Category Archives: Engagement Portraits

Catherine and Dale – engagement photography

Brisbane engagement photography offers so many chooses to give the feel you are after. When considering the location of your engagement portraits it’s best to keep in mind where you will be getting married and what you have planed for your wedding photography. Wedding photography locations are usually chosen on the bases of what you would like with the constraints of been conviently local to your wedding ceremony or reception location. With your engagement photography we have a chance to be a little bit different and choose from your very favorite locations and time of day or evening. The creativity of a professional photographer can use photography locations to add a feeling to your photos. Strong archtical backdrops, soft greens of gardens, the texture of the old buildings and lane ways can all add to creating more than a photograph but a portrait that says who you are and what you feel.

Catherine and Dale’s wedding is to be set in a beautiful garden so they chose to be a little bit different with their engagement portraits and went with meeting at GOMA at South Bank in the early evening. This is a great area with a mix of great buildings, gardens and water features. We really enjoy this time with our couples. It’s a time to chat as much as it’s about the photography. In fact I firmly believe our photography is much better for taking the time to care about you and hear your stories. Thank you Catherine and Dale for a great time and please enjoy some of the images we created and have posted below. We’re really looking forward to your wedding day.

Rediscovering Brisbane photography – locations for your portrait

We want your suggestions for Brisbane portrait locations. Listening to you and challenging ourselves is how we keep our wedding photography in Brisbane fresh, natural, exciting and keep you in the picture for your portraits. All styles of scenes from the beautiful to run down. Parks to streets and alley ways of Brisbane. Specializing in Brisbane wedding photography and portraits we’ve discovered many locations to get the best for your photography and we want to discover more.

Now it’s time to put you in the picture and get your suggestions for Brisbane portrait photography. This will be a series that will include your suggestions and some of ours to rediscover with a fresh eye to get new angles and different feelings from locations. We’ll collect all the ideas and start going to these locations. A little time away from our clients and editing images to capture Brisbane scenery with creative ideas to place you in the picture. Looking forward to posting images here and discussing some of our ideas and hearing your comments.

So LIKE us on Facebook and you’ll be kept up to date with new locations and very special deals to put you in the that picture.  When your organising your portrait photography in Brisbane to place yourself in the picture remember to mention the “Rediscovering Brisbane” series and your favorite location.

Tiffany and Jordan engagement portrait

Tiffany and Jordan jumped at the chance to meet in the evening to capture their portraits by the Brisbane River with the city lights a glow. We started our engagement photography up at Kangaroo Point Cliffs and then headed over the Story Bridge to walk along the north bank of the Brisbane River. We always look for the best in planning your portraits. This involves getting a feel for who you are, what you like to do and the best time that suits you.

There was some light rain which added a huge amount of mood and atmosphere to the backdrop of their portraits. I had brought an umbrella for Tiffany and Jordan to share if they needed during their engagement photography session. The umbrella I use has a wooden shaft so that we don’t get bright reflections that you can with the chrome type. It’s focusing on little details like this that can make all the difference. You’ll see some of these portraits below. The wet ground gave us some great reflections to be also creative with.

As we walked down to Custom House which is one of Brisbane’s heritage icons we looked for the best light and backdrops to their portraits.

Within a few days we had enhanced their images for viewing. Tiffany and Jordan choose their favorite images for us to produce a portrait album for them.

Here are just a few of their images.

 

Sandra and Phil’s Portraits

The plan was to photograph Sandra and Phil at  Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens in the Japanese gardens but the day we were there all of the water had been drained from the pond. So we went off to find other beautiful spots and we did. We got so many great shots that day, Sandra and Phil got us to put a collection of their print together in one of our new album boxes.

Kirsten and David Portrait

This was such a great time with Kirsten and David in Roma St Parklands. We are so looking forward to photographing their wedding next year at Peppers Salt Resort Kingscliff.

Samantha and Dean portraits

Samantha and Dean’s wedding is coming soon so we got together for some portraits and a chat about what they are planning for their wedding. We went to Roma St Parklands were there are so many great spots for photographs.