Photoshop Fun!

Well friends, we have had a busy week.  Tuesday in at Kids, Inc was a blast!  We will have a sneak peek at those pictures soon, but I wanted to share with you my latest creation in Photoshop.  This is from Matt and Maria's engagement session a couple weeks ago.

Enjoy!

Back to School

Hey all!  Michelle here writing a quick note this morning to let you all know what we've been up to lately.  We are finished with Matt and Maria's engagement pictures and they are now online!

This morning we are getting ready for pictures at Kids, Inc in Cedar Rapids.  We got everything set up last night and had a great model in Dora the doll. :)  Randy and I are really excited to take these school pictures.  We have been scouring the internet for pose ideas and have some really great ones picked out!

Stay tuned for pictures and more news!

Weddings Done!

Whew!  Tonight we wrapped up Jenny and Troy's wedding photos and got them posted online.  What a relief it is to have that out of the way.  Brides, thank you for your patience, we spent a lot of time on your photos and hope that it was worth the 3-week wait.

Next up: hand-develop and do some creative edits of Matt and Maria's engagement session and get them posted next week.  After that, we have a day in Cedar Rapids to do school portraits for Kids, Inc.  Then we'll have some down time for a few months to focus on our advertising and pricing strategies.

Congratulations Matt and Maria!

Today we got lucky and the weather cooperated with us for Matt and Maria's engagement session.  What a fun couple to work with!  They were both really comfortable with each other and we hardly needed to give any direction for poses.  We got a lot of great shots, so the hard part will be figuring out which 300 pictures to toss.

Gadget Geek Section
This was our first time out with our new "nifty fifty" Canon 50mm 1.4.  This lens is very sharp and offers up a nice, dreamy look for portraits.  Its one of the most popular lenses among portrait photographers for good reasons...its small, light, well-built, remarkably sharp, and with a maximum aperature of 1.4, it has the capability to throw backgrounds out of focus like few other lenses can.

Now, back to Jenny and Troy's wedding photos.  We're almost done with them and want to have them online by tomorrow night.

Here's a preview from today's shoot.

One Year Anniversary

Tomorrow is our one year anniversary already!  We've got reservations at Champagne restaurant tonight.  We haven't been there before, but it looks really nice.

Kellie and Joe's pictures have all been post-processed.  All that needs to be done with them now is some creative editing, further narrowing of the final set, upload the set to Instaproofs, select the set for the website slideshow gallery, create and upload the website slideshow gallery, assemble/burn/and print the DVD, and deliver the DVD to Kellie and Joe.

While Michelle is working on the creative editing of some of Kellie and Joe's pictures, I've started the editing process for Jenny and Troy's wedding.  Here's another preview: