This saturday I did my first engagement shoot in a long time. I felt a bit rusty not only with my camera, but also with my people skills. Luckily i had my fiance Tash with me to help be a cheerleader. The guy seemed like he had no desire at all of being there. I am actually really surprised about how well these turned out considering how grumpy the guys was acting. Let me know what you guys think. What do you guys do when you get uncooperative males, or females for that matter.
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The locations are all at Edmonds WA

They came out great. He doesn't look put out or anything. But I've had that happen to me as well.. sometimes with the bride even.. and I end up just backing off and using a long lens to capture them. I pick out a location or interesting background and ask them to just interact with each other.. talk about the first time they met or their first date.. talk about getting engaged or remember a funny story or an embarrassing story and then i just walk away.. i tell them to forget im there and that i'll call out to them if i want them to look at the camera.. works out pretty well.

I think you did a great job with him, I can't tell you had that problem with him at all in these shots. It's so frustrating when that happens with clients! It makes you appreciate the good ones that much more

Your camera made it look like he had a good time. Thats too bad that he was being a pain about the session. I guess all you can do is joke around with him and let him know that doing stuff like this is painful. All you can do is relate to him as a guy and gain his respect and hope that he understands you're just trying to make them look as good as possible. Whatever you did I think it worked cuz your pics turned out great.

I think you did a great job. I let the couples personality come out...even if that means the groom is shy than that's who he is...I make no apologies

These are fantastic, I also couldn't tell that he wasn't into it, and that's the key. I can relate to having guys who seem totally wooden and disinterested, and I'm still trying to develop a schtick to combat that lol

Thanks guys,
I definitely tried to back up more with this shoot. They weren't that bad I guess. I really like the images that came out of it and I think I was able to be more creative than I usually am, especially after a hiatus from shooting.

On image number 3 there is a weird black line on the edge of the silhouette. This was created by my camera. Anyone know what caused this.

nice job! I like the one with the sunset and mountain/water background. So pretty..makes me miss the pacific NW a bit (I used to live in Seattle)

As for the guy..he doesn't look too put off in these shots at least. But I've been in the exact same situation TWICE. One time the guy didn't smile at all..he claimed he "didn't know how to smile".. and then another time, the guy just did NOT want to be there. It was frusterating because it was getting his fiance' frusterated..and well, needless to say, their pics didn't come out too well. It was not genuine, very forced, and there wasn't much I could do about it.