Jennilee & Brett | San Francisco | Westcott | BART | Union Square | North Beach | Engagement Session

When we met Jennilee for the first time in Union Square, I think she was pretty nervous.  Well...I would be nervous too if I was about to get my picture taken for two hours straight.  After a few shots and Brett making us laugh with his funny antics, we all realized that this would be a fun and very refreshing (for us photographers) session.

We wanted to hit all the cool spots so we just kept on walking and walking.  We were even thinking about walking from North Beach to Union Square.  Brett and Jennilee were such good sports through it all and I think we managed to get some killer shots in.  I loved that they were always up for something creative and had great suggestions throughout the whole day.  I can't wait to shoot their wedding in May! 

 Falling in love.  Literally.

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We always look for great lighting first.  And sometimes the source might not be what you expect.  These were taken at the Powell Bart Station from one of those blank advertisement walls.  Normally, you'd have to do these in a studio.

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Real props to Jennilee and Brett for this one.  These frosted door were backlit by a Victoria's Secret store.  We asked them to do anything they could think of behind those doors.  I don't think anyone knew that there were photographers on the other side so they just looked like two crazy people doing strange things inside of Victoria's Secret.   You guys rock!

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BART!

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Fun shot in the middle of Union Square!

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Love those eyes!

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The cute couple.

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We went behind an alley and found this.  I love the lighting in this one. 

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I was cracking up so hard during this one.  Brett was acting like a sleezy guy ambling down to the pretty lady.  

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Veronica & Paul J | San Francisco | Ferry Building Marketplace | Sur La Table | Park | Carnival | Engagement Session

I knew Paul J when he was just known as just J.  I have no idea where he picked up the Paul part, but it's very cool.  He's definitely one of the most down to earth and chill guys I know.  Veronica is one of those girls that is so warm and full of positive energy.   I've gotten to know Veronica from all the past weddings that she's been a part of as a bridesmaid and makeup artist.  If any of you brides are looking for a makeup person let me know and I'll pass on the info to her.  That was a shameless plug, but she's really awesome so she deserves it. 

Veronica has been a blog stalker from the very beginning.  I think she was the first one to comment on our blog too!  She's a huge fan of theimageisfound, of which we are also ginormous fans, so we definitely wanted to bring our A-game to their shoot.  This session was a lot of fun because for the first time we actually had some audience participation going on.  All I had to do was ask Veronica to bat her eyelashes at various strangers and ask them to do some crazy stunts for us.  

I am so looking forward to their wedding. 

This was taken right next to a huge group of people having lunch at the Ferry Building.   

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Veronica's family are great readers so she wanted to center some of her wedding decorations around books.  What a great idea.  We had to grab some shots in the book store.

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Vern has such killer eyes.  I love the hat prop that we picked up. 

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Raving with oven mitts at Sur la Table.  Too cool. 

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These guys were such great sports.  I asked them to jump so many times, but it was worth it! 

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One of my favorite shots of the whole shoot. 

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Subtle flare frames the shot.  I love it. 

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The sunset lighting in this shot is so sweet. 

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FUN! 

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We went to the Oakland carnival afterwards and snagged some fun night time shots.   

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