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Amanda and I met in college and had some art classes together but it wasn’t until my last semester at school that we really became good friends.  As unusual as it is, we’ve actually become even closer now that we’ve both graduated and live practically across the country from each other. I’m in North Carolina and she’s in OKLAHOMA! We’ve both become full time photographers (you can go here to check out her work!) which makes it nice because we can swap stories about work and even meet up every now and then for work related things…such as this Love Affair Workshop, and I also helped photograph a wedding with her a few months ago in Atlanta.  She’s determined to try and get me to move out to Oklahoma so we can start a business together. Haha, we’ll see…

If you haven’t already checked out my previous two posts about the Love Affair Workshop, you can scroll down to them to find out what the photography workshop is all about. The photos in this post are not from the workshop, but taken while we were in Atlanta to model for the workshop. I thought today would be the perfect time to post some shots from my little photo session with Amanda because today is her birthday! Happy Birthday Amanda! Love you!

Oh, did I mention Amanda is GORGEOUS?! I’m convinced it’s impossible to take a bad picture of her…which then makes it impossible for me to narrow down my favorites. So, I’ve just decided to post all of them! Hope you enjoy!

The main reason why we even decided to do this shoot is so we could both have a cool photo to use for the “about me” section of our websites.  Below are a few I took of Amanda, and she took the one of me in my bio section at the top of my blog.

Like I explained in my last post with Erin, we had fun playing around with different lighting effects using just the available light from street lights, buildings, etc. I’ll definitely be doing that again! Anyone up for a photo session in Uptown Charlotte?!

Ok ok, so I will confess that these next couple of shots weren’t completely just available light. I borrowed an LED mini flashlight from a guy across the street to get these. At first I didn’t really like the look of the blue light the LED puts off, but I think it grew on me…

Ok, well I ended up having more time than I thought, so I’ve decided to post some photos that I took of Erin after our modeling session at the workshop in Atlanta (still wearing her model makeup and hairdo. How convenient for me?!). I should hopefully be posting some of Amanda tomorrow so don’t forget to check back.

So, here is my sister…who just moved to France a couple of weeks ago to work as an English teacher at a high school there.  She’s been waiting to see these pictures forever so this is my little gift to her from afar. Love you sis!

I had never shot in a large city at night before just using available light so we had a good time playing around with different lighting effects. All of the photos below were taken using just available light from street lamps, buildings, etc.

Yay, I have finally found a chance to do a post from the Love Affair workshop! I’m so excited to share these pictures with everyone because we had such a great time and got some awesome shots! My sister, Erin, and my friend and photography buddy, Amanda, had the chance to go to Atlanta back in July to model for the annual Love Affair photography workshop put on by some of the best photographers in the wedding business…Kelly Moore, Millie Holloman, Davina Fear, and Lauren Clark.  The workshop is for women only and covers things such as tricks of the trade, workflow, and balancing life and work. Near the end of the workshop week the ladies participating in the workshop are divided into small groups to go around town with a model and practice what they’ve learned…that’s where Erin, Amanda, and I came in.  Below are some shots of the three of us taken by our photographers, and credit given where due (click on the pictures to be directed to their website).  Our outfits are compliments of the photographers hosting the workshop and the  head pieces were done by Joanne Miranda.

I’ve decided to post some of our photos from our model sessions first. Later that night the three of us went out around Atlanta and did a photo session of our own. I’ll post some of those pictures tomorrow so make sure you check back!!!

Erin:

Amanda:

Me:

At the end of the workshop, each group was supposed to submit a photo from their session with their model. I believe there were certain things that had to be included in the picture such as negative space, good lighting, emotion, etc and my group’s photo won! Here is the winning picture! I was in a movie theater in the lobby of a condo building and we turned out all the lights and flashed my face to make it appear like I was watching a [scary] movie. Haha!