Warner Schmidt Photography

This is a follow up to the post congratulating Mel and Jeremy on their 1-year wedding anniversary. And it’s all about Anniversary Portraits!

I’ll admit…Anniversary Portraits are basically the same as the Engagement Portraits, but the idea is slightly different.

Engagement Portraits are meant to celebrate your time together prior to marriage, your engagement, and the images from the sessions are often used to for invitations or various other related items. Anniversary Portraits are meant to celebrate the time you’ve spent married be it six months, six years, or more. Similar to Engagement Portraits but unlike Family Portraits, the Anniversary Portrait session is aimed at the couple. Recapture your youthful exuberance and joyful love for each other by recreating the excitement of your engagement.

Anniversary Portrait sessions start at just $175. Click here for more information.

Here’s another image from Mel and Jeremy’s session:

We found a small bug and have corrected it; gallery display issues have been resolved.

Thank you all for your patience!

Congratulations to Mel and Jeremy on their 1-year wedding anniversary!

Unable to do an Engagement Portraits session prior to marriage but wanting similarly styled images, Mel and Jeremy asked me what I could do for them. Having not seen such a package offered elsewhere, I crafted the “Anniversary Portraits” session.

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In an effort to expand my portfolio and service offerings, I took to the task of photographing jewelry.

As a guy, I have no jewelry beyond my ring and a small chain I wear pretty frequently.

Much to my surprise, photographing jewelry is significantly more diffuclt than it might seem. Lighting is of paramount importance and reflections are a nightmare if uncontrolled. I’ll admit that I thought it would be much easier, but as I began using different techniques within my lightbox, the difficulty of accurately capturing each piece of jewelry became increasingly evident. In composing the photos, I used anywhere from 1-5 lighting elements, a handful of reflectors, fabric, tape, paper, and more. One of the most nerve-racking elements was getting the jewelry to stop swaying when hanging in the lightbox. Using what little patience I have, I steadied each item and photographed them.

A special thanks goes out to my mother and girlfriend for providing the jewelry.

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I previously asked, what is this image:

It’s the bottom of one of my backpacks. Some of the black rubber dots have fallen off, as you can tell.

Good luck guessing next time!

Unfortunately, I have had some reports of people having trouble with both public and client galleries on my website.

After some investigation, I have determined the cause and am working on the solution.

Please be patient while this issue is being fixed. If you need to access your galleries immediately, please either use the first generation client area or contact me.

Do you have a little one on the way? Do you want to announce the arrival of your baby to family and friends?

Now you can get a custom design or pictures and a design for a flat rate.

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I’m proud to say that my photography has been featured on the cover of Vertical Thought magazine. I just received my copy yesterday and am truly in awe with the magnitude of the opportunity.

If you’ve been following the blog, you’ll notice that I’ve published several other entries tracing the genesis of the opportunity and how it came to be.

Thank you all for your support! Thank you to the VT staff!

Vertical Thought Magazine; April-June 2011 Issue; Cover Image by Warner Schmidt