Featuring Camila!

Oh my goodness!  I had the great pleasure of meeting Camila at my workshop in Salt Lake City this past weekend and after the workshop she went out and had a senior session. She had asked me some questions about doing the photos at a carnival.  She posted them up on facebook the other day and I am completely blown away with the photos.  I had to call Camila and tell her how awesome they are and how proud I am of her for getting those amazing photos!

Here’s a little Testimonial Miss Camila wrote to me:
From the moment I first saw OCF being used on Ali’s blog I knew that I HAD to go this direction and bring this drama into my photos.  This is 100% more my style than natural light and I really wanted to be able to have the control that OCF gives you.  I have owned my own OCF gear for about a year but had never been able to figure out how to use it properly on my own.  It only took Ali about 5 minutes to figure out what was wrong with my equipment and get me on the path to some killer OCF images.  I’m so grateful!  I can finally say that I have the confidence and know how to use my OCF gear and to shoot at literally any hour of the day.  How awesome is that?  Thanks ALI I LOVE YOU!

How long have you been in business?
I bought my first SLR almost 5 years ago and have been “in business” for almost 3 years.

What’s your favorite part of photography?
That I’m able to make women feel beautiful.  In my opinion it’s not fair that we have to stand in the check out line at Walmart and be bombarded with these images where woman have so much help to look the way they do, not to mention some killer photography and major editing.  All woman should have the opportunity to have atleast one photo where they get the same treatment.  Every woman is beautiful and deserves to have her one drop dead gorgeous photo and feel good about herself.  My favorite part of my job is when I post these on FB for my client and they get bagillions of comments about how AMAZING they look. Awesome feeling.

Any lessons you have learned in your years of business?
That light is everything.  Really.  We seem to always be striving to find these killer locations and outfits, which is great, but they mean nothing if you don’t have great light.

One last piece of advice?
Don’t feel like you have to shoot in every style.  I find it funny that most photographer’s websites that I visit say something like this, “specializing in family, portrait, lifestyle, fashion, sport, wedding, children and senior photography”.  Can you really SPECIALIZE in all of these things?  It took me a year or so to realize that I specialize in weddings and individual sessions.  I no longer will shoot families, toddlers, sports, etc.  And I am so much happier just sticking to my specialties.  Not to mention they are by far the funnest for me to shoot. Don’t feel like you have to do it all.  Find your niche.

Camila, you have blown me away with these photos!  I enjoyed so much meeting you and I’m so glad you came!

Workshops:

Salt Lake City:  We are going back again! We are going to be doing a very stylized photo shoot with make up artists/wardrobe etc.  It’s going to be a 2 one day workshop again and it’s filling up fast.  Email me now to sign up and hold your spot!  It’s going to be September 23 and 24th.

Northern California

Illinois

West Virginia

Austin Texas

are all being considered for doing a workshop.  If you live in the area and you would like to attend please send me an email with the city in state in the subject line.

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