Blog of Myrtle Beach wedding and family photographer Ryan Smith

Engagement pictures of the Myrtle Beach state park.

By Ryan Smith | Published: July 13, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve done just engagement pictures without having a wedding involved. I had two couples this past week, both of them were great to work with. I’ll post a few pictures from their sessions below, I think that I’m actually getting very good at getting couples to relax and have fun with the pictures. I hope you enjoy them.

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Posted in Engagement, General Photography | Tagged couple, engagement, engagement pictures, love, myrtle beach, myrtle beach state park, oak trees, romantic | 2 Comments

Wedding at the Hilton at Kingston Plantation

By Ryan Smith | Published: July 1, 2010

This was probably one of my favorite weddings this month so far. It was a really nice location behind the Hilton and the weather and everything worked out really good. It’s always better when the ceremony is closer to sunset like this one was, the only problem is we really had to rush to get everything in before dark. Everything in a wedding takes a little longer than planned. I put a few of the pictures from that day below, I really liked how emotional the bride and groom got during the ceremony. I snapped even more shots than usual because I wanted to get every expression. I hope you enjoy these.

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Posted in General Photography, Wedding | Tagged emotional, hilton, kingston plantation, north myrtle beach, vows, wedding | 1 Comment

Wedding at the Breakers Resort in Myrtle Beach

By Ryan Smith | Published: June 29, 2010

Below are some samples from the first of my 3 weddings this past weekend, this one was at the Breakers Resort Palms Tower. This constant heat we have been having is very exhausting. All the weddings turned out really nice, so that is what is important. Plus I can’t complain about having plenty of work right now, that is certainly a good thing. I took a lot of really good shots of the bride getting tearful dancing with her father at the reception, I posted one below. Shots that capture emotion are of course the ones that really stand out. That is why I take pictures almost constantly, I’m always afraid I might miss something good. I hope you enjoy these and I will put up more from the weekend once I get them ready.

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Wedding at Marriott Resort and Spa, Myrtle Beach

By Ryan Smith | Published: June 23, 2010

Here are a few of the pictures from my wedding this past Sunday at the Marriott Resort and Spa at The Grande Dunes near the ocean in Myrtle Beach, that’s a long name for a location. The weather actually turned out to be perfect for the wedding. This couple was very easy to work with, I did engagement portraits with them previously that turned out really great as well. There were actually a ton of pictures I liked, I tried to pick out a few to post on the blog. I normally like my pictures really clean without a lot of silly Photoshop effects, the kind that I’ve noticed some photographers use to draw attention away from bad pictures. If you see a short depth of field (blurry out of focus background) it’s being done in camera. However one of the pictures below I used the Totally Rad Actions F-Zero action for a tilt shift lens effect. It looks like something you might get from a Lens Baby without the trouble of using one, and I thought it really worked for that picture. I hope you like the pictures, if you do don’t forget to click the Facebook like button above.