Kravitz Photography Studio

ATTENTION! IMPORTANT!

2009-01-01T22:33:00.002-06:00

I really hate to do this, but I can't figure out how to fix this blog and make it look the way I want to so I'm having to start a new one. You can find it at http://kravitzphotographystudio.blogspot.com Sorry for the inconvenience. Please start following my new one because I will not be updating this one any longer. Thank you!

2009-01-01T17:31:00.002-06:00

Yeah, so I was trying to update my blog with a new templete and ended up messing up my blog. My header no longer shows up and there is that annoying stupid pink whatever at the beginning at each of my posts. ugh! This is going to take me a bit to fix so bare with me.

Photo Assignment

2008-12-29T12:54:00.005-06:00

This week's assignment was "holiday." I wasn't really feeling all that creative and really just wanted to enjoy the holiday with my family, but I did manage to get some really cute shots of my nephew. He really enjoyed the tastes of all of his gifts.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

2008-12-23T20:30:00.000-06:00

St. Louis December 2008

2008-12-20T16:36:00.006-06:00

Here are a few photos from our trip to Saint Louis. I aboslutely love the last of my husband. Feel free to check out more on my myspace.

Smith Family

2008-12-17T13:22:00.004-06:00

Last night I got the opportunity to do a session with the Smith family. Their twins are so darn cute!!! They were great to work with, a very playful family. To see the complete collection, please go to http://kravitzphotography.zenfolio.com. Enjoy! :D

Disappointed :(

2008-12-07T16:48:00.002-06:00

So I was supposed to have 3 shoots this weekend, but they didn't happen. On Friday night I had to go to the hospital due to A LOT of pain and I hadn't felt the baby move in a few hours. They said they baby was doing great! She was moving, I just wasn't feeling it, and her heart rate was great too. Me, on the other hand, was still in incredible pain. So, the doctor determined I either have a kidney stone or a pulled back muscle. So because I can't move and am on pain meds I had to cancel all three shoots. :( I was really looking forward to them too. I had an OpLove shoot, a Family session, and a Boudoir session. Hopefully I will be able to get all three rescheduled soon! Won't really know when till my back starts to feel better.

My new watermark

2008-12-03T20:31:00.003-06:00

So, I wanted to make a new one. My old one was very basic and not pretty at all. So, my new one is much prettier :D.

Busy weekend!!!!

2008-12-03T16:28:00.003-06:00

Yay! I have three shoots for this weekend. I have an OpLove shoot, a Family shoot, and a Boudoir shoot. Lots of pictures coming soon!!!!!!!

Just playing around with my camera for this weekend. Here are a few shots.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

2008-11-27T17:41:00.001-06:00

Her New Hat

2008-11-24T18:24:00.003-06:00

There was a craft show on post a few weekends ago and we picked up this cute little purple hat. You can view the rest of the photos from this mini shoot on my myspace. :D

Megan's Bridal/TTD

2008-11-24T06:22:00.005-06:00

This weekend I got the opportunity to shoot Megan's bridal/TTD pictures. She was great to work with and a pleasure to be around! I'm really hoping to get my foot in the wedding photography door and I feel this is a step in the right direction. :D Here are a few photos but feel free to check out all of the pictures from her session at http://kravitzphotography.zenfolio.com Enjoy!

Self-Portrait

2008-11-21T12:10:00.002-06:00

This week's assignment was "self-portrait." I saw this on a girls profile on myspace and thought it would be very fitting. :) I hate being in front of the camera.....just to put it out there.

NEW WEBSITE!!!!

2008-11-16T19:34:00.001-06:00

I have changed my website! Please check it out at http://kravitzphotographystudio.com.

Manhattan/Ft. Riley/Junction City Area!!!1

2008-11-15T17:10:00.001-06:00

I just wanted to let everyone know I will be up in the Ft. Riley area on Monday November 17th doing photo shoots. I am offering any kind of shoots (except) for weddings for $60.00. This will include a CD with a release of the images. If you would like to do this please message me ASAP so you don't miss out!

The advice of a friend

2008-11-14T15:12:00.002-06:00

So, I was asked the other day if I was going to get maternity pictures done with this pregnancy. I'm not really a fan of being infront of the camera. I enjoy being behind it much much more. But it was suggested to me to have my husband shoot them. This is sounding more and more like a good idea! So, this weekend, if the weather cooperates, I will have him do them. I'm really getting excited about this. I have some great ideas for this shoot!

ANGER!

2008-11-14T15:06:00.003-06:00

This weeks photo assignment was anger. I decided to use this one of my daughter. :D

Important social or political issue

2008-11-07T16:25:00.006-06:00

This week's nest assignment was an importnant social or political issue to you. I was a total slacker on this this week and did it this morning (they're due on Fridays). Not too big of a deal, I knew what I wanted to use. I had a little creative fun with editing this week. :) You can view the complete collection on myspace. These are "private" on there so you will have to be one of my friends to view them. Enjoy!

This eagle is painted on a wall in Waynesville.

My first "real" booking!!!!!

2008-11-06T22:50:00.003-06:00

Yay! I'm so excited! I will be doing a family shoot. I have had a lot of people interested and inquiring about everything but this is my first booking! WooHoo! :D

"Wedding" Pictures turned to flowers lol

2008-11-06T14:03:00.011-06:00

So upon the advice of a fellow photog, I dragged out my wedding dress, bought some flowers, and whipped out my camera. I think the color of the flowers is throwing off the pictures in the ones with the dress. The ones of just the flowers, I think, came out good. Enjoy and leave some feedback! :)

I have more of what I took with this "session" on myspace. Please feel free to check it out.

Learning my lesson

2008-11-02T20:26:00.006-06:00

So today went well. I think with each shoot I get better and more comfortable. Two things learned today. SLOW DOWN! lol. I know this may seem like a simple concept that I should know, but I feel if I would have slowed down just a bit today I would have gotten so many more pictures. Don't get me wrong. I most of the pictures today turned out great, or atleast I think so, but they could have all turned out great if I would have slowed down. Mrs. P has a beautiful family and they are very photogenic and so easy to shoot. Second thing, don't give bubbles first thing to the little one's who are in white! Oops! By the time we got to the second location his shirt was dry and all was good to go.

Enjoy the photos and please leave feedback and suggestions! The complete album can be viewed at kravitzphotography.zenfolio.com :D

Mrs. P's Family

2008-11-02T12:12:00.002-06:00

I had a shoot today with Mrs. P's family. They were SO easy to work with. Their two little boys were too cute and absolutely adorable! I'm so excited to see how everything turned out from today. I should have pictures up soon!

Pittsburg Pumpkin Patch 10-18-09

2008-11-01T20:37:00.008-05:00

I'm a little late posting these but here are the photos from the pumpkin patch we visited in Pittsburg, Ks. You can view all of the photos from that day on my zenfolio http://kravitzphotography.zenfolio.com. Enjoy!
Not the best photo. I was trying to get her hand in the goats mouth, but the angle was so very wrong.

Some day my daughter will hate me for this picture. lol

I loved this photo and when it after I took it I thought I had it right. But as you can see the focus is not on the hands where I wanted it to be :( but I thought I would post it anyway.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

2008-10-31T08:06:00.001-05:00

Don't forget to check out my website! http://kravitzphotography.googlepages.com

Post and Run

2008-10-30T09:29:00.002-05:00

So, I have to make this a quick post today. They had fun things for the kids to do last night so we took our wee one out to enjoy the fun! She is totally a spitting image of me. Kinda scary lol!

TheNest "photo assignments"

2008-10-27T19:45:00.003-05:00

So, I often visit thenest to pass the days. There are a few photographers on there and we decided to do weekly "photo assignments." I think this will help me a lot in learning about photography and learning what works and what doesn't. This weeks assignment is "fall colors." These are some of the photos I captured when we were out and about this weekend. Enjoy! (if you would like to view all of them visit my myspace www.myspace.com/kravitzphotography)

NEW WEBSITE!!!!

2008-10-26T16:34:00.001-05:00

So, I finally sat down last night and created my business website. I'm so excited about this! Please feel free to check it out at http://kravitzphotography.googlepages.com. If you have any suggestions feel free to message me with them.

Mrs. R's Cute Kids

2008-10-24T11:17:00.007-05:00

Yesterday was so much fun shooting these two! I was incredibly nervous about doing this one because I didn't get the opportunity to "practice" on my neice and nephew. Everything went great! They were very easy to work with. I did, however, learn a very important lesson. When shooting babies have the mom stand right behind me so the baby is "looking at the camera." I think I got some great shots of these two. Please feel free to leave any advice or feed back. If you would like to check out their whole collection you can view it at http://kravitzphotography.zenfolio.com. Enjoy!!!

Shoot tomorrow

2008-10-22T21:44:00.002-05:00

Well, I'm supposed to have a shoot tomorrow with a 2 year old and an 8 month old. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and won't rain. I'm a bit nervous about it. I really wish I was able to "practice" with my neice and nephew but that didn't work out. :( I have a few poses in mind that I think would be cute, but I'm not really for sure how much I will be able to do with them. I don't really remember my little one at two having that long of an attention span. Wish me luck!

My external flash

2008-10-21T21:23:00.008-05:00

So I finally got out my external flash and played around with it a bit today. I totally wish I had done this before this weekend. It helps so much with my photos.

My first real shoot!

2008-10-20T14:03:00.006-05:00

My best friend let me do a maternity shoot with her and her husband. I was so nervous at first, but once we got going everything seemed to fall more and more into place. I feel I still need to work on posing but it's coming to me. :D To view all of the pics you can visit http://kravitzphotography.zenfolio.com or www.myspace.com/kravitzphotography .

Sessions this weekend :D

2008-10-17T14:12:00.001-05:00

So I have a few things going on this weekend! I'm so excited! I get to do a session with my sister and her husband and their two kids. So excited about this because their little boy is around 6 months old and will give me a chance to "see what I can do" with a baby that small. We're, also, going to another pumpkin patch with my dad and I would love to put my daughter in her Tinker Bell costume from halloween last year and shoot her in that. I think it would be totally cute but I imagine people will look at us like we are crazy. lol. Oh the things you do for a great shot! Also, I'm going to my best friends baby shower and she is letting me do a maternity shoot with her. I'm so excited about this. Pregnant ladies can just be so beautiful and she is so pretty. I really hope we can get her husband out there too, but if we don't I still have some great ideas in mind. :D Wish me luck! I'll post pics from all three when we get back.

Setting a goal.

2008-10-14T15:36:00.004-05:00

So, I figured I should set a goal and work towards that. My goal is to do a wedding by the time we leave, should be around August 2009. I think it would be so fun to capture someone's beautiful day. I was so inspired by planning my own wedding and by not having the photos I wanted of my wedding. So I have around 2 years to achieve this. Wish me luck!

Hunting Trip Two

2008-10-12T10:13:00.013-05:00

So a few people suggested a few places that I should go to see if the locations would work. We also got a "driving tour" map and visited a few spots on there too. The locations were beautiful! I, however, don't think I really captured the beauty of them. Maybe it was because I was merely trying to document the location, or maybe it was because I didn't have cooperrative "models." Either way, I still want to try these out and give them a chance.

Copyright!

2008-10-11T16:26:00.002-05:00

So I got my copyright registered today! Now all I have to do is wait for it to get here in the mail. I'm so excited!

And we went out and about again today. We found some AWESOME locations. I'll post pictures from today in a few.

OpLove Link

2008-10-10T20:48:00.001-05:00

A few new things happening

2008-10-10T20:37:00.003-05:00

So I created a myspace for my photography too. Created it yesterday and I already have 5 sessions booked and a few more that have contacted me about a session. To be all honest, I'm so nervous. These will be my first "professional" shoots, so I hope they go well. It will most definately be a learning experience. I will, however, get to shoot my sister and her family before I take a stabe at my clients. I, also, have become a member of Operation Love Reunited. Being a part of this I will shoot families who's soldier is getting ready to deploy or return from a deployment. Feel free to check out my profile on there. You can, also, get more detailed information of what this type of shoot would contain if you are interested. I just got signed up with them today. Therefore I am not booking any of these types of shoots yet, but I will be in the next week or so.

Hunting Trip

2008-10-10T19:24:00.011-05:00

So we went on a hunting trip today to try to find locations that would work for shoots. Here are some of the photos of the locations that we went today. I know this area has so much more to offer, I just have to find those "sweet spots" that will let my creativity run wild.

If you would like to see all of the photos from today feel free to stop by our myspace. These photos are viewable to friends only on there. www.myspace.com/kravitzphotography

Pumpkin Patch times two

2008-10-05T16:24:00.021-05:00

I'm really happy we were able to make it out to the pumpkin patch. I felt I had a variety of backgrounds to work with and things to shoot.

I over exposed this picture but I still wanted to post it. I thought it turned out kinda neat.

Pumpkin Patch!

2008-10-04T21:42:00.020-05:00

So we had a chance today to go visit a local pumpkin patch. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to take my camera out too! I got a ton of pictures today. Here are just a few. I'll post more tomorrow. Enjoy!

Just a few more

2008-09-30T17:58:00.004-05:00

Just a few more pictures from the game.

photos from the game

2008-09-30T15:11:00.002-05:00

I think I got some great photos at the game we attended. I'm very pleased with the way they came out.

Football!

2008-09-29T10:08:00.000-05:00

I got my husband football tickets for this weekend. We had a blast but his team lost. Anyways, I got some great pictures and got to play with my camera more. I took over 800 pictures for the weekend. I'll post a few as soon as I go through all of them.

mushrooms again

2008-09-24T22:48:00.002-05:00

I'm not for sure how I want the orange mushrooms from the other day to look. I edited two photos from that shoot and here is what I came up with:

They needed a touch-up :)

2008-09-24T19:59:00.000-05:00

After a bit of editing I feel much better about the photos I took today. No, I don't want to have to count on editing to get images to look the way I want, so I still get to play around with my camera. :)

a better accessory

2008-09-24T17:27:00.000-05:00

So typing the blog below, I noticed that the boots looked so much better with the soft cap than with the heels. So I found a flag and took a few shots.

Both are in focus here. What I like about this photo is you can see his dog tag in his boot, just barely.

I like that I was able to get the flag in focus and the boots out.

Off to edit! After these two photos I'm feeling a little better.

feeling a bit frustrated.

2008-09-24T16:29:00.001-05:00

So im getting frustrated. This morning I woke up with no intention of going out and about to play with my camera, but then I had a wonderful idea and decided to go. My idea: get a pair of my husband's boots and a pair of my shoes and shoot them together. Not to difficult of an idea, but I still could not seem to capture the passion I wanted to. Here are some of the pics I took today. I haven't edited them yet I'm still a little frustrated by it.
I like how this one is off-center.

I love these stairs, but I don't think I did them justice. This picture, also, seems a little dark but shouldn't be too hard to fix.

So I figured out how to get the boots in focus while the heels are not, but I couldn't seem to get it right the other way around.

I like this one, but the shoes seem a little out of focus.

I really like this one too!

Finally! One that I feel does me some justice. I like this one, but it's in black and white. I know there is nothing wrong with shooting in black and white, but I would like to be able to capture this in color and do editing if I want it in black and white. Overall, I really like this one. This is what I had invisioned before shooting.

I like this one a little better than the two below. It's just not capturing what I want it too, or that's what it seems like.

This one is a little better than the one below, but in my opinion something still seems off.

This one is a little dark. Maybe it's just the spot I was shooting in.

photos

2008-09-23T16:40:00.002-05:00

So playing around with the camera today was a good experience. The pictures didn't turn out spectacular but it did give me a chance to understand and figure out the aperture more.
ISO 200, Shutter 1/250, Aperture F8, Focal Length 165mm

ISO 200, Shutter 1/125, Aperture F5.6, Focal Length 110mm

ISO 400, Shutter 1/200, Aperture F8, Focal Length 55mm

out and about

2008-09-23T15:58:00.001-05:00

So I was able to get out today and play with my camera a bit. Found some awesome orange mushrooms to shoot. They gave me the perfect opportunity to figure out the apeture, ISO, and shutter. I'll post a few pics in a few :)

Starting

2008-09-22T20:48:00.000-05:00

So I really want to have my own photography business. I think I have finally found what I want to do. :) I would love to do weddings! I was so inspired by all of the weddings we attended this year. I wouldn't mind shooting babies either. They're always so cute! Senior pictures would be fun too. Seems like they always have creative ideas on how they want their shoot to be. So to get started with my new hobby/"job" we have just purchased my new camera and photo editing program. All seems like a go so far!