ENGAGING

I’m dipping my toes into all kinds of stuff in this new year, 2009. I don’t really do engagements all too often, but this was for a friend and her fiance who happens to work for the greatest baseball team of all time, The Houston Astros, so for that, I will. It also didn’t hurt that we would have free reign of the Astros home field and my summer home, Minute Maid Park in Houston. I was really excited about the shoot the whole week. The weather forecast looked good and I was confident that I could really knock the session out of the park (you see what i did there!) but come Saturday morning, the weather was cold, windy and overcast.

All was not lost when we noticed that the roof of the stadium was open as we approached downtown. Having the roof closed would have made things even worse. When we got there I scouted locations and met the couple, Dave and Sondra in the press box. They weren’t really dressed for the cold so the shoot went a little quicker than planned, each shot was sporadic some using a small light I had brought, others using just natural light. I tried as much as I could to play on the composition of the stadium, shooting some obvious shots that revealed the locale and other, more abstract images that played more on the composition. We were able to get their names on the outfield screen for a few shots too. Some of my favorites were taken in the manual scoreboard. They spelled out the date of their wedding on the scoreboard for a few. We shot some images on the diamond and in the dugout as well.

After the couple had enough of the cold stadium, they changed and we did a few impromptu shots on a nearby street in the warehouse district.

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