Every once in a while, a couple comes along that is literally down for ANYTHING. Their minds are completely open and ready and willing to do something wild and crazy. For us photographers, this is the type of creative freedom that we live for. Where the possibilities are only limited by what our minds can conjure up. Brittany and Ryan…are one of those couples.
While discussing with them some ideas for their engagement session, they made it loud and clear right off the bat that they were ready and willing to do something crazy…something completely wacky and unconventional…something that they would be able to talk about for the rest of their lives and remember forever. This is when the gears really started turning. As always, it’s great to have some sort of starting point — some sort of inspiration or direction. Brittany and Ryan’s inspiration just so happened to be from one of our favorite shoots of all time from a few years back, our first paint session with our dear friends Rachel and Daniel. After discussing this with them at great lengths, Brittany and Ryan loved the idea of the paint session so much that we knew we had to take a similar direction, but give it some sort of twist.
Enter…..the Paint-filled Super Soaker Session!
Ok, so maybe they weren’t Super Soakers, but actually just some $9 off-brand grocery store water guns. After checking through the selection, these were the coolest styled guns I could find and seemed to fit right in. I figured we would dress Brittany and Ryan in some white painter’s coveralls, shoe covers, gloves and goggles, so we’d better match the guns as well! A few coats of white spray paint and we were off!
Lets get at it, shall we?!
Brittany and Ryan size up and face-off!
A quick pull-back of the scene!
We’ll take another brief intermission from the madness for a quick behind-the-scenes look at the lighting setup (for all of you photographers out there). Here’s our lovely model/assistant, Cavia, standing in. 😉
And we commence…
When exploring abandoned locations like these, you truly never know what you’re going to find. Sometimes it’s dead animals, sometimes old remnants from the glory days….and sometimes paint-covered loonies taking engagement photos! This family (parents right outside of the building) was doing a little bit of exploring of their own when then stumbled on our shoot. This was one of the rare times that someone actually approached US and asked us if it was OK that they were here…it’s usually the other way around. Anyways, super nice people! 🙂
Quick! Photobomb!!
I think they’ve gone mad…
I still don’t know how I managed to keep so freshy-clean the entire time… 😉
Wanna do something crazy for YOUR engagement session?? Head on over to the CONTACT page and drop us a line! We’d love to hear from you!