Sunday, March 7, 2010

Off to Vegas!

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I’ve been up all night packing, and we’re leaving for Vegas in 4 hours.  We’ll be out of the studio until March 13th!  We’re excited to be at WPPI again this year, which is a photography conference where photogs from all over the world get together, learn, & share ideas.  Growing a business and a skill is always a process, but what better way to learn than from the top photographers in the world.  I’m ready to be inspired!

QUESTION:  Is it lame to be carrying around your camera everywhere at a photo conference?  Is it the equivalent of walking into a store wearing one of their logo’d shirts.  haha  I don’t remember what the last WPPI was like.

What I’m also SUPER excited about is… at the tail end of the conference, we’re also going to shoot our engagement session.  I’ve always wanted to do a mock Vegas style wedding.  We’ve even hired an Elvis, and we’re ready to go as cheesy as Vegas weddings come!  ;)

If we get internet and aren’t partying too hard, I’ll try to do an update, but if not, have a wonderful week!

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend

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I finally did it.  Last night, we went back to Solomon brothers, and I gave my engagement ring back.  Not to cause any confusion.  Everything’s fine between Jacob and I.  It wasn’t because I was dissatisfied with the style of the ring or the rock was not big enough.  It was beyond what I could want or ask for in a ring, and I do know all the trouble Jacob went through to find the exact one since I have picky taste.  But after much consideration and debating back and forth with myself, I decided it would be best to get the money back and use it elsewhere.

It was a TOUGH decision, and that’s an understatement.  As much as I’d like to think that I’m not a very materialistic person, and I’d give all of my earnings to other people in need, I really do like nice things… sometimes it happens to be nice, shiny things.  I’m not much of a jewelry person, and having a foreign object on my hand was a strange feeling.  But at the same time it was nice looking down at it every now and then as a reminder that I am actually engaged!   It symbolized our commitment to one another.  The novelty of being newly engaged hadn’t even worn out yet.

It might have been very silly of me, but I took a gazillion photos of my ring for the last month knowing that any day I’d have to take it back.  Even for my 365 project (the photo a day for 2010), bear with me through those, there are tons of ring photos scattered in there.  At the very least, I’m glad I could capture these photos for my memories, and I now have found a new appreciation for ring shots.  If I’m shooting your wedding in 2010, you will be getting some amazing ring shots with your photos.  Here are some of my favorites:

I know it will surely be missed, but there are better things yet to come.  The story has only begun here.  I’m very excited to see how the next steps will unfold.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Meet Lisa.

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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet with some awesome make-up artists in the wedding industry.  It all started when a friend of mine shared that he was excited to have his music featured in a make-up artist’s youtube video.  That make-up artist was xteeener, who I  later found out had a huge following with even some of my girlfriends.  At the time, I was beginning to dabble in make-up with learning just the basics on how to properly apply it, and I became quickly fascinated by her tutorials.  Fast forward 6 months later, I found out she had also branched out to do wedding make-up and was working with Makeup box.  We connected from there, and I’m happy to say that not only have I found my hair & make-up artist for my wedding day, but I’m glad to have gotten to know the lovely people at Make-up box.  I’ll post more on a later entry of my interview with Christine.

This shoot was a couple weeks ago to help update their portfolio for their newly launched website.  Lisa has such gorgeous eyes.  She made the perfect model.

P.S.  How are you liking the new logo?  I’m branded!

Model: Lisa
Photographer: Esther JuLee
Make-up Artist: Christine at Make-up Box

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Finally, a facelift!

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Setting up this new blog was a lot more complicated than I thought.  Now, I realize that I know nothing about setting up even a simple website. Thankfully, I was able to get a lot of help from Jason with Life Multimedia, since this is in his line of work.  I’ll leave it to the pros to handle it.

I just wanted to let ya’ll know that I am very excited to be moving everything here to our new blog-site!  Sadly, that also means we’re leaving the blogger and xanga community, but it needed to happen. I was all over the place.

In addition to launching our new website, I wanted to announce that we’ve finally updated our pricing for 2010. Please inquire for our current rates. The 2009 rates are still good if you book by the end of March. We only have three weekends open from now until June and are now booking for Fall 2010. We’re super excited about this year!

And FYI, if you’re also in the process of giving your blog a facelift, I purchased this customizable template from Prophotoblog. You can get $10 OFF your purchase by using this discount code: ESTLEE689

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