• Welcome!

    Luster Studios is my personal portfolio where I share weddings, special events, engagement sessions and portraits. My origins stem from a fine arts degree in photography and computer graphics. My "style" is a perfect blend of creative ideas driven by a relaxed attitude and a fun yet thoughtful personality.

    Through a combination of posing and photojournalism I strive to capture planned and spontaneous moments that will later help you relive how you were feeling at that exact moment. I'm based in North Carolina and often travel to destination locations. I look forward to getting to know what inspires you both creatively and personally.

    - Craig Carpenter

Las Vegas Strip / Nevada Engagement Photography (Jordan + Ben)

I joined Jordan and Ben on the famous strip in Las Vegas, for a fun engagement session. I chose to focus on the couple for the most part since the backgrounds in Vegas tend to take away from the subject a bit. We found a really neat umbrella display inside of The Venetian and a huge light wall in front of The Miracle Mile Shops. I also used the Mirage and Encore hotels as striped backgrounds in a few of the photographs. One of my favorite photographs was under the bright lights of the Flamingo Hotel. They have actual flamingos in the courtyard!

Photographing couples there is a little crazy because of all the people swirling about and the image sensory overload. Every time I laid down on the ground (anything for the shot right?) someone would walk by me and say something to the effect of “Oh man I thought you were passed out!”

This was my second “celebrity fauxtoshoot” (as I like to call it) I let you draw your own conclusions as to who Jordan may remind you of. You can see my first one by clicking here. Afterwards they were generous enough to treat me to their favorite hamburger place aptly named “Strip Burger.” At first I thought it might have been a bunless burger joint but no… it’s an actual restaurant with an interesting name. The food was great!

So here are a few of the photos from the shoot… Thanks for being such a fun couple to work with Ben and Jordan! You always have a place to cool your heels if you ever make it out to the east coast!


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4 comments

Lucy Yu - April 19, 2010 - 3:44 pm

great colors! i love the jumping silhouette series!

Angelique - March 27, 2010 - 6:51 pm

I love every one of these shots.

Victoria - February 17, 2010 - 6:53 pm

Penelope Cruz!

Melynda Bean - December 17, 2009 - 11:43 am

Craig,

Great shots. Being a photographer in Las Vegas there are so many fun places to shoot. The City Center just opened if you ever come back I highly recommend checking that out.
I Enjoy your work, M.

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