I'm a professional photographer who loves (I mean LOVES!) my job, almost as much as I love my clients themselves. :)
Whether you're looking for a professional wedding photographer here in Nebraska, or for a destination wedding somewhere else around the globe, I'm happy you found me and I can't wait to hear your story!
I'm proud to share that the Better Business Bureau made my heart flutter when they awarded me the 2008 Integrity Award. Color me flattered!
When I'm not shooting, I can generally be found teaching, reading, writing, traveling, and otherwise adventuring with my hubby, Emir. No kiddos of our own (yet!), we share our home with our two babies (of the feline type), Merki & Emka.
Beginning a new year as a new family makes for a very special 2012. Congratulations to Abby and Jason on the start of what will surly be an exciting adventure! (And I’m not just talking about Hawaii!)
xoxo,
Khara & Emir
At one point during the day, while I was outside photographing the adorable ring bearer, Emir was inside shooting the rings and caught this gem. A reflective surface and some Christmas lights makes for one heck of a yummy ring shot!
I love so many things about this image; the light, the line of Abby’s hand/arm/dress, Jason dancing with his mom in the foreground—but especially, the look on the flower girl’s face. :) You’re a hoot Sam!
A little mother/son moment, taken right to the heart…
Happy New Year!
The third of her sisters to get married in the past 9 months, I hope the Chelohas can finally relax and enjoy their newly expanded family in 2012—congratulations to you all!
And if you’re still looking for a great gift idea, you should know that you (or the shutterbugs in your life) can learn to love your camera back for less than $20! Available at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon, it’s easy to ring in the holidays with better photos!
Here’s an excerpt from the most recent review: “It’s funny how many photo guides and books are out there, but when it comes right down to it, only you will know when the book in question is “the” book for you. Like that crush you had in grade school…. you didn’t know what was happening, but it just felt right. Well, Your Camera Loves You should be your crush of the season.” You can read the rest of the review here.
PS: If you already have the book, let others know how much you’ve enjoyed it and write your own review here!
Karyn -I got your book this morning and couldn’t put it down! Thank you for writing such an easy to understand guide to the fundamentals of photography. I finally understand shutter speed, aperture and ISO and how to combine the three to get the shots I desire. I also loved how fun you made the read and I got lots of good giggles throughout…thank you for making it not only informative, but fun! I’m looking forward to taking great photos on purpose instead of on accident! LOL I’ve spent the last hour perusing through your lovely blog and I’m smitten with you artistic photos…hoping to put my new knowledge to use and I aspire to have your ability one day.
Still haven’t nailed down your holiday photo? Here are some holiday photo tips I’ve put together, currently featured over on Amazon’s blog. Check it out and cross one more thing off of your holiday to-do list!
In celebration of having already ridden more than halfway across the country on The [UN]tour, everything at RockYourWorkflow is HALF OFF (including my popular Wickedly Fast Wedding Workflow Guide). The catch? It’s TODAY ONLY! Use the discount code: UNTOUR and start rockin’ it right away!
If you’ve been thinking about scheduling a mentor session, now is the perfect time to get your questions answered and help change the world at the same time. Allow me to introduce you to– the annual Thirst Relief Mentor Auction!
Every year, the Thirst Relief Mentor Auction taps into the talent and generosity of the photography industry to create better and more successful photographers, while using the proceeds to provide safe drinking water around the world. What a cool thing!
Last year, the sponsors and 90 mentors/mentees who participated raised more than $40,700 which directly provided 8,147 people with clean water. Wow!
With 100% of the proceeds directly benefiting Thirst Relief International, at least 25 years of clean drinking water is being provided to more than 1 billion people who don’t have it.
Those of you who know me know that I’m an InDesign evangelist at heart, singing its praises to anyone who will listen (photographers—that’s YOU!).
Not only do I use InDesign to build all of my contracts, pricing guides, and wedding albums, but I use it to build my presentations too.
Say what?
That’s right. I use it to build my presentations. Whether for a webinar or a platform class at WPPI (coming this February!), I build all my slide decks in InDesign.
Why not Power Point or Keynote? If you’re familiar with InDesign, you know nothing compares to the speed and efficiency you get for quickly building and editing layouts. And since slide decks are nothing more than a collection of horizontal layouts, I use InDesign just as I would for laying out a wedding album.
Most of the time, I export the finished presentation to PDF and then present from the PDF itself (if you press cmd+L on a mac it makes the PDF full screen), using the same arrow keys, mouse clicks, or remote to advance the slides. But if I want to take advantage of Keynote’s “presenter mode” where I can see a preview of the next slide before it appears, then… well… I have to use Keynote.
Messing around in Keynote for the first time, I found it frustrating, so I swore I’d figure out a better way, and I’m happy to say—I did. And here’s how: I build my presentation in InDesign as usual, but instead of exporting to pdf, I export each page (slide) to jpg, and batch import them into Keynote. That’s it.
Here’s a quick video to demonstrate. :)
PS: Obviously, if you want to embed videos and other special effects, your keynote presentation will require additional tweaking. But for the simple and clean presentations I do most the time, this works like a charm!
PSS: Curious about learning to use InDesign for your own photographer related purposes? Check out my InDesign tutorial video and save 10% with the code CRAZYFAST
The wedding album of Meghan & Eric’s big day (Oct. 14) is already in production. I love the clean and simple layout. (Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Meghan is such a knock out!)
The third of her sisters to get married in the past 9 months, I hope the Chelohas can finally relax and enjoy their newly expanded family in 2012—congratulations to you all!
by Khara
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