The World According to Angie

Made For Each Other

 

At our Spring 2009 photo shoot a few weeks back, once we'd gotten all the smiles and giggles out of Logan that he was willing to give up that morning, we left him to play with Uncle Jim while I shot a couple couple-shots of Audrey & Chris.

 

Lesson #1: If you're creative, you can find interesting backgrounds in all sorts of places.  As of April 11th, the grass in McKinney was still spotted with the yellow-brown of winter and the trees were mostly naked.  The evergreen shrubbery in their front yard, however, was a beautiful green that made for a perfect backdrop.

Lesson #2: Hope for adventurous photo subjects.  Audrey and Chris are awesome about this... whether I ask them to climb a wall or a tree or, in this case, to sit in their landscaping ... they're game for just about anything.

 

Lesson #3: Sometimes it's the photographer who has to be adventurous.  Audrey and Chris have a beautiful covered front porch which has awesome indirect lighting in the morning hours.  But in order to take this shot, I had to climb through their shrub beds and wedge myself between a bush and their porch railing.  Chris didn't cringe too much.

Right now, I'm obsessed with texture, so this photo makes me ridiculously happy - what with the brick and the wood and Audrey's hair and ...

These photos were shot with Audrey's new Nikon D300 and an 18-200mm lens at f/5.  Mmmm... it still had that "new camera smell..."  Thanks for letting me play with your new toy, girl!  I'm trying to fight the camera-envy.

The Blicks

Chip and Carla are absolutely adorable!  I would love to do a full shoot for them; I know we'd come out with some super-fun outtakes.  Heck, I'd love to do a full shoot for any and all of our HomeTeam members - the offer stands!  These two were having such fun as they settled in for their portrait ... I think Carla actually sat down on Chip's lap, and started giggling.  I have two other frames where she's just smiling, but this one is my favorite - it really seems to capture the joyful nature of their relationship.  Shot with Nikon D200 at 55mm, f/4.0, using SB800 through diffusion panel set to subjects' right.

Justin & Wendy Dorsey

Justin and Wendy are also part of the Cochran HomeTeam (at Fellowship Church).  They're an absolute trip.  Justin seems to have a sense of humor that is quite similar to my darling husband.  I'm truly enjoying the process of getting to know them through our bi-monthly meetings.  It almost seems wrong to do this in black-and-white, since Wendy has this gorgeous red hair, but it's what the event organizer asked for, so...  Taken at our November Date Night event.  Shot with Nikon D200 at 55mm, f/4.0, using SB800 through a diffusion panel set to subjects' right.

Stacey & DeAnna Cochran

Stacey and DeAnna are the leaders of our church HomeTeam.  They are one of the kindest, most hospitable, most giving couples I know.  I took this portrait at our November Date Night event.  Shot with Nikon D200 at 55mm, f/4.0, using SB800 firing remotely through a diffusion panel set to the subjects' right, November 14, 2008.

Audrey & Chris - Fall 2008

Another photo from our Fall 2008 photo shoot.  Shot with Nikon D200 at 100mm, f/4.8, no flash on a cloudy day.