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It was the summer of 2012, and Justin’s voice teacher in Charleston encouraged him to attend a summer program at The Performing Arts Institute… in Pennsylvania. Kelly, living in Pennsylvania, applied for a scholarship to that same summer program… and won.

And so, they met in Pennsylvania while auditioning for West Side Story. That’s where it all began… Justin as Tony and Kelly as Maria. 🙂 Through rehearsal upon rehearsal, they built a friendship that grew stronger as they found more and more commonality between them.

Fast forward to October 6th, 2019. The happiest day fulllll of celebration and joy and a *little* bit of rain but WHO NEEDS SUNSHINE when you’ve got radiance like theirs?!?!! Justin & Kelly are truly the type to dance in the rain together and find the beauty in any situation… and if you ask me, that’s one of the best ingredients a marriage can have. <3

Thank you Justin & Kelly for having me as your wedding photographer, for having the sun-shiniest, brightest smiles (what rain?!?!!!), and for making my job sooo fun!! I loved celebrating along with your incredible families and feel like the luckiest to have been the one to capture your day.

Enjoy a few of my favorites from this beautiful Farm at Eagles Ridge wedding full of so much love and be sure to read more of Justin & Kelly’s love story here! Xo

Vendor Credits:
Photographer | Caroline Logan Photography
Second Shooter | Vanessa Shenk
Planner | Diana of Planned Perfection
Venue | The Farm at Eagles Ridge
Florals | Divine Florals
DJ | 3 West Productions
Rentals | Treasured Events
Draping & Lighting | Shumaker PDT
Makeup Artist | MKUP The Beauty Studio
Wedding Gown | Pronovias // Elizabeth Johns
Jewelry | Olive and Piper
Bridesmaids Dresses | Jenny Yoo // Bella Bridesmaids
Groom & Groomsmen Attire | Central PA Tuxedo
Catering | Rettew’s Catering
Cake | Lancaster Cupcake
Ice Cream | Penny’s Ice Cream
Invitations | Nancy Lavan

For Photographers: Love creamy skintones & soft colors? Learn to edit light & airy here!

Taking photos is one of the best ways to preserve memories. You can capture special moments using a camera and keep them for a long time. In addition, you can use various pieces of equipment to take photos, like your smartphone, a film camera, or a polaroid. So, it’s easy and accessible to take pictures.

If you prefer photos with a classic look, vintage polaroid camera’s are perfect for you. It’s a photography device that prints the image as soon as you print it. If you’re unfamiliar with this type of camera, you may not know how to operate it.

To help you out, this post will discuss how polaroids work and how to take the best photos with them. Keep on reading to learn more.

How A Polaroid Camera Works

A polaroid camera requires a particular film to print images. You must load a negative film pack inside the equipment to take pictures. The film is light-sensitive, so it reacts to the light of the subject you’re capturing.

Once you snap a photo, the camera lens will direct all the light toward the film in one direction. A chemical reaction will then occur on the surface of the silver compounds on the film. Afterward, the camera will eject the picture while the image you took starts to become visible. After the film sets, the negative will turn from gray to a colored picture.

How To Take The Best Photos With Polaroid Cameras

Since polaroid cameras print your picture after you take it, you have limited means to edit or retake an image you don’t like. Below are a number of tips you may follow to take the best photos with polaroids:

1) Know Your Lighting

The output of a polaroid camera is quite different from other photography equipment. For one, it may look grainier than the ones from more advanced tools like a DSLR camera. Also, its settings may be more limited than other tools. This means you have fewer options to manipulate your picture. For instance, you may be unable to change the color of your subjects or adjust the lighting on the photo.

So, if you want to take great images using a polaroid camera, you must pay attention to your lighting. Sometimes, you can use the camera’s flash to illuminate your subject. But your picture may look too dark in low-light locations despite using it. Hence, you should find a light source whenever you want to capture images.

For example, you can pose your subject near a window or a light to ensure they would appear clearly on your polaroid. You should avoid blocking the illumination to avoid casting a shadow on your subject too. Alternatively, you can opt to take pictures during the day to ensure the result won’t look dim.

Overall, understanding how lighting works can significantly improve your polaroid shots. Practicing and learning how to use it to your advantage is helpful.

2) Pay Attention To Subject Composition

Your subject can influence how your photos turn out. If they’re not framed well, you may end up with underwhelming results. Henceforth, if you wish to take the best photos, you can learn how to compose your subject and environment.

For instance, if you’re taking a person’s portrait, you can make their background more dynamic by moving objects around. You may ask them to move around to find the best angle. And you can try changing your poses if you’re taking a self-portrait or for any other purpose.

On the flip side, you can adjust the placement of different objects when taking still pictures to produce dynamic results. Before taking the shot, you must check whether everything is inside the camera frame. If you hastily capture an image without checking the viewfinder, the picture may look like it was cut out or incomplete.

You can take pictures from a farther angle if you’re trying to capture multiple subjects. Doing so will increase your depth of field and allow you to experiment with your photo composition.

3) Choose The Right Film

The quality of your polaroid film can also influence how your photos will turn out. Case in point, an expired one may add light leaks to your pictures. The colors on expired film may not appear as bright as new rolls.

Thus, if you want to take impressive analog images, you should use a good film. Nowadays, you can purchase various ones that produce different results. For instance, if you want to take pictures that have a vintage feel, you can use a black-and-white film roll. On the other hand, if you want images showing bright colors, you can opt for newer polaroid films.

You must store your film correctly, as external factors like heat can affect how your outputs turn out. For example, sun exposure may wash out the colors or make your pictures look more yellow. To avoid this, you can store unused films in a dark and cool place.

Final Thoughts

Polaroid photography adds a nostalgic feel to your pictures. You can keep your photographs for a long time since using a polaroid camera prints your images immediately. If you wish to take dynamic pictures, it’s helpful to learn lighting tricks and compose your subjects well. This way, you can ensure your output will look impressive.

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In the Twin Cities arts community, Petronella “Nell” J. Ytsma’s name is as synonymous with her epic Agent Orange project as it is with taking pictures of other artists’ work.

“Whether it was Agent Orange or in her personal work … if she was living it, breathing it, a lot of people liked to talk about it, and she could see it in a way that we often don’t see in today’s world,” said her husband, Mark Sauer. “She was compassionate. She was considerate. She was concerned — her moral comfort compass never deviated.”

Her dedication to social activism was evident in her work, from protesting the Vietnam War in her youth to visiting Vietnam and documenting the effects of Agent Orange using a Hasselblad camera for her “Legacy” series. She also took pictures of the Park Square Theater’s early years of productions as well as various political events.

Ytsma, who stood nearly 6 feet tall and was a regular swimmer, had just returned home from a workout Sept. 2 when she unexpectedly died of natural causes. She was 73.

Born in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1948, at 7 years old she immigrated with her family to a Dutch colony in Grand Rapids, Mich. She was in social work until it burnt her out, and off she moved to Minneapolis in 1979 to pursue photography. She already had friends here, so it was a soft landing and a fast beginning.

She made a living as a photographer, and though she was a staff photographer at Mia for eight years and at the Park Square Theater, and did some university photo instruction, she was known for documenting other artists’ work.

“Everybody I knew who won a Bush Award or a McKnight Fellowship, she photographed them,” said artist Dan Bruggeman, whose work she photographed for decades. “It was a combination of the quality of the work but also that the presentation was always so excellent.”

She met Sauer in 1981 when she happened to be documenting his friend Jody Isaacson’s senior show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. They married in 1992 and lived on the second floor of a former fire station in St. Paul. Sauer’s boat repair shop, St. Paul Shipwrights, and her studio are on the ground floor.

Ytsma’s has been included in exhibitions at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Dubuque Museum of Fine Art, Augsburg College, and abroad in Berlin, to name a few. She was the recipient of a Percent for Arts grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and a CUE Award, among others.

Kathy Daniels, former director and curator of the St. Catherine University art gallery, curated Nell’s “Legacy” project and also organized a symposium around it. The two first met in 1993 when Ytsma was in a group show, “Women and Land,” at St. Catherine University and became fast friends.

“She spent a long time there and made friends and got into little villages and people’s homes,” said artist Tim Harding. “She was just deeply moved by the whole experience and she talked about it, you know, whenever you bring it up, she would not hold back.”

She also worked closely with people who were dying during the AIDS crisis. She would often invite the dying into her home and care for them, at a time when their families abandoned them.

“The kindness demonstrated by something like that affected I think everybody but especially, you know, I can only speak for me,” said Bruggerman, “But I thought, ‘I should emulate that.’ She was inspiring.”

Along with her husband Ytsma is survived by siblings Edward Ytsma of Shrevport La., Joyce Huizinga of Tuskaloosa Ala., Willamina Godec of Cleveland, Cathy Mahynski of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Theodore Ytsma of Seattle, Wash.

A public memorial is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at the Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Parkway, Minneapolis.

It’s October again, and as timely as ever, the latest face-enhancing software Portrait Pro 23, has been announced with numerous enhancements that will make your portrait images look better than ever.

This version of Portrait Pro 23 takes an interesting turn with a selection of highly effective Art effects that can be applied to your images. These Art Effects will enable you to transform your images from photographic portraits to works of art within a few clicks.

The new version of the software has also been greatly enhanced to make the most of the new processing power offered by Apple’s M1 and M2 processors.

Along with the performance enhancements, a few more traditional effects have been added. These include a Backlight Lighting Brush that enables you to brush in backlighting even if there was no backlight when the image was taken.

Another new tool helps tidy hairstyles and beards with the Stray Hair Remover Tool.

If you want to try out the new features, head over to the Anthropics website to download a trial or buy the Portrait Pro 23

They met by chance in college during a freak snow storm… in October. Both snowed in, with the campus deserted and no where to go… they ended up seeking shelter at a friend’s place. And that night is where their paths crossed.

From the moment they met, they just clicked. And it wasn’t long before they found themselves planning their lives around each other. Navigating new jobs, cities, and responsibilities… they’ve supported each other through each adventure together.

Their love is one that challenges and pushes each other out of their comfort zone, yet simultaneously utterly embraces exactly who each other are. <3 So it’s no surprise that when Brian proposed in their favorite spot in the city, Washington Square, Caitlin said YES to a lifetime by his side.

And to document their beautiful day was an absolute joy and honor!! Brian & Caitlin, thank you for choosing me! You’ve been SO wonderful to work with and it’s days like these that remind me allllll over again what a dream it is to do what I do! I’m so excited to be sharing more from your beautiful day and hope you can forever relive it through these images! Xo

Vendor Credits:
Photographer | Caroline Logan Photography
Second Shooter | Vanessa Shenk
Planner | Something Blu
Bridal Prep | Renaissance Philadelphia
Venue | Museum of The American Revolution
Florist | Rich Mar Florist
DJ | Ebe Talent
Hair & Makeup Artist | Alisha Nycole
Invitations | The Paper Bag
Wedding Gown | BHLDN
Shoes | Sole Society
Groom’s Attire | Ernesto Custom
Catering | Brulee Catering
Cinematographer | Kristian Golick Films

For Photographers: Love creamy skintones & soft colors? Learn to edit light & airy here!

Here you can meet Yana, the adorable chimera cat who looks like she has two faces. Her owner Elizabeth mentioned that not only does Yana has unique fur, she is quite a character as well. She loves to play catch, she drinks tea, and is fascinated by art.

Yana the cat has a face with one half of it brown colored and the other half black colored. This cute chimeric feline owns breathtaking markings on her fur. From the looks of it, her parents might have run out of ink when creating Yana. Be sure to check out Yana’s Instagram for more cute and lovely photos.

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