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Pam and James are the perfect couple to go to the non-so-secret anymore location outside of Las Vegas. They LOVE old cars and the rustic look… and we had a pleasant surprise as well – the cactus were in full bloom!
Jeremy and I worked together on this one, with Jeremy doing almost all of the shooting while we both scouted for locations and did all the posing, etc.
We’ll start off with a more fun, non-posed photo, I guess Pam is gonna hook her a good one!
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I know this isn’t really a lovey engagement-photo type photo, but the natural light was really nice and the “feel” was there.
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With their love of old cars, this was a given:
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A little spy-photo goin’ on!
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You probably remember seeing a very similar photo in a previous post – and I do try to be as creative/new as possible with each client – but if something “works”, then I say keep using it!
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James was able to name off almost every single car (shell) there, down to the year, based on very tiny details. He used to own a street rod shop! We loved this one, that’s all probably original wood, but not original bullet holes!
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Wanted to focus on the beautiful cactii (?) in bloom…
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Speaking of flowers and cars… we got a HUGE compliment from Pam and James… there’s a few photos that are NOT of them, that they are going to frame to hang in their house/garage. This is one that Pam is going to mat and frame:
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And here’s one that she’s going to do for James to put in his garage (I am picturing a pretty cool garage since that’s where he works on his work/hobby)…
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Here’s another one…
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We can’t wait for Pam and James’ wedding coming up in August!
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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 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!)
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Here’s our “front-and-back” set of poses that we always get, but we always try to do it a bit differently…
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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? 
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The last of the “posey-formalish” shots…
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I just LOVE the expressions here – this one is after Jeremy cracked some sort of joke and snapped right at the perfect moment…
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Oops, one more posed photo…
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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…
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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.
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Anyone who remembers the infamous “bobble head” photos – well this one isn’t quite as extreme but the effect is still pretty cool:
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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):
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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!
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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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I do a lot of the photography at the Texas Station Hotel/Casino Chapel and many times the bride and groom ask me (or one of my assistants) to cover the wedding reception as well. Melanie and Johnny also hired D. Jay’s Entertainment to DJ the event.
Here’s the happy couple after the ceremony, complete with skin re-touching to make them look their best:
Here’s an interesting tradition… a “dollar dance” or “money dance” with a bit of a twist. Money is stuck on this little girl and presented to the bride and groom. How cute! I did some “radial blur” on this photo to focus on the girl and to show action.
One thing I always try to do at my Vegas Weddings is get all of the guests in one big shot. This isn’t always possible since it’s hard to get everyone out of the reception area and find a place for a big group shot. But, this party was so good, people stayed to the very end (thanks to Jimmy who did a GREAT job keeping everyone dancing and having a good time). So I asked everyone to come out to the hallway for a group shot, probably the largest group shot I’ve done in a long time:
Thanks to Melanie and Johnny for letting me be a part of your Las Vegas Wedding and Reception!
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