you might remember the cool shoot we did with valen out in the middle of the street? she also let us ladies do a boudoir session with her. she was absolutely lovely to work with! if you want to see all the photos, scroll down for the password to the next post.
password = valen
guess what, we have more vegas photos for you! these are from a ghost town called nelson we visited. it was such a cool place!
before we started with jessie we took some time to explore.
chris shooting some hdr photos… check them out here.
isn’t he hot? 
check back soon for our shots of jessie!
chris + allie
Today’s featured model, or models I should say, are Tabatha and Ben.
Tabatha looked way too cute in her dress and heels!
You’ll see her tattoo up close in a minute
Here’s that tattoo… love.
thanks again, tabatha and ben, for braving the cold and being so lovely for all the cameras!
chris + allie
Jessie was on hand again for us to shoot… this time in a wedding dress amongst huge neon signs! You might remember her from this post.
Getting ready…
What a killer look!
At one point during the shoot, Jessie stood in this spot below and all of a sudden you heard a million shutters going off at once. You know you’re working it when you hear that! :) The sun was brilliant.
Thanks, Jessie, once again for bringing the awesomeness.
chris + allie
when we found out we were going to vegas for wppi, we knew we had to shoot at the neon graveyard. we asked if anyone was interested over at the [b] school and got an overwhelming response! so chris went to work and planned a huge photo shoot with 7 models and around 50 photographers!
on the day of the shoot, we learned that the neon museum is a non-profit organization. their collection ranges from the 1930s to today. the weather couldn’t have been more perfect, the models couldn’t have been more awesome, and the photographers couldn’t have been any nicer! it was so much fun getting to meet and shoot with everyone. we took so many photos that we’ll be doing a 4 part post for this shoot, so keep checking back this week.
featured first is shannon. she had her hair and makeup professionally done before the shoot and it looked wicked!
thanks to shannon for coming out and enduring the cold weather – even though it was beautiful outside, i’m sure all the models were freezing!
chris + allie
meet valen.
absolutely stunning.
since we couldn’t go a day without a photo shoot in vegas, valen helped us out. you’ll see more of her tomorrow in another post as well. we drove about three minutes to this awesome road that led to the mountains and got a few shots of her. photographers : there was NO pro retouch done on these photos whatsoever! talk about beautiful! well, we’ll just show you instead.
chris was nailing it with our alien bees!
here’s that road i was talking about… awesome, right?
yummy…
thanks to valen for taking time out of her day to let 6 crazy photographers fuss over her! check back tomorrow for her boudoir session the ladies got to shoot!
chris + allie
music by family force 5 – check them out on iTunes.
filmed by: ZOE
wow. did this shoot ever rock! photos coming tomorrow!
thank you all.
chris + allie
our first wppi experience rocked our faces off. for those of you who don’t know about wppi (wedding & portrait photographers international), it’s a yearly convention and tradeshow that over 10,000 photographers attend. we decided to make the trip to las vegas this year. we rented a house with 6 other photographers we met on the [b] school – maya & pat, cathy & david, cailyn, and sheila. the house was perfect and helped us save a ton of money on food – we actually had tons of food left over when everyone left! if you didn’t notice, we posted some videos while we were out there. before we left for vegas, chris and i bought a flip – the coolest hd video recorder out there! i’m so glad we got it, we have tons of memories to watch now. i’ll link to them in this post, so you don’t have to go looking for them! click here to see our journey to vegas and our roomies!
our first night in vegas didn’t disappoint – awesome people, bright lights, smoky casinos, and the bellagio fountains!
anyway, on to photography! the next morning, we had the opportunity to go to brunch with becker – awesome photographer and founder of the [b] school. he brought along joe photo as well. getting to talk with these guys and just hang out was such a blessing and so inspiring! plus, the restaurant we went to, Simon, was amazing. click here to see all the noise we were making.
the wppi tradeshow was huge. there were so many things to look at – album companies, slideshow softwares, online carts, websites, cameras. to check out all the tradeshow craziness – click here.
monday night was the infamous [b] school party hosted by becker. it was held at the real world las vegas suite. there was plenty of sweet city views to take in, amazing photographers to meet and talk to, and crazy photobooth action. not only did we get to meet our online [b] school friends, but we met some photographers who have inspired us – Dane Sanders (wedding photog and author of Fast Track Photographer) and Sara France (photog and aperture extraordinaire)! check out the video clip here.
all in all, we learned so much from being able to sit down and talk with our roommates and other photographers about where they started from and how far they’ve come. we heard from more than one photographer to just go for it and He will provide – there’s nothing that could motivate us more than that. creating friendships with these awesome people was more than enough reason for us to be at wppi this year. we’re so glad we had the chance.
click here to see more roommate awesomeness!
our last night with everybody, we went to see Love – the Beatles’ Cirque du Soleil show and had so much fun. we like to dance (the Love portion is halfway through the video).
chris + i stayed in vegas for 2 extra nights after everyone left. we had to leave the humongous house we stayed in for a week and transfer to the tropicana. i’m pretty sure this hotel never took a step out of the 1970s. i mean, it’s 2009 and it didn’t even offer wireless internet. seriously? we were really tired from the week, but made it out to see the hoover dam and tour the strip a little more… actually a lot more. my ankles are a little swollen from walking so much. and i’m pretty sure we walked through every single casino in vegas until we realized taking the monorail might be a pretty good idea on the LAST day there. here’s the video!
we also went to some photo shoots and took a TON of photos – those will have their own posts and commentary coming next week, so stay tuned! for now, check out these awesome hdr shots that chris took at a ghost town called nelson, nv.
thanks again to all the photographers we met, friends we made, and good times had by all.
chris + allie
Here’s a few more :
… will probably be posted right here on our blog, twitter, or facebook account!
we’re so freakin’ excited!!! we’re leaving for vegas on valentine’s day to attend our first wppi conference! it’ll be fun times for sure! check out our crazy schedule below:
saturday, feb. 14th {valentine’s day!}
flying to vegas! woohoo!
hanging out with our roomies {cailyn, sheila, cathy + david, and maya + patrick} at our awesome pad – cailyn’s cooking dinner, yummy!
a night out on the town!
sunday, feb. 15th
brunch with one of the best wedding photographer and coolest guy ever!
photo shoot at a ghost town in nelson, nevada!
monday, feb. 16th
roaming the floors of the massive wppi tradeshow – so excited!
[b] school party at the real world vegas suite – awesome photographers, a photo booth, and of course, the confessional!
tuesday, feb. 17th
neon graveyard shoot organized by yours truly – with models galore!
pizza party at our house!
wednesday, feb. 18th
headshots on the strip
more tradeshow browsing!
thursday, feb. 19th
FREE DAY!
friday, feb. 20th
sunrise photo shoot at red rock canyon
saturday, feb. 21st
FREE DAY!
sunday, feb. 22nd
fly back to atl – boo! but i’m sure we’ll have plenty of stories to tell and photos to show!! keep up with our adventures on facebook or twitter if you’re our friend, if not – why aren’t you??
check ya later.
chris + allie