Maya and Jon wanted nothing posed — so we built the shoot around their actual Saturday.
The challenge. They'd deleted every engagement photo they'd saved as reference — "too stiff, too perfect." The brief was a feeling, not a look: unguarded, warm, a little windswept.
The approach. Coffee at their corner spot, a walk through the park where they got engaged, and rooftop portraits at sunset. I shot mostly on a 35mm lens, close enough to hear them, far enough to disappear — prompts instead of poses the whole way.
Deliverables
What the couple took home
- 68 hand-edited images in a private online gallery, print-ready at full resolution.
- 48-hour preview set — twelve highlights for announcements and invitations.
- Print release — family ordered their own copies straight from the gallery.
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