Spring has finally arrived in Nashville. I’m thrilled that I get to be the wedding photographer for so many wonderful couples over the next six months. Posting will be on autopilot for the next couple of weeks while my wife and I are in Europe – so I hope you’ll enjoy looking at some of my recent work.

I will be making images of this guy every three months for the next year.  It was great to finally meet the Gentry family and I am looking forward to recording the growth of their son in his first year of life.  He is 5 days old in this series–amazing how small we all are when we’re brand new.

Tristan is new to this earth and I was asked to record some images of him. Here he is less than a week old. This is one of my favorites so far – more to come.

My birthday is on Tuesday–I turn 28.  Seeing as how I’ll be out a lot this week, I wanted to go ahead and take the time to post this.  Not so much a best of, but these are images that I really like and are really close to what I saw in my mind when I first captured them.  As you can tell from my engagement sessions, the couples do a fair amount of kissing–I think it’s a good thing and (so far) everyone has enjoyed kissing their future spouse while having someone take pictures of them.

A couple of images really stand out to me–the one with downtown Nashville in the background and a couple of the ones at the Parthenon.  I favor those images over some of the other ones because they convey something really grand–to me the sense of scale is just awesome. Thanks for reading–two more events this month alone, with a lot more to write about in the coming months.  I also hope to incorporate the use of film more as well (Amberbock picture is film, not digital).

If you like any of these, want to see more, or just want to say hello, please leave a comment and let me know what’s on your mind — Paul

Finally able to post a few images from the other engagement session I did last weekend. I’m shooting the wedding of this awesome couple this summer. You can see the Parthenon in these images, but the other pictures were shot in west Nashville. I had never done pictures at the Parthenon before, so I really wanted to convey the scale of just how huge this building is.

The one with the tree @ the end was done just after sunset and I really like it as it is a little different from everything else. The tree actually sits on state property (1/4 mile from a prison)–and we were greeted by security on our way back to our cars. No trouble though–and the resulting images turned out really great. Thanks guys for putting up with the near freezing temperatures!

I recently had the opportunity to attend a workshop hosted by Chuck Arlund & Stephanie Zettl. Their work is really impressive and their use of off-camera lighting is what really interested me. It was great to meet up with about 15 other photographers and try out some new stuff.

It was an all day thing–a majority of the shooting took place at the Downtown Presbyterian Church in downtown Nashville. The current structure was built in 1848 and it had some incredible places to take pictures on some of the upper floors. Here are a few of my favorites. They all use some kind of off camera lighting w/ a good mix of the soft, ambient light. (seriously) Very little post-processing was done on these–that’s how awesome the light was. The one shot in the red hallway is my favorite and was done by having someone hold a video-light off camera left–it created a different, dramatic look that I really like. For those of you who are photographers: It’s neat b/c the hallway was nearly completely dark, and the video-light allowed me to shoot it at 1/30 f/2.8 400iso. I could have upped the iso or opened up my aperature (or both), for an even faster shutter speed, but I rolled with it. Please let me know what you think–I’m kind of new to off camera lighting so I’m always up for learning from those who have more experience.

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