sunny & brian: engagement

"sit still."  those words remind me too much of growing up. 

presidents, pharaohs, and peasants have all been told to "sit still" for hours to have their portraits painted with brushes on canvas.  "static portraiture" is nothing new.  this technique has been applied by painters, sculptures, other artists for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. you can see the results at national portrait gallery in washington, dc. after a visit to the coolest american museum dedicated to portraiture, i was inspired to light-paint inspired by the words, "sit still."

in photography, "sit still" isn't something we think about too much about.  perhaps it has something to do with the "click" of our shutter moving at 60 miles per hour 1/60 second or faster. sometimes it's nice to slow down to 20 seconds, which can feel like 1/8,000 of a second when you are in love :)

sunny & brian rock the party that rocks the pinyata.... and so the light-painting begins:


tight.



for some reason they went all jay-z on me.


--- back to "normal" programing ---

brian swept sunny off her feet when he proposed. here's the evil weapon of choice:


what a cute couple in great natural light!!


soweet.  


and version two all done up fancy dancy.




perfecto!


totally relaxed. totally fun.


when you have such pretty light, even the pavement is comfy :)


one thing i totally enjoyed about east coast light is the ability to predict timing the "golden minute," which happens when the light shoots through all the dense smog/fog/political atmosphere. in denver, our mountains block some of that light when you are in the shadows.

time to soak up the sun:


a pair of small video lights created illuminated the drama here:


and this was "officially" the latest engagement portrait ever shot by kern-photo (hint: the DC metro was almost closed).