st. andrews (chamcook lake) portraits: raymond and rosie

i have said it before, and i will say it again. i have ridiculously good looking friends. raymond and rosie are no exception. and thankfully, they were equally excited as i was to do a couples portrait session with them.

over the past year as i have developed as a photographer i have learned a lot about the style of photography i want to produce. and about the kind of photography sessions i want to conduct with my clients. i have discovered that in order to create the kinds of images that i can be proud of, and that captures my clients genuinely i need to create and control situations that bring out real emotion and responses in my models.

so, a couple of weeks ago my willing [and good looking] friends raymond and rosie, and i set out on a friday evening to spend sometime together with my camera. i brought along my iphone loaded with images that inspire me and i set out to create my own versions of these images and came up with a few of my own ideas as we went along. these poses [or as i like to call them 'directed positions and situations'] combined with raymond and rosie's own responses in these poses made for some really beautiful results!

i love these photos so much i have already starting updating some of my marketing materials with them!

love & sunshine,
shannon-may