Category: Photography
For the Cutest Christmas Portraits In Town!
My annual portrait event takes place during the month of November so you have enough time before Christmas to get your images and create gifts and holiday cards. As I write this, November is two weeks away. Thanksgiving is six weeks away. Christmas Day is in ten weeks. So if you want to plan ahead, here’s the link. Save $15 when you book anytime between now and Oct 31. use code CPE2022 at checkout. Granted it’s not even Halloween yet as I’m posting this, it may seem like I’m rushing…
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In Camera Camera Tricks
Photography is my job and sometimes I just gotta have a little fun with my work. Having fun is a necessary component to inspire creativity and the interactive playing with these ideas with other creatives inspires new ideas. Having watched a youtube video about prisms, I bought a few inexpensive items at the local Hobby Lobby and tried a few refracting in-camera tricks. There were several prism suggestions, I thought I’d just try working on two of them. First I tried a home made prism technique using three mirrors. The…
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Real Estate and Interior Shots
There are many situations that call for interior photography. Real estate sales, remodeling examples, room organization, kitchen demonstrations, interior design work. One of the most frequently seen styles of interior photography is the before and after remodel example. The biggest key to selling a remodel is to make sure you get the “before” shot. That’s the shot that most people forget but that’s the shot that makes the “after” so much more incredible. Over this past weekend, I did a very basic interior shoot to display a makeover of a boat’s salon…
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A World Away (but not far at all)
This past weekend, last weekend in January, it wasn’t too cold, mid 40’s and after the epic, “First Week” we were really looking forward to getting out of the city for a couple nights. Mike and I went up to visit Boaty up in LaConner and even though it’s winter and we’re not going to leave the dock, it’s a great little place to go for a two night stay. We brought the terrible twins (the dogs), thankfully the rain held off until Sunday afternoon because wet dogs all weekend would stink. Literally. I washed…
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Step Up your Game with a Professional Headshot
Want that polished professional looking headshot? If the self image you’ve been looking to achieve for your first impression on your cards and website needs a more professional, updated look, I’ve got you covered this month. Start the new year fresh and save $101 on your headshot. Visit my studio this month and take advantage of this special headshot price, $49 going on through January 27. (Mention that you saw this on my blog to get a special bonus) You get a 10-15 minute session and generally about 8-10 images, genuine super model treatment under the lights and…
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10 Photography Suggestions for your Wedding
Wedding season is fast approaching. Here are some really good tips for you to make sure your wedding day is going to produce the images you want to keep and show off forever. Stick to your schedule. It’s a good idea to respect the schedule that you’ve discussed with your photographer prior to your wedding. Stay on time. Don’t assume it only takes “10 minutes” and be certain to have anyone you need in the photograph to be there on time as well. Please, no unofficial Wedding Photogs. Uncle Joe…
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Give Thanks for the Best Memories
Thanksgiving can be a difficult day for people without family to visit but sometimes the difficulty is especially for people WITH family to visit. Family that we love dearly but want to keep at arms length, or maybe the people who are the anchors in our lives but anchors that we feel might hold us back. But what is really holding us back? Mothers and Fathers know us much more intimately than anyone else in our lives and maybe what is holding us back isn’t their over bearing love for…
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Show Stoppers
I really love the drama that the Capitol Theatre offered for this wedding. Although the theatre is in rough shape, it is very old and everything is mismatched, the walls were peeling, the lighting was a huge task but although finding lighting for a bride was challenging here, I was in love with the contrasting shadows, the stage lighting, the soft filtered light from the old dirty windows with worn out curtains, it was really much more interesting than flat room light. Upstairs of the theatre was a labyrinth of rooms that I…
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Photostyler
Remember when computers first became a new household appliance? You’d have to be in your upper forties at the least (I assume) to be clear on what I’m talking about. I was in my early twenties, a parent of two young (most beautiful in the world) children, when we got our first computer. I wasn’t big on decorating the house back then, we had a split level at the time, the downstairs floor was concrete and we didn’t have much by way of furnishings but the computer was considered an “investment.”…
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