lived in this photo all along. There are reasons we deliver every image to clients in both color *and* black and white.
It can strike a subtly (or sometimes starkly) different tone, make for a very different album or collage to put together, or just show you images you've seen for years in a new way.
Winter engagement shoot in Owl's Head Park /
We love Brooklyn parks … all of the greenery and glory of Manhattan Parks, and far, far fewer random people moseying around in the background of photos. This is especially true for people like Gina and Pat, who were willing to brave Owl’s Head Park on a blustery winter day in nothing more than sweaters and jeans. We warmed up with a quick indoor session at the Brooklyn Firefly.
Gina headed the astonishingly great CxRAstaff who catered our wedding, and so we’re doubly excited to document hers in the (we hope) warmer month of August.
Vintage engagement shoot at June Wine Bar: Michelle and Matthew /
There’s vintage, and then there’s Michelle and Matthew. A lot of people dress up in vintage clothing for shoots, simply because it’s fun and looks great. But when Michelle met Matthew, she was impressed by how he looked in the 1920s strongman-style swimsuit he was wearing. She runs a blog called My Vintage Love, so a good part of their central identity looks back about 100 years.
So when Tatiana Breslow and I thought through their engagement shoot for them, we centered around some bars with beautiful interior woodwork to play off their look. The Campbell Apartments are in Grand Central, so they have to be very careful about how much photography they let in — even with prior approval, we were allowed to shoot with our dSLRs for exactly 90 seconds. One of the photos below was taken with an iPhone 6+, and I wasn’t doing it just to be showy — it was all we were allowed to use!
In contrast, June Wine bar in my studio’s Brooklyn neighborhood was so nice and amazingly accommodating that it almost freaked us out. “Why are you so nice? You know this is New York, right?”
Advantage, Brooklyn.
It is such a great thrill to work alongside Tatiana, and to see how our businesses and lives will improve as we merge in the coming year, and the thrill doubles when we work with a great couple. This shouldn’t be the last you see of Michelle and Matthew.
