dear photoshop,

i used to get all kinds of questions about you:

what photoshop tricks do you use?

what kind of actions do you run on your photos?

things like that...

but the truth is, i don't really use you all that much.

in fact, 9 times out of 10, i love my pictures straight out of the camera. i generally only use you for fine-tuning. i've never really made friends with 'actions.'

but i will admit, on a few rare occasions, i am very very grateful that you are around.

this was one such occasion:

[the after]

[straight out of the camera]

i was still getting used to my flash - i'm pretty sure it just can't keep up with how fast my camera can shoot - and this was one of the photos the flash decided not to operate for.

true, the after photo isn't the greatest display of photography in the world. yes, it's a little bit grainy.

but i love it anyway.

even the bride told me it was one of her favorites.

so thank you photoshop. we can be friends.

xoxo.

jana

i promise one day i'll post this wedding in its entirety. i'm slacking

sneak peek.

i honestly could not have asked for a better couple to shoot for my first wedding.

can't wait to share the rest.

post 100.

it only took me about a year and a half to get here. party!

i can't think of anything better to share in my 100th post than this pretty girl's bridals.

i kept showing her the pictures as i would take them while saying "can i just show you how gorgeous you are? ok, i just thought you should know."

yes. i love them.

today.

i took this pretty girl's wedding photos.

yes, i shot my first wedding today. please join me in jumping for joy!

stay tuned. there are more to come :)

celeste + david.

rewind to december 2008.

celeste, whom i've known since before kindergarten, called and asked if i would like to take some candid pictures at her wedding reception - and of course i said yes!

i really can't believe it has taken me this long to post a few of my favorites, but here they are anyway. i hope they're ok for my first wedding photographs - please tell me what you think!!


some of the details...


















some of the faces...




















and of course, the happy couple...



[on the right is a pole with mistletoe at the top - celeste's little brother kept following the couple around trying to get them to kiss]












the end.

on the seventh day of christmas...