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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.

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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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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

CONTACT ME AT:

email:  heidiabbott@thrivecreativestudio.com

phone:  913.526.9991

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

I’m seriously happy every time I look at this picture.  Mainly because I just really loved working with Lauren and her mom and our shoot was so fun and completely, completely unique (check it out HERE).   It doesn’t hurt that she is drop dead gorgeous to boot!

 Okay, so I’m still seriously happy!!  Oh, how I love with all my heart this family and this picture of them.  We go way back to working together with the youth when Will and Chelsey were just friends and students at Mid-America Nazarene University.  I have so many special memories with them.  Since Will played baseball at MNU and Chelsey played softball there, it seemed only natural that Edmond wouldn’t put down that bat to save his life.  Look how he is looking at me??  I could gobble him up!

Sometimes, I can stumble upon the darndest spots in the middle of the city.   I had no idea how much I was going to love how Samantha was going to look against this fence door.  

My heart melts over this next picture taken on one of my Pictures of Hope complimentary NICU sessions.  This little boy was born at 24 weeks and was making great progress.  I may have to add another picture from this session this month because they are all favorites of mine. 

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

All you have to do is look at Audrey’s eyes in this picture to see why I love it.  Mesmerizing!

I love just about every picture I take when I am shooting a complimentary Pictures of Hope NICU session.   This family was precious and shortly after my visit with them, they got to take their bundle of love home. 

I love this picture for many, many reasons.  First and foremost, this is my gorgeous niece Emily who flew here from Ohio for me to do her senior pictures.  It was such a special time for me.  Secondly, wow to wow on the beautifulness of Emily! 

Just one of those “speaks of itself” images of a pretty handsome Blue Valley West grad…..

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

Okay, so I have to explain this next shot.  This was Josh & Shelby’s idea…and I LOVE IT!  Shelby has a size 10 shoe and Josh a size 14, so when their baby was born and they went to do the footprints for the birth certificate and they went off the page.