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Welcome to the Real Photography blog! We are wedding and portrait photographers based in Colorado Springs. Here in our blog, Traci shares the latest portrait sessions and wedding photographs, as well as tips for improving your own photography and Photoshop skills.  To see our pricing and portfolios, please visit our wedding photography site, our family portrait site, or our senior portrait site.

Monthly Archives: March 2008

a tribute to polaroids…

It’s been at least an hour since our last blog change, so it was time for another one. ;P
I had been thinking that it was a little bit…blah, and I finally came up with an idea while dinking around in Photoshop this morning.
Photographers everywhere are mourning the fact that Polaroid film is an endangered...

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Colorado Springs Family Portrait OpLove Shoot Sneek Peek

OpLove is a non-profit organization run by photographers to give back to the military community. Families with a deploying military member are offered free portrait sessions by OpLove photographers.
I had an OpLove photography session at Palmer Park (one of my favorite Colorado Springs locations) on Saturday. Here are a few of my favorites:
This...

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a lightroom tip

(There are days when I want to make out with Scott Kelby for making my life better. This is one of those days. [I'm going to be really humiliated if he ever vanity-googles his name and discovers this post.])
I was reading his Lightroom book last night and read the following tip, which I...

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Scrapbook Saturday

Another digital bedtime themed layout:

And one I made tonight from an older photo I found Will playing with (and wrinkling) this morning:

Paper is from Scenic Route with the exception of the cute embossed heart paper which is by Cloud 9 Design (I love this Valentine line from them).

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Just in time for mother’s day - photo jewelry

I’ve been wanting to offer something like this for a while and am thrilled to have finally found a vendor I trust that has a fast turn-around: me.
This particular bracelet (”mother of pearl”) is made from freshwater pearls with a sterling silver toggle clasp and sterling silver two-sided frame. There is an opening at...

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