Matt and Amanda are getting married in less than a month at The Crown Plaza Hotel in Kansas City.    We had a great time getting to know each other better and creating their amazing engagement portraits back in April.  I am so excited about the upcoming wedding day.

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Brandon, whose last name is Williams, is engaged to be married to Katie.  So, go with me here… Prince William and Kate… I didn’t come up with it all by myself.  Actually, Brandon and Katie were telling me about a contest that they entered to be featured in the Kansas City Star.  It seems that they actually have a lot of similarities to things surrounding the royal couple themselves.   I wish I could remember all the details, but it was really pretty astonishing.   I can say with confidence that this Prince Williams has found the love of his life in his beautiful Katie and that their big day will be as big in their hearts and the hearts of those who love them as today’s Royal Wedding has been to millions of people.   I loved every second of my engagement shoot with Brandon and Katie.  They love to laugh, to whisper in each other’s ears and kiss.  It was perfect!  I can hardly wait for their big day!

Song by Ben Rector.

There is something really rejuvenating about being around two people so madly in love.  I love engagement photography shoots and getting to know my clients and capturing their love.  I will post pictures soon, but for now, here’s their video:

Music by Ron Pope.

It won’t be long until Chris and Nicole set sail on their beautiful wedding cruise and unite their lives in marriage!  Sure wish I would be there to photograph that, but alas, cruise ships have some rules about using their ship photographer.   I will be there with them in spirit and then the following week, I will gleefully photograph their beautiful love and their exciting reception here in  Kansas City!

Thrive Weddings is the Wedding Photography arm of  Thrive Creative Studio; offering wedding photography that is both modern and timeless, with a vibrant and clean style that will stand the test of time.   Offering a wedding photography package that is simple and basic with high-resolution, edited images from the entire day delivered on a flash drive in a gorgeous keepsake box.  Albums and other products available if desired.  Engagement sessions are included for every wedding photography client.

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I just added this post as a page to my  blog to show the difference between the stages a portrait goes through from start to finish.   Thought I’d also make it today’ post.  This may help explain the reason you wait for your proofs, why custom portraits cost more and why it is important to choose a photographer skilled in all aspects of digital photography.  I’m not going to get too technical here, but keep it straightforward and simple.  The easiest way to explain is to also show, so I have some examples below.

For my Senior, Engagement and Portrait Clients:

Every picture that will be presented to you in your proofs and your presentation in my studio will be ARTISTICALLY EDITED in color and some in black and white.  I wanted you to see the sometimes subtle, but powerful, changes that take place from start to finish.  Beautiful girl, right?  There’s really not much to do, but  brightening and smoothing her skin add a healthy, radiant BUT realistic finish.  My style is to not “over-do” this stage.  I don’t want you to glow like an angel or be  smoothed out so much that your nose disappears or your skin looks plastic.  I want you to look like YOU – the REAL you.  I won’t be applying make up to you; in my opinion, if you wanted make-up on, you would have worn it to your shoot.   I will, of course, remove any blemishes, under eye circles or bags, crazy stray hairs and brighten up your smile and add a twinkle to your eyes.  All the time, being careful to keep things true to you.

For my Wedding Clients:

Your wedding package with Thrive includes a flash drive loaded with hundreds of full-resolution, edited images that are ready to print.    These digital files are ready to go and I have great labs to recommend so you get amazing printed products.

During your wedding day, your two photographers will shoot thousands of shots.  Those shots will be downloaded and backed up (twice) immediately following your wedding.  Those shots are the RAW IMAGES or SOC (straight out of the camera).  You will never see these.

After your images are downloaded, Heidi will carefully go through every shot and eliminate duplicates, bad shots, unflattering shots, etc. and eventually get down to a very rich assortment of shots from the whole day.  Every single one of those hundreds of images will be EDITED.  They will be vigilantly perfected for exposure, sharpness, cropping and color-correction.   A percentage of these will also be converted into black and white.  They will be ready to print.  These will be the images on your on-line gallery and on your flash drive.

Any image from your day that Heidi blogs about (and that is usually close to 100) or puts on her website, will be ARTISTICALLY EDITED.  These will also be included in your online gallery and on your flash drive.   Each of these images will go from the EDITED stage and be brought into Photoshop to be completely perfected, and maybe some special effects added.   This is where skin is smoothed, stray hairs are removed, light is made flawless, and many other things done to create a true work of art.    ANY image from your online gallery that you or others ORDER from Thrive or that you pick for your album will be ARTISTICALLY EDITED.

In the example, you can see that it is a great picture in the edited stage.  In the Artistic stage, I gave the picture a bit of vintage color to it, the skin was smoothed, the bride’s arm was contoured and the groom’s chin was made a little more defined.

I had the real treat of shooting my friend and fellow photographer, Jessica Strom, and her husband Daniel’s 5th Anniversary portraits.  Little did Daniel know at the time that this was all part of a bigger scheme on Jessica’s part to surprise Daniel with a Vow Renewal ceremony the next month (those pictures will be coming shortly).  Jessica is an amazing person and photographer and I am blessed to have her as a co-shooter with me at all of my weddings.  Her photography passion is birth photography and she just took her business full-time at the end of 2010.  We had the most spectacular night for these pictures.  I really don’t think the sunset could have gotten any more golden and the light was so yummy.    Last week, a gorgeous gallery wrapped canvas was delivered to my studio of one of these images.  Canvases are the way to go…and the bigger the better in my humble opinion.

Thrive Weddings is the Wedding Photography arm of  Thrive Creative Studio; offering wedding photography that is both modern and timeless, with a vibrant and clean style that will stand the test of time.   Offering a wedding photography package that is simple and basic with high-resolution, edited images from the entire day delivered on a flash drive in a gorgeous keepsake box.  Albums and other products available if desired.  Engagement sessions are included for every wedding photography client.

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Don’t you just love love?  What a great gift that God has given us all that we may know, experience and give love (with both God and with others).  Falling in love is one of the greatest feelings in the world.  When you know that you have found “the one” there is absolutely nothing better.   As a wedding photographer, it is so renewing to hear the love stories of my couples and then have the opportunity to capture that love through photography.    Engagement sessions are such an important part of wedding photography packages because they give us all a chance to get to know each other a little better, have some fun and laughter together and get a feel for working together.   Tiffany and Matt will be married in just a few months and although they have the “friendly” rivalry of Kansas State versus University of Kansas they are very much in love!

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