Lindsey & Alex’s Engagement Portrait in Tempe Arizona from Jared Platt on Vimeo.

Lindsey and Alex’s engagement portraits were shot in Downtown tempe around Mill Avenue. Lindsey is an ASU girl, while Alex is a University of Wisconsin guy, so they brought their school shirts with them and we photographed those as well.

It was a fun photo shoot.

Mill Avenue has a lot of great places to photograph, with great textures and it always has a good crowd of people, so they can be useful for composition and background shapes.

Photography by Platt Photography
Location: Mill Avenue, Tempe, Arizona
Music: Mindy Gledhill, All the Pennies, Courtesy of Triple Scoop Music

I am speaking at WPPI this year as a Platform Speaker. My presentation, “The Photographer’s Eye” will be on Sunday the 20th of Feb at Noon. Thanks to Pictage for Sponsoring this event!

And since I am there anyway, along with thousands of other photographers, I thought it would be a good time to offer a Lightroom Workflow Workshop. There are many of you photographers out there who have missed my workshop when it came into town, so this is your chance to take the workshop now.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, there will be two sessions from which to choose, each session lasting 4 hours. This way you can still catch a few speakers throughout the day on Tuesday, but still get the most valuable information you can get at WPPI. How to cut your workflow in half! And a whole lot about Lightroom 3.

Sign up for the Tuesday Morning Lightroom Workshop Session: 8am to 12noon
Sign up for the Tuesday Afternoon Lightroom Workshop Session: 2pm to 6pm

Both sessions are the same. Sign up online for the early bird special of $100. The door price is $200.

Or, since we are in Vegas, you can try your luck and go to WPPI, go to my sponsor’s booths and ask for a LUCKY TICKET. Each LUCKY TICKET has a price of either $120, $60 or FREE on it. Bring that ticket to the door and pay the price on the ticket. I hope you find a free one! That would be your lucky day!

SPONSORS with LUCKY TICKETS: Pictage, KISS Wedding Books, Triple Scoop Music, Shoot Q, Shoot dot Edit and RPG Keys.

The Carlson Family Portrait from Jared Platt on Vimeo.

A family portrait in downtown Mesa, Arizona.

Some of my favorite images from the family portrait session.

I shot a family portrait for the Carlson family in Mesa, Arizona.  It was a fun portrait session.  And when I say fun, I should also say challenging… fun, and challenging.  It was a cold day and we had a lot of children who were not all that happy to be out in the cold.  But I think we got some great images. I know it was a chore for all the adults, but I think we all had a good time and some laughs over it.

Grandpa and grandma took a chance holding all the kids and they immediately began to cry.  It was was the funniest thing.  And I love the shot.

I love this shot.  It is a great moment between a father and his daughters.  We were between shots and I saw the girls cuddling up to dad and started shooting.  I have some of all the girls looking up and down, but this one felt the best to me.

Family Portrait Details

Photography: Platt Photography

Location: Mesa, Arizona