Bridal Portraits

Howie's sister is getting married the first week of August. She's gone through the ringer trying to get her wedding dress altered just right. She got the first alterations back the same day as her scheduled bridal portraits. However, between bad alterations and some sloppy photography, she wasn't happy at all with how they came out.

So - Howie offered to do a new set of bridal portraits for her. Howie loves photography! He was a yearbook photographer in high school. About a year ago we bought him an Digital SLR camera so he'd have a really good camera to work with again. And he takes it with him everywhere.

We met at the state capital. Howie's sister has a 5-year-old daughter who Howie calls "spoiled baby". She came dressed up for portraits, too. Also with the entourage the maid-of-honor, also a photographer taking pictures, and Howie's mom. We took our time and had fun and Howie took a TON of pictures! (Enough to fill a 1G memory card, and half of a second).

That combined two of Howie's favorite types of photography... bridals and children.

Howie did an amazing job! I followed him around adjusting the dress and hair.

When we came home, we played around a bit with the pictures in Photoshop to see what we could do. That's one of my favorite parts of Howie's hobby. I am pretty versed in Photoshop so we put his photo printing experience and my software and design know-how together we can turn out a pretty good picture. Here are a few of my favorites.