Month: February 2013

Introducing: Photobooths!

Hello my friends! I'm so excited to introduce a new offering in my extremely limited lineup of photography services: photobooths! I'm super jazzed to be able to offer this to my wedding clients because they are incredibly fun, as you are about to see, if you've never experienced one for yourself. I don't know what it is about photobooths, but I love them and as far as I can tell, so does everybody else. Here's what the images look like. I'll set up my stuff in a corner, with easy-to-follow instructions, and your guests will click the shutter to their hearts content, capturing the zaniness that is them. For a limited time, my wedding photobooth add-on is just $400. I'll set it up starting with cocktail hour, if you want and that makes sense, all the way through the end of the night. You'll get the images in high-res along with your wedding photos. You will also have the photobooth images on Facebook, ready for your friends to get juiced all over again, within one week of your wedding. wedding photobooth This all took place within like 30 seconds. This is what photobooths do to people. And since I'm so excited and because I love photobooths and because I have the best clients ever and as a reward for reading my blog, the first person to write me about adding on a photobooth will get it for free. So step on up, y'all, I'm ready to get this party started. (So the freebie went within 1 minute of me posting this on Facebook - you guys are fast!)
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by Amber Categories: **Weddings, ProductsTags:

Beth, Chris & N | Philadelphia documentary family photographer

Beth, Chris and N were kind enough to invite me up to Philadelphia to photograph them in the neighborhood where Beth grew up. It's a really cool area, where we couldn't go more than half a block without running into someone Beth knows. I met this rad family at another client's wedding and it was great to see them again. And always exciting when folks are looking for that documentary angle to their family pictures (because I really don't do any other kind of family sessions). documentary family photography in the woods philadelphia documentary family photography documentary family photography in philadelphia Beth grew up walking around these woods. zipping up her daughter in the woods playing with her daughter during a family session moody documentary family photography I think this might have been when N said Jamie was "too slow" to play tag. grandma laughing during family session philadelphia documentary family photography It's possibly never going to snow again in DC, but they had a good bit on the ground in Philadelphia that day. documentary family photographer in philadelphia on a walk through the woods during family session philadelphia documentary family photographer little girl walking to the playground in a cheetah hat family playing on a playground mom helping daughter into jacket documentary family photography in philadelphia couple walking and laughing together couple portraits in philadelphia philadelphia family photography little girl and her mom in a bookstore documentary family photography session philadelphia family documentary photographer couple photos in philadelphia neighborhood Thanks again Beth, Chris, N and Jamie!
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by Amber Categories: Documentary familyTags: , ,

A party of epic proportions

If you were wondering how awesome my life is when I'm not photographing weddings, this post should put that question to rest. In the midst of December, with holidays looming large and many presents still to buy, some of my dearest friends and I gathered for a party of epic proportions. There was Dom Perignon from 1992. There were caviar and salmon rillettes. There were hand-written menus (that I did not photograph, but I did hand-write). It was mandatory tie - for everyone. We were eating through all the foods and wines David and Carrie had been saving - hence the foie gras and caviar and things. The salmon rillettes I demanded. We had them during my wedding weekend way back on when at Buchon. We have been unable to repeat them exactly, though this time we came much closer. I'm in a tie too, just wanted to show. David changed out of his tuxedo to cook, the bastard. laughing at the end of the night For those who would be curious: all of these were taken with the Fuji x100, probably at 3200 or 6400 ISO. It's a nifty little camera.
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by Amber Categories: Food, PersonalTags: , , , ,