Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Session Photography – Christina and Jeff
We took Christina and Jeff about 45 minutes outside of Las Vegas to a location that used to be pretty “secret”, but now is becoming pretty popular with photographers. If you remember a couple months ago we got some cool off-camera lighting? Well it’s not really portable as in being able to carry/move it around constantly – but we decided to try it with Christina and Jeff. I think they thought it was pretty funny watching me carry the big flash with umbrella around for 1.5 hours!
What you will notice on this shoot is the interesting lighting effect – the flash was almost always off-center which gives the photos a different (and we think, better) look.
Jeremy did the actual shooting here, with both of us collaborating on poses and lighting. Christina and Jeff were GREAT, and a lot of fun. They were open to any fun stuff we threw at them, too!
We started out in the old barn, so some “vintage” type processing was a must… (don’t forget to click for larger version!)
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Here’s our “front-and-back” set of poses that we always get, but we always try to do it a bit differently…
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Can’t you just picture them, like 50 years from now, sitting in an old wooden chair on their front porch, in the same pose? 
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
The last of the “posey-formalish” shots…
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
I just LOVE the expressions here – this one is after Jeremy cracked some sort of joke and snapped right at the perfect moment…
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Oops, one more posed photo…
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Now I’m going to warn some of my more conservative/traditional readers that these next photos all have a LOT of processing. I think the processing is complimentary to the photos, but you’ll need to look at these with an “artistic” eye… OK?
There’s this other barn-thing on the property and we’d been wanting to do a shot like this…
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Now I know that Christina and Jeff aren’t looking at each other on that one, so we continued the series of photos with these two… and if you look close, you can see the interesting lighting (note the shadows on the RIGHT side of everything? That’s because the flash was way off to the left.
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Anyone who remembers the infamous “bobble head” photos – well this one isn’t quite as extreme but the effect is still pretty cool:
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
At this point, it’s getting pretty dark and usually we’d be done – but we had the high-powered flash so we kept on shooting. And we ended up with one of our most favorite photos of the evening (and by the way, the sky isn’t artificially colored – there’s some tweaking to the saturation and vividity but that’s it):
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
And now it was DARK… a 5 minute walk to the old plane “crash” site just to experiment with shadows and harsh lighting (on purpose). Not everyone would like this style but you have to admit it’s interesting!
Las Vegas Wedding Engagement Photography
Afterwards, Jeff and Christina agreed to let us REALLY experiment with something called “painting with light”. I’ll be blogging that sometime in the near future. In the meantime, we are really looking forward to shooting their wedding and reception in October!
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That sunset photo with the Coke truck is amazing! Great photos!! I also love the airplane shot.
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[...] We took Christina and Jeff about 45 minutes outside of Las Vegas to a location that used to be pretty “secret”, but now is becoming pretty popular with photographers. If you remember a couple months ago we got some cool off-camera lighting? Well it’s not really portable as in being able to carry/move it around constantly – but we decided to try it with Christina and Jeff. I think they thought it was pretty funny … [...]
WOW! Christina and Jeff’s pics came out great! There were several that I thought were just WAY cool – the view from above on the Metro! And the very last, with plane “crash” looked like the poster for a “survival” movie! These were really awesome! The Coke truck, too, was really beautiful (the colors just popped!)
Usually I don’t like the “posed” looks – but the one where Christina has her hand up behind her on Jeff’s face – priceless!
My all time favorite I think is the “SURVIVORS” – it kind of looks like a skeleton is just behind Jeff! They’re standing there saying – we made it through THIS – we can take on ANYTHING!