Comments on: A step-by-step guide to shooting relaxed, unposed-like couple shots - Part II

By: photographer

photographer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:38:48 +0000

thanks for the tips…this can be useful…usually I have the attitude to just get into conversations until they’re totally relaxed with me and photos start to come…we both have broken the limit of a camera between us, so the photos will be more true than ever. this takes time, of course, but usually it works if you can/want to dedicate on the project.

By: Maximilian Motel

Maximilian Motel — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:49:46 +0000

Thanks for both articles. I mostly take portraits of single persons or groups, but it’s definitely helpful and can be adapted to every portrait shooting. An who knows, maybe I’m going to shoot a couple in the next few weeks?!
Thanks anyways

By: Ruben

Ruben — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:02:36 +0000

Great article, very insightful. I would’ve suggested playing bartender for a bit to get them to loosen up. haha

By: Herson Rivera

Herson Rivera — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:27:17 +0000

Great article! Very interesting to see this from someone else’s point of view.
It really gives me new ideas for situations like these.

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Tribune of the Plebs » Blog Archive » Shooting a Wedding — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:22:53 +0000

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Saturday Links Fever [2009-02-21] | All Day I Dream About Photography — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:03:25 +0000

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By: CallumW

CallumW — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:59:54 +0000

Shoot the lime …..
Ladies Inspiration, Men Ego

;o)
CW

By: JUN MADAYAG

JUN MADAYAG — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:58:02 +0000

Hi! I read this article before my shoot last sunday and also watched one of your engagement shoot where u didnt use a strobe and just a california bounce on an overcast day. It really inspired me.

On location it was overcast at 8 am and just used my instict and applied your technique and it worked well. I had with me my strobes but I couldt set it up as I was shooting a family with a baby. This was my first paid shoot and hopefully I could learn and book more.

Thanks for this site and more power!

Jun

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:43:47 +0000

I can say that I am a little bit terrified of a wedding I have coming up in June. The future couple are both
introverts and they have no imagination and seem to have a hard time smiling
(I did their engangment shoot in the fall… glad I did, I now know what challenges I have ahead of me).
Thanks for these great articles! I am not sure how lederhosen will go on a wedding
day, but you never know till you try (thats if they know what that is :D)!

By: pepin

pepin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:01:57 +0000

Pieter,

Ha! Looks like you’ll be scratching your head with some of the posts above.. but we know you’ll manage to work them out.

I just want to share a photographer who went to the rural area for a paid assignment. People there are very shy and uncomfortable with foreigners.

What he did was to spend his first 2 days going around without his camera. He talked to the locals, tried to understand their lives while taking note of key points to shoot later.

He only took out his camera on the 3rd day, shot for 2 hours. He got his shots and said goodbye to his new friends.