I met up with some good friends of mine to shoot Christmas portraits for their family. We met in La Jolla, coincidentally the same day as their Holiday Parade. Fighting off traffic we luckily found parking only three cars distance from one another and began heading towards the coast. My initial intentions had been to shoot with the sun directly behind the two as it set, giving a really nice orange glow to the image. However, with conditions of grey marine layer that wasn't possible. I still shot with the sun behind as the ocean is almost always a nice aesthetic (especially to cards intended to be mailed inland where the sea is a treasure). Being comfortable with your subjects is the most important part about being a photographer in most cases, at least I think so, and since I know these two it was easy for them to be "themselves" around my camera in particular. Taking into consideration the weather I was given I couldn't be happier with the results I got from this session.
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