Crystal and Ben Engagement Shoot

I had a great time working with Crystal and Ben last week.  Sometimes it can be a challenge to find a good spot to shoot an engagement session in the winter, but Crystal suggested two spots along the Shoreline that turned out to be excellent: The Branford Library and Bishops Orchards.  We lucked out with beautiful weather to top it off!  Thanks for being a pleasure to work with Crystal and Ben!  I'm Looking forward to shooting your wedding in November!

Back in the saddle again! no, not the bike saddle!

After a year of adventure from the seat of my Cannondale touring bike alongside my beautiful wife; I have finally returned to Coppola Photography.  Okay, so I didn't really leave the passions and path of Coppola Photography, but I have avoided this blog for over a year.

These past few weeks I have been updating my Coppola Photography Website (www.coppolaphotography.com) (still not even close to done), and I have been on the search for a new Logo that represents the final path that I wish for Coppola Photography to take. (here are some designs I'm debating)  They represent adventure photography!

This past weekend I had the opportunity to shoot the VICE event in New Hampshire.  What does VICE stand for, you ask?  Vertical Ice Climbing Enthusiasts.  Basically, it is a bunch of students and young alumni from Boston area schools that love the outdoors and want to share that love for the outdoors through learning and pushing their limits in ice climbing.  I had a great time photographing this group and learning about the basics of Ice Climbing.  With the help of some great people, I event got the chance to combine my passion for outdoor photography with new knowledge of ice climbing by photographing from the Ice, all roped up!  It was scary and an absolute blast at the same time.

Here is what I captured:

VIDEO:
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Ashley Mirando: Amazing Singer

This Past Sunday I had the chance to help out my cousin Ashley Mirando with photography to help her promote her budding musical career.  She has the most unbelievable voice!

Christy and I were so lucky to have her sing "What a Wonderful World" at our wedding.  Ashley singing during our ceremony is one of the funniest stories from our day.  Ashley's song began playing before she arrived at the mic, so she had to go into a halfway sprint to get to the mic in time to sing the first words.  Everyone was awe-struck by her ability to hit the first note beautifully after a running start.

We photographed at a few locations: the Hopkins' property (Thank you so much Hopkins Family!), a few random spots in madison... sneaking onto people's properties for quick photos, and finally the spot at the end of neck road, Madison.

Ashley was great to work with; she was fun and had the perfect attitude to bare the cold and adjust to horses trying to eat her shirt... true story.  We had Christy, Michelle, Tyler, and Nikki all around to help out and make the whole experience fun and relaxed!  Thanks for all of the help everyone!

Here are a few of my favorite images from the day:

 

  

 

CD Cover Shoot

This afternoon and early evening, I photographed my soon-to-be father in-law, Jim Paradis.  I wanted to try out some new lighting techniques and he needed an image for his album cover.  I was so fortunate not only to have beautiful light, and a fun subject, but I also had the best assistant I could ask for... Christy!  She helped a ton except for the time she wasn't needed and decided to peg me with acorns while I photographed her father.

 Christy was holding a large gold reflector (camera left)... this helped to reflect golden light into this shady spot, and having Christy standing there helped to get some natural smiles from Jim.  If I ever needed a smile from him I would just say, "look at Christy"

 Here is a fine art image mixed in.  I'll have to make a print for the nice woman that let us use her incredible barn for some photographs. 

 Christy was throwing acorns at me during this shot.  Anyone want to guess where this is?... I'll give you a hint.... People are dying to get in here.

 having fun on the long walk out to grass island.

 For these last two shots Christy held an off camera flash fired through a shoot through umbrella, triggered using the new Pocket Wizard wireless transmitters.

Any votes for the album cover shot?