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I’m trying to figure out how long I have known Seth, baby M’s, daddy… I think almost as long as we have lived here in Kansas.  When Seth was in college, he was an invaluable leader in the youth group that we pastored and had incredible impact in student’s lives.  It was really amazing to see how God brought Heather to Seth and how they honored God so much with their relationship and love.  I had the great pleasure of working at the church with Heather for a short time and getting to know her and love her!  As a mother of grown kids (well one left in high school), I find it kind of hard to explain the excitement I feel for my young friends and the beginning of their lives as parents.  I treasure that time of my life and so, I am giddy for them.  This session was my gift to two very special people starting a very special time of their lives.   Baby M is just beautiful!

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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.

Jamie and Chris came to me because they have an incredible sister who gave them a gift certificate for my Belly & Baby package as a shower gift.   I can’t think of a better gift…lol!  No really, what a special gift to give; this will never be forgotten because of the irreplaceable images that were captured of a time that will never come again (at least not with baby Allie).   My Belly & Baby package includes two sessions; a maternity shoot somewhere in your 7 or 8th month at a location of your choosing and then a newborn session when your bundle of love is between 5 and 9 days old either in your home or in my studio.  This is a digital package so that you can have all the pictures that you want to do whatever you want with them.  Baby Allie was just so beautiful and wonderful and mom and dad are proud and in love!

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This was a very special newborn shoot for me.  You see, the new mommy, Natalie, is a beautiful young woman whom I have been blessed to know since she was in 7th grade and a student in the youth group that I pastored.  She and I have had our really special moments over these years; we went on mission trips, camps and retreats together, and worked together to build one of the best youth worship bands in Kansas City.  Natalie is an anointed worship leader and she started with a bunch of other hungry 15 year olds in the youth room at Church of the Harvest.  She decided to quit basketball in 8th grade to be part of our worship team and eventually she was leading it and it was phenomenal!  Now, she is married to an awesome man, David, and she and David our the current youth pastors at the church where I once lead her.    Isn’t God just so good?

So beautiful baby Gabby and I had our first meeting when she was 5 days old and these are the sweet little images that she gave me.   Love. Love. Love.  With all my heart!

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Well, I missed a day!  I was so, so busy yesterday getting my new website launched that I never made it over to my blog to update.  Before you check out today’s favorite four, click on this link and see my newly revamped website for wedding, engagement, maternity, newborn and family photography.    Click on the LEFT box  “All Things Love” for my new site.

Now, onto today’s FAV 4!

Another great wedding that I had the opportunity to second shoot with Laurel Austin of Living Moment Images.   It was a HOT one, but doesn’t the green grass and the sunshine looks so amazing right now?    I don’t know about you, but I am ready for it! 

This next picture is from a couple who did a Belly and Baby Session with me.  We had a blast shooting their maternity session at the River Market and I posted a fun picture from that a couple weeks ago in my Favorite Four.  Today, I picked a fun shot from their newborn photography session when Kallie was just 10 days old.  This shot was their idea because they both have very big feet and Kallie was born with feet that actually went off the page for the birth document! 

Kimmie is an amazing senior from St. Pius X High School and this is one of my favorite pictures of her.

Another amazing senior from Olathe Northwest, Lauren, had a shoot full of fall goodness – sunshine and vibrant leaves. 

Blessings to you until next time…..

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Senior Pictures -  www.thriveseniors.com

Love | Marriage | Baby….Life -  www.thrivecreativestudio.com

Facebook Fanpage:  www.facebook.com/ThriveCreativeStudio

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email:  heidiabbott@thrivecreativestudio.com

phone:  913.526.9991

I just had to post these pictures I took today when I went to visit J’aimee and Tristan and their 2 day old baby, Chloe.   What a bundle of sweetness!

Blessings to you until next time…..

FIND ME AT:

Senior Pictures -  www.thriveseniors.com

Love | Marriage | Baby….Life -  www.thrivecreativestudio.com

Facebook Fanpage:  www.facebook.com/ThriveCreativeStudio

CONTACT ME AT:

email:  heidiabbott@thrivecreativestudio.com

phone:  913.526.9991