Perspectives : March 2011

Lila and Lijo were amazing to work with! Their chemistry and love is truly authentic and my job behind the camera could have not been any easier.

I will remember this session forever for a few reasons, one being that after hearing their story of how they connected will remind me that when YOU KNOW, YOU JUST KNOW and love is powerful.

Secondly... hahaha... that I will do anything to get a shot. Lila told me that she was going to surprise Lijo by renting him a motorcycle for their engagement session and that one of the shots she wanted was a shot of them riding the motorcycle so that they could get the motion blur effect. Well, I have seen the shot done before, but wasn't really sure on how to capture what I wanted. So after consulting with a few other photographers, the consensus was that I would have to put my camera in danger by putting it on a pole of some sort, so that it could be lowered to the ground outside a window of a moving vehical to where it was only inches from hitting the moving pavement below. Then I would have to trigger the shutter remotely. Well, I didn't have a special pole, nor a remote shutter release, and I wasn't about to put my camera in danger (by putting it on a pole and holding it inches from moving pavement).

What I did have was me, my mom, my very understanding boyfriend, and an SUV that had a lift gate. So... this was the revised setup... Terry, my very understanding boyfriend, and the only one I trusted to do this, was behind the wheel. My mom, who is also very understanding, rode in the back with me. We layed all of the back seats down and opened the lift gate (which exposed the entire back of my SUV). This allowed me to be the pole. Yes, the pole. So my mom held on to my legs, I held on to my camera (because that was the only thing I was worried about) and hung out of the back of the suv while my boyfriend drove while Lija and Lijo followed on the bike beside us. I made them ride beside us, because A. if I fell out I didn't want them to feel bad for running over me, hahaha, and B. it was the better angle :)

So yeah... it sounded like an awesome idea at the time. I mean it was flawless. Right? Yeah... Anyway, now that I look back at it I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO DO THAT. But would I do it again? HECK YEAH! But please... do as I say NOT as I do ;)