Daytona Beach Photographer - Adames/Ortiz Family

I've known these two families for a while now and it's so wonderful to see their family grow. We decided to wait until Brianna was 8 weeks old to take her portraits and include her grandparents in for the fun! Here's one of my favorite of little Brianna, her brother, parents, and grandparents:

It was one of those chilly days here in FL so after a few shots, we decided to go indoors to Brianna's grandparents home and do a few more there.

Here's the proud mommy:

and with grandpa!

After the formals, it was time for her to relax..

I love this one of her!

and one more outfit change. She was the cutest ladybug :)

Her parents painted this. I think they did a wonderful job!

Aside from weddings, one of the things I enjoy doing is photographing babies. You can't get a bad picture of them and they are so easy to pose. All the props were her mommy's and I think if I specialized in baby photography, I'd go crazy buying a bunch of props and hammocks and baskets! I think it is so beautiful and you can really get creative with them.


That's all for now!

Capturing motion blur in photography

One thing that I strive to consistently implement in my work is producing sharp images. I love shooting wide open, mostly for a single person portrait such as a bride or groom. But I have found that leaving my aperature at 2.0, my sharpness rate has increased, especially on moving subjects. We all want nice sharp images so the thought of camera shake and motion blur in a picture might make us cringe.

I have found though, by reading photography related articles and looking at a few example of other photographers, that motion blur can be a very good thing to create a very cool and dramatic affect to a photo in several occasions. One that I can think of is on the dance floor or at a reception hall. You can capture the mood and feel of a dance floor by slowing your shutter speed way down at about 1/30th of a second or below and no Flash. If you have a steady hand, you can capture the lights that surround the reception hall, or the lights that make up the mood of the room while having all the people blured and look like there is alot of motion going on. This effect really makes a photo look like it is standing still, frozen in time. Here's a very good example of this that I found on another photographer's blog:

Doesn't it look like someone hit the fast forward button to the future and everyone is moving fast forward while the entire room stands still? I think it's fabulous! You can almost feel all the buzzling and excitement that is going on.

Lets all try to get a little out of our comfort zone and think a bit outside of the box and really push ourselves to try new things. You may not succeed the first time but I bet that with more practice, you will start to create photos that are truely unique and reflect your style and your creativity! I will be shooting a wedding this Saturday with Jennifer Werneth and I can't wait to try this technique during the party!

Fall is finally here!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE fall! It is my favorite time of the year. I always say to my husband that we are living in the wrong state. I never wear shorts and hardly wear flipflops. I''m not a summer person. What I love about fall is the crisp air, watching the leaves change and having a beautiful backdrop of orange, red, yellow and brown. It's the perfect scene for me and if I had my dream place, there would be lots of fall colored trees, enough to give you a mystical feel but also a big yellow/orange/red field with tall grass. I'd also have mountains in the distance and a big beautiful lake with ducks. I'd also want a few trees surrounding part of the lake, making several paths so when I go canoeing, I can enjoy the ducks floating around me and the beautiful leaves falling around me.

It's that wonderful time of the year again to take out the boots, sweaters, and scarfs and enjoy a nice chilly walk around town :)

Sneek Peak : Brianna - Daytona Beach Portrait Photographer

Here's a little sneek peak of all the cuteness from yesterdays session! I had such a great time photographing Brianna and her family on a wonderfully chilly day here in Florida. More to come soon :)

Daytona Beach Portrait Photographer - Parvu/Doak Family Beach Session

I really had such a great time photographing these two families!. One of the families bought along a friend to help the two babies look at the camera. She'd stand behind me making funny faces and waving toys and I'd quickly snap the photo as the babies looked up. It did take several attempts but we managed to take some great images :) Here are a few of my favorites:

Wedding Albums

Three words came to mind when I picked an album company to work with for wedding albums:

Clean. Modern. Simple.

If the above three words describe your taste, then these wedding albums are just for you! Before I decided to start offering these, I did countless research on the internet and looked up reviews from other photographers. I was blown away by all the positive reviews!! and it made me so happy because it really put me at ease knowing that I would be offering something that is worth the investment. These beautiful albums are made of 100% full-grain, natural leathers that wrap their hand-made albums. They are high-end flush mount albums and come in 3 sizes and 7 different colors.

Their production time is about 2 weeks! You won't have to wait months to get your albums anymore! I offer these A la carte or in packages at a discounted price. Another fabulous idea is that you can use the smallest size album as an engagment photo album to display at your reception for guest signatures!. It would be a beautiful keepsake after the wedding that will last you forever. I also offer other albums with various options such as photo covers and personal embossing.

Here are a few sample images of the wedding albums plus a color swatch.

Sample Engagment album:

Sample wedding albums:

No gutter in between the pages that cut your images in half. You get a full panoramic view!

Family Beach session sneak peek

I have to admit that the last couple of days, I haven't been blogging much of my personal stuff as much as I would like. I've been getting a little lazy, because really, it does take some time to think about what you want to say and how you want to say it, and before you know it, an hour has passed and you've only written like 5 sentences. I really like to have my words together before I write about a story or an event so I guess that's why it takes me a little longer than usual :)

Well I just have to say that it's been a great and refreshing weekend. It involved going to the beach - in jeans and sneakers, getting soaked from the knees down, crab legs, movies, and chili, oh and editing pictures of course. Here's a sneak peek from Friday's session :) More coming soon!