by Zlatko Batistich

I’m very happy to show some of my favorite photos from Meredith and Dan’s engagement portrait session in NYC.  Starting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we walked to Belvedere Castle, the Bow Bridge and Bethesda Fountain.

We have touched the subject of engagement sessions a few times on this blog. As wedding photographers we often encourage our couples to work with us before their wedding and get together for a few hours of fun photography. We happen to live in a very random and rich in dramatically different lications area. When it comes to one of the basic question of “where to shoot?” – we are always happy to consult and advise. Urban, beach, woods, rural, day or night, big city or countryside – you can find it all in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Yes, you can surely just go to a nearby park and shoot a few traditional poses with a long lens and beatifully blurred background…but hasn’t this been done millions of times over decades? Whenever you get to work with an unusual couple like Jenn and Tim, a door of opportunities opens. It was them who came up with all the locations for their engagement session, including the supermarket (yes, we got chased out of one by security guards but it dodn’t stop us from finishing the shoot at another one just down the road!). All of the below, very different imho images were captured during a few hours I spent with Jennifer and Tim a few weeks ago:

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY EVERYONE !!! It’s today that all the happy couples do special, crazy things for love, isn’t it ? In the spirit of this amorous holiday we want to bring something exclusive to our clients !

Two of my very favorite locations! I love this job - we get to know eachother better and start to develop the trust and insight that makes for beautiful images! Photographing Lindsay and Mike was so much fun, I truly wanted to keep scheduling more location shoots. We had one really glorious day at the Jersey shore, and another beautiful day in Manhattan. Even though these types of photo shoots are not candids, they always seem to capture the incredible little moments and real feelings between the couple.
 

Engagement sessions are probably a subject that is still unexplored. As wedding photographers we love being creative. Sometimes during a wedding shoot we feel like there is less time for creativity that we would like to have – for obvious reasons. During an engagement session however, the situation is different. Most of the time we have all the freedom, space and no time constraints to do “push it” however far we want to and… of course however far our subjects will allow Looking back at this season’s engagement sessions I found the following images that I thought were worth sharing: