Easy breezy engagement session: Japs and Raqz

Sometimes couple would tell me about their story.  I feel very privileged every time I get to have a glimpse of how they are as a couple.  Stories inspire me and it helps me as a photographer.  I want to be an efficient story teller.  Maybe that’s why I prefer candids and in between poses.  Those moments when their guard is down and they let themselves be.  I don’t like everything to be so perfect because nothing really is, right? I want realness and even if it gets very cheesy and corny, although corny is nice, I still want to capture what’s there and what’s real.

That’s how I explain myself when I meet couples for the first time.  I’d listen and then I tell them how I am as a photographer.  I want couples or families to choose me because of how do my work.  I did try to change how I did things in the past, but I found myself to be very pretentious.  It wasn’t there anymore.  It was like staring at a blank space.  I’ve met couples of course who didn’t get me as their photographer.  When I first started, I felt bad and though badly of how I was as a person and as a photographer.  But then I later learned that my client and I has to have that connection.  We can’t connect with everybody, can we?  I learned through the years that it’s fine.  It is fine not to book every wedding inquiry I receive.  It is the couples right to shop for photographers that fits their style.

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Japs & Raqz | Styling by:  Guada Calledo | HMU:  Divine Tayrus