Baltimore Knotties - Help with photo stuff (please)?

Knot Annie · March 2010

Hey Knotties,
I need your expertise. I’m looking for the best place to take photos in the Baltimore area. This can be wedding or engagement photos. Also, tell me why. Does the place have great lighting? Filled with nature? Modern buildings? What makes it unique to where you live and why would someone want to take wedding-related photos there? I’ll be using your Knot name, btw.
Thanks in advance!
Knot Annie

arbolita · March 2010

The gardens designed by the TKF Foundation are all very unique spaces. If you look at my wedding bio, you can see the pictures we took pictures at one after the reception. They are all different, and many have very interesting architectural and environmental elements.

Here is a link to see where all the spaces are located, and they show some pictures of each one. www.tkffdn.org/what/sacred_space_locations.php

They also have a Facebook page, with one album in particular that has over 70 pictures of their gardens (and tells you where each is located) http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/album.php?aid=136920&id=249821844825

cbcrocks81883 · March 2010

I have not done my e-pics yet, but I plan on going to Point Lookout State Park. My favorite thing about living in Maryland is the Chesapeake Bay. It inspired my wedding style, so it's only fitting to take my e-pics on the bay...plus it's one of the places my FI and I have spent a lot of time together. We're also having our wedding at a venue on the bay. Point Lookout is a little far from the city (~2 hours), but there are parks on the Baltimore side and the other side of the bay that are not as far. If you love nature, the Chesapeake Bay is the best backdrop you can have.

Denise

nezwee · March 2010

DH and I took our e-pics in downtown Annapolis. It's quaint and very colorful.
You have the aspects of modernism and also water.
A great spot is the tiny beach over by the Naval Academy Bridge. We ended up having some time between our wedding and reception to take some wedding pictures here as well. It's beachy and I love the beach, but knew I couldn't get married on one since we are Catholic. There is also an old bridge that isn't used anymore where we got some great photos of our BP.

highdee · March 2010

DH and I took our e-pics in Old Ellicott City which is about 25 minutes outside of Baltimore. We didn't want traditional engagement pictures and EC has tons of cool places that provide an awesome backdrop for pictures. There are lots of funky stores, murals on the sides of buildings, and multi colored buildings which definitely gave our pictures a unique look.

DH and I also did a day after shoot with our photog. We had pictures taken on top of Federal Hill, the American Visionary Art Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Industry. The pictures on top of Fed Hill are by far my favorite. The backdrop is so beautiful and you get one of the best views of the city. The pictures at AVAM were a close second because there is just so much random stuff there and I loved the contrast between my frilly wedding dress and a life sized chess board and an egg taller than my DH.

summer08bride · March 2010

We took our e-pics at Sanndy Point State park. We have the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the backgournd as well as the beach and the lighthouse. The bay epitomizes Maryland, so that was the best place we thought. I have some pics in my bio.

weezie825 · March 2010

We did our engagement pictures at The National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: http://www.msmary.edu/grotto/
Location: part of Mount St. Mary's College in Fredrick County
Reason we chose it: My husband and I went to McDaniel College (Western Maryland College) and we used to go out to Emmitsburg and Thurmont to go hiking so the spot was sentimental for us. The shrine offered us a lot of different places to take our photos. There was a gazebo, an old log cabin, a pond lots of trees and flowers and all the statuary. A sampling of our photos can be seen on our photographer's blog here: http://www.jlowephotos.com/blog/?p=2905.

For our wedding photos we used the Historic Jerusalem/Gunpowder Falls State Park area http://www.jerusalemmill.org/
Location: the White Marsh/Perry Hall area of Baltimore County.
Reason we chose it: It was close to our wedding venue and offered a lot of different natural and manmade elements for pictures. We did some of the photos along the banks of a large creek, by an old mill and at a wooden covered bridge. Some of our wedding photos can be seen here: http://www.jlowephotos.com/blog/?p=4265.

vjcjenn1 · March 2010

We took photos on top of Federal Hill so our backdrop was really the Baltimore's inner harbor. I've seen many other brides do this. I think it was a great location because you not only had the baltimore skyline, but there is park up there on federal hill with grass, trees, steps, benches...and cannons! And all of these made nice props in your photos. We had pictures of us from the back and front of benches and one of these featured a gorgeous tree whose leaves had turned red from the fall. There's pictures of us laying on our belly's in the grass, pictures of me on the cannon and him standing by. The picture on the steps allowed us to be the same height!

bmoremegan · March 2010

I second the PPs who mentioned the top of Federal Hill! We didn't take e-pics there but we may take wedding pics there. It's my favorite spot in the whole city, and the view is gorgeous.

Fells Point is also a great place to take pictures. The buildings are so unique and it's right on the water so the views are great there too.

And finally, we're taking some wedding pictures at Sherwood Gardens, which is in the north part of the city. It's beautiful in April/May when the tulips are in bloom, but even later in the spring/summer it's nice. So green with lots of trees and flower beds. It's a great place to get some "nature" photos.

SweetCFly · March 2010

We took our engagement pictures in Fells Point, and we loved how they turned out. This is one of our photographer's favorite urban places to shoot, and she really knows the ins and outs of the neighborhood and where the best photo-ops are. There's so much color and it's a pretty historical area in Baltimore. We just love how they turned out.

On the wedding day, as long as the weather is nice, we plan to have pictures taken ontop Federal Hill Park, before going to my alma mater where the chapel is for the ceremony. Federal Hill Park is a cute little place and has all kinds of fabulous views of the Baltimore skyline and the harbor.

JanoBean75 · March 2010

My dad is our photog and we're going to do ours in old Ellicott City, Clarkland Farm and the front of the Enchanted Forest. We're also going to the harbor.

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