Pre-Prom

The plan was to shoot outdoors, but the weather had other ideas.  Since it had been raining off and on in the afternoon, I assumed we’d be indoors….don’t want to ruin the dresses in wet grass, so I was prepared.  JUST as the girls got inside, the skies opened up.  Whew!  Good timing!  And I’m actually glad we shot indoors.  I think we ended up with more posing options.  All of these were taken with off-camera flash bounced into the wall/ceiling behind me.

Start them out smiling because that’s what they’re more comfortable with…..

….and then you get this when you ask them to not smile….  🙂

The “deer head” room was not in the plan…..but somehow we ended up there 🙂

I’ve missed doing pre-prom photos since Ellen is no longer prom age, so it was nice when Tristan asked if I would do a few photos of he and Ailee before this year’s MCHS Prom.  I warned him that mine wouldn’t be the traditional before-the-prom photos, and he was totally into that :-).  They were eating dinner on Davis St in Culpeper, so that’s where we did most of the photos, all of the ones below.  Anyway, here are a few.

You’ll recognize a few of these Davis St locations from some of my other photos….they’re too good to pass up.