Hi there! Let me be the first to welcome you to our photo blog. Who is behind this photography studio with the funny name? We are the husband and wife photography team of Ryan and Tiffany based in Portland Oregon. We are a fun and lovely couple who enjoy photographing fabulous weddings, fun families, and cute kiddos. Not only that but we also shoot a ridiculous amount of personal work. We are pretty laid back so kick back and take a look around.
Ryan is the lead 100% film photographer, loves him some indie rock, is an apple computer fanatic, and is a marriage and family therapist.
Tiffany is the assistant 100% digital photographer, loves all things design, is a baker extraordinaire, and habla espanol.
You Look Nice Today Photography is not only a photography studio that we created, it's also a compliment and it's true.
Thanks for dropping by. Cheers!
Introducing the Nichols family and baby Jack! I couldn’t have asked for more of a laid back newborn / family photography session, sweeter newborn, or a nicer couple. Not only that but they had the cutest dogs you’ve ever seen who actually posed for the camera. No joke. They stood perfectly still any time I put the camera on them.
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Thanks again you guys!
And I HAD to include this one :)
As I write this we are in the hospital waiting until our little girl is born so I thought I’d kill some time by posting my latest work. :)
I was recently thumbing through the photography books at Barnes & Nobel and came across a book that I found fascinating. Basically it was a photographers work who had documented the entire life of his children using a photojournalistic style. All of them were unposed and unplanned. He just kept his camera always by his side for when a moment happened. Looking through this book inspired me to document moments through a week in my family’s life. So the next several days I’ll be sharing small little events and moments that make up a typical week for us.
Today is a collection of photos from a moment of complete fatigue. Anyone that has experienced pregnancy or is close to someone that has knows exactly the way Tiff was feeling in her last week of being pregnant.
Wow, has is really been a year? As some of you long time followers of my blog might remember, about a year ago I won an award given by Joe McNally for this photo below (you can read the full blog post here):
It’s a photo I took of my sister in a skating rink when I was just learning the in’s and out’s of off the camera flash. Since then my style has changed quite a bit as I’ve moved much more to the side of using primarily natural light and of course exclusively film. While I’ve had some time off from shooting weddings I’ve been thinking more about continuing to refine my own vision and strengthening my use of artificial light. I learned from photographer friend of mine, Jonathan Canlas, that as a wedding and portrait photographer you MUST be constantly finding your own voice, your own style, your own look.
I couldn’t be more excited about this coming wedding season and have some new things I will continue to introduce as I learn and grow as a photographer.
Well look at this! I’ve decided to give away a free photo session to celebrate the one year anniversary of the fabulous website ” Fistful of Coupons”. You could use this session for pretty much anything you’d like: Individual professional head shots, an engagement style “love shoot” for you and your long time spouse, maybe a family session? Heck, I’ll even set up a photo shoot for your dog if that is what you’d like.
Go on over to the Fistful of Coupons to find out how to enter. Best of luck!
During the wedding and portrait photography “off season” I’m finding that it can be fairly challenging to keep creatively fresh. So a couple days last week I decided to take my camera to work and go find fairly boring places and attempt to make them interesting.
Is there anything more boring than a Costco parking lot? Probably not. So I took the challenge.
Here are photos from the other maternity shoot I did for Tiff. I wanted something that had the feel of a lazy Saturday morning in PJ’s and with contrasty black and white film. I couldn’t be more happy with the results and love so many of these.
I love my little family!
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