Rockin' Senior Session...

...yesterday. A studio ultimate session and we got a ton of incredible images. Here's just a few of my ballet favorites...




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Our 2009 Senior season is in full swing and we're booking sessions everyday.

We shoot from 8am to 9pm (and sometimes even later if need be) but if last year was any indication we'll be booked solid again by late July. So call and schedule your sessions today. All we require is the session fee to hold the date, no huge "deposit".

Call and schedule today!

Rock On,
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Congratulations Mani...

...I'd heard it on the streets a while back but dismissed it as rumors but it was true, Mani retired from the photography business!

I'm actually bummed out about it. After hanging out with him last year at WPPI in Vegas I discovered that Mani is about the nicest guy you'll ever meet, add to that the fact that he's a portrait photographer with integrity (which believe it or not is a rarity these days) and that adds up to someone who'll be missed in the photo biz. Plus I think he's too young to be getting out!

We just wanted to congratulate him and wish him the best of luck in the future! At least I'll still be able to see him at Color Inc. and maybe WPPI next year.

Rock On Mani!
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Family Urban Sessions...

...are just $49. If you're looking for something different than a traditional portrait, the urban family session is just right for you!



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We've got a ton of new family pics to post on the website, hopefully in the next week or so.

Rock On,
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A Great Baby Gift...

...sewhappybaby.com custom embroidered burp cloths and minky blankets! If you're local I recommend that and a CLICK gift certificate! If you're out of the area Sew Happy Baby ships nationwide and also drop ships complete with gift wrapping, handmade card and handwritten message!




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check their site out at: http://www.sewhappybaby.com

I just had to plug their site and services, I think they're awesome and ridiculously inexpensive!!!

Rock On,
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Forgot About This Little Cutie...

...and remembered again last week while putting the order together. Isn't she just sooo cute.



I'll be working on updating the newborn, childrens and family sections of the website soon (since it's been about a year and a half since the last update!). We've been so busy lately that the website has been neglected. Oh yeah, the wedding website will launch soon as well.

Other notes: If you ordered a CLICKseniors T-shirt or mentioned you'd be interested they are coming! We have the beta version (prototype v.b.001) and we'll post some pics soon. I was pretty close on pricing, around $25.

Senior brochures will be hitting the streets in a few weeks and we'll be announcing some promos for 2009 seniors, stay tuned.

J-town studio is coming along, or should I call it "Dandelion Farms". I just dropped 20,000 square feet of weed control on the lawn and it didn't even cover half? I've never seen so many dandelions, seriously. Still working on the demolition/construction. I'll post some pics when it's not such an eye sore.

That's it for now.

Rock On,
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And Here They Are...

Congratulations Amy & Kyle!!!

These two were a complete riot to spend the day with!

Here are just a few samples. The first four are untouched straight out of the camera (except for making them smaller for web viewing that is). The rest were enhanced (some more than others).



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That's it for now.

Rock On,
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Last Solo Wedding...

...ahhh. Just finished my last solo wedding last night.

If you haven't heard yet CLICK photographic has teamed up with Chuck Heiney Photography to shoot weddings together!!!

Why am I so excited?

Because it means even better images for my clients!!! Don't get me wrong, the images I get shooting solo are incredible but what happens when you have two pro shooters on the scene, just wait and see.

I knew right from the get go that shooting weddings is a two person job, but with me being such a control freak I never wanted any help. First off if I got an assistant shooter how good would they be? Seriously, if they were that good they'd be shooting on their own. If they weren't that good what's the point, plus how much enthusiasm could they have getting paid a few hundred for a days work. Don't even get me started on husband/wife teams...or the ones who hand your wedding off to an assistant completely. If you're looking for a wedding photographer make sure you ask who shot the examples you are viewing on the website or in a book!

So what's it gonna cost you ask?

We start at $2,200 (and you get all of the high res images on disk!) Want to add an album? No problem. A 30x40 gallery wrap canvas, no problem. You build your wedding package just the way you want. No need to get locked into a package with a lot of things you don't want or need.

What's even better is that our images are ready to print as is without countless hours of photoshop corrections (you know what I mean, wedding dress and skin tones are yellow in one shot, blue in the next, orange, red, green, blown out, dark gray...all over the place).

If you want some enhancing done on some of the images we can do that too! Some people want it, some prefer clean crisp properly exposed images. When you start with a great image you can do just about anything.

I'll be posting a few of the wedding images Monday when I get some time.

Rock On,
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I Suppose it's time...

...for a new self portrait, since it's been over two years since the last!

So what was wrong with the old one? Well, it wasn't bad but it wasn't great either.

A few weeks ago I was at a photo seminar and a take home gift was a dvd chocked full of hilarious stuff. The guy who puts these together did a little thank you, intro blah blah blah thing at the start of the dvd. In the background he was sure to have his computer as well as a canon camera with a 400mm 2.8 lens on a tripod. My wife asked why he had a telescope behind him (must be very proud of that lens to include it in every interview :). Now I know that lens was probably 5 or 6 grand but c'mon.

Immediately I thought about my self portrait on the website and started laughing. It was an image of me holding a camera with all kinds of lights, lenses and other equipment (I'm such a dorkasaurus sometimes) and realized it was time for something different. It's great if you can laugh at yourself sometimes :).

So I got a freshy up now.

As a side note, the other thing I got a kick out of was the mother & son senior photographer team shooting in auto program mode inside the studio. That was a definite first for me, the comedy value alone was priceless!! Now I understand why most photogs say 3-4 weeks before proofs are ready...because it takes them that long to correct all of the images!

BTW, at CLICK we have your proofs ready for viewing in 24-48 hours after your session!

We shoot it right saving our clients time and money. As another photog told me "your images straight out of the camera are better than most other photogs edited, tweaked, modified and manipulated images" to which I replied "that's just the way we do things, the right way. I have better things to do than spend 40 hours a week in photoshop correcting what should have been done before the shutter release was pressed."

That's part of the reason why we offer FREE blemish removal and enhancements on final prints. The time we save by shooting properly exposed and balanced images can be used to retouch/enhance the images and take them to the next level, something others charge $30+ per image to do.

Rock On,
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