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Real Photography closed in December 2014 and is no longer accepting clients.

Thank you for your support over the years! Please follow me at my new personal blog: www.needlesandapen.com to keep up with my latest photography, craft, and nursing school adventures.

I’ve had the honor of photographing Heather and Leon’s family twice before so I was super excited to see them again, especially when Heather shared her concept for the shoot!  They have a Land Rover that Eloise loves, so Heather designed a safari shoot!

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Posted in Child PhotographerFamily Photographer

printing your files

Nov 02, 2012

When photographers first consider selling digital files, they have a minor panic attack because they lose control over the final product.  Why do we care so much?  Different labs are calibrated differently and many apply auto-adjustment programs to files before printing them which can mean very different results from different printers.  I use a calibrated monitor so that what we see on our screen matches what our lab sends back to us.  With consumer labs, we just don’t know what we’ll get back–it’s a bit of a gamble.  I recently began using Costco for some of my own snapshots for Project Life and was seeing a wide range in how close the print was to the original image.  As you can see in the samples below, sometimes the differences are very large, and sometimes they’re only slightly noticeable.  (For my photog readers, I did not resize and sharpen these before sending them to my lab since clients don’t have that capability.)  My takeaway from this quick experiment is that it’s a good idea to send a small print through a lab before buying that photo in  a larger print–if you’re happy with the colors in the small print, then committing to that lab for the larger print is easy.

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Meg and Dave are fun.  They laugh a lot.  They are silly.  They are wonderful.  We’ve shot a couple of weddings this year without wedding parties, and I have to say, if you want a stress free day, this is the way to go!  Their wedding at Red Rocks Park, with the ceremony at the Trading Post and reception at Ship Rock Grill, was completely full of joy!

Meg and Dave’s Wedding Details:  Venue – Trading Post and Ship Rock Grill at Red Rocks Park, Morrison Colorado   Cake – Piece, Love, and Chocolate  Florist – Kathy Vicino

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Outdoor ceremony at Red Rocks Park

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Wedding portraits at Red Rocks Park

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Red Rocks Park Wedding Reception

Dave and Meg, thanks for sharing your smiles and laughter with us!

Posted in Wedding Photographer