We love this couple!

A few weeks ago, we got to spend a perfect day with Brittany and Blair to celebrate their wedding day! All morning, it was pouring down rain. As we carried our camera bags into the church, we each had a huge umbrella protecting our gear (and my hair!)

One of the wedding guests that was there early commented, "I just checked the weather and it's not going to clear up at all today."

Well wouldn't you know, things *did* clear up, and this lovely couple got some rays of sun on their wedding day. Yippee!

We're mixing things up a bit for this couple and showcasing all of their beautiful portraits from the day. Enjoy!

These girls are full of smiles!

The new Mr. & Mrs. - soaking in the moment!

I've got a little story for you. As we were driving to the wedding earlier in the day, I was talking to Luke about the portrait time that I wanted to have with Brittany and Blair. We had just driven by an adorable little town that's just a few minutes from their reception site. I told Luke, "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do portraits with them here!"

But we both agreed, they probably wouldn't want to have to get in the car and drive those couple of minutes off the site of the reception.

Fast forward to a few hours later, right around sunset. The bride and groom piped up and said, "Hey, is there any way we could go down the road just a little bit to that town? There's some cool places there."

My jaw dropped. Could it be? Then Blair said, "After all, these are the pictures that we're going to frame."

SAY WHAT?! Can you say, Photographer's Dream Couple!? These guys get it.

So Brittany and Blair loaded into our vehicle, and drove a few miles down the road for a full blown portrait session, right in the middle of their reception. We LOVE them.

Brittany and Blair, we had an amazing time with you guys, and got some of our favorite portraits yet! We hope you're enjoying married life!

Be sure to keep an eye out, because there's another blog post coming about something really exciting and fun that happened at this wedding!

Anna and her lovely beau, Thomas, were married this past weekend, meaning we can show you her lovely bridal photographs!

Anna has such a glowing personality! It's truly impossible not to smile when you're around her.

Anna, you are lovely.

Keep an eye out for the images from Anna and Thomas's beautiful wedding, which we just shot this weekend.

Happy Monday!

I have been anxiously awaiting this response from our lab and cannot wait to get the scans back from my first two rolls of film. I have to admit, I am also expecting some sort of email that says "Mr. Neumayr, please call us about your most recent order," then I call them and they tell me how everything is overexposed or not in focus or just total junk.

Ideally, I think my photos will look like this...

But I am fully prepared for them to look like this...

Either too dark or way overexposed.

I almost just took the film to a local drugstore to get it developed, so I wouldn't have big time professionals that see amazing art come through every day and then be taken back by my "approach" to film photography.

Even if the pictures are less than ideal, I have still learned so much by just shooting two rolls of film. First, it was very hard and took a lot of time for me to shoot those two rolls. Since I couldn't see a digital display on the back of my camera with instant results, I focused and refocused, I metered and re-metered. Then I took one single image and instinctively looked at the back of my camera to see what the image looked like, just to see a black back cover to the camera with no display.

My only idea of what the film scans are going to look like comes from the fact that I also took one of our digital cameras with me and shot an image digitally with the same settings of my film camera. I know that film and digital capture images slightly different, but since the images on the digital camera were inline with our style, I do have high hopes for my film images. The wait is what is killing me! 15 business days and I will know a little more :)

Just like when I learned how to shoot digitally, with my first two rolls of film I walked around our house and took pictures of everything around me. Trees, flowers, people, cattle, etc. It was a fun trip down memory lane, because I started to remember how I would shoot a series of images and then run to the computer to look at them. Then Cat and I would critique the images and go out for more trying to adjust certain elements to make sure that we were consistant and the images matched our style.

I have also noticed that after spending just a few hours with my 1V, I have slowed down a lot and have started to study how everything looks, both in my eyes and through the viewfinder. Now I am also much more particular when I shoot digitally which I am SO excited about! I know that sometimes I get in a groove and forget to just stand back and look at what is right infront of me.

So stay tuned! I will be sure to share updates as I can. For now, we just have to wait and hope that everything comes together like we hope it will!