Kristy and David's Wedding Day

Oh what a fun wedding this was!!!  I have so much to share about what a great occasion this was, but it's late and my computer has been the source of a very stressful weekend and I'm about to get some shut eye...so for now, here is a super super tiny sneak peek at yesterday's union of two super sweet people.  I will post more about the wedding as well as another sneak peek tomorrow!!

Mary Star Fundraiser pictures (continued)

Here's my second batch of fundraiser pictures from the Mary Star Elementary fundraiser. :)

Mary Star Elementary Fundraiser

The weekend before last I met with a bunch of families from Mary Star Elementary School to take their family photos for their school's fundraiser!  By the end of the weekend, we were able to donate $200 to the school from the fundraiser. :)  Hopefully they'll have me back next year and we can raise even more!! :)

I just started on the editing for their photos, so I'm going to post them to share as I get through a batch...below is the first family whose photos I've finished up.

You'll notice that some of the photos have a new editing technique...a yellowish sort of overlay (which I'm also working on perfecting).  I personally LOVE this look, but I realize that my preferences aren't always in tune with my clients. :)  So I am including both the original versions and this new color version on everyone's final cds.

I'd love your feedback on the look though...it's always intriguing to me to hear the varying opinions from everyone! :)  (This effect is on the 4th and 8th photo down)

Enough babbling...on to the pictures. :) :)

Andrea and Jamel Engagement Photos

I had a super fun photo session at Manhattan Beach yesterday evening with Andrea and Jamel who will be tying the knot in July this year!

They were both a lot of fun to work with...I really enjoyed picking on Jamel each time he stopped smiling or got worried about having to do cheesy poses that some of the other couples on the beach with other photographers were doing. :)  They were both super sweet and I loved being able to sit on the sand with them for a bit hearing their story of how they met while we waited for the sun to get low.

Something about being at the beach at any time of day, but especially during sunset, is so pleasing and serene...and the fact that I was "working" while enjoying the beach just makes me smile. :) :)

Here's a little sneak peek for Andrea and Jamel.  Thank you both for trusting me to capture this special time in your lives. :)

Fun around the South Bay

This past Saturday I took Caydan and drove around town looking for new places to take pictures....I didn't end up finding anything - just some of the same places I've already done photos.....BUT, since I have a new camera and new editing techniques, it feels like they're new locations all over again! :)

Here's some of my favorites below....the photo of Caydan sitting on the bridge with the giant smile on his face - that's a new editing technique I'm working on....I've seen other tons of other photos edited similarly, but I could never figure out how they did it....but I've tapped into it a bit here....I love the look, very retro.  Like a photo from the 50's or something (lol, I could totally have my decade wrong here though!). :)

Anyways, here's my favorites that I took....I'm seriously considering getting him into modeling, probably later this year because I'm going to have a bunch of free time open up for me then. :) :)  What do you think?  Could he make it as a child model?? :)

Oh - I almost forgot to mention his cry-baby pics...he is very sensitive sometimes...so if I tell him that he's not listening to me (which is constantly! But what do you expect from a 4 yr old...) then he gets upset and says that he'll listen...he doesn't like to be scolded at all...and he cries at the drop of a hat....so I took some pics because he was so cute crying. :)

Strangeling Art Giveaway on Haute Whimsy blog

OK, i admit...this is completely unrelated to this photography blog....BUT, I wanted to share (plus I get another entry for doing this, hee hee!) -

if you haven't been over to the Haute Whimsy blog yet, you are missing out!  She does tons of awesome giveaways all the time and constantly posts some super interesting things....

Right now she is doing a giveaway for Strangeling Art...check it out and enter for yourself...this stuff is awesome. :)

http://www.hautewhimsy.com/2010/03/strangeling-giveaway.html

A and J - March 2010

Oh how I love this field of flowers...yes, I've taken pictures there just about 3 days in a row now...but I can't help it!  1) It's BEAUTIFUL, and 2) the flowers will die...and it will be a big, brown, empty field eventually...and I don't know when that day will happen, so I'm going to take full advantage of it now!!  Besides, this family is the ones that told me the flowers were in bloom in the first place...so I owe these beautiful scenic photos all to them. :)

Below is a little sneak peek at the session...and I have to say, this photo below of the two of them together might be one of my all-time favorite sibling photos.  It's hard to get siblings to interract naturally with each other....but this one turned out well. :)

Also - if you're reading this and don't mind....could you tell me how the color in these images look on your monitor??  I'm having issues as I'm looking at the same images in 4 different programs...1 of them looks ridiculously over saturated (really red skin basically), 1 looks really under-saturated, and the other 2 look fine, including the ones I'm looking at on this blog....so I'm curious as to how you all see it as well....your comments are appreciated! :)