Teasers: Tara's Hair Salon

Yesterday I had the pleasure of working with Tara of Tara's Hair Salon in a shoot to highlight her talents as a hair stylist.  Here's some teasers from the shoot which we held right in her salon using whatever what was around!  Can't wait to show you more images, but hopefully this will hold you over!  It's something I've never had a chance to do before and I'm glad we were able to collaborate!

MUA: Jaclyn (JWood Artistry)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/JWood-Artistry/199882053383948

Here's the FB album as well:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150540128502136.369644.308828302135&type=1

Mini Photo Shoot with Jaleel King!!

Today we got to hang out with our photog friend, Jaleel!

After he attended a function with us in the morning, he took a few shots of me and Fred with our cameras and we are very thankful to him!  It was a lot of fun and and definitely a different feeling being in front of someone else's camera, and getting to see the world through their eyes!

Check him out at www.jaleelking.com!!

Over the next few weeks we will be attempting to amass a bunch of more-current pictures of ourselves with the help of a bunch of our awesome photog friends, as we spend most of our time BEHIND the camera rather than in front.  But I already wholeheartedly admit I'm a backseat photographer.. yeah.. that's me LOL!! I'm warning anyone who may take a pic of me in the future LOL!!  But Jaleel was very awesome and put up with me so thank you HAHAHAHAHAH!

Here's some of my faves from the mini shoot!

And here's a pic of Jaleel in action - OMGOSH isn't his hat SOOO COOL!!!

And to end off, here's a few random pictures of my Fred that I took throughout the day :)

New Website to Celebrate 2 Years!!!

Yay!

On February 5 of this year, NTME Photography celebrated its 2 year anniversary!  I am just so thankful as I didn't know what to expect when I started this business.. they say you should have a plan, but all I knew is that I enjoyed taking pictures and wanted to touch the lives of others through doing this!

2 years later though, I do have a plan, I have goals I wish to reach, and dreams that I will entrust to God.  No matter what happens, I just pray I will be allowed to keep doing what I love as it really has brought such happiness in my life.

I know I just unveiled a website like last August, but here I am again!  I've been using Showit for my webdesign, and felt that I wasn't using it to its full potential, so suddenly I found myself redesigning it over the past 2 weeks.  Thanks to everyone who helped me through my rounds of edits, your input was VERY valuable and I definitely incorporated  a lot of suggestions into my final design.

I put the link at the bottom of the post, as I hope you will go along for a journey with me through the post first HAHAHA :)

Here's some screen shots of my original site:

Main entrance page:

Wedding home page:

Now here's the EVOLUTION.. What I first started with, it's definitely a bit busy and hard to keep the focus on the center panel where all the images would be.  But I liked the personality, as it reflects me HAHAHAHA:

Gallery home page draft:

And this is what I ended up with (more focus on the panel where the images will be, as a lot of people suggested to make it bigger and everything else smaller).  I wanted it to reflect my personality but not to the point that it's ... too playful?  So I toned it down a bit.

Gallery page final:

Main entrance page:

 Weddings home page:

 About us!

Portrait home page 

(I decided to still keep a bit more of the .. color and my random facts panel with the portrait site lol):

Blog page:

Hope you like!  I am feeling very accomplished since I designed it myself.  I guess when you don't have the extra thousands laying around to get someone to do a redesign for you, you do what you can with what you got HAHAHAHA!  I'm very happy with the redesign and feel it's SOOO ME!!!!

Love you all!

Thanks so much for the 2 years, please help me to reach my 3rd by spreading the word :)

www.ntmephotography.com

Zoe + Nate: E-Session

Here are some of my faves from an engagement session I had last week.  Zoe + Nate met in college and have been together for 7+ years!  They both have the talent of writing, and that's how they fell in love - through each other's words :)

Enjoy!!

Philly SmugMug Meetup: Using Ambient Light for Portraits

Oh my gosh.  I haven't blogged in forever!  I'm going to get back into it now, my apologies!

Last Saturday, one of my photo groups, Philly SmugMug, had a meetup in the Art Museum area and we focused on ambient light.  It was a cloudy day which to many photographers is a dream come true hahahaha!  I think it's great as well, but depending on the location, it can get a bit drab.  That coupled with a security guard telling us to clear the Waterworks area pushed us to venture out and see what else we could find.  There were 5 mini groups and I was the leader of one of them, yay for Group 3!!

We had this brilliant idea for Ahmad to stand on a narrow ledge on this gym building...

 ... But we couldn't get him to turn around HAHAHAHAH!  And then someone from inside the gym told him to get down b/c everyone inside could see him LOL!!!!  That was fun!!

Personally, I was looking for directional light and that was definitely a challenge with a gray sky and tons of soft flat light everywhere.  But as we walked toward Boat House Row, we found some overhangs which gave me the shadows and depth I was looking for.

Worked a bit on framing!

 

 Best friends!!

Boat House Row was so colorful!  Glad we took a walk!!

Do you remember JP from when he graduated and I took his pics? Well, he's back HAHAHA!!  Holler ladies!! LOL!

So yeah, this was a lot of fun and I'm thankful to all my friends for helping me out by modeling or being photo assistants!!  It really helps so much as I continue to hone my craft!!  And a big thanks to my fellow photogs in Philly SmugMug group, it's always fun!!  

I really enjoy doing what I do!