Monthly Archives: May 2008

catalina island

05.30.08 Posted in travel

I know I’ve been horrible about updating this blog. I’ve been busy, although not with as much photography as I’d like. I’ve got a couple sessions lined up for June that I’m pretty excited about, and I’m eager to get back into shooting.

Last weekend for the long Memorial Day weekend, we took a little vacation out to Catalina Island, about an hour off the coast of L.A. We went with some friends and stayed in their vacation house. The only bad part was the ferry ride over, on a stormy morning with really rough waters. My almost-two-year-old got seasick, all over my husband and me both. Poor kid–I felt so bad for him. Luckily our ferry ride back over at the end of the trip was MUCH smoother and there was no throwing up on that one.

The island is so beautiful, and there’s *just enough* to do that you don’t get bored, but you also don’t feel like you’re missing out if you decide to take long afternoon naps (which I may have done, oh, once or twice) or just chill out on your balcony.

Here’s the house we stayed in.

cool albums!

05.17.08 Posted in news

First off, I hope everyone had a nice Mother’s Day. My almost-two-year-old made me a card with markers and rubber stamps (and a little help from Daddy). It’s so stinkin’ cute.

And now to the point…I’ve found a cool new company to use for albums. They make some gorgeous albums and I want to just buy them all. I’ve been drooling over them on the website for weeks trying to decide which ones to order. I finally chose, and my albums arrived this week. I love them!

First, here’s the one you get if you buy a session album. It’s a 5×7 album covered in a gorgeous brown leather.

And here’s the smaller gift album that you can add on to the session album or any collection. It is 4×6 and comes in a few different colors.

I think clients are going to love these. They’re so classy and cool and modern at the same time.

awesome workshop

05.08.08 Posted in Uncategorized

This week I went to a fantastic workshop that I’d been looking forward to for a long time–the OneLight Workshop. I can’t remember how I first heard about it, but it’s been a year or so at least since I first discovered it and started hearing amazing things about it. So last fall when I saw San Diego on the list of cities for 2008, I registered as fast as I could. (No time to waste, they always sell out.)

I learned a ton about lighting portraits using only one single light and all the options and choices using a light can give you over just using available light. The workshop lasted from 10 am until a little after 2 am, so it was a looong day, but SO worth it. I am so excited to practice everything we learned.

Here are a few photos I shot at the workshop. The first one shows the subject shot with only natural light, and the second shows (almost) the same composition but lit with a flash off to camera-right. I actually like both of these photos–but what a difference there is! Totally different looks.

And then a few others from the day…all lit by one light off camera. It was uncharacteristically cold that day, so we were all pretty cold when we were shooting at the beach…hence the blanket the subject has wrapped around her!

(She’s a professional archer and was on the U.S. Olympic Archery Team in 2000. Very cool.)

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