Engagement Shoot

Sebbi & Aman - Destination Pre-Wedding Shoot Venice, Italy.

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I've heard a lot of people talk about Venice and how beautiful the city is. I was actually mesmerised with the architecture and views of this amazing place. The rush of the city can be compared to Central London at 5pm so I knew from the start this was going to be a challenging shoot. 

Our first shoot was Sunset, so I knew the only way to get the sunset peaking through the building was to heading over to San Marco Square and getting a Gondola to take us as far as we could into the Grand Canal. 

With Grand Canal being one of the main water ways in Venice, the water was EXTREMELY choppy and if you've ever been on a Gondola, you'll know that it's all about weight distribution to stop the Gondola from rocking side to side. 

Having nearly had a few man over board situations, we managed to get a beautiful set of images in about 45 minutes which I was really proud of. 

Even with the sun set, Venice still didn't die down so I knew a Sunrise shoot at 6am was the only option.

Arriving at San Marco Square at the crack of dawn with the sun just about to rise in the distance, I saw a perfect spot to shoot which I wasted no time in utilising. Even with a tourist waiting with a tripod to capture the sunrise from the spot I wanted to shoot, I quickly posed the couple and totally ignored the shouting while I began to take some photos pretending I couldnt hear anything. 

The sunrise was extremely quick just like the sunset, this shoot lasted just over an hour but was a pretty tough shoot as I had no assistant to help with light so i was juggling my framing, lighting and posing all at the same time from a distance. 

 

Nav & Priya - Destination Pre-Wedding Shoot in Salzburg, Austria

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Nav and Priya came to me wanting every bit of their wedding captured because they valued photography and knew how much it plays a crutial part to their wedding memories. They decided they wanted a destination shoot in Austria and with this actually being my first destination shoot, I was super excited to get started. The first day consisted of searching for locations. Me and my assistant hired a car and drove from Salzberg down to Berchesgaden which is a nation park that borders Germany.

Must I say, the drive was easily the most beautiful journey I’ve ever taken. The surrounds were insane. We saw emerald green rivers flowing right besides us to heading in between huge snow covered mountains.

Having done our research, we knew exactly where we wanted to go check out for potential shoot locations and with the time of the year, most of the locations were empty due to no tourists visiting the area in winter.

Once Priya and Nav had arrived, we headed to Gollinger Wasserfall for our first shoot. We thought it was an extremely clever idea to start shooting on active railway. This was until police turned up, shouted at us in a language we didn’t understand, so we packed up as quick as we could and left the scene before we got arrested.

Fast forwarding to my favourite photo of the shoot. We actually wrapped up shooting on the last day and were heading back to the hotel. On the drive back, where the roads were pitch black, we turned a corner and looked up and saw a ton of stars in the sky which was a view I don’t think any of us had ever witnessed. I knew I had to get a photo of this so we jumped out the car and took a few minutes to get the photo I wanted. I assure you, every star and shooting star you see in the image is real and not photoshopped!