Last weekend, Aviva and I went to the
New York botanical gardens by our house to take some engagement photos as kind of a warm up for the wedding photographers we are going to use at the wedding next May. Honestly, I thought that the idea of engagement photos was a little crazy, but the photographers said that they wanted to make sure to get our skin tones right and have some practice shooting us before the wedding. I mean they are the professionals and we want the wedding photos to look great, so if this helps, its great. So the photographers, Sarah and Steve Langdon (you can look at the other excellent work of
Langdon photography at their blog here), came up and despite the killer heat (93, felt like 100 with humidity) we went to the Bronx Botanical garden to take some pictures. I have to say it was a fantastic experience.
Sarah and Steve were awesome and fun and we got to wander through a lot of the gardens, including my favorite area, the ornamental conifers section. They made us feel really comfortable about taking the pictures and we had a lot of fun with the experience, plus we had brought some pineapple, cookies, breads and cheese and were able to have a nice picnic in the garden. The whole shoot only took about 2.5 hours, and if not for the heat we probably would have hung out longer because it was so much fun. When we got back to the house, they helped me out with the computer editing of some of my own photos, as they knew a lot more about photoshop than I, and then they left for Brooklyn. A really great time, and now that some of the pictures are up, you can see the excellent photos
here.
Last weekend, Aviva and I went to the New York botanical gardens by our house to take some engagement photos as kind of a warm up for the wedding photographers we are going to use at the wedding next May. Honestly, I thought that the idea of engagement photos was a little crazy, but the photographers said that they wanted to make sure to get our skin tones right and have some practice shooting us before the wedding. I mean they are the professionals and we want the wedding photos to look great, so if this helps, its great. So the photographers, Sarah and Steve Langdon (you can look at the other excellent work of Langdon photography at their blog here), came up and despite the killer heat (93, felt like 100 with humidity) we went to the Bronx Botanical garden to take some pictures. I have to say it was a fantastic experience.
Sarah and Steve were awesome and fun and we got to wander through a lot of the gardens, including my favorite area, the ornamental conifers section. They made us feel really comfortable about taking the pictures and we had a lot of fun with the experience, plus we had brought some pineapple, cookies, breads and cheese and were able to have a nice picnic in the garden. The whole shoot only took about 2.5 hours, and if not for the heat we probably would have hung out longer because it was so much fun. When we got back to the house, they helped me out with the computer editing of some of my own photos, as they knew a lot more about photoshop than I, and then they left for Brooklyn. A really great time, and now that some of the pictures are up, you can see the excellent photos here.
