Christopher Wren Photography

I hope you are having a wonderful memorial day.  I hope we all take a few minutes today away from the the beach and the BBQ to remember our fallen heroes, and pray for the heroes currently serving all over the world.  Then go enjoy the freedom they fight to protect!

I was part of a photo shoot a few months ago with a group of photographers in Orange County, hosted by Lauren Hillary.  This shoot was focused around posing techniques, and we shot in the Newport Back Bay.  Many thanks to our models, Calvin and Shannon. Here are a few of my favorites…

I love this little guy…

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Adam and Heather a really sweet couple.  These two brought their bikes along for this shoot at Crystal Cove State park.  It was an overcast day, but that didn’t stop us from getting some great shots.  I love how each couple’s personalities come out uniquely in each of my engagement shoots.  This is such a fun way to get some practice being in front of the camera before the wedding, and these are photos in “normal” clothes that you put up in your house to mix in with the wedding photos to come.  Here are a few of my favorites:

Masha captured this one – isn’t Heather stunning?

OK, OK, this is cheezy, but we love it.

One for the moms and dads…

So tender…

I love her expression in this shot.

Thanks guys, I had a blast!  Who needs sunny skies?

These two are so cute together.  They have the coolest house in Seal Beach and a sweet puppy they adopted.  They had me put together this slideshow for their engagement party:

Here are some shots from the afternoon engagement session in their house and around downtown Seal Beach.

Then we headed out to the pier for some fun in the sun.

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This was the first of the shoots from last week’s engagement shoot marathon.  I always try to get these on the blog/facebook as quick as possible.  We shot at Chapman University, which is really close to the Orange Circle (which I love shooting in), but offers a very different surroundings, but we headed to the circle at the end of the shoow.  I’ll start off with my 2 favorites:

Note to Photographers:  This entire shoot was edited using Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta.  It is much nimbler and the noise reduction is amazing!  OK back to the photos…

Goofballs!

I love the painterly effect on this one.

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