Today and tomorrow we are featuring two recent Union Station shoots. The first is Kyla and Brian’s engagement shoot, which was photographed at Union Station, and later, around the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Stay tuned for their Vibiana wedding later this year!!

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Get ready for a super fun engagement at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills: lots of color, lots of warmth and lots of love. Thanks to Tina and Jonathan for bringing your props and your enthusiastic selves! This was such a joy to shoot, and so much fun!!! And, Happy Valentine’s Day!

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One of my favorite places in Los Angeles is the Sunset Junction area of Silver Lake. It is eclectic and artsy, peppered with some of the areas best restaurants, and most interesting shops: Intelligentsia, Silver Lake Cheese, Secret Headquarters (comic books) and Café Stella to name a few. In fact Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers has a music school here called the Silver Lake Conservatory of Music. Megan and David also share a love for the area, so it was the perfect choice for this eclectic and artsy couple. Allie and I cannot wait to see what they have planned for their Halloween wedding at SmogShoppe!

An interesting note on this shoot: we ran out of daylight pretty quick so we had a lot of fun playing with off-camera light, and high ISO / really low aperture combinations as you will see toward the end of the post.

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Our Engagement Shoot of The Bachelorette, DeAnna Pappas, and her fiance Steve was recently featured on Green Wedding Shoes. You must read the post for one of the best Proposal stories ever. Stay tuned for our post of all of their beautiful engagement photos, coming very soon.

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Rachelle and Thom’s Mad Men Inspired Cinematic Engagement Shoot was photographed on location at the Neutra VDL Research House in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Built 75 years ago by architect Richard Neutra (who Time magazine once remarked as “second only to lordly Frank Lloyd Wright”), the VDL House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and sits directly across from the Silver Lake Reservoir. It is a glass house with huge outside sun louvers (which are amazing), water roofs (which are now dry), roof-top and balcony gardens and a third-story penthouse. The design of the house was radical at the time, and perfect today as the backdrop for Rachelle and Thom’s period-piece engagement shoot.

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Jill and Mike at The Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills may be one of Callaway Gable’s hottest engagement shoots to date. Jill is an amazing actress and comedienne and Mike is an accomplished musician, and actor. As performers, they wanted an editorial engagement shoot that was dramatic, passionate and sexy. This was so much fun for us, and Allie was so in her element, directing and composing most of these shots. As an ex-model her experience is priceless when it comes to helping our clients relax and find their best angles. You can see below.

Technical stuff: all of these photos were photographed with a combination of several off-camera flashes that were modified with grids, snoots, gels to match the ambient light, an umbrella and my new favorite toy: the Protek Softlighter II. Post processing included minimal amounts of cross-processing to achieve that editorial look and feel.

Special thanks to the staff at The Avalon for letting us shoot in the room. Jill and Mike’s wedding is in a few weeks – we’ll see if we can top these photos!

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It is no wonder that we have been in, at and around The Los Angeles Central Library for several of our recent engagement shoots and weddings. Downtown Los Angeles is simply the most photogenic and dramatic environment for outstanding photography in all of Southern California. Abby and Sudeep share a love of books, so this time we went inside for a bit and explored the library. The first few photos with the little chairs are from the children’s theatre on the second floor. So cool. Keeping with the downtown theme, their wedding at Vibiana is going to be so amazing: a traditional Indian wedding meets Tuscany – we can’t wait!

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The first image below has officially qualified as one of our most favorite pictures of all time. If you only knew to what length we had to go to to get the shot. Behind the garbage can there was a homeless man asleep, which is no big deal in downtown LA, except that moments later he decided to urinate in front of all of us. That was quite a scene, and it actually solved a question that none of us could answer – why did it smell so bad in that little alley? I thought it was the pigeons -it seems I was mistaken.

Anyway, Allie and I cannot express in words how much fun we had with Morgan and Simon! From his desire to be photographed in his underwear on 6th Street, to their asking a young gentleman with a mohawk for a quick shot – these two were on fire! Thanks you guys!

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Have you ever wondered how a guy approaches his own wedding planning, or if a guy actually cares about the wedding day planning? Well if you thought that a guy does not get involved, then you have not read the hilarious blog, Temple of Groom. As David, the writer, puts it: "Written by a straight man that actually cares about wedding planning. Join him on his journey, and laugh along the way."

Well now it is time to meet David and his fiancee Rebecca. David and Rebecca are all about healthy and organic food, and their dog Ernie. We started the shoot at the Studio City Farmer's Market (actually we started in the Farmer's Market parking lot) where they shopped for produce. Then we wrapped it up at their house for some shots with their dog, and a dip in the pool! Allie and I love this shoot because it celebrates David and Rebecca's life perfectly, and that's what we are always aiming for. We also love this shoot because we love David and Rebecca. Their wedding in Cayucos is coming up soon, we cannot wait!

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The W Hollywood Engagement Photography – PART TWO

The second part of Nicole and Matt's engagement was a dream for Allison as she has been dying to shoot an engagement session inspired by those sexy Calvin Klein ads: white bed and sheets, white shirts, and jeans, maybe a little less. When Nicole and Matt’s GTKY questionnaires came back repeatedly peppered with words like sexy, seductive, fun, intimate, etc., Allie and I both knew, we had our Calvin Klein couple.

From a photographer’s perspective it is important to note that this is a big departure from normal engagement shoots that are photographed outside, taking advantage of natural light and the ever-changing outdoor scenes. This engagement session was photographed entirely in a hotel suite with little room to maneuver, and was 100% lit by us with multiple remote flashes and modifiers (4 580EXii’s, softboxes, grids, snoots, gels, an umbrella and the always helpful human lightstand.) Check out the third picture from the bottom, there is even a flash in the lamp shade.

Allison is the creative genius behind this shoot, and Nicole, Matt and myself are so stoked that this Extended Engagement at The W Hollywood Hotel was a perfect celebration of Nicole and Matt as individuals and as a couple. Stay tuned for their wedding on 10.10.10. Again, special thanks to our dear friend Kristi Blake, Marketing Manager at The W Hollywood and Jaimi Fiori of Fiori Beauty.

PART  ONE is here.

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