...and the big news is....

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A NEW Blog!

Come visit us at our new location
www.AuburnSoulPhotography.com

I'll be announcing Big News #3 & #4 on the new blog.

I'm so excited!

It's super cute and its a lot faster then this little ol' blogspot blog here.
A HUGE Thank you to Kristen, a good friend and owner of Lily Bee Design.
Not only is she super creative and talented, but she runs 2 businesses and is a mom of 2!
Kristen, thanks for taking the time to design my cute little logo and make the blog beautiful!



Head on over to the new blog. Update your google reader and/or subscribe to the new blog by clicking on the "subscribe" button at the top.

But wait..... there is more.....

I'm featuring a few of my latest sessions.
I'm so behind on blogging because I've been working so hard on this project.

Let me know what you think!

Big News #1 - Photography Boot Camp

Ok, this is the weekend I break the BIG NEWS!!! I have 3 majorly huge announcements. Ok, so maybe all of them are not majorly huge, but they are BIG NEWS none the less.

First of all,,, Sorry for the lack of posts. I have lots of sessions to share. Thanks for not ditching my boring ol' blog. Things will pick up next week. I promise!

Ok y'all, our first order of business is.....

Dates for Mamarazzi Boot Camp. My email has been overloaded with questions about our next class so here they are.


You can book your spot TODAY over at www.mamarazzibootcamp.blogspot.com

In order to provide a more intimate learning experience, each class is limited to 10 paticipants. These spots will fill up fast. If these dates don't work for you or you would like to attend a boot camp in your neck of the woods just shoot me an email.

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Tip Tuesday

SOOC (straight out of camera) vs Post Processed Image.

First a little back ground before I jump into this...
Some photographers shoot in JPG, others choose RAW. What is the difference you ask? The biggest difference is that a RAW image is HUGE, like 20mb per image. That will chew up your hard drive in no time.
On the other hand, that freakishly large image files holds every single bit of info that is available. When your camera (or computer) coverts the image to a JPG, you lose a bit of that info. Your camera takes the info it captured and throws out what it thinks it doesn't need and squishes the rest of the info into a smaller size (typically under 10mb).
There for, you have a smaller file, but you have lost lots of valuable information.
For example, if you shot in RAW and you overexposed an image. You could recover the overexposed areas in post processing.
If you had shot the same image in JPG, there is little that you can do to recover the info and fix the image.

Having said that. I'm not one for HUGE ginormous files that eat up my hard drive space, and I really focus and getting the best image possible SOOC so I don't have much work to do in post processing.

I do everything I can "in camera" to get the perfect shot. That includes proper exposure, cropping, angling, and avoiding distracting elements.

Here is a shot SOOC shot in JPG

I took the shot exactly how I wanted it. Then in Lightroom I added some black, adjusted the curve, then used the brush tool to bump up some detail around her careful not to touch my subject, I just wanted to increase some of the detail around her.


Here is the final product. When I finish editing all the images I save them TWICE! First on my external hard drive, and then I upload them to cyberspace so I have access to them from any where in the world. Plus if my hard drive died, or was stolen or destroyed I would still have a copy, safely floating around in space.

Ok, so let me know if this was helpful to any of you, if you want to hear more "Tips", or if I need to explain in more detail, or if you think I'm just retarded and have failed at my attempt to explain this. Please let me know.

P.S. sorry the images are not their usual hugeness, i'm wokin' on it.

Thanks for looking,
xo Steph

Emily {Frisco Senior Photographer}

ummm hello beautiful senior! This girl has INCREDIBLE eyes.

More to come...

Plus the news. I promise.

It's coming.