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Kellie & J.C.’s Underwater engagement session

Tony Hoffer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:32:12 +0000

Whenever we meet clients, there’s one thing we almost always say: “We’re up for ANYTHING. We’d get bored shooting the same things over and over again. So, when we started scheduling Kellie & J.C.’s session, we thought that doing a shoot IN the water would be pretty awesome… and it was. It’s so cool to be able to just dive around and shoot. There’s on big negative though: The dirty Jersey water. We couldn’t get much stuff truly UNDERwater because, well, it was brown… haha. Regardless, we’re pretty excited about this session. Big ups to Kellie and J.C. for being willing to step out and do something different with us!

But, we owe a HUGE thank you to Mike from Essex Surfhousings for hooking us up with the sweet custom underwater unit for our camera. The housing fits like a glove, still let’s us use all the camera functions and didn’t take in a drop of water. LOVED it! Oh, and we’re not sponsored or anything, so don’t think we’re blowing smoke :)

Ok, onto the photos…

“Some people stand in the darkness… Afraid to step into the light….”

Rawr.

And before we go, we owe a HUGE thank you to our friends Glen and Violet from GMElliottvideo who came along and shot video footage for us for a quickly upcoming project. Their footage and work is incredible… Thanks guys!

Adrienne and Dustin at Baywood Greens

Tony Hoffer — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:40:43 +0000

Ok, time to make a post I’ve been waiting for a long time. As self-employed people, Amy and I don’t really have coworkers. So you can imagine how happy it makes us when we get to become friends with people we shoot for. I hate to pick favorites, but we’ve just had so much fun working with Adrienne and Dustin over the past year or so, that it was a little bit sad leaving their wedding knowing we don’t have any other plans to shoot for them in the future. We’ve shot for them 5 times since they booked us (Engagement, HoffShop, Christmas, Bridals and now the wedding). So, thanks Adrienne and Dustin for being so great to us, for having great family and friends and for letting us in your lives for a while…

By the way, I lied yesterday. I’m going to hold off on blogging everyday this week. Gonna give it some time to let some photos breathe a bit :)

Adrienne’s Bridal Session

Tony Hoffer — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:24:54 +0000

Whew. This is going to be a CRAZY week here on the blog. There will be posts every single day. And if you like good looking people, then you’re in luck…

I’ve been waiting to post these for a few weeks now. We absolutely love doing bridal shoots, but I absolutely hate having to wait till after the wedding to show them. Adrienne & Dustin got married this past weekend (that post is coming tomorrow) but we got together with Adrienne a few weeks ago to make sure to get her some great portraits at a family home…

Katie & Ivins at Longwood Gardens

Tony Hoffer — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:34:39 +0000

Yesterday was the first time in a few years that we shot 2 sessions in the same day. We had a blast at both and even got to take a little nap in between! If you missed it, here’s yesterday’s post from with the Young family.

Last night we headed back out to shoot for Katie & Ivins at Longwood Gardens. We go way back we these guys, since we’re slowly making our way through their group of friends… you might even recognize them from a few past weddings (like this one…. or this one). What a beautiful night…

The Young Family

Tony Hoffer — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:13:25 +0000

The next few weeks and months will be some of the busiest of our lives. Tons of shoots, our Genesis workshop, buying and selling a house… and of course, football season. So, in the spirit of staying on the ball, I’m posting our first ‘Same-Day-Blog-Post’ in nearly two years… So, here’s our family shoot of the Young family from this morning! Oh yeah…

Favorite #1

Favorite #2

Favorite #3

If you like them, feel free to leave a comment for the Young’s! More stuff coming tomorrow :)

The Landis Family

Tony Hoffer — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:41:35 +0000

I don’t recall ever starting a shoot at sunrise before, although maybe we just permanently removed that from our memory. Asking two self-employed people to wake up at 5:30 (twice in one week) is like asking Nickelback to make a good song… It doesn’t happen often :)

The Landis’ were in from Wisconsin and had us shoot for the 5 of them before they returned home. Who knew you could have fun at 7am?

Jenn and Rob at Governor’s Island

Tony Hoffer — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:37:10 +0000

Friday was an amazing day, and we started it off in an amazing way, at Governor’s Island in NYC with Jenn and Rob. Rob grew up on the island, and we got a nice history lesson as we went around through the now-extinct island. If you don’t remember, Jenn & Rob won this shoot because of THIS awesome video during last years Shoot Me For FREE! contest… Enjoy!…

Rob’s old bedroom. We may or may not have hopped a fence and broken in to the home…

Coffee Table Albums

Tony Hoffer — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:28:49 +0000

I haven’t shared many albums lately. I don’t know if I’ve ever shared a Coffee Table (parent) Album either. So here’s one from Ryan & Joelle’s wedding… As usual, Amy is killing it with some sweet album designs…

Liz & Andrew in Elizabethtown

Tony Hoffer — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:33:33 +0000

I told Liz on the phone that I love shooting when there’s scattered thunderstorms. For the first 30 minutes of their engagement session, I was looking pretty foolish. We were in the ‘dark red’ portion of the radar map. Then it cleared up and this happened…

Andrew proposed in Sydney, Liz made this sweet necklace…

I got really, really wet attempting this… Thank you Canon for making products that don’t die in water.

The sky was pink!

Jessica & Matt’s Boyertown Wedding

Tony Hoffer — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:24:44 +0000

Among the many things I love in life, doing portraits before the wedding is one of them. It takes so much stress away from the day and let’s people really enjoy and spend time with their guests. We were so lucky to get to shoot with Jessica, Matt and they’re incredibly fun (and inappropriate) bridal party for a while before their ceremony.

They had a nice backyard reception and a family home, so we just tried to shoot simple and clean in keeping with their day. Oh and we got to hang out with some of our favorite people, Nikki and Matt afterwards! Woohoo!

Enjoy :)…