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photography workshop: december 10
Does this sound familiar? Your Canon Rebel is still in its box, you have tried to read the manual, you've even tried a few test shots with your sleeping baby, but your pictures still look like they did BEFORE you bought your fancy camera. You might want to try my Shutterbabes workshop! Aimed at total beginners but with enough tricks of the trade to challenge intermediate shooters, you will learn about how making a few changes to your settings and upgrading to a better (not expensive) lens, will make a HUGE difference in your images. Look at the notes on the images below, and if they seem confusing to you, I promise that after you take this workshop you will know exactly what they mean, AND be able to apply those concepts to how you shoot.
This is our only workshop of 2011, just in time for Christmas! To find out more, you can go to the separate workshops site
HERE.
Ready to reserve your spot? Tickets are $125 and can be purchased
HERE. The class is limited to 20, so please reserve soon! Hope to see you in a few weeks!
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autumn DIY wedding: colleen + corey
You are going to love this wedding -- first of all, Colleen and Corey are both gorgeous and head-over-heels in love. Plus, Colleen looks like a mashup of Mandy Moore and Poppy Montgomery and has the most fabulous God-given red hair you've ever seen. Oh, and she and Corey have been dating since she was in high school and he was a freshman in college. Eight years together and more in love each day.
Second of all, she and her sister Meg made EVERYTHING themselves. OK, they didn't grow the flowers (or the groom!), but they made the table decorations, the signage, and baked the macaroons and apple pie pops on the dessert table. Besides being DIY and crafty, this wedding is super GREEN, too! When Colleen and Corey first contacted me last year, we scheduled a webcam meeting, saving all of us a 3-hour-round-trip drive between Charlotte and Greensboro. I fell for them just as much virtually as I did in person on their wedding day! Here are some details from Colleen:
"All of the paper products were made with 100% recycled paper. My sister Meg and I made all the signage ourselves using recycled card stock. Our invitations were from a company called
{ The Aerialist Press }, which uses fabric remnants from garment factories, so the paper is both cotton and recycled. Our invitation -- which we helped design -- is actually now a featured style called
{ Verdant } that the company sells as one of their "house invitations." We used recycled twine on everything, and used leftover recycled paper to make the "love letters" on the dinner tables."
I could have posted about 50 images of the details alone, but I had to leave room for the couple themselves, especially their "first look" photos. Be sure to take a look at the knock-out shot by
{ Traci } using the 90mm tilt-and-shift lens. YUM.
Congratulations, Colleen and Corey -- you are wonderful!!
Ceremony and Reception:
{ Whitehead Manor }
Cake:
{ Cheesecake Etc. }
Desserts: homemade by the bride and her sister
Flowers:
{ Sweet Earth Flower Farm }
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Corey, just before he turned around to see Colleen during their "first look" at each other before the ceremony:
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Here is that gorgeous shot by Traci -- LOVE:
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I snuck around to the back of the ceremony site and was able to zoom in on this wonderful moment during the ceremony:
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Here come some of the delightful DIY details done by Colleen and her sister Meg:
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It was unseasonable chilly that evening, so guests were offered soft wraps at the reception -- as well as comfy dancing shoes:
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A great view from the house of the courtyard and dancing below:
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