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New photos!
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I had such a great time shooting Joyce. She was great to work with. She’d contacted me early for birthday portraits. I was thrilled because I’d just gotten my new camera and was itching to test it out. We got up early to make great use of the light but unfortunately the cold came along with it. We’ve been having some crazy weather here in Memphis. Last weekend it was bright and sunny as 65 degrees but the next weekend for us it was down to 45 degrees. I’m so grateful that Joyce was such a great sport about being in the cold. And as always I forgot my gloves.
I worked really hard with edits because I wanted to get her pictures back before Christmas and thankfully was able to pull it off. The prints turned out great. I worked from home the day they came just to make sure to catch UPS and I was able to deliver them during her lunch break. We had amazing time that day lol. Ready for the next shoot now!
Shayla
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Recent photos I did for my friend who’s graduating. We shot them to go on her grad invitations I made. Did all this in 24 hours. You can check out the invites here.
Angela + Rickey
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I took these few photos during a video shoot. I recently finished up a video shoot with my good friend, RickeyT. This was my first video shoot and I was a bit nervous up until we actually started shooting. I wasn’t quite sure how everything would work out but I think its going to turn out great! We shot in Memphis, TN for two days. The first day we shot all the scenes with Rickey and came back to shoot Angela’s scenes. The challenge is gonna come from editing everything together. I’m more than confident I have enough footage to work with to get a great result. The only sad part is that I’m going home for Thanksgiving an the holidays my throw production time off. I’m aiming to have everything ready by the 1st hopefully. I’m super excited.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Ashley
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I recently got some new photo equipment and sent word that I was looking for someone to do a few test shots. I’m so excited with my new camera! I have finally joined the Canon family. I’ve always been a Nikon girl for the simple reason that it was the first camera I’d bought and I’ve acquired a bit of accessories and such. That said I wasn’t keen to make the switch anytime soon. Fortunately for me an opportunity opened up and I’ve joined team Canon. I now have a Canon 7D and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Can’t wait to really put it into work. I’m going on a mass shooting spree lol.
What are you listening to?
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I recently stayed up one night with a friend reliving the good ole days of music. We must have listened to everything we heard growing up. It was like stepping into childhood. As such I’ve been really feeling Craig David. He was such a cutie. I’ll admit I was victim to the British invasion in the 90s. What have you been listening to?
Most awesome wedding proposal EVER
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Most awesome wedding proposal EVER!!! Years ago, Tran and his girlfriend, Trang, met in a study room at UCLA, and Nam couldn’t think of a better place to pop the question.
With the help of FlashMobAmerica, Nam enlisted the help of UCLA students and the couple’s family, and they broke out in a performance to Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
I literally cried! If I ever get engaged i want something as cool as this!
Best…. Engagement…. Photos…. Ever …
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Now this is how you take engagement photos! Hopefully I’ll get to do something this cool one day. Heck if I ever get married we’re so doing something like this!
- These are actual engagement photos taken by photographer Amanda Rynda
Wedding Ideas
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Often times I get questions for weddings ideas, especially now since my best friend is getting married, and I’m usually gushing with cool things to try for weddings. I have so many ideas mainly because I follow TONS of wedding blogs and such so I literally see them everyday. I ran across this completely awesome tumblr the today and I just had to share for anyone wanting wedding ideas. It’s called FY Wedding Ideas and its filled with tons of visuals from a variety of wedding concepts and ideas. Hope this is inspiring for all you upcoming brides, grooms, and wedding planners. Some of my favorites are below!
Completely Gorgeous Reception Area
I LOVE his and her signs at weddings!
His and her balloon replicas!!
Beale Street Chic Feature
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I was recently featured on Beale Street Chic and I just wanted to share it with you guys. Elle asked great questions. You can check out the rest of the post here. A big thanks to Elle for featuring me.
20 things you don’t know about me & an iPhone photo :)
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I saw this on a blog and thought it’d be cool to give it a try.
1. I don’t like cotton balls–don’t ask lol.
2. My favorite number is 2
3. I only took the ACT once and get a 21 figured it was good enough for college. Thinking back I probably should have taken it again.
4. I’m always up for an adventures.
5. I hate doing dishes.
6. My mom was from the country, Panama. I think I’d love to retire and live out my life there.
7. I have a growing number of “adventure equipment,” which includes boxing gloves and reflex bag, fishing poles, tennis racquets, skateboard, ropes, maps, soccer ball, etc. and most recently a bow!
8. I’m left handed but I throw with my right.
9. I keep a journal and currently thanks to a friend, I’m keeping two! She gave me a great Gryffindor journal.
10. I love my jeep. I named her Barbara.
11. I sleep in socks.
12. I generally don’t sleep straight through the night. I get up at least twice just to walk around my apt or use the bathroom.
13. I am a huge Harry Potter fan and I keep my wand on my bedside table. I use it as my flashlight when I get up at night.
14. I’d love to learn piano. I want to have a grand in my house one day.
15. I’d rather be called by my last name, Shorter, than my first name.
16. When I was five, I wanted to be a fireman.
17. Most people say I have the hugest smile.
18. I love to read and learn.
19. If I could meet any two people, I’d love to meet Oprah Winfrey and J.K. Rowling.
20. I think I’m addicted to trail mix!
Here’s a picture of me taken by my good friend, Camielle, while we moving her couch. We always have hilarious adventures while traversing about Memphis.
Baby’s Day Out
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This past weekend I actually had a Saturday off. This very rarely happens and its usually because of a holiday. And more often than not they are unexpected. I was more than delighted to have an off day so I decided to spend the day with my little cousin, Dori. She’s 1 now and can finally walk so now we can go to parks and OUTSIDE! I’m such a stickler for parents encouraged their kids to go outside and play and actually be kids instead of watching tv all day. I was really surprised that Dori was able to keep up but kids sure do have a ton of energy. I even got her to attempt to help me with my soccer. Hopefully she’ll be an excellent soccer player one day.
The only bad part of having an unexpected day off was that I forgot to bring my camera home for the weekend. But me always trying to make the best of every situation, I just used my iPhone. I just couldn’t miss getting these photos. Needless to say we had an amazing day and towards the end she pretty much just fell over to sleep she was so tired. I generally have that effect on kids lol.
Wedding Photos Arrived
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Have you ever ordered anything online? You get that sense of achievement once you actually hit submit. Then you’re constantly checking the tracking number for your package. That is always the case for me. Today I was waiting on some wedding photos I’d ordered. I’m working with a new printing company called ProDPI and I LOVE their work. This was the first time I’d used them for wedding photos so I was really excited. They did an excellent job and I’d highly recommend them to anyone. I even got the cool executive packaging to go along with it. I love getting new prints!
Rockstar
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I am currently sitting in my office and me not knowing how to exactly stop working, I decided to upload a few pics and such for the blog. These are from a recent shoot I did with Kennedy. Her mom asked me to shoot a few shots for some promo she needed. I was thrilled but also very tired and the impending doom that is southern heat was not something I was looking forward to. I’d asked everyone to start as early as possible but I was well aware that we were gonna be late lol so I wasn’t annoyed by it really. I just knew we were all gonna be sweating. Her mom had to keep dabbing her face–poor thing. I tried moving as quickly as possible while still getting the shot. I’m trying to work on shooting less frames. Its becoming a bother to look at hundreds of photographs for quick shoots.
There wasn’t much to use as far as location and I didn’t really have time to location scout. We came up with this spot in about 5 minutes or so but I think it provided a great backdrop. I used natural light and a 50mm f/1.8D AF NIKKOR lens. It works great for portraits. I’m still getting the hang of using manual focus so I needed to practice.
Rockstar
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Preview of “Rockstar” shoot I just recently completed. I’m so thankful for all the work coming my way. Thank you all for believing in me.
Brothers
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Love this picture from the recent wedding I just shot. It always warms my heart to see parents caring for their children or in this case big brother helping little brother out.