Engagement: Selena and Pate

Last Saturday I got to photograph some engagement photos for two lovely international people who met each other in Taiwan. Selena and Pate let Winnie and I take them all over the crowded Taipei Main Station area and even take pictures inside the station itself! It was a lot of fun. Thanks Selena and Pate. Below is a sequence of black and whites. Enjoy!









For those Photoshop nuts like me out there, I got the "TRA recipe" from this blog post. Amelia Lyon is an AMAZING photographer in the LA area. She and her husband Justin provide great photos and content on their blog, making my Google Reader list! And Justin is in Haiti right now taking pictures for a mission group ~ something that I think is totally cool. Check them out here.

One thing about this "recipe" is that it added grain to the photo. I'm inclined to be against grain because I usually work really hard to make my images sharp, why then make them fuzzy/noisy? But after doing this set, the idea is growing on me, if only for black and whites. The other thing I like about Lyon's processing is that she really pushes the limits beyond where I'm usually comfortable going. It was a good stretch for me. :)