When I first met Sarah, I saw how gorgeous she was.  Are you kidding me with those amazing blue eyes?  She boasted about her fiance, how awesome he was, and how much she missed him since he now lives out of state.  Truth be told, I knew Sarah was amazing from the moment I met her.  Then I met Andrew.  Helllloooo, more blue eyes  These two are awesomely amazing people, and when they are together, the world better watch out.

We had so much fun in the cold … and melting snow (yeah, I stepped in a puddle and sank up to my ankle in 30 degree weather, but my cold piggy’s said it was worth it, and they were right!) to capture their love.  Sarah and Andrew, thanks for bringing the awesome.  I have WAY too many favorites from this shoot.  I am so happy for you and your upcoming wedding!  Hugs – Karie!

Sarah – YOU ARE GORGEOUS!!!

A fave – love the dramatic light here!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this shot.  I also processed it a little differently than normal.  You may find this on my wall of fame!

Yet another SUPER FAVE – I love this image so much.  And their shadows.  These two are amazing!

This is how they are together – so sweet!

Another SUPER fave

Such a fun session!!

A lot has been going on behind the scenes here at KMP.  For one thing, we are SUPER excited about StudioWed.  The website is now live, so I would encourage all of you potential clients, and current clients to check it out.  We know it will be an amazing resource for you if you are planning a wedding.  You can click HERE to view the website.  The studio is scheduled to open in January!  Stay tuned for more information.

Secondly, tis the season to be engaged!  The Knot put out recent stats that stated that 40% of couples get engaged over the holidays.  If you are just getting engaged, or recently engaged, and getting ready to look for photographers, here are a few articles that we feel are important in making your decision.

10 Reasons Professional Photographers Charge What They Do

Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring a Wedding Photographer

Two weeks ago I started talking about my album workflow for photographers with albums.  I get TONS of questions from photographers about this.  Truth is, albums really are a lot of work.  It is so rewarding to watch them come together for my clients and tell the WHOLE story of the day, but I have a system that works very well, and is repeated for each client.

This next paragraph is mostly for photographers, and answering the questions I have recently received: Because we return a ton of images to the client after the wedding, I go through and make an initial album design for my clients.  I began using Project Workroom for my clients to review the design and make changes.  Let me say, it has been amazing!  Check them out!  I use Adobe InDesign to design the layout of my albums.  It has drastically decreased my design time … and is so much more fluid than Photoshop.  If you are not using InDesign, you should be.  I use the software now for my marketing materials, album designs, business cards.  It is just a fabulous Graphic Design software!  It also allows you to make templates that you will use again. My clients make their changes, submit them to me, and the album is sent to print!

As I said last week, I make my albums no nonsense designs.  The images speak for themselves on clean white backgrounds.  I also hate to cram too many images on a page, as I feel it gets distracting from the story.  Here are a few recent album spreads.

That’s it … It’s my 2 cents on album design.  I hope it answered a lot of you photographer’s questions.