Jesse & Anthony were referred to us by a last-year bride and her mom - Jackie & Karen. If you would like to see the photos from the amazing wedding at Narnia Estate of Jackie & Tony were posted some time ago.
I knew right away that Jesse & Anthony's wedding will be a family and love affair because they came for their initial wedding consultation with Jesse's parents and siblings. It's such a great idea to bring your loved ones to meet us because the better friends we all become the more fun and special the photos we can produce.
Jesse is a hairstylist and Anthony is a carpenter...
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Few days ago I had a pleasure to photograph our local R&B singer Anita Oak. Anita is coming up with a new CD . We met on a Sunday afternoon to shoot some photos to be used on the cover of her new CD. It was a pretty windy day in Chicago so setting up the light was pretty challenging. My lastolite ezybox was trying to fly away so we had to use some serious tape to keep it attached to a fence:) A total McGyver of photography!
The photos turned out really nice and I am super excited to share them with you. Anita has the amazing Indian beauty so it was hard not to get beautiful photos of her!...
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We are accepting applications for WASIO photography Senior Ambassadors. Only 2 candidates will be chosen per school so if you're interested or you know a 2012 or 2013 senior please pass on the information. Our Senior Ambassador not only receive free session and rep card but have opportunities to earn additional prints and awesome gift certificates from iTunes and Amazon.
If you are a great candidate of our Senior Ambassador or you know a great candidate please use our Contact Page to get in touch with us. We would love to hear from you!
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So we just found out that our flight back to Chicago got cancelled and we won’t be flying back till tomorrow. We have a “wonderful” night to spent at the Las Vegas airport. I thought I would take the time to write a post about Sasha’s and mine experience at WPPI 2012. So let’s start from the beginning… For those of you that don’t know what WPPI is, it is the biggest wedding and portrait photography organization. It stands for Wedding and Portrait Professionals International. I have been a member of WPPI for over a year and this was the first WPPI conference that I attended. The event...
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Many of my clients ask me what exactly is a detail retouch. So I thought I would post few photos to show before and after a high-end detail retouch of few photos from a studio session I did last year. Detail retouch is a totally manual job to get the absolutely best results. There is no bullet proof method to automate the process as every photo is slightly different plus it really depends on the vision of the photographer and/or retoucher. By no means I consider myself a top notch retoucher but I spent a lot of time, effort, training, one-on-one sessions with top retouchers to move my retouching...
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One of nice ideas for Save-The-Date cards for weddings is to print them on fridge magnets. Those cards still reproduce color super nicely, come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but most importantly wedding guests can put them on the fridge to remember about the upcoming wedding.
In the Save-The-Date cards that I create for my clients I also include their website address. This is a custom website that I create where we can include information about the couple (how they met, what they like, etc), the wedding party, wedding ceremony and reception, accommodation, etc
Below are couple of photos...
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Few weeks ago I had a pleasure to photograph with Samantha from Sam Photogrpahy a absolutely gorgeous wedding at Butterfield Country Club. Here are some of the best photos from that beautiful wedding.
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Early July this year I had an amazing pleasure to photograph a wedding in Warsaw, Poland. I am originally from Warsaw so photographing a wedding there had even more meaning to me. Chris & Gosia are both from Poland but met in New York City few years ago where they both lived. They are such a fun couple but most importantly they are obsessed with traveling:) One can hardly list a place they haven't been to yet. So after dating for some time in New York City they decided to move to Miami. After Miami they decided to move back to Poland to start a family there. The funny part is that they are already...
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Few months ago my good friend Megan Bhatia who is an amazing real estate agent had a amazing idea to offer family or children photography session with me for her customers that just purchased a new home. Of course she didn't have to ask me twice to do it:) so a week ago I schedule a session with Jennifer and Mike and their beautiful daughter Sydney. We decided that Lincoln Park Zoo would be a fun location to take photos.
It was a hot Sunday when we met but Sydney was so amazing that within an hour we had plenty of photos to chose from. It was funny because when I asked Sydney she told me she didn't...
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For those that know me personally, you know that I am often artistically chaotic or in other words disordered:) But I am aware of it so I continuously try to fight it. One way to get more organized is to have a wedding photographer checklist before photographing a wedding. I am always paranoid that I will forget something so ended up putting together a checklist for myself so I knew I didn't forget anything. Since many of us should use it as well but we are too busy to create one I thought I would share mine with everybody. So here it is. Feel free to share it with others, forward the link etc.
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