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Meet Tera, Our New Intern!

May 7, 2012 Posted in Photo Life

Our studio is growing and with that comes our first intern! We were humbled to receive so many applicants for the position, which made it a tough choice. But we are happy to say that Tera is joining the Nickles Photography team for the summer. Tera works at Eastmont School District as a counselor. She recently got into photography and love to take senior pictures for the kids that she works with. We loved her eager attitude and willingness to learn. We got along really well when we met and look forward to having her assist this summer at weddings and hope that she benefits from working with us!

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Maryann King - 2012/05/08 - 04:57

This beautiful lady is my daughter. I am so very proud of her and send her the hardiest congratulations. She is indeed talented and is recognizing her gift of photography. One must have a vision and she indeed has it.

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Wedding Albums: a Must-Have! | Leavenworth Wedding Venue

May 3, 2012 Posted in Wedding, Wedding Products

Having an outstanding wedding photographer is a just half of the equation for your wedding memories. It is necessary to find a professional photographer whom you click with and love their style. You find them, have an amazing wedding and then… you just order the cd of images. Which you do nothing to little with. I am going to admit something I don’t want to admit, but I am all about honesty and integrity so here it goes: we only got the cd of images from our wedding and over 6 years later have yet to put them into an album. For a while I didn’t even know where the cd was. I was incredibly happy with our wedding photographers: Blaine and Bethany from Hood River. The pictures were wonderful and they were the best to work with. They were also my friends from photography college. Being such, they didn’t push an album on me.  Over the years I have been sad when new friends come over and I have nothing to show them of our wedding.  So maybe you do get the cd, but then grab a cheap company like Snapfish to put an album together. The pictures won’t look near as good and the colors will be off. I am thankful that we now have the capability to make a top notch album of our wedding now (and we will be creating one very soon!). When pricing out a photographer, don’t just look at the base price. Think about how you will want to display your pictures afterward. Decide on it before your wedding because soon enough it will be 6 years later and you might not have the chance.

This album is from a wedding venue in Leavenworth: Mountain Springs Lodge. It was a gorgeous vintage inspired Fall wedding. With our favorite wedding venues, we offer to make an album that showcases their setting. This is a show album we made for them. It looks a little different than a regular album spread for a client, which would include more family photos, a different title, and not all of our information on the final spread. But we thought this was a prime example of what you should expect of a wedding album when a venue offers albums of their preferred photographers to show couples.

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Brent Rust - 2012/05/07 - 12:39

The wedding album is also the first family heirloom of a newly wedded couple and will outlast the flowers, the wine, food, and will be seen more than the dress. It’s the reference to all the memories to come. ~ Brent

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The 5 Blogs I Follow

April 30, 2012 Posted in Photo Life, Photography Tools

There are a million, ca-gillion photography blogs out there! The information on how to take a photo and make money doing it is endless. Some of it is amazing. Some of it…not so much. For a new photographer or someone just wanting some basic information it can be overwhelming. I thought I would share with you my 5 blogs/people I follow and why. I only follow these blogs. I don’t have a lot of time in my day, so I do my best to keep things neat. I purposefully only follow these 5 blogs. It’s a little bit of everything and hopefully gives me a little bit of a well rounded view of what is happening in our industry as a whole. For those of you who like the way our photos look or how we run our business this might give you some insight on us. You will notice that I don’t follow wedding blogs. I might check random ones out when I see something special in my Facebook news feed, but overall I don’t find that by reading their material it helps me grow our business. If I am not doing something productive then I rather be watching a movie with my man or baking cookies with the kids!

1. Gray Photography  I love Zach and Jody Gray. Probably a little too much! They are Christians who aren’t afraid to talk about their faith. They are about starting a business debt free and building it piece by piece as you make money. They also believe in quality lighting and shooting in camera with not a lot of photoshopping.  You should check out their blog for all things photography including Tuesday Tips.  

 

2. Outspoken Media  (according to their site because I am still unsure how to explain it myself, lol) ” is a boutique SEO consulting company that specializes in fitting clients with customized integrated marketing strategies to amplify their voice on the Web”. I have very few blogs that I follow, but this blog is the only one I make sure to read every post. A lot of people think that I know a lot about SEO, ORM, and marketing. This is why. Actually, I don’t really know a lot. More like I can regurgitate what I just read and apply what I can to our company. Honestly, half of it goes over my head and I have to look up definitions of a lot of it. But I think it is good for me to learn SEO stuff from the SEO pros.

3. Flights of Fancy  Betsy White makes wedding invitations and they have a blog for their inspiration. I love seeing the burst of color on my screen and it keeps me in the know of popular trends, colors, and fun ideas that I might keep  in mind for a future styled shoot.

 

 

4. Daily Dilbert Comic  Ok, after my speech about wedding blogs being a time-sick with no purpose to me, I can see that you might think me hypocritical with adding a comic strip to my day. But this will take 30 seconds and it is purposeful. It sets a happy mood and  I like to be happy.

 

5. Scott Kelby’s Blog He is a great guy for talking in lamens terms when it comes to photography. His main thing is Photoshop and Lightroom. With a new version of Photoshop and Lightroom every year and updates every month it seems, I need a lot of tutorials! Although my goal is to shoot the best I can in-camera, sometimes I need Photoshop. I want to do it well and know the latest that Lightroom had going on (the software program that we edit 90% of our images in).

 

And there you have it! What are your favorite blogs? What am I missing out on?

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Gray Photography Workshop

April 28, 2012 Posted in Educational

 

Zach and Jody Gray are wedding photography team based in Nashville. They are some of the best people in the industry! We have been following them for the past couple years and we were beyond thrilled that they were willing to come to Leavenworth to teach their In-Camera Workshop. We love that they are all about getting the shot right, in camera. Not hours spent in front of the computer fixing mistakes or doing so many crazy things to images that they are dated in 5 years. It was an amazing 2 days of learning and growing. We learned some killer techniques we can’t wait to implement this summer! Emily and Haley were wonderful to work with and we couldn’t of asked for better weather! We will be posting some behind the scenes stuff later next week.

This is Zach and Jody Gray

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Wedding Photography Internship! Accepting Applications Now.

April 25, 2012 Posted in Educational, Wedding

We have decided to ask one special person to be our number one support for weddings this summer! I always loved photography and actually shot my first wedding on my own when I was a senior in high school (something I wouldn’t recommend). If I had realized there were companies out there willing to let me glean all the knowledge they had about photography, I might not have need to spend the thousands that I did attending college. We decided to offer this experience to a dedicated person who is passionate about photography. You can be any age, but the key is that you are responsible, willing to learn, and reliable. You will get practical, hands on experience of what it is really like to run a photography business in Washington State. We focus on weddings and would prefer to bring someone on who is interested in weddings.  You will be referred to as our assistant on wedding days. Your job duties will include but not limited to: hold light stands, carry gear, run small errands, hold reflectors. You will not be taking photos at the weddings. Since there are already two of us, a third would just be overkill:)  However, we are happy to go out with you during the week and shoot together to help further your own work.

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What qualifications do I need to be eligible? 1. Have a car to be able to drive yourself to the weddings. You will not be required to be there all day like us, so carpooling with us isn’t ideal. 2. To have a desire to learn photography 3. Be available and prepared to attend all wedding dates listed in the application. Please be aware that the weddings are located all over: Enumclaw to Ellensburg, Chelan to Leavenworth.

Do I have to be from Ephrata? No. We live here because we like it, but no one gets married here. We travel all over for weddings with half being in the greater Seattle area. You can be from anywhere in Washington State!

What is the time commitment?  The set dates that we need are June 9th- August 26. We have weddings in September, but those would be optional depending on your school start date.

How many hours per week? Set hours are 4-6 hours at each wedding. There is optional time to work in our office to learn the business side.

Can I have a second job while interning for you? Yes! You are welcome to work somewhere else, as long as you are able to assist at the weddings.

Does this internship pay? No. This is designed to allow beginning photographers more real world experience and free education.

What is the Deadline? May 5, 2012

UPDATE: The Deadline is closed and the position has been filled!  If you have photo questions and are a local photographer, no matter what level, we love to talk shop and help when we can. Feel free to contact us!

  There is always room for growth. We just attended a workshop this past week that was awe-some! So excited to implement some new techniques this summer!

 

 

 

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Emylee Bogart - 2012/05/08 - 06:37

To whom this may concern,
I was wondering if you filled the internship position? Or can I still apply?

Thanks,
Emylee Bogart

molly - 2012/05/08 - 07:17

Hi Emylee, I am sorry the the position is already filled. I will update this blog post so everyone knows! If you will be a high school senior in the area we are offering for one senior to work with us during the school year as their senior project.

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