Diana Royter Photography Blog

I would like to share with you a couple of amazing ideas for Halloween-inspired wedding decorations.

Last weekend was a true Halloween weekend- it was raining, snowing and very windy, which didn’t stop Valerie and Andy from having an amazing and fun wedding. Halloween is Valerie’s favorite holiday – so naturally, she chose Halloween (aka Tom Burton’s Corpse bride style) theme for their wedding, which took place in elegant Hempstead house, a former Guggenheim mansion.

Touching wedding ceremony took place in the room filled with trees, candles and surrounded by mysterious smoke. Beautiful bride was wearing a simple wedding dress, complimented by antique jewelry and a birdcage veil. After the ceremony she changed in a decadent black dress, reminiscent of the glorious days of the mansion. The couple filled this beautiful house with playful ghosts (hired actors) that were wandering between guests during cocktail hour, accompanied by musicians dressed in 1920s styled clothes. The reception was a masterpiece of taste and fantasy – beautiful bouquets, silver sculls, flower trees and of course, Halloween-inspired food. Needless to say, it was a wedding to remember. Congratulations to a wonderful couple!

Those who know me well probably remember my unconditional love to chocolate and can imagine my excitement when I was asked to photograph my favorite food.  Last week I had a pleasure to meet Leslie-Ann Fromen, who makes unique gourmet chocolates for special occasions such as weddings, bridal showers and birthdays and shoot some of [...]

I was listening Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons”-June, while uploading pictures from the recent studio photo shoot and decided to post a few shoots that I took outdoors:

A few weeks ago we had a wonderful opportunity to attend and capture a fun “Pitch and Glitz” event organized by “Ladies Who Launch”.  LWL is an organization that helps women entrepreneurs to grow their business by offering valuable resources and connections through their workshops and networking events. “Pitch and Glitz” event was the 1st [...]

Jolynn is a beautiful actress, who performed in numerous TV series’ episodes and modeled for Spider Woman comic book (for more details check out her IMDB page). We had a wonderful time during her “Strawberry Shortcake”:) photo shoot…

I was thrilled when a bride I shoot more than a year ago emailed and said that she is expecting and would like to have a maternity session! There is nothing more rewarding than to know that people are happy with the results and keep coming back. Susanna and her hubby chose Coney Island beach [...]

Ellada and Vadim are getting married at the end of September and asked me to take their engagement pictures, which they intended to use for the wedding guest book and picture slideshow. We started off the engagement session at Interstate Palisades Park overlooking GW bridge and made our way around Northern NJ jumping from one location to another. [...]

I’m really excited to share pics for Ilona & Sergey’s wedding who got married in Manhattan City Hall on a perfect summer day (a couple of weeks ago)… the bride looked beautiful, the groom was happy, Brooklyn bridge was magnificent… and I really enjoyed taking pictures of this fun-loving couple…

Dmitry & Dasha’s has been together for almost 4 years: since their 1st date at the film festival they’ve done numerous camping and hiking trips together, shared many wonderful moments and even adopted and raised an examplary black cat named Phillip. They tied the knot at Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island on 4th of [...]

I just realized that I haven’t blogged for a while… I was taking advantage of beautiful weather, shooting outdoors … but I today I would like to share  some studio pics.  I used back lighting to emphasize model’s beautiful body and  glowing skin.