How your mind is the best engagement photo accessory

Wanna know an incredibly powerful secret about your photography experience? The secret is it has little to do with jewelry, clothing choices and color options… nope! These things make up a small percentage of what makes your images amazing.

The real key is the way you think.

In this guide, I’m gonna show you what will help you to have an amazing mindset for your engagement and wedding photos.

1. Heart Harmony.

How you feel can affect everything!

One of the ways of controlling how you feel is by watching what you’re thinking. So it makes sense that in order to affect how you feel we need to look at what you’re thinking about yourself.
Let’s pretend that you were in a situation that you had to be heroic, whether it was a loved one who is trapped or some type of situation in which you need to act quickly, a lot of people don’t consider himself to be heroes, but in those moments they would do what is right.
Your photo mindset should be similar. Confidence is exuded not because it’s their but because you decide to exude it, it’s very similar to acting. If you believe that you look incredible you will eventually feel incredible. Chemical reactions will be released to your bloodstream making what you think what you feel. Unfortunately it works both ways. If you believe that everything is wrong about everything, everything will be wrong. Try to focus your mind on channeling either a neutral perspective or positive one.

2. No one is PERFECT, and that’s perfectly fine.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look your best, especially for your engagement photos and your wedding. There’s nothing wrong with that at all but understanding the difference between looking your best and being perfect is the key to sustaining a healthy view of yourself.
Right now you may look and see flaws but in 20 years from now you won’t even notice you’ll be in love with the moment that was captured.

The real reason you take engagement photos is celebrate the fact that you’ve said YES to getting married!

Take a step back and remember what a special time this is. If there’s something specific that you’re self-conscious about, don’t be afraid to share that. We want to make you look and feel amazing. We’ll make outfit and posing suggestions to help you love your photos. We’re on your side!

3. Intense Debates.

During the course of wedding planning and everything that comes along with it frustrations are bound to arise, but when you’re getting close to photo time, it’s really important to save these conversations for another day.

Avoid what Catherine and I like to call intense debates. These type of discussions about finances, issues or any kind of hot button topics are best left at home 😬

A big part of keeping the right mindset starts with you guys being on the same page. Bringing up issues before or around the shoot stirs up negative emotions and can definitely impact your images. It’s hard to get you guys really close and intimate for photos when you want to throw each other off the expressway because they said something rude to you in the car on the way.

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Final thoughts

Be in the moment!

We can’t express that enough. Don’t think about what you’re going to do after the shoot and don’t think about what you did before, be right here in the moment.

This mindset produces some of the most beautiful moments Catherine and I have ever witnessed.