April & Dave Pollett Wedding

21Jun09

I spent the day in Fruiteland, UT taking photos for my friend at her wedding.   Their theme was “Klassy-Redneck Wedding” and her main focal point was camo. Her husband wore camo and her dress was camo.  Really cool details!  It rained almost the whole time.  It stopped shortly after the ceremony so we could run outside and take a few quick shots.  They’re a fun couple.  I’ve got to edit all the pictures now (over 400) and get them to her as soon as I can. YEAY!

Also, my website is in the process of being updated and revamped! I’m really excited for it.

www.mariezamora.net

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Tags: Bridals, Camo Weddings, Classy Redneck Weddings, Friends Wedding, Fruiteland, Redneck Weddings, Themed Weddings, Utah, Utah Weddings, Wedding Photography, Weddings

Provo Utah Temple

02Jun09

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Harris/Brimhall Wedding

02Jun09

Rick & Jodi Brimhall

23 May 2009

http://teambrimhall.blogspot.com/

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Happy Young Couple

02Jun09

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Mount Timpanogos Temple

02Jun09

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Missionary Photo Shoot

02Jun09

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Christmas Shoot

27Dec08

Here are some of the photos I did for Ashley & Sarah’s Christmas shoot.

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Wedding Photography

14Dec08

Well, for those of you who have been following my career in this field you know that I put off buying studio equipment because I chose to go on a mission for my [url=http://www.mormon.org]church[/url].

Yesterday morning was one of the first days I’ve had off in quite a while. So when my brain woke me at 7:30am there was nothing else to do than head out to the livingroom of my apartment and watch some Style Network in my baby blue bathrobe and fuzzy pink slippers.  The first shows were re-runs of wedding cake decorating and that made me hungry… A glass of Sprite and some oatmeal in the morning… yum…

Anyway, I kept watching and the TV show “Who’s Wedding Is It Anyway” came on.  It was the special on million dollar wedding couples. DANG! – not the point. The point is as I watched the show all the little details of the day and preparation really made me want to get out there again with my camera and start taking some journalistic wedding photos!

As luck would have it the past few months for me have really been eye openers since my creative wall had been built to focus on being a missionary.  I’ve been home since April ‘07 and I’m finally starting to paint, play my guitar, and get out there with my camera again.

I straight away went out and bought my new camera that I’ve been reluctant to buy because I kept thinking I needed something worth a million dollars.  Really – you don’t.  Just something that will give you the ability to have high quality images and do things you want to do.  So, I have my new Nikon.   I haven’t named her yet.   Probably wont, I usually don’t name things… but I did name my car – haha! Okay, so I’m a hypocrite on the naming things.  I also picked up two 4GB storage cards.

This morning I bought my reflectors (Flashpoint 22″ 5-in-1 Collapsible Disc Reflector, Translucent, White, Black, Silver & Soft Gold) along with 2 different books which looked to give a lot of advice.

“The Wedding Photographers Handbook”

(http://billhurter.com/best-of-wedding-photographyEdit3.html?sid=406331&quantity=1&product_id=18)

“The Best Wedding Photographer”

(http://billhurter.com/wedding-photography-handbook.html)

Both of which are written by Bill Hurter   (And yes, I didn’t realize until NOW that they were written by the same guy.)

I also found a really good artical – mostly about the workflow. Check it out.   http://photo.net/learn/digital-photography-workflow/overview/wedding-photography/

My plan is to start my business as of 2009. So I believe it’s time to get things back in order.  I really need to update my portfolio as far as weddings go.  I’ve done a lot of portrait work, but need some more models.  Maybe I can rangle some people in my ward.

For brides in the Utah area,  if you’ve already been married and have your wedding dress still contact me for information on being a model – this does include you being paid.

If you are looking to have bridals done and have NOT been married yet, I’ll do your shoot for $100.  That includes having full rights to your images and a complete disk of all your images edited.

Email me if you’re interested. ldsmarie@gmail.com

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Adobe CS3 and my path on it…

22Jun08

So I’ve been trying to study up recently on the latest creative suite from Adobe – Adobe CS3.  On my personal computer about 4 years ago my ex boyfriend uploaded only Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2 for me.  This has been quite helpful for me. So thanks, Jon.  Anyway, when I left school CS was the highest version they had to teach us. Which shows I’ve been away from college for a few years now.  Teaching myself is the only way for me to actually progress.

When I got home from my mission in 2007, CS3 was the new and cool thing.  I tried to find a job as a graphic designer and started to find it extremely frustrating as I’d read each hiring requirement “Must be proficient in Adobe CS3.”

I took on jobs that obviously weren’t in my field (Special Education Para Professional) in order to earn some kind of cash while I tried to teach myself CS3.  Finally someone gave me the chance to be a graphic designer as they noticed my skills when I’d applied for a different position.  They, as luck would have it, had Adobe CS3.  So I would plop myself down every morning and try to spend as MUCH time as I could playing around.  My employer knew nothing about graphic design and couldn’t help when I had questions.  She started placing me more into the role of office manager and I finally decided if I was to progress, like I knew I could, I needed a different graphic design job.  I started looking again for work without her knowledge and was interviewed by my first big company.

At this point I was in school again and was starting to realize how I really was supposed to be a graphic designer.  When I left school to serve my mission the school I’d attended was teaching only QuarkXpress.  The students who started after I did were learning InDesign.  They would NOT allow students who had already studied QuarkXpress to learn InDesign until after they graduated because then they could come back for free and study.  I was far from graduating at that point and extremely frustrated with the school.

So 3 years later as I’m sitting in this office having never interviewed as a graphic designer before I was placed in a position that caught me completely off guard.  I was asked to sit down at the computer and edit a project in InDesign CS3.  If I didn’t show it on my face I felt it all alone – I was SCARED!  I sat down and started looking for things that I would in QuarkXpress.  At school people had told me InDesign was like Quark… I’ll be the one to tell you IT’S NOT!!  It’s quite different!  Thankfully the woman helped me as I started looking in the correct directions and tabs to find what was needed to edit.  NOTE: To anyone who finds themselves in my same position, it is not a bad idea to tell them you don’t know a program. Just make sure you let them know what you do know and how you are a quick learner.

A few days later I interviewed for another job, was offered the position without having to do a test, and started the very next day.  The previous company asked me in again for a second interview, but sadly I turned it down because I’d already started the new job.

As I started my new job I learned quickly InDesign.  My first day I was shown my desk and PC (a complete upgrade from the PC laptop in the corner I had been working on at my previous job) and asked to make edits to a project in InDesign.  They knew I didn’t know the program so the whole day (8 hours people) I spent fiddling around trying to figure it out.  It took my new job 3 months to get Adobe CS3.  I’ve only been using it for a week.  But thanks to the fact that I had InDesign CS I was able to learn the program to a point I would have learned in school in only 2 months.

Today I am playing around on Adobe’s Video Workshop website.  I’m learning so much!  Even about the programs I already know!  So I would recommend to ANYONE in my situation or even if you’re not, to go through the Help menu on the programs, to watch the videos, and learn as much as you can…  Taking the time to educate yourself is the only way you can show employers and even clients that you are serious about your work and would like to progress.  In the graphic design world you will always be doing this.  If you’re the kind of person that gets comfortable in one sort of program and doesn’t ever plan to progress (like some photographers who never want to change to digital no matter how advanced the cameras get and become even better than 35mm film) you probably wont make it far in this field.

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Featured Artist: Matt Busch

14Jun08

Artist: Matt Busch

Field: Fine Art, Graphic Design

Addresses:

• http://youtube.com/user/mattbusch
• www.MattBusch.com

This guy rocks my socks! I love him!! His humor is great and I love how honest he is about starting as an artist. It’s totally true, everyone!  He’s also very talented.

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