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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’m going to jump ahead in my blog schedule today and present this blog post of the remarkably adorable and extremely amazing FISH FAMILY!  They’ve graced my blog before and it is always such a treat for me to work with them.  I offer free sessions and digital images to missionary families and I am always so happy when Erik and Jen take me up on my offer. Erik and Jen are National Leaders and full-time missionaries at Student Church.  From their website, it explains that “Student church is:  The strategy is so simple it’s a bit humbling:  Send students to make disciples and start simple churches on every university in the world.  That’s the simple idea.  It’s not just our idea.  We think it’s God’s idea:  Any student, anywhere, can make disciples and start simple churches on their campus.”   God is moving in amazing ways through Student Church and university students all over the world.  If you’d like to read Erik’s blog, click this link.

Erik and Jen have a passionate marriage and an energetic family overflowing with love – I can see this in just one hour with my camera in hand.  Not to mention that all 6 of them are adorably good looking!

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This little family stole my heart!   Momma, Erin, used to actually babysit my kids when we first moved to Kansas and then I was privileged to be her youth pastor before she graduated.  Now, she is a wonderful wife and mother with a brood of boys.  It’s always so incredible to see these young people grow up and see them fall in love, get married and then start families.    It was a hot August morning when we did their family portraits and little Jackson was just a bit camera shy, but they rocked the whole thing!  Thanks guys!  It was so fun.

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So, I decided this morning (after my daughter texted me and said “mom, you really need to update your blog”), that I would make an entry!  This beautiful family had their portraits taken way back in July on a hot, hot day.  We even started at 7:30 am, but it was a steamy one!  They are simply an adorable family and I had a blast taking these pictures.  They make me smile…a lot!

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