Columbia SC Wedding and Portrait Photographer Patty Hallman » Portraits

Dean, The Biker

Patty — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:41:32 +0000

I had a great time this week photographing Dean and his custom built motorcycle. Dean’s a paramedic in Easley, SC , and has his own side business building custom motorcycles, called “Blackwatch Choppers”. Here are a few of my favorite images from the session…

Babies, Babies, Babies!

Patty — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:40:50 +0000

Getting ready for the second annual Palmetto Health “Oh Baby” event this Sunday, May 16th, so thought I’d post a few recent baby images.

I’m looking forward to meeting new parents and parents-to-be and hope to see lots of them in my studio over the coming months and years.

Shoot Out… digital style.

Patty — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:31:43 +0000

I was asked to be one three featured photographers to participate in a “Shoot Out” this week for Professional Photographers of South Carolina. At first, I was hesitant to do it because I hate photographing when other professional photographers are watching. I’m always worrying that they’ll think, “what the heck is she doing?”! But I accepted the invitation and headed down to Mt. Pleasant Tuesday afternoon for the shoot out. Glad I did. It was great fun and quite a challenge at the same time. Each photographer was given 5 minutes to photograph our models, Whit and Cassie, outside The Red Roof Inn, then inside. The purpose of the exercise, was to see how each photographer handled the challenge of shooting in a less than picture perfect environment, with the pressures of little time and lots of eyes watching. Oh, by the way, each photographer was not allowed to watch the other photographers shoot. Didn’t want to give away any good ideas, to keep it as challenging for each of us. After we finished photographing, we then headed to Cindy Cantore’s studio to quickly edit our images and present a slideshow to the gathered photographers. I think I did a pretty good job. Here are a few of my images from the shoot out, so let me know what you think…

Dennise and Mitchell’s Engagement Session

Patty — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:19:13 +0000

Had a good time photographing Dennise and Mitchell at Riverfront Park in Columbia recently on a bright sunny Sunday afternoon.

Here are some previews from their session…

Amy and Reid’s Engagement Session

Patty — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:30:25 +0000

I spent some time with Amy and Reid shooting their engagement session in downtown Columbia recently.

We had a great time walking along Main Street and at the Statehouse. Here are a some previews from their session…

Erin’s Trash the Dress Session

Patty — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:37:09 +0000

I had a great time last week photographing a “trash the dress” session in St. Matthews with Halloween bride, Erin. I wish all my bridal sessions were this much fun! Here are a few sneak previews for Erin and everyone else to enjoy…

Rockers Portrait Session

Patty — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:33:15 +0000

Had some fun tonight doing a portrait session for “Haven’s Fall”, an up and coming band from Lugoff. Here’s one of my favorite images from the end of our outdoor session.

Jessica and Stephen’s Engagement Session

Patty — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:56:02 +0000

I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Jessica and Stephen last week. They drove up from Savannah, Georgia to book their August 2010 wedding with me and have their engagement session done. After meeting in the early afternoon, we met up again in the early evening at the USC Horseshoe. Had a light sprinkle of rain, but luckily it stopped quickly. Here are a few images from the session…

Julie’s Bridal Portrait

Patty — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:15:08 +0000

I don’t usually go back after a wedding to post a bridal portrait image, but here’s one from Julie’s session a couple months ago. I’m playing around with adding textures and edgy borders, so it’s my funky creation.

I’m sure Julie will love it, so hope others will too!

Miranda Cler’s 2 month portraits

Patty — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:32:43 +0000

I had the pleasure of photographing little 2 month old Miranda Cler recently. Miranda’s mom, Lara, has worked with me at weddings in the past and I couldn’t wait to meet her little one. She’s a beautiful baby who looks like her mom for sure!

Here are a couple of my favorites, along with part of a custom birth announcement I did from the session…