June, 2008 | Real Photography

kara's brilliant guest book idea | storyboards

Jun 19, 2008

I’m all about the product shares this week. :)

Along with our albums, I love storyboards. Probably because a storyboard is like a single album page that goes on your wall–pictures are just better when they’re together in a nice clean design.

Kara came up with my favorite use for a storyboard yet–using it instead of a guest book. She ordered a 20×24 mounted storyboard (all of our storyboards are mounted, so they are sturdy and will be able to hold up to being a guest book very well). We decided it should have lots of white space for lots of signatures. I mocked up a couple of options, and here was the winner:

engagement portrait guestbook alternative

Can’t you just see it full of signatures and hanging on the wall? I totally love this idea!

And while we’re on the topic of storyboards, here’s one that I mocked up for Aubree and Zack that I want to print for myself I love it that much. (Which is the weird thing about being a portrait photographer. If I were a painter, it would be cool to have my paintings in the house. But sadly it would be weird if I hung MY art at my house–I think our clients would be weirded out if they thought we had 15×30 inch storyboards of them in our hallway.) :)

engagement pictures storyboard

Posted in Engagement Portrait Photographer, Products

Colorado Springs Senior Portrait | Justine

Jun 19, 2008

I love senior portrait season! Senior portraits are definitely one of my favorite parts of being a photographer, and with a high school senior as gorgeous as Justine, it is a very easy job!

We decided to go to my favorite spot in Colorado Springs–not Manitou or Garden of the Gods or downtown, but the fields, barns, and fences of Falcon just east of the Springs. It meant braving the crazy woman that wanted to know exactly what these pictures were for (rural Colorado being hot on the terrorist hit list), but it was so worth it.

She’d never had her portrait taken by a professional photographer before, so Justine said she was a little nervous. Well, I have never seen anyone so natural in front of a camera! She’s a total pro.

high school senior portrait

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high school senior picture

I love this shot as she tries to stop laughing:

colorado springs senior portrait photographer

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senior portrait photographer

(You’d never know from the smile that there were a couple of dogs behind that fence desperate to eat her.)

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And we’ll end with my favorite from the day:

senior portrait photographer

Posted in Senior Portrait Photographer

our wedding albums just got cooler

Jun 18, 2008

I adore our custom flushmount albums. I obsess about them and drool over the leather swatches. I think they are amazing and the perfect way to see your pictures. I get so excited when our couples order an album because that’s how I want them to see their pictures. Not on a disc, but in a gorgeous album, designed to reflect the day and perfectly printed so the colors are amazing and will last forever.

I got way excited when I learned about a new cover option: glass. (It’s not really glass, it’s plexiglass, because an actual glass album would be fragile and dangerous, but when I think of it as a glass album, I love it that much more.)

I knew immediately what I wanted to make my sample from: Meg and Matt’s engagement shoot. I created the album and then had to wait for the cover to be an ordering option at my vendor (this took forever). Then I had to wait two months for my album to arrive (this took forever, too). And then on Monday, there it was at my door: the coolest album ever.

And one of my favorite spreads:

I could totally see using these as adorable guest books. Speaking of which, tomorrow I’ll share another cool product: the storyboard Kara and Drew are using as a “guestbook” at their wedding!

Posted in Engagement Portrait Photographer, Products