Some days are truly blessed… For instance the day I photographed this couple’s engagement session in Monrovia*. The weather couldn’t have been more perfect or the location more ideal. And this couple, Jennifer and Dylan were both very upbeat and relaxed and they both took direction exceptionally well.

Photographing an engagement session is typically a lot different that doing the same couple’s wedding photography in the sense that, I have the couples undivided attention and we have more time devoted just to creating photographic images.

When I photograph an engagement session my preferred style is to combine a certain amount of posed work, with a usually much larger amount of inter-active posed, and also a lot of controlled candid or “faux-tojournalism.” You will see examples of each of the mentioned styles in these few images.  I use this same style of blending different types of photography when I am photographing weddings. Although when I doing wedding photography, I include at least two other styles as well. For more about my style of photographing weddings, please visit my html website: deremus.com. Or, if you haven’t been there already, check out My Style as a Wedding Photographer.

While most of the photography in an engagement session is devoted to the couple, I also work with each person individually. This not only gives them images which can be used in my totally unique, custom designed and fully retouched guest sign-in albums, it also gives us a chance to work with each other on a one-on-one basis.

And the more experience we have working together, both individually and as a couple prior to their wedding day, the easier it is to quickly create those beautiful images of the two of them on their wedding day.

Oh yeah… another thing I personally like to do and, I also encourage my clients to do, both at their engagement session and for their wedding photography, is to HAVE FUN!

To see more images for this engagement session, please visit my video slideshow blog: DeRemus-Photography-In-Motion.

To see more of my engagement session photography, please visit my main photo galleries on my flash website: deremus.com.

Pasadena-based DeRemus Photography specializes in Wedding, Portrait and Fine Art and is available for destination weddings worldwide.

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*Monrovia is a small and beautiful foothill community in the Pasadena area. Monrovia is the fourth oldest general law city in Los Angeles County and the L.A. Basin (after Los Angeles,  Santa Monica, and Pasadena). Incorporated in 1887, Monrovia has grown from a sparse community of orange ranches to a residential community of 37,000. People traveling between Los Angeles and San Bernardino traveled “via Monroe’s Ranch,” hence the name.