My sister brought these back from a recent trip to Minneapolis. And they are beyond delicious! It sounds really weird to have salt mixed with dark chocolate, but the combination of rich creamy chocolate with a small grain of sea salt brings out a sweetness to the chocolate. So strange that salt makes it seem sweeter and richer! Anyway if you live near a Trader Joe’s or can get to one try these out!!
MMMMM!
Weekly club assignment: Walk, bike or drive exactly 10 minutes from home and take a photo. Not to technical and sounds easy right? Well yes, except that I decided to go biking with my dog and it was a hot day so she was running slower than normal, and at exactly 10 minutes we were in an empty parking lot! Not much of interest there. But I found a little humor instead:
I’m so glad it is summer and I don’t have to worry about snow!!!
ISO 200 1/500 @ f5.6
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I’ve spent the week editing like crazy to try to stay keep ahead since I have another wedding this Saturday! So I’ll keep this blog short and sweet with just a few photos that caught my attention when I was editing. To see more of Randa and Tyler’s pics click HERE.
I’m taking tomorrow off so I can rest up becaues Saturday’s wedding will be a 16 hr day by the time you include travel!! Whew. Makes me tired just thinking about it. But I’m really looking forward to the fun too!
Anway back to the photos. My assistant shot this great photo while I was taking a large wedding party shot: Isn’t she cute!
Love the light and the emotions in this one:
And we can’t leave out the wedding party!
Thank you Randa and Tyler for such a fun day! I’ll have your disk in the mail early next week. : )
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Randa and Tyler had quite the interesting day. First the Church scheduled a funeral for the exact time they were going to get ready – so we had to move the getting ready area to the school section of the church. Then the dress shop forgot to send the slip with the dress so we had to wait an extra 45 minutes for someone to go pick it up. And then our first look got backwards, the bride arrived at the spot first! Oh well, we had a beautiful day and made up for lost time easily! They were both so relaxed and fun that no one seemed to mind the day throwing us hurdles. : ) I LOVE how great my clients are about things like this!! That’s the thing about weddings, there’s always something that is different than originally planned!
The next image is special because Randa’s father passed away and she wore his wedding ring on her thumb. I love catching those very special details!
I LOVE this shot I snatched when the girls were bustling up her dress!
More later!! I’m editing like crazy because I have another wedding this weekend. Yikes!
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I just bought something that’s been on my wish-list since I first saw them used by Bob Davis in 2008 when I went to a workshop in Minneapolis: RADIOPOPPERS!They are little devices that you attached to flashes. One sits on the flash on your camera, so when you click the shutter it sends a radio signal to all the flashes to fire. These are going to take my photos to the next level! Especially receptions and dances where I can set up three flashes at different angles, so no matter what direction people move they will be in great light. And the cool thing is that I can control the light output for each individual flash, so I can make one brighter than the next. Cool huh!
I did have a little trouble getting the poppers to work on my SB700 flashes – but I’ll do a vlog on that next week so I can show you what to do if you have the same issues. It’s just easier than typing it all out!
So this is the first test session I had with my sister modeling for me. We were in the basement with all the lights off to simulate a dark dance hall. I’m really pleased!!
Today I’m getting ready for a wedding tomorrow. Cleaning lenses, clearing memory cards, charging batteries, packing equipment. The glamorous life!
(you can see the radio poppers attached to the flashes with a white band)
The wedding tomorrow had an interesting twist two days ago… the church scheduled a funeral just a few hours before the wedding, including a meal in the basement where we were supposed to be getting ready! So we had to go to plan B – getting ready in the school building behind the church. I’m so thankful that my brides are totally amazing people who don’t get fazed by things like this! She’s been so amazing and not a stressed moment through the whole thing. Love that!!
The funny thing is after the wedding there will be a baptism in the church, so it’s like the cycle of life in reverse: Funeral, Wedding, Baptism.
And just because my dog is too cute I’ll leave you with a photo I took of her the same day I did shadow photos. This was one of the window/openings that was creating the neat pattern.
Well this was one random blog post, but fun to do something different. Tomorrow I’ll post a teaser from the wedding!
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This week we had to set our shutter speed up to 1500ths of a second or faster to try to capture something in motion. I wasn’t really sure what to take photos of since I’m not going to a sporting event, and last week I did a dance photo so I didn’t want to do that again. Then today it started to rain really hard. I noticed the drops hitting the birdbath were making little splashes. So I grabbed my camera – and an umbrella – and tried to catch one in action. It was really tough because I had to set my camera f stop on 2.8 to get enough light for a fast shutter, which means that the raindrop had to land in about a space of less than 1 inch to be infocus. I got lucky on my third shot:
ISO 1600 f2.8 @ 1/1600 second – No photoshop, just a slight crop.
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Prepair yourself for a couple who brought a whole lot of playfulness to their engagement session! I LOVE it!
A special request photo: Arm Wrestling. : )
The next one is probably my favorite from the whole session:
I love finding new ways to see the world:
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On monday I got to photograph Jackie and Randy for the second time. We did a really quick 5 minute shoot earlier this winter so they could get a photo for their save the dates, but we wanted to do the ‘real’ session when the weather got nice. It was actually kind of funy because their first shoot was durring our cold snap – so it was REALLY cold, and monday we got our first heat wave of the summer – 90 degrees! I hope that means their september wedding will be perfect. : )
Seriously loving this spot we found:
I can’t wait to post the rest, there are SO many great photos to pick from!
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I’ve known Lindsay for about a year. We met online every day at the Showit Live show, chatting in the group of photographers. I remember one day David Jay asked where everyone watching the show was from … and Lindsay and I both typed “Fargo” – and then proceeded to laugh and screech (if you can do that online) “REALLY!” After a few months of online chatting we decided to grab a cup of coffee at caribou. Our 1/2 hour visit turned into about 2.5 hours and her husband texting if she was coming home for supper or if he should eat alone. lol! Since then we’ve enjoyed several more coffee outings and a photo shoot together.
Patrick contacted me two weeks ago saying it was their anniversary and would I be available to surprise Lindsay with a photo shoot of the two of them. At the Hotel Donaldson no less (probably the most well known hotel downtown Fargo). Of course I said yes!
Lindsay requested a few serious photos – we decided on a James Bond style, just for fun. ; )
Then out to a tiny patio/balcony. The light was harsh behind, and dark inside, but it was cool too!
Thanks Patrick for asking me to join in the fun! Happy Anniversary – may there be a lifetime full of many more!
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Weekly assignment in my photo club: After Dark.
1/50 @ 2.8 ISO 1600
Only using the lamp light. No flash or tripod or anything fancy. Just went out for a fun shot!
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Whew. I really need a mini vacation! I feel like I’ve been running in circles for over a year. Even our fam ily vacation last fall turned into stressville with the vandalism to our house! So yesterday I decided to just take a day off. Thankfully I’m caught up on all my wedding photography editing, and album design, so it was easy to take the time off.
The crazy thing about working from home and being your own boss, is you end up working ALL the time! I find myself at 10pm working on website Search Engine Optimizing (SEO). Only in the last year or so have I stopped taking phone calls or checking email after 7 pm. It’s too hard to sleep when my mind is busy working. : )
So yesterday I packed a bag with a book, my journal, a snack and a bottle of water. I put the bike in the car and took off. No where special, just out. I biked around some neighborhoods that I’ve never seen before. Then found a quiet spot to just relax. It felt SOOOOO good! Wow. I really need to do this more often.
I only took my camera with because this week’s assignement in my showit photo club was “Self Portrait” – otherwise I probably would have left the camera home too. ; )
Ahhh summer. The crazy photography season and yet the time when we want to take days off. It’s all about balance isn’t it?!
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We had a pretty nasty storm roll through on Monday, including a tornado warning – which means a tornado was spotted! Yikes! Here’s the story:
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I don’t think we’ve had a tornado out here, like, ever… Glad no one got hurt and your house is still standing!
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