VALLENTYNE WEDDINGS

This morning begins the start of my new contest in partnership with The Wedding Chicks! I am givnig away a photography package for a destination wedding to one of the WC readers! The lucky chick and her man will receive:

• Complete photographic coverage for their destination wedding
• An online gallery of all images to share with friends and family
• A hi-res dvd with all images
• 8×10 Handmade Leather Album with 24 pages up to 36 photos!

All the winner has to cover are the travel accommodations!

If you would like to enter, start by going to The Wedding Chicks website and leaving a comment here with your name, wedding date, and destination location!

Next, send an email to heather@vallentynephotography.com and include:
1. name
2. wedding date and location
3. the story of how you met and fell in love
4. a picture of you and your man

Entries must be received by Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 midnight. Winner will be
announced on The Wedding Chicks website on Friday, April 11th, 2008.

Calling all Vallentyne Brides and Grooms! Have you entered your images in The Knot’s first annual Real Weddings Awards? Just go to The Knot’s website to submit your favorite 7 images from your wedding by March 31st, and have your friends and family vote for your photos. Anyone who submits photos is automatically qualified to win a 10-day safari worth $20,000!

Good luck!

This year I entered the WPPI 16×20 print competition for the first time. WPPI is Wedding & Portrait Photographers International. I decided to enter the print comp to see how I would do and received 2 accolades of Excellence! There was some really beautiful and inspirational work from all over the world in the competition so I feel pretty lucky to have been selected! If you scroll down a little, you will see the prints I entered:)

There are lots of websites out there who provide information for new brides looking for unique ideas on how to make their wedding amazing. My new favorite one is The Wedding Chicks , they are connecting wedding professionals and real brides to feature the best ideas and vendors so you don’t have to search the web for hours! They are talking vendors, fashion, details to help inspire and create the wedding that suits you.

Yesterday Vallentyne Photography was featured on The Wedding Chicks website and traffic to my website tripled! It says a lot about what a great job these girls are doing! Check out the nice things they had to say about VP by clicking on the links above:)

Thanks WC, I can’t wait to see your next ideas!

First off, sorry about this one to all my brides! It is a totally nerdy graphic design tip for my fellow photogs reading this:) Here is the tip of the day, Making your logo (or anything really…) into a brush for quick stamping onto images and designs.

Step one: Turn your logo to 100% black on a transparent background, usually with the wand. I did it in color at first but it just means that you will never get the stamp to 100% opacity in the future.
Step two: Marque the area closest to the object becoming a brush.
Step three: Select Edit – Define Brush Preset…
Step four: Select Window – Brushes to open your brush palette.
Step five: find and select your brush at the end of the list

Step six: choose your favorite color:)Step seven: Use the right and left bracket keys to make you logo bigger and smaller and stamp away!!!
………….just try not to make something as hideously ugly as this example here!!

Enjoy:)