Buenos Aires Wedding Engagement and Portrait Photographer | Duff and Frances Photography

A picture says a thousand words; What a day. Our Recoleta Engagement shoot was so action packed how could our couple, flying in from Perth, Australia, not lay down and kick back with the Floralis Generica in the background?!

I’m getting ahead of ourselves here. Lets say hello to our couple from down under, Belinda and Robye. It’s not often I meet someone with an interesting name, and the spelling of Robye is something I’ve never come across. Yes, this is coming from someone with the name Duff (yes, it’s really my one and only name, and no, it’s not short for anything).

I knew we were in for a good time when Robye saw me and said Belinda was just outside shopping for a new pair of Tango shoes. Awesome! You can’t tell from above but they were rockin’ hot red, and they’ll make an appearance below.

To make the shoot memorable we debated back and forth in email and decided on a brand new location for us – the most amazing book store in the world –  El Anteneo. We’ve always wanted to shoot there and were super stoked our recently engaged couple were up for it. Lets see how it all went.

A big THANK YOU to Belinda and Robye for being awesome and tramping all around Buenos Aires (In Red heels no less!). Their wedding plans sound absolutely amazing and it was great to spend time together. I absolutely loved their idea of taking one of these pictures and turning it into a Stamp for their wedding invitations. How cool is that? I wonder if they’ll choose the Red Shoe picture? Whatever they end up choosing it’s sure to be a hit. Thanks once again!

 

The sun is setting, Fall is here, what better place than Puerto Madero to do a destination Engagement Session while in Buenos Aires? Katerina and Senya had been traveling around South America all the way from Israel and contacted us asking about a session that would explore a fun part of the city; Buenos Aires has so many cool areas to choose from – the cafes of Palermo, the cobblestone neighbourhoods of San Isidro, or the upscale area of Puerto Madero. Little did our couple know we were going to take them to some abandoned train tracks after our jaunt around Puerto Madero and then end up at one of the more impressive art pieces in the city – Flor de Metal  - giving them a sense that right around the corner anything can be found in Buenos Aires.

The sun had set and we had a fantastic time with this couple; When I think of all our past shoots this year, this one has to be one of the sexiest – they just oozed charisma through the whole shoot. We asked Katarina if she had ever done any modeling and she said no, so we just chalked it up to her being a natural in front of the camera. I really believe the pictures show a couple deeply in love, and that’s what an engagement session should all be about – love, laughter, and fun!

Where to start? This awesome couple booked their Argentina destination engagement session and wedding (wait till you see those amazing moments) a few months ago and we could just tell by the email communication we were going to have a fun time! What we didn’t know was how passionate and in love Matt and Liz were – and man did it ever show in the pictures. Lets check it out shall we?

Laughter and fun. All in a days work. We need to thank Matt and Liz for being such an awesome couple – and letting us get them in trouble. From having the police come and tell us to get off the train tracks to the guys at the train station telling us to get out of the abandoned train, they were such good sports – all in the name of photography and love!

That’s what we try to do – have fun with our clients. For sure the pictures are the number one priority – but we also try to make sure the actual shoot is memorable. And for Frances and I it definately was. Here’s perhaps one of the more fun moments of our time together .:

 

 

The work day ends and what better thing to do than bead to an Engagement  photo shoot? That’s exactly what our couple Joana and Jose did just this past week. And what a perfect evening for a fun photo shoot stroll through some of the historic landmarks around Buenos Aires like Puente de la Mujer in Puerto Madero? Lets see what we got up to shall we?

Right away we were blown away by what great fashion sense these two had. They were comfortable and relaxed and looked fantastic. We just started using Pinterest to help clients with things like what to wear. Check out our Pinterest board here.

What grabbed us during our whole shoot was how we ll connected Joana and Jose were – you could tell they were partners in every sense of the word. Their smiles were so natural we never really had to break out the bad jokes. And trust us, that’s a good thing. Well, according to Frances, I actually think I’m quite funny (Frances note: he’s not. He just likes to think he is)

It’s interesting when we go  through a shoots images. Sometimes an image can look fantastic in colour, or just needs some adjusting here or there, but most of the time for some reason an image just looks amazing in good old black and white. As I was putting together this post I noticed I was gravitating towards the black and white images. I think Joana and Jose and just so classic, and their images needed to be in black and white to really represent them. They’re like a timeless couple – and these images hopefully represent that.

We had a fabulous time trapsing all around Puerto Madero snapping pictures and watching the sunset. And ok, if a picture is going to have colour, it should be a sunset picture shouldn’t it? Thanks Joana and Jose for letting us be part of your engagement story!