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January 28th, 2010Engagements, Parties, Strip Photography Tour, WeddingsThe Bridal Spectacular is here this week, and since most of my readers are brides, I thought I’d post a “Bridal Show Survival Guide”. The most-heard comment after a bridal show is that it was “overwhelming”… so here’s some ways to help the show become a successful day for you!
1. Have a plan. Make a list of vendors you definitely want to talk to. Do a little research to hopefully narrow your search down a little. Look at the MAP of the Bridal Spectacular and find your preferred vendors. (Our booth is number 223!). There are many very helpful websites to provide online reviews from many of Las Vegas’ vendors, but the two most popular are WeddingWire and TheKnot.
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2. Wear comfortable shoes and leave your coat in the car. You will be receiving lots of brochures, etc and you do not want to be burdened lugging your coat.
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3. Bring someone with you! Your Mother, Maid/Matron of Honor, or maybe your fiancé will enjoy himself! They can help you with collecting information and would be happy you included them in the planning process! As for your fiancé? Just tell him that he can win stuff and eat free cake and hors d’oeuvres!
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4. Bring address labels. We recommend printing out labels on your home computer with your name, address, phone number, email address and wedding date. This will help free up time to talk to vendors instead filling out the same information time and time again.
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5. Bring a pen, notebook, and datebook (or, your BlackBerry!). Some vendors offer special pricing if you book with them and leave a deposit with them the day of the show. This is great, but if you choose the WRONG vendor, at ANY price, is it a good deal? Ask them if you can have a few days to think about it, because pressure to sign RIGHT THERE AND THEN should make you wonder what they are worried about! Is their competition better? Special good ONLY at the show? Time to look for a new vendor! Make an INFORMED decision - don’t rush into anything!
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6. Want to see the most vendors AND the fashion show? The majority of brides watch the show, so plan on arriving just as the 1st show starts. Visit the vendors DURING the show, this will allow you better chance to actually talk to a vendor and it will be a much quieter atmosphere. Then, stick around for the 2nd show, and this time watch the show!
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7. Don’t be embarrassed to wear your “Bride” sticker! It can become confusing for vendors to identify everyone that attends, and if they know you are the bride, they will be more apt to spend a little extra time with you!
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8. If you don’t bring labels (see #4), when filling out any contest entries or door prize drawing slips, print clearly!
9. The best place to take notes is on the actual brochure/flyer handed out by each vendor. That way you can connect a face to your notes and it will be easier to remember when you make your follow up calls!
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10. Don’t be fooled by huge discounts! This is especially true for Disc Jockey companies! If a company tells you their price is $900 but they are giving a $300 discount, that sounds great… but if they normally charge $600 for an event that’s not really a discount. Do your research and find out the ACTUAL discount (if any) based on their NORMAL rates. ALSO: Watch for ‘add-ons’ that nickel-and-dime you to a higher price. Show special at $495 but an extra $200 for a ceremony sound system, $50 for lights, and a 15% required gratuity and it’s not as good a deal as you thought!
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11. Enjoy yourself! Use this time to gather information and enjoy any of the special offers extended to you. You are the Bride; you make the rules when dealing with vendors. It’s YOUR day, not theirs!
12. Most importantly, come to D. Jay’s Entertainment’s booth (number 223) to discuss your disc jockey, photography, and videography needs. We are having some great specials (true discounts and LOTS of FREE extra service). I will be there, and we will have several of our disc jockeys and photographers available for you to meet!
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Thank you VERY much for reading this entire post! I hope you learned something.
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August 10th, 2009Uncategorized
We did an engagement session with Michael and Angela in preparation for their wedding later this year. They are such a cool couple and SO MUCH in love. Can’t wait for the wedding!
Here’s some of my favorite photos from the engagement session:
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If you are interested in hiring me for your Las Vegas wedding photography, give me a call: 702-643-3529.
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August 1st, 2009Strip Photography Tour, Weddings
Steve and Brittany were married in a Chapel in Las Vegas and then hired us to do some photos on the Las Vegas Strip. Lynn did this event and got some amazing shots. As you can see, we did the post-processing so the final style is very close to my style.
All these photos were taken outside of the Paris, in around 20 minutes, and there are a lot more than this!
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Steve and Brittany met as cheerleaders, so they wanted to do a cool pose!
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Steve and Brittany are such a great a great couple and were just SO cute together! Thanks guys for letting us be a part of your day!
If you are interested in hiring me for your Las Vegas wedding photography, give me a call: 702-643-3529.
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June 2nd, 2009Bragging
Well, it’s 2:30 am here in Las Vegas, on an early Tuesday morning, and I’m in the process of moving all of my 12+ month-old images to a new “archive” hard drive, since both of my 1-TERABYTE (that’s 1000 gigabytes) external backup hard drives are FULL*. Before I did this move, I compiled some statistics…
Over the last 16 months, I have personally shot 107 Las Vegas Weddings, Engagement Sessions, and Proposals (and 1 in Chicago!). My assistants (and Jeremy) have shot an additional 56 photography events in Las Vegas.
At those weddings in Las Vegas (and the engagement sessions and marriage proposals), we had a total of 76,718 “keeper” photos. Now THAT is a LOT of photos! What boggles my mind is that either Jeremy or I edited and processed every single one of those photos!
I am busy… but I want my clients to know that I do remember each and every one of you! I can look at a few photos from an event and tell at least 3 stories about the happenings of that day - as a matter of fact, if you are a past bride, reply to this post and I’ll reply with a good story of my memory of your wedding!
I love wedding photography in Las Vegas. And as my past brides know, I get personally invested in every event. I consider each and every one of you a friend. And I thank you (again) for letting me be involved in your wedding day!
* For you techies, or if you are wondering how safe your images are, here’s what I do to keep your images safe:
- During events, I change memory cards every hour. This limits the (very very slight) risk of a memory card failure. I am proud to say that in the last 16 months I have lost only 40 images (out of 96,718) to memory card problems. I tell you this for a simple reason: most other photographers WILL NOT tell you this. Rest assured, the chances of losing photos is VERY slim - but I am constantly taking every precaution to limit the losses IF it were to happen.
- I “dump” my memory cards to our photo editing computer IMMEDIATELY after each event (even if it’s 2am).
- One the photos are “dumped”, I create my Lightroom Catalog and then BACK UP the catalog and all the images to TWO SEPARATE HARD DRIVES. At this point, there are THREE copies of your photos.
- One hard drive is kept at my house, another is kept in a secret location, and the “main” set is on the computer is in my office. So for me to completely lose your treasured photos would require THREE hard drives to fail/get stolen/etc. at the same time. This is next-to-impossible.
- Your images are kept for 12 months on the 2 backup drives. Then, once an event is 1 year old, it is “archived” to our new 1.5-Terabyte drive and removed from the 2 backup hard drives. The archive drive is kept in a locked, secure, and fireproof location.
Well, that’s what I do to keep your images safe! Hope you enjoyed all the details!
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May 20th, 2009Weddings
John and Christina were married at the Platinum Hotel in Las Vegas. This is a GREAT location, just off the strip. The hotel is SO nice, and there’s an awesome patio on the top floor.
John and Christina are SO cool, so laid back, and SOOOO fun! Here’s a selection of some of my favorites - and it was hard to choose just 11…
One thing to mention - for some reason when I am in the Platinum I feel like it should be in a movie… so for this shoot I used a “film grain/film contrast” type processing on many of the photos. The process makes the photos look a little like they are from a movie camera - highly saturated, deep contrast, and not crystal-clear (a bit of grain).
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Virgil was my 2nd shooter for this wedding, this is one of his:
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Caught ya!
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Almost every shot during the ceremony was using “available light” (no flash). The Misora room has floor-to-ceiling windows and the lighting can be amazing!
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Caught the Best Man “hiding” the ring during the ceremony.
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Now for after the ceremony - having some fun…
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This one is not posed, just saw and clicked!
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This one was posed, and there’s a bunch from this series that I purposely didn’t blog… but Christina, they came out awesome! I can’t wait to get the rest of your photos finished!
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Ok, bonus shots from before the wedding… Christina is amazingly beautiful!
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I am so tempted to make a 2nd blog post from this wedding, I didn’t even get to post any “fun” party shots… this wedding was a blast!
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I am a recommended Venetian photographer for wedding receptions and had the absolute pleasure of working with Ryan and Natasha just last weekend… they are both “Michiganders” (as I am, originally). They are also “car people” (like Jeremy and me) and we really got along! And, we all like to talk - Natasha and I spent close to an hour on the phone one day, just talking about whatever…
So they hired me to shoot their reception, so there are a TON of dancing pics and “candids” in their photo set - but nobody wants to see all those on a blog! I don’t even think they expected any creative photography but I grabbed them in the hallway for a few minutes and got quite a few posed/creative shots…
One quick note as I always say - we do a lot of creative processing on our photos and we realize not everyone likes every special processing look - so of course my brides get BOTH versions. Also, I just got a new set of really cool effects so I’m a little effect-crazy today!
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Almost forgot, before they got to the Venetian for the reception, I took some shots of the decor, etc. Here’s one example of their tables:
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And, the cake…
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Here’s Ryan and Natasha during their Grand Entrance… LOVE the expressions… Ryan has that “cat-that-just-got-the-bird” look, and Natasha LOOVES him!
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The first dance…
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Cake-cutting…
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Technically these were taken before the reception…
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Highly-saturated and high contrast effect on the ring/flowers photo…
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Congrats guys!
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