Bold and colorful with a hint (or more) of humor, Laura Babb believes beauty lies in authentic moments and caught-off-guard expressions, over something stylized and picture-perfect. Joy and photographic longevity are her bread and butter. “While I don’t want to make any of my subjects feel self-conscious, I’m also not overly concerned with posing them to make them look ‘beautiful’ in an editorial sense,” she says, which seems to work just fine for her clients. “At every single wedding, someone asks me how I know the couple. I take this as a huge compliment.”