Archive for February, 2011

9 Months Old! {Rockford, IL Baby Photographer}

February 28th, 2011

I have been getting a little behind on the blog lately. I think it’s so easy to just add photos to Facebook and call it a day, but I do love the presentation of photos on the blog: the quality is a lot better. I have a couple sessions I’ll be adding to the blog [...]

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I have been getting a little behind on the blog lately. I think it’s so easy to just add photos to Facebook and call it a day, but I do love the presentation of photos on the blog: the quality is a lot better. I have a couple sessions I’ll be adding to the blog over the next few days.

A few weeks ago, I took pictures of baby Kaiya, whose mommy won my Facebook contest several months ago. I did these in my home studio and I got to try out my newest shade of seamless paper. I love the gray! We also did some mommy-daughter portraits in black and white, which I think are gorgeous!

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Pamper Yourself Party @ Inspirations in Rockford, IL

February 14th, 2011

On Friday night Heather Wilson and I set up a booth at the Valentine’s Day Pamper Yourself Party at Inspirations in Rockford. Inspirations is a new designer-inspired handbag and accessories store. There were a handful of vendors at the party and everything centered around pampering. We put up a display of our favorite photos, a [...]


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On Friday night Heather Wilson and I set up a booth at the Valentine’s Day Pamper Yourself Party at Inspirations in Rockford. Inspirations is a new designer-inspired handbag and accessories store. There were a handful of vendors at the party and everything centered around pampering. We put up a display of our favorite photos, a slideshow, and a fun photo booth for our guests. Then we walked around and snapped some shots of the event while indulging in a little pampering of our own.

Dove Chocolate was passing out yummy samples. I got to try out a facial peel from L’Bri on the back of my hand and now my other hand is super jealous. Our friend Tara was there (Three Little Bows) with her adorable creations. The Scentsy booth made the whole place smell amazing, seriously. Inspirations had their whole stock on sale. Avon was there – you should see these cute body markers they have for little kids in the bath tub, what a clever idea! On top of all that, there were door prizes and refreshments. We’re already talking about when we can do another show like this because we had so much fun!

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Be Mine Valentine Mini Session Event, Day 2 {Rockford, IL Childrens Photographer}

February 5th, 2011

Today was our second and final day of mini sessions for Valentines Day. I love these mini session marathons! We had a wide range of ages from 10 months to 15 years. It’s always fun to see what everyone is going to wear and this week we saw a lot of red shirts, which really [...]
 

Today was our second and final day of mini sessions for Valentines Day. I love these mini session marathons! We had a wide range of ages from 10 months to 15 years. It’s always fun to see what everyone is going to wear and this week we saw a lot of red shirts, which really pop on the gray backdrop.

I’m really looking forward to our Facebook contest this week. I went through all the images our participants picked out and selected one favorite from each group. Heather Wilson, Tara (Three Little Bows) & myself will all upload these 9 pics to our Facebook pages for the contest, which means our fans can vote up to three times for each picture by visiting each of our pages! We’ll leave the contest open for one week and then we’ll tally up all the “likes” for each photo on all three pages. Whoever has the most “likes” will get a free 11×13 of any pose from their mini session. So if you are one of our mini session participants, make sure you get as many of your friends as you can to come to all three pages and vote for your picture!

Here are today’s favorites!

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I Heart Faces – Fix it Friday

February 4th, 2011

While I always try to get things right in camera, sometimes a little Photoshop magic is necessary to make an image pop. I actually quite enjoy editing, and I don’t know why I haven’t participated in Fix it Friday yet. It’s a weekly challenge over at I Heart Faces. Here is my attempt at fixing [...]
 

While I always try to get things right in camera, sometimes a little Photoshop magic is necessary to make an image pop. I actually quite enjoy editing, and I don’t know why I haven’t participated in Fix it Friday yet. It’s a weekly challenge over at I Heart Faces. Here is my attempt at fixing this photo… I did not take this picture, I only edited it for this challenge. (To check out other entries, click the I Heart Faces logo below.)

Here is how I fixed this photo (in Photoshop):

  1. I used a color selection layer to pull the magenta out.
  2. I used a curves layer to brighten and add contrast.
  3. I reduced the noise using the reduce noise filter.
  4. I did a very light unsharp mask.
  5. I cropped to fix the tilt and also removed some of the background distractions.
  6. I smoothed the skin and brightened the eyes a tad.
  7. I ran an action to further mask the color problems.
  8. I painted in the blown highlight on the left side of her face.

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How to Book a Session

February 2nd, 2011

Once in a while this question comes up, so I thought I would answer it here on the blog to eliminate any confusion. Booking a portrait session is now easier than ever. I use a platform called ShootQ to organize everything. If you fill out the contact form here on my website or on my [...]


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Once in a while this question comes up, so I thought I would answer it here on the blog to eliminate any confusion. Booking a portrait session is now easier than ever. I use a platform called ShootQ to organize everything. If you fill out the contact form here on my website or on my Facebook page, I’ll send you a link to my pricing page. On the pricing page you can pick out what you would like for a session, submit it, and shortly after I’ll send you a booking proposal. The booking proposal is totally online: you confirm your session details, the collection you wish to purchase, and you pay your session fee, all in one spot. You even sign the contract digitally. It’s so simple and it’s instant.

My favorite part is planning the session itself. Once we pick a date, we can start talking about locations, settings, clothes, etc. I have a few locations that I always like to use, but I am always open to suggestions. Sometimes, if the client wants an indoor session, I’ll just have them come to my home where I set up a studio as needed. Other times, usually just for newborns, I’ll travel to the client’s home.

The best place to start is my contact page. The more information you can give me about what you’d like to get out of your session, the better I can serve you.

And because I can’t post a blog without a picture… check out what my garage looked like today. It’s the biggest snow storm I can remember!

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