It is always amazing to me when we finish up with our baby plans. After a year and all the sessions, I sit down and make a book. Wow, that little baby has changed so much!
Being able to capture a baby from the time it is in the belly until the first birthday is a true blessing. I want to share with you these two books I just finished.
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We shot James and Rachel Fry’s wedding five years ago, and they have become our close friends since then. Rachel even helps out in our office from time to time. One cold January afternoon following a “Work with Friends Friday”(to be covered in a future post) I decided to break out my Christmas present, a Margaritaville Concoction maker. A margarita or two later we decided it would be a great idea to book a cruise and trash Rachel’s wedding dress (for the second time). Fortunately our great friends Neal Urban www.nealurban.com and Danielle Guetta were there too for WWFF. Two weeks later we were in the middle of the western Caribbean aboard the Carnival Imagination. We had an amazing time working with Neal and Danielle and Rachel never disappoints working her magic in front of the camera. It was a fun filled five days that took us to Key West and Cozumel, However next time I break out the Tequila I have been told to stay off the travel sites!
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A year or so ago we were approached by author and photographer Tracy Dorr to have our photography included in her book “Engagement Portraiture”. We were thrilled to see how many of our images were featured throughout her publication. Then we were both surprised and honored to have one of our shots chosen to be on the cover of the book! The couple on the book cover was Wendy Rose and Michael MacEvoy.
Around the same time we had submitted images to the Buffalo News for their annual Wedding Planner. Again, we were pleased to see our work featured numerous times inside the Wedding Planner. And again a FCI image was selected to grace the cover of the 2012 edition. Ironically, The bride on the cover was the same Wendy Rose-MacEvoy from our previous cover! Congratulations to Wendy and Mike for your cover shots and featured article in the Buffalo News Wedding planner with FCI photography highlighting your wedding day!
Including Stephen Besecker’s novel “The Samaritan” that makes three book covers for Fisher Creative Image in the past year!
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Stephen Besecker’s book The Samaritan drops in stores and on Amazon today! I just want to say it was an amazing experience creating the cover and being part of a team that helped launch a very captivating novel. (Snjezana and I read it and loved it!). First of all allow me to thank Kristina Murray, the model who graces the cover of the book and Rachel Good whose make up work allowed the shoot to be such a resounding success. The session really was incredible we found that all four of us had amazing chemistry and despite it being a serious shoot for the cover of a book we were all enjoying it like a Friday night out with friends. Of course when it was all said and done we were able to get a shot that Steve thought captured the spirit of the novel just right. Our shoot with Steve was a little bit different but in the end turned out just as successful. Steve was convinced that a good picture of him couldn’t be taken; and while he certainly was n0 Kristina we were able to get a picture that we both thought worked well. After the studio photography was done it was time to actually design the cover, and after about a week we had made about five or six covers that worked. Finally a team comprised of Steve and the publishers picked the one that fit the novel the best. Another couple of weeks of tinkering and sizing the cover was ready to print. When it was all said and done my wife Snjezana and I felt fulfilled and quite happy that our design skills were put to good use when most of our work now consists of editing photos. Personally as someone who has a degree in design I was particularly thrilled to put together the cover and the sleeve of the book because it brought me back to my roots as a designer before my craft evolved to include many different aspects of photography. Now with the release of the book today, Snjezana and I look back on the creative process and couldn’t be happier with our involvement in the project. It was something very unique that we don’t typically do and that change of pace as well as the wonderful people we collaborated with made this one of our favorite projects of all time.
Thanks Everyone, and Steve I hope the book flies off the shelves!!!
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Photography and art is our life. We give 100% to all of our clients and we are happy to be a part of their lives. We receive a lot of thank you cards and emails with testimonials that make us really happy and confirm that we are doing things right. I want to share the one we received yesterday that really touched our hearts! We have known Lindsay and Mark for a year now. We did their engagement session and on May 21, 2011, we shoot the wedding.
They understood our art and we fell in love with them the second we met them. I want to thank you both for taking the time to write this review and make us feel so good about our work!
And here it is:
Every SINGLE comment that I have received on our photos, from people who were at the wedding and from those that were not, has been that I look like I belong in a bridal magazine.
Quality of Service: throughout our entire engagement, Jeff and Snjezana were in constant contact with us and responded to every question that we had within hours of my sometimes frantic emails. The turnaround time on both our engagement session photos and our wedding gallery were less than a week, which is outstanding for the number of pictures and quality of their artwork.
Responsiveness: Very easily accessible, either via email, phone call, or facebook. Side note: I loved seeing what was in store for us by being linked to their facebook pages and having previews of other couples’ e-sessions and weddings.
Professionalism: I personally think that in the situation of your wedding day, the value of professionalism is far outweighed by the value of personally knowing someone and letting them see you in your underwear and spanx! While Jeff and Snjezana were introduced into our lives for a “professional” reason, I would happily go on a double date with them and enjoy their company to learn more about them as individuals and as a couple with a wonderfully interesting hobby and fantastic talent.
Value for Cost: I honestly believe that there is no monetary value on what they were able to capture for us on our wedding day. While in the grand scheme of things, a wedding in general always costs way too much money, I cant say that there is a dollar limit that I would be able to put on the work that Jeff and Snjezana do.
Flexibility: My husband and I have rather tricky schedules, mostly my fault because I am in school part time and work full time. However, that was never an issue with Jeff and Snjezana, and while the weather cooperated with us for both our e-session and our wedding, I know that if the day wasn’t perfect, they would be the first ones to say “let’s wait until it is perfect.”
Overall Experience: I have to say that when anyone heard that we were using FCI Photography for our wedding, I could see the envy in their eyes. We were fortunate enough to learn of Jeff and Snjezana at a bridal expo, but I cant imagine where we would have ended up had we not met them. On a personal level, Snjezana always put me at ease by telling me that nothing I did was wrong and everything was right, and Jeff was entirely encouraging when I saw him look at his camera and smile when he had a great shot. The benefit of having two photographers is undeniable, but the benefit of having two people in sync the way that Jeff and Snjezana are is unbeatable.
These photographers make you value the arts and how it is present in your life in ways that most people can’t see – especially on their wedding day. I was so nervous the morning of the wedding but was completely put to ease as soon as Jeff showed me one of his first shots, and it had come out exactly the way I was hoping it would – as if I was in a bridal magazine! Being able to rely on two people who want more than anything for you to feel like a bride and feel beautiful made the rest of the day seem natural – after all, when are you NOT being followed around by cameras
My recommendation for FCI is abnormally clear here – but the bottom line is that FCI is absolutely worth every penny that we invested in helping us to remember the day that everyone says flies by. Pictures are what you have to remember – we’ve been married for 12 days now, and every day I lose one more memory that I had of our wedding. But when I look at our pictures, I am reminded of how I felt about our day.
Lindsay
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