Sunrise at The Bluffs with Kamea & Dylan (+ film!)
If you prefer more privacy while still getting that beautiful golden light, then let me hold your hand while I say this…
Sunrise sessions are for you. And let me hold your other hand while I say this second part: we met up at 5:30AM for this session, and tbh we could have started 15 minutes earlier haha. But, it was completely worth it. I mean, look at how beautiful these engagement photos are!
Sunrise sessions are great if you have a complicated schedule and evenings aren’t ideal for you, if you want to shoot somewhere busy (like a beach, or a tourist spot, in the middle of summer) and logistically it makes sense to go there at an off-peak time, and it is especially great for folks who are not fans of PDA where having the less people around the better. During sunrise we get the same beautiful, soft, golden light as you would as sunset but in the morning with all of the above benefits, and more.
For privacy, for PDA, for lack of crowds we opted to shoot Kamea & Dylan’s session at sunrise and truly the only downfall was that it was during a heatwave, that you could feel even at 6am, but otherwise it was a picture perfect morning. Occasionally the trail to the beach (first set of photos) is closed due to flooding but we lucked out with it being open. Since it is such a small beachfront having no one else around was such a treat, and allowed to really let loose and take up space. As the sun continued to rise everything got more and more beautiful. The best part of a sunrise engagement photoshoot: being done by 7AM so you can just grab a coffee and really start your day after a lovely morning.
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We are so excited to have shot a roll of 35mm film at this session too!
Film photography has been all of the rage (rave?) lately and we couldn’t be more thrilled! For over a decade now we all have shot on both 120mm and 35mm film for personal projects so now being able to blend the two together is really exciting to us. Admittedly, I haven’t used my film cameras in a while— so much so I didn’t realize one of them needed to be sent in for repairs until trying to develop a beautiful session only to find diddly squat on the roll, don’t get me started— and for this session I dusted off an old Nikon F4. Funny story, between Ethan and I we have a dozen film cameras and I was so confident and certain that this camera is mine, but Ethan was just as sure that it’s his. He was on the literal verge of pulling up his receipt, only for us to one day head to my mom’s and find out that I have a verrrrrrry similar film camera living there. I mean, what’s his is mine and what’s mine is his so I’m basically right, right?
Anyways! I was so excited to take this camera for a spin after (what I though) was many years of not using it, and was even more excited to get these photos back! They are so different than the digital photos, which do you prefer?
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