I recently had the pleasure of doing my first engagement shoot for a couple of awesome friends of mine. I know the happy couple through Trapeze, the bride to be is one of the catchers at our rig, in addition to being an awesome flyer and one of my girlfriend's best girlfriends. The couple has actually known each other since junior high, but reconnected a while back and hit it off.
We were all a bit nervous when they started dating, it seems like relationships between circus people and non circus people tend to not last that long. Luckily, he jumped right in and took to trapeze really well and is now a full fledged member of the troupe.
Anyway, a couple of weekends ago we were all out for drinks, planning wedding and bachelor party / bridal shower festivities and the engagement shoot came up. I offered to do one, but we wanted to make it something unique to them. Of course, my first thought was trapeze, followed immediately by breaking into their old junior high and taking pics at some of the places they remembered from way back when. Apparently schools take security a lot more seriously these days, so that beer induced idea quickly went the way of the dodo bird. Luckily, one of their memories was of doing rings on the playground. Serendipitously we recently got a set of traveling rings built at our trapeze rig, so the next day it was game on.
The shot I really wanted was the couple bridged (ie- holding a catch mid-air) one armed, camera aside arms opened and him putting the ring on her while in the air. We weren't quite able to pull that off, closest we got to that were these:
But we did get some great shots on the traveling rings-
When the bridge thing didn't work, the bride to be had the awesome idea to just hang out in the apron for some shots, wound up being some of the best of the set....
Actually wound up passing the camera off and getting our family christmas card picture in the apron as well since these worked so well.
Even though the one shot I wanted didn't pan out, I think overall the afternoon was a success. This was definitely a fun shoot and I look forward to shooting the wedding in the near future. In the meantime, you can see the whole shoot here and let me know what you think.
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