Tips for a Pre-Nup Photo Shoot

Today I had the wonderful opportunity to pretend like a "photographer" side by side with the famous photo journalist, Sir Mel Cortez of Decisive Moments!

It's my first time to take photos of a Pre-Nup Photo Shoot and here are the few tips I picked up along the way.

If you are the subject of the photo shoot,
1) Make sure you bring comfortable clothes that represent your personality and bring extra clothes for a change in theme.
2) Having your trial make-up in the morning is highly recommended so that you can see how your make-up looks like in the pictures and also to have an actual experience of how the make-up stays on your face and if you feel comfortable with it even hours after the make-up has been done.
3) Be sure to eat something before the photo shoot so you look happy and beautiful and not like you've been starved.. ehehehe... But don't eat too much naman that you'll feel sluggish. :)
4) Be ready with some poses that you've seen in magazines or pictures that you liked. or poses that you've always wanted to be captured in picture. And last but not the least...
5) Relax. Be yourself and ENJOY the photo shoot.. you don't become the star of the camera everyday!

If you are the photographer,
1) Schedule the photo shoot around 3 or 4pm. I discovered that this is a good time to get that natural light and you'll also have enough time to take different poses in different areas and/or angles.
2) Make sure you know how to get to the photo shoot venue... *hehhehe... I got a bit lost kse..
3) When taking the shots, let the subjects be themselves and take pictures in an unobtrusive way. Take both "photo-journalistic" shots and "posed" shots. Posed shots are the pictures where you ask them to face the camera, move closer, smile, etc.. The photo-journalistic shots are the pictures where you just capture them as they are, i.e. laughing, smiling, kissing, joking around, dancing, etc.
4) Be ready with umbrella, just in case it rains.
5) Show the pictures to the subject or if possible provide them with a cd copy right away, so they can appreciate their shots and come home with big smiles and beaming faces.

Now check out the picture I posted... that's my shot! hehehe... papasa na ba?? hehe...
Taking a Pre-Nup Shoot is really FUN.