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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 2009

out of the office until april 13th

Just a quick announcement that I will be out of the office until April 13th.   The good news is that I will return with some great Seattle shoots and a wedding to share!  If you need to reach me by phone, my cell number is 757.513.3476.  No one will be checking the office number...

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photography tip tuesday| creating dimension in cake pictures

Our shoot this weekend was canceled due to some complications from the blizzard last week, so for once I have time to do our sadly neglected photography tip posts!
As promised a few weeks ago, this tip is all about my lighting trick for cake pictures.

I am a HUGE fan of cake pictures (probably because I...

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earth hour | colorado springs wedding photographers

In honor of Earth Hour last night we turned of the lights and computers and tvs and iPhones and laptop and kindle and enjoyed an extremely unusual hour for us: one without electricity.
It was next to impossible for me to be 100% good, so I cheated and used a camera battery for a quick minute. ...

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the more things change, the more they stay the same

Like all mothers, I have the occasional panic attack over the passage of time and my apparent unwittingness of it.   It’s made a little worse by the fact that I’m an accidental working mother.  I worry constantly that I’m missing things that I would otherwise be really noticing.  I’m in the business of taking pictures...

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coolest best ever in the whole world wedding invitation | (not an exaggeration)

I got this invitation in the mail yesterday for my cousin’s wedding.  I am totally over-the-top in love with it.
Just opening up the mailbox I was excited.  The thing is HUGE.  Like 9×12.  I thought:  “oooooh—this is gonna be good.”
And then I opened it and I was like “yep!”  Letterpress = happiness.
Stay tuned for their...

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