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Pittsburgh Engagement Photography at Raccoon Creek State Park

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Here’s another Pittsburgh engagement session from October. It’s a popular time for on-location photography as everyone anticipates the cold of winter. I met up with this couple at Raccoon Creek State Park. They’re very outdoorsy and actually met at a park – what a random and exciting encounter that must have been!

Anyway, they brought a couple of changes of clothes to mix up the looks a bit.

Pittsburgh engagement photography

This back road was a lovely setting for a slow dance.

engagement photographers session in Pittsburgh

I really love this next one and I can’t put my finger on why.

Pittsburgh photography for engaged couples

They are going to have some good looking children someday!

Pittsburgh photo for wedding save the date

Well, the sun sets early in October, so we played that up with a few more shots before wrapping up the shoot.

Engagement photography for a Pittsburgh couple

It’s so much fun to hang out with newly engaged couples. So in love!

Pittsburgh Engagement Photography Session with a stop at Mt. Washington

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Back in May, I tagged along with Alex Jones, commercial photographer extraordinaire, for a Pittsburgh engagement session with Jonnie and Jim. We started out at SteelGate Studio for a few traditional portraits and then headed to Mt. Washington to catch the sunset and the downtown night sky. While Mt. Washington is one of those common hot spots for portraits of brides and grooms, it takes on a totally different feel at night. And I love it! But first, let’s take a look at some engagement photos in the studio. Not long ago, studio portraits were a standard for engaged couples—think newspaper announcements. Now, the trend is on-location photography, and while I’m a big fan of going on location, I can really appreciate the ability to create beautiful lighting in the studio. So here are a few studio portraits to start things off.

Pittsburgh wedding photographers session in the studio
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Pittsburgh Engagement Photography Session at Mellon Park

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I love photographing engaged couples and I love Mellon Park in Pittsburgh, so an engagement session at Mellon Park during the summer is something I thoroughly enjoy. On this particular morning, the fog hadn’t lifted until well after we started the session. At first, I wasn’t sure what to think about it, the fog made everything appear to be muted. But once I got to editing the photos, I found that fog can be great in setting a mood. Anyway, Rebecca and Patrick are a lovely couple to work with. Here are a few favorites from their shoot:

Engaged couple in Pittsburgh

I love the look of this one because you really can’t tell where they are—maybe somewhere in Europe?

Engagement session at Mellon Park in Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh North Shore Engagement Photography Session

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The North Shore of Pittsburgh is one of my favorite places to photograph people – especially engaged couples. It’s fun to walk along the river’s edge and get to know the couples I’m photographing. This session is from a while back—sometime in the late spring and the couple, Jasmine and Ryan were married this past July at the Pittsburgh Aviary. It was fun working with them and their outdoor wedding was a blast. Their wedding colors were white, black and red and Jasmine incorporated the color theme into their engagement session as well.

Engaged to be married in Pittsburgh

Jasmine and a friend of hers recently started their own wedding planning business. It’s called Something Blue. Their web site isn’t up yet, but I have a feeling it’s going to be great. To start, I just love the name of their business. If you’re looking for a wedding planner, you can email her at somethingbluepgh@yahoo.com. I hope we’ll have an opportunity to work together again!

Engagement session in Pittsburgh

Jasmine and Ryan were fun-loving and you’d be hard-pressed to find them when they’re not smiling.

Pittsburgh couple photography

We went to the fountain by Hyde Park steak house and there were so many kids playing there. And of course, they were all very curious about what was going on with the adults in the fountain.

From here, we could smell the food from the Bettis Grille and it was so tempting!

engaged couple in Pittsburgh photo

And back to Hyde Park, couldn’t get away from delicious smells of steak wafting through the air. I remember it well because it smelled so good! I definitely want to check it out sometime.

Pittsburgh engagement photographers on the North Shore

Anyway, this was a fabulous session with two beautiful people in the city I’m proud to call home.

Pittsburgh Engagement Photographers at Mellon Park

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Cathy and Travis are getting married in Erie, Pa., this summer and they contacted me to schedule an engagement session this spring. We headed to Mellon Park on a Saturday morning and had a blast.

Pittsburgh engagement session
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