happy weekend!
January 27, 2012
Angie & Jaron — Groomals
January 24, 2012
Did you know…. that Angie walked in and bought her dress…WITHOUT ANY ALTERATIONS done to it? And have you ever see a dress FIT someone SO perfectly?? I was pretty impressed…. This shoot was a blast….I have know them for quite some time and I was SO excited to see her in a wedding dress!! Thanks guys! (and Heidi who helped every second)
awww look how cute we are!
Courtney & Nic
January 23, 2012
STUDIO FILLED UP THE FIRST DAY…THANK YOU FOR THE EMAILS!
Well hello again… are you shocked that I blogged? Ya me too… I was going to start WAY back to when I stopped blogging, then changed my mind because these are more recent. Lots of INCREDIBLE weddings, engagements, and personal stuff coming this way.
I LOVE LOVE it when clients have their own ideas. LOVE it…(hint to future clients). The fact that I know they are “into it” and have done their homework on knowing what they love, what they don’t love… and adding personal touches into their own shoots makes it WAY cooler. Nic is a mechanic (and like 50 other things but mechanic is one of them) and so Courtney suggested AND found this sweet junk yard. See how fun it turned out?
Back in business…. and OPENING THE STUDIO!
January 10, 2012
WEDDING PACKAGES ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE PRICES SECTION ON THE BLOG!!!
Well…. FUNNY because it has been so long since I have blogged on here that I actually forgot all my saved shortcut actions for blogging and had to make new ones! I can’t tell you how AMAZING it has been for the last month to take some time for me and the fam. Ya see…. I am kinda selfish when it comes to my time. I get angry when I don’t have enough time to do anything fun. So basically I have been angry for 3 years now. 
I have realized that people might have sensed that about me because every time I answered the phone or got text messages from people all they did was apologize for talking to me and taking up any time. LAME. I don’t want to be the kind of person that people are afraid to bother. SO… my assistant will be taking it up a few notches this year so I can take more pictures, and sit at my computer less. AND, it has only taken me a couple of years to REALLY pull off, but we finally put together a fun little studio (please hold your applause). It is located inside Little Reader’s Preschool on Main Street in Spanish Fork Ut. Just a tiny little room in the back, and I love it! I now have a place that I can go anytime of the day, in ANY weather, and take pictures. I have used it many many times but have not yet “opened” it to the public. I guess it’s because studio lighting and photographing children are not what I have focused on the last few years and I feel like a rookie all over again, learning what works and what leads to disaster. I have thought LONG and hard about what the pricing should be, what clients would get, or if I would offer prints this time or just the digital images, if I should let the clients pick the images or if I would let my assistant do it, etc. TODAY, it all came together. Hopefully it works for everyone…and if I don’t like how it runs I have no problems throwing it out the window and changing it up. That is what business is all about right? Trial and lots of errors.
What do you think of some of the pics so far?
I have looked at other studios….both in Utah and outside of Utah, and I appreciate all their own styles, post-processing, props, etc. BUT…none of them were me. I tried to get into having lots of props a long time ago….chairs, benches, extra things to hold…..and they worked and I liked them. But bottom line…. still not my style. SO I have decided that the studio had to be FUN. It had to be simple…. even if all I got in the picture was a little kids face that was enough. I am not a vintage-styled gal with mono-toned old-styled photographs, …..so that might shy away 90% of Utah. Dang it. The studio pictures won’t be photo-shopped very much. They will be a simple bright natural color, and a simple black and white. I feel like I can’t promise that every child will sit perfectly and smile just the way you want them to, BUT I am pretty good and getting kids to laugh, or play, or sometimes I just scare them because I am ridiculous….. there goes the other 10% of Utah. Blast.
I know I know….. she is the cutest thing ever. She wanted to wear that pink thingy….. I thought it was pretty cute. My friend Rebecca made these cute little stuffed animals…perfect for all those toddlers that try and run away from me….good and cute distractions.
awwwwww…. BOTH so pretty!!! ok ok every mom thinks that about their babies…. but SERIOUSLY!
ALSO if you own a blog or a business and want some head shots…. the studio is perfect for that kind of thing! awww aren’t they pretty? Not all of my backdrops are on the blog… there are plenty to choose from.
So you want the info? You will die it’s so cheap…
these prices are good for any shoot you want in the studio. Note: it is impossible to photograph a newborn in 30 minutes so I am currently NOT accepting any newborn shoots right now. SORRY! If your baby can sit up by themselves, they are old enough for a studio shoot.
HONESTLY I think I am cheaper than JCpenny….and JCpenny stinks….no offense.
kissy kissy
October 15, 2011
honestly, there is NO time to blog. I guess I can not eat or sleep and get my blogging in….but really now, I would become a crazy monster that ends up eating her young. So sorry for the lack of…and SHORT blog posts, but something is better than nothing right? I am focusing on finishing shoots for my clients which sadly comes before the fun blogging part. So have a great weekend!!!
Knee deep in the water somewhere…
September 30, 2011
….is where I REALLY want to be this weekend…but I guess I will stay home and finish 3 weddings up, and do a couple more shoots. A girl can dream right? If I didn’t have such a fun job I think I would die.
Katie & Josh E session
September 29, 2011
I think that Katie and I are supposed to be friends somehow… I faintly knew her at RICKS COLLEGE, a while back…then my brother brought her around and dated her (that was a fun surprise!)….THEN her friend at school (she is a teacher) referred her to me and we JUST keep bumping into eachother on accident!! I am so happy though….I think she and Josh are completely adorable. Cant wait to shoot the bridals tonight…
THEEEE best preschool on Earth…
September 27, 2011
So, I have been sick for quite a few days… and today is the first day I didn’t need to take a “time-out” and lay down before digging my own grave. That being said, I went crazy and cleaned my whole house, did lots of laundry, and even mopped my kitchen floor (with the wet-jet, but in my world that counts). THEN I sat down, and looked at the calendar……and I even took a picture of it, so you can see the horrid MESS of a desk I have (but it’s ok because the rest of my house is CLEAN) and my insane schedule that is kicking my trash in October….yes those are little craft beads, and about everything else you would normally find under your couch. But no worries…November is sweetly calling me. It says “hang in there emily, because you will get lots of sleep this month”
Well, back to the subject of “THEEE best preschool Earth“, I honestly believe that Hailey’s preschool can’t be beat. She has been going there since before she was 3 (that’s what happens when you have hook-ups baby)(shhhh)(and that might be because the CEO is my sister-in-law). Anyways the good thing about this preschool is that it teaches the children how to READ. So ya, Hailey can read super simple books now and she is 4. BAM. Can’t be beat right? Well, one day last year we were all in the car and Hailey sang the entire Star Spangled Banner from memory. Ted and I just looked at eachother and laughed, knowing that it wasn’t one of us who would ever sit and teach her something like that. BAM. Well, not only that, she comes home with the cutest things all the time that they make in preschool. Like today she came home with this little note:
And the amazing thing is, her carebear made it in this morning’s laundry so it’s all NICE AND CLEAN…which is good because it had all sorts of nasty bodily fluids on it. BAM! (and you can be jealous of my pottery barn full quilted bedset, sheets, shams, curtains, that I got for $50 on KSL from a nice rich woman who got bored of it)
So I walked around with the camera and took a few pics of preschool souveniers that I cherish…
….it’s an ANT…..
and I wanted to show off that we do very non-creative crafts around the house….like our printed coloring pages that I framed because I was feeling sentimental….
Well, that being said….today I had to finally sit and put all the preschool picture info in one place for the Little Reader’s Preschool blog. Honestly, I thought it was so cute that how can I NOT put it on my own blog? Especially since Hailey hammed it up so good…..
Here are some that didn’t make the Little Reader’s Preschool blog…..but maybe it’s for the better….
That darn spiderman tatoo… the lawn fairy next door put those tatoos on my girls like 2 months ago… and I stepped back and noticed how she was sitting and couldn’t resist…
And of course…they always manage one of these when I take pictures…and NO I don’t tell her to give the bird…it just happens…
so if you aren’t in THEEE best preschool on Earth...you better sign up, like a YEAR early because there is already a waiting list….
thursday already?
September 22, 2011
Who would have ever thought that I get more work done being home sick with a cold? The girls don’t watch tv very much, especially now-a-days with preschool going on and a huge pack of neighborhood friends to pal around with, so they are officially GLUED to Spongebob today and I am ok with it. I have quite a few weddings and families to blog but since this session was a while ago, I wanted to make sure it wasn’t left out. Hope everyone is staying healthy… if not, don’t feel bad about neglecting everything and being glued to the computer like me.
dogs are people too ya know…
below…16×20 canvas she got from Groupon. cha-ching!
