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		<title>Williamsburg Winery Engagement Photographers &#124; Michael and Carina Photography &#124; Andrew and Jessica</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Williamsburg Winery engagement photographers Michael and Carina Photography First of all, we can&#8217;t congratulate this lovely lady enough as she graduates today! Andrew, who always seems to have the heartiest laughs and the brightest smile, asked Jessica to be his bride in Virginia Beach. There were lanterns and romance in the salty air. She said [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/williamsburg-winery-engagement-photographers-michael-and-carina-photography-andrew-and-jessica/">Williamsburg Winery Engagement Photographers | Michael and Carina Photography | Andrew and Jessica</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Williamsburg Winery engagement photographers Michael and Carina Photography</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">First of all, we can&#8217;t congratulate this lovely lady enough as she graduates today!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Andrew, who always seems to have the heartiest laughs and the brightest smile, asked Jessica to be his bride in Virginia Beach.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">There were lanterns and romance in the salty air.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">She said yes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">These two have so much spirit and enthusiasm for life, you can&#8217;t help but be blessed just to be near them.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Jessica and Andrew are special to us, not just because of how much they love each other, but also for becoming friends of ours since asking us to photograph their wedding.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Also, for introducing us to <a title="Red Robin" href="http://www.redrobin.com/" target="_blank">Red Robin</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">For their engagement photos, Andrew and Jessica chose the <a title="Williamsburg Winery" href="http://www.williamsburgwinery.com/" target="_blank">Williamsburg Winery</a> to be the backdrop for their session.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Jessica&#8217;s hair &amp; makeup was styled the day of by <a title="Kristal Lane Makeup Artist" href="http://www.kristallane.com/" target="_blank">Kristal Lane</a> of Virginia Beach.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">To foreshadow her bridal bouquet, Jessica also received an elegantly simple &amp; lovely flower crown from our friends at <a title="Palette of Petals" href="http://www.paletteofpetals.com/" target="_blank">Palette of Petals</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The lovely staff of Williamsburg Winery welcomed these two on the day of their engagement with a picnic basket and some of their best wine.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We have to thank Andrew for his positive thinking, too. Despite a 60+% chance of rain, and at times a forbidding looking sky, the rain held off. Andrew &#8220;chose to believe it wouldn&#8217;t rain,&#8221; and it didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We ended the lovely day with a private tour of the cellar.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Andrew and Jessica, thank you for inviting us to capture all of the fun and and beauty of your love story and your big day! We are so looking forward to your August wedding!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">xoxo M &amp; C</p>
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		<title>Giveaway &#124; Hampton Roads Photographers &#124; Michael and Carina Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We are so thrilled to be reaching a milestone with our current fanbase on our Facebook page and so thankful for all of your support!!! So, we don&#8217;t do this often, but&#8230;. We&#8217;ve decided to do a giveaway!! Several in fact, with the grand prize being a couple session to take place here in Hampton [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/giveaway-couples-session-michael-carina-photography/">Giveaway | Hampton Roads Photographers | Michael and Carina Photography</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We are so thrilled to be reaching a milestone with our current fanbase on our <a title="Michael and Carina on Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/michaelandcarinaphotography" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook page</strong></a> and so thankful for all of your support!!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So, we don&#8217;t do this often, but&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We&#8217;ve decided to do a giveaway!! Several in fact, with the grand prize being a couple session to take place here in Hampton Roads!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Included in your shoot will be 45 minutes to 1 and half hours of session time on location, all film and film development costs, and all edited images and scans from your session in a downloadable gallery with one year of hosting. Pretty cool, eh?!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">There are a few other neat gifts too for runners-up!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The contest will end shortly before Valentine&#8217;s Day so we can let you know as a Valentine&#8217;s Day present who wins.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Good luck and thank you so much for entering! &lt;3</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">xoxo M &amp; C</p>
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		<title>Questions Answered &#124; Hampton Roads Wedding Photographers &#124; Michael and Carina Photography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Hampton Roads Wedding Photographers Michael and Carina Photography Yesterday we asked followers on Facebook and Instagram to ask us your questions and promised we&#8217;d answer them today! So here goes&#8230;  Contax 645 with our favorite lens, the Zeiss 80mm f2.0; fuji400h film developed by Richard Photo Lab Britta asked:  What are your favorite lenses to work [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/questions-answered-hampton-roads-wedding-photographers-michael-and-carina-photography/">Questions Answered | Hampton Roads Wedding Photographers | Michael and Carina Photography</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Yesterday we asked followers on Facebook and Instagram to ask us your questions and promised we&#8217;d answer them today! So here goes&#8230; </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Contax 645 with our favorite lens, the Zeiss 80mm f2.0; fuji400h film developed by <a href="http://www.richardphotolab.com" target="_blank">Richard Photo Lab</a></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Britta asked: </strong><br />
<strong> What are your favorite lenses to work with? Do you prefer film or digital?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em></em>Hi Britta! We love the mix of working with film and digital and the flexibility it gives us. Outside with plenty of natural light, we love shooting with film. Inside at a ballroom reception, we might shoot 1 or 2 rolls of Ilford 3200 film for a soft, grainy black and white look that evokes (at least to us) a sense of timelessness. That said, we love shooting digital inside with several speedlights to really capture the energy that erupts out on a dance floor. Being hybrid shooters really has its benefits. &lt;3</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Our favorite lens is definitely the 80mm f2 Zeiss lens on the Contax 645!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Amanda asked: </strong><br />
<strong> How do you save your photos to upload for facebook?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Oh, the love-hate relationships we’ve all experienced with how Facebook resizes images upon uploading, right? We use the same program we use for blogging to resize and sharpen our images: Blogstomp. It’s a wonderful addition to the photographer’s “spend less time at the desk, more time shooting” arsenal. Also a great way to get sharp images on Facebook is to resize them for Facebook and save them as a .png file in Photoshop. Photographer<a title="Trevor Dayley" href="http://trevordayley.com/" target="_blank"> Trevor Dayley</a> has a <a title="How to Size Your Images for Facebook" href="http://fstoppers.com/how-to-size-your-images-so-they-show-their-best-on-facebook" target="_blank">great article on uploading to Facebook</a> on FStoppers.<br />
We hope this helps! We know how much this can be a pain!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Elke asked: </strong><br />
<strong> Would you want come (back) to Germany to photograph the weddings of your old friends? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Elke, without a doubt, yes! We’d be honored to! Send us an email so we can set up a Skype date! Let&#8217;s chat!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Serena wrote: </strong><br />
<strong> Hey you two! </strong><br />
<strong> My question(s) is/are:</strong><br />
<strong> why did you move to the US and how did you start your own business in the states?</strong><br />
<strong> I am asking because I am going through the same right now and wonder how you got the attention of potential clients, how long it took, how you promoted yourselves, if you had a regular job in the beginning … since it is quite hard to get noticed in a big forest of photographers around here.</strong><br />
<strong> Looking forward to your reply!</strong><br />
<strong> Best wishes and lots of success,</strong><br />
<strong> Serena</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well, those are some fun ones! And what a sweet note, thank you! The short answer to why we moved back to the USA is because we could! Haha! Seriously though, we had started getting used to the idea of settling down in Germany when Carina’s greencard was finally approved &#8211; three years after we applied for it!<br />
One of the conditions of accepting a greencard is having a US address, so we decided to give it a shot. We gave ourselves 3 months to see if we could make it… and we’re so blessed to still be here a year and a half later!<br />
As far as when we first moved here, how we got the word out about ourselves… Well that’s the thing… aside from admittedly one or two Craigslist ads (there we admitted it, guilty), we reached out to other vendors and tried to help promote them as much as possible. Specifically vendors with a similar target market to our own. Reaching out to them and being genuine about it got us referrals.<br />
The first clients we booked didn’t invest an arm and a leg in our services… but we tried our best to make them feel like they did.<br />
You don’t need to drive yourself crazy trying to book more clients, trying to book more clients…<br />
One bride led to five referrals here, another led to three referrals there… and it just went on from there.<br />
Just get one client&#8230; and don&#8217;t concentrate on promoting yourself, concentrate on being a good photographer and a genuinely good person!<br />
All you need is one client for you to treat as genuinely as possible… a client to go the extra mile for (which you want to do for all of them!)&#8230; underpromising, overdelivering..<br />
And then you won’t need to promote yourself. They’ll take care of that for you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>John asked: </strong><br />
<strong> How do you deal with the following issues that could occur during engagement shoots/weddings:</strong><br />
<strong> 1) Extreme difference in height between the two subjects.</strong><br />
<strong> 2) harsh light</strong><br />
<strong> 3) lack of light in a dark room or outside at night.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1. Some people might feel differently but we’re of the opinion that our clients are who they are… we accept them for it and embrace it! When you’re taking photos of a couple with a big difference in height, I’d probably say try less to worry about their height difference and more about composing in a manner complimentary to them!<br />
Granted, poses where the couple is leaning over towards each other, a cute one where she&#8217;s on her tiptoes giving him a kiss, or where he is sitting and she’s leaning up against him, those are fine for some shots and put them on a pretty even ground. I&#8217;m guessing though they&#8217;re aware of their height difference! Imagine how unnatural it would seem if the couple was separated by several noticeable inches in height in real life… then, all of a sudden they look the same in photos where they are standing! Just go for natural, loving shots like you would with anyone else! <img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /><br />
2. Easy answer is shoot film &lt;3 We love shooting film in harsh light because of its dynamic range. But even with digital photography, there are some basics to shooting in harsh light that help photos stand out. And no, it doesn’t necessarily mean <em>“FULL RETREAT! BACK TO OPEN SHADE, NOW!”</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Shoot with their backs to the sun to avoid squinty eyes and blown out details on the dress. Having the sun at their back also creates a nice highlight on their hair and shoulders. You might just want to put your lens hood on, though!</li>
<li>If you can control the situation, such as during portraits at the wedding, it helps to look for natural reflectors (or bring your own for an assistant to hold). Some of our favorite natural reflectors are walls, cement walkways, sides of white delivery vans.</li>
<li> Shoot closeup, on a longer focal length, and with a shallow depth of field. Shooting a couple posing in harsh light on a 24mm focal length in the early afternoon might yield some interesting results, but put on a 135mm lens at f2, and get up close… and the subjects just glow!</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center;">3. Use some off camera flash! As photographers, it’s good to know what to do when it gets dark! Throwing a couple of speed lights up on stands helps you take control of the situation and will help your images stand out, too! If you don&#8217;t have a flash handy, you can always get creative with sparklers, streetlights, candles, etc&#8230; but if you&#8217;re a photographer, it&#8217;s a good idea to have at least one flash! Two or three is even better! Getting this action at the ballroom reception that night wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without flash.<br />
<img src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/virginia_wedding_photographers_michael_and_carina_photography_30231.jpg" alt="" width="2048" height="1400" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lina asked: </strong><br />
<strong> Questions about film.. I want to start shooting film. What camera would you recommend for a beginner, what printing lab and maybe some film roll suggestions?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em></em><br />
Sounds exciting! YAAAY! We love it when photographers want to begin experimenting with film! It depends on what you shoot now, but the Canon Elan-7 for example would work with your Canon EF lenses, if you shoot Canon. The Canon AE-1 is older and takes FD mount lenses, (i.e., not current model Canon lenses), but it’s an amazing camera to work with and has a build quality that puts cameras today to shame. Also, it looks awesome.<br />
If you’re just getting started, <a title="Kodak Portra 400" href="http://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Portra-Professional-Exposures-Negative/dp/B004FNRTGG" target="_blank">Kodak Portra 400</a> is a great option; <a title="Fuji 400h" href="http://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-Fujicolor-Color-Negative-Exposures/dp/B00492BTP0/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1389793998&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=fuji+400h" target="_blank">Fuji400h</a> is our favorite but a bit trickier when you&#8217;re exposing it. <a title="Indie Film Lab" href="http://www.indiefilmlab.com" target="_blank">Indie Film Lab</a> offers very competitive rates and <a href="http://www,filmboxlab.com" target="_blank">Film Box Lab</a> does an awesome job as well. <a title="Richard Photo Lab" href="http://www.richardphotolab.com" target="_blank">Richard Photo Lab</a> does amazing work and they have amazingly fast turnaround times, but they can be pricey.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Emma asked: </strong><br />
<strong> When you shoot film for an entire wedding, how many photos do they receive? Do you cull them?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hi Emma, we definitely cull the images but we do find that the keeper rate is somehow much higher when the photos cost several dollars apiece to develop! Shooting film really forces you to think each time you press the shutter button. But of course, there are always still the odd photos of someone blinking, and those are removed in the culling process. In the end the couple usually receives several hundred photos.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Matoli asked: </strong><br />
<strong>  Do you and Carina also shoot digital during the wedding? Or solely film? If you shoot digital also, how do you make sure they look consistent with film images? Actions? Presets?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello Matoli! We shoot a mix of film and digital throughout the wedding. It begins mainly film, and then as the evening draws we rely more and more on our digital cameras. We also shoot a mix of film and digital even during the portraits though. We spent the better part of last year working on our own presets, but the best “film” preset we’ve found that also helps our workflow is the “Kodak Portra 400 Mastin Labs” preset for Lightroom 4. Our own presets reflect our favorite film more, Fuji400h. Although we hear Mastin Labs is coming out with a fuji400h preset soon…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We don’t just apply them and batch edit; we try and match the look of a digital image to a film image in similar light by opening a second window in Lightroom and basing our edit on the matching film scan.<br />
Also, we really try to concentrate on giving the “film look” to images where we would also normally shoot film in a similar lighting situation. We don’t worry so much about matching every single detail of a dance shot where we use flash to how that would look with film, as we never shoot film with off camera flash. We still apply the same basic adjustments to said images, we just don’t try to painstakingly match them to images which don’t exist. We feel how we edit them is consistent for our look!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Kristine asked:</strong><br />
<strong> How do you go about getting your soft creamy, and classy look digitally?</strong><br />
We like to think a lot of getting the “soft” look digitally comes in camera and how you expose. Finding the right light and using natural reflectors helps you a long way, more than editing ever could! We like to expose for the shadows of our subjects, turn down highlights in post, push the blacks bar up (+++) and the contrast bar too when we’re editing.</p>
<p><img class="pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/virginia_wedding_photographers_michael_and_carina_photography_30241.jpg" alt="" width="2048" height="2696" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>This shot of Annika was taken on a 5D camera with a 50mm 1.2 lens and was shot wide open. Instead of a natural reflector we opted for the white side of our 3-in-1 reflector. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We also shoot at relatively wide apertures, from f1.2 – f4 is where we stay. Finding the right background, such as where sunlight is coming in through the leaves, helps lend an image bokeh similar to shooting on medium format when shot wide open. More important than how you edit an image is definitely finding the right light. We love shooting on gravel paths for example, because they reflect light beautifully on to ours subjects faces!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Just keep shooting and while it&#8217;s easy to get distracted by others work and it&#8217;s good to be inspired, be sure to let your own creativity, your own clients and your own love of photography inspire you too!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8211;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thank you guys so much for taking the time to ask us what was on your mind!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Please let us know if we missed anything! &lt;3</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Until next time,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">xoxo Michael and Carina</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Virginia Wedding Photographers &#124; Hampton Roads Wedding Photographers &#124; Williamsburg Wedding Photographers  Happy Tuesday, everyone! We&#8217;ve recently completed editing Lindsay and Dylan&#8217;s wedding, and we&#8217;re eagerly awaiting their film scans to share with you. We fell in LOVE with their dancing photos, and we thought we&#8217;d share a preview from their wedding. We thought we&#8217;d [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/lighting-the-first-dance-off-camera-flash-virginia-wedding-photographers/">Lighting the First Dance Simplified | Off Camera Flash | Virginia Wedding Photographers</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Happy Tuesday, everyone!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We&#8217;ve recently completed editing Lindsay and Dylan&#8217;s wedding, and we&#8217;re eagerly awaiting their film scans to share with you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We fell in LOVE with their dancing photos, and we thought we&#8217;d share a preview from their wedding.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We thought we&#8217;d also offer some insight into how we light most of the first dances we shoot.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Here&#8217;s a list of the equipment:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Canon 5D Mark II(s) </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Canon 600 EXs (multiple)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Canon 35mm 1.4 L lens/ 50mm 1.2 L lens/ 135mm f2 L lens</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Lightstand or an assistant </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Newlyweds <img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">One thing to remember: we like to keep things simple and beautiful. This is how we light a first dance but there are definitely other ways too! This is what we like &lt;3</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Also &#8211; we love shooting film. Give us some natural light and we could shoot film all day.  Also, Ilford 3200 b+w film has a gorgeous, grainy look to it that captures dances well even in low light conditions.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That said, we like the flexibility of being hybrid shooters and being able to get clean, clear images with digital cameras when it gets dark.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8770" title="virginia_wedding_photographers_michael_and_carina_photography_2989" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/virginia_wedding_photographers_michael_and_carina_photography_29891.jpg" alt="williamsburg virginia wedding photographers" width="2048" height="1400" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="virginia wedding photographers michael and carina photography"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8771" title="virginia_wedding_photographers_michael_and_carina_photography_2990" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/virginia_wedding_photographers_michael_and_carina_photography_2990.jpg" alt="Williamsburg Virginia Wedding Photography at Kingsmill Resort by Michael and Carina Photography" width="2048" height="1401" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>ISO 1250, 135mm L lens at f2.5, 1/160 (remember to keep your shutter speed fast enough when using longer lenses to eliminate camera shake)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We start off by finding the correct exposure for the room, without flash, and then underexposing slightly so by using off camera lighting, we can put a moody spotlight on the couple.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This varies from setting to setting.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Then we take a test shot to find the correct exposure with bounce flash on camera, usually pointed at a nearby light surface such as a white wall.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Shooting with our flashes in manual mode is really important to us. A lot of photographers rely on ETTL mode, but we find we get more consistent results when we set everything manually.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Walls can easily be used like big softboxes if you bounce your flash correctly.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Also, remember to check the &#8220;zoom&#8221; of your flash. If you&#8217;re shooting with your flash set to 24mm but you have a 135mm lens on your camera, it might be why your results are looking wonky.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This also applies to bouncing your flash!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Do be aware that &#8220;bouncing&#8221; might not always work, especially if you&#8217;re in a  venue with wooden walls and ceilings &#8211; bouncing off of these surfaces turns your photos red. Then it&#8217;s a good idea to have a trigger handy and to use a small umbrella.)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Next we sync up our on camera flash, the <a title="Canon 600 EX " href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/847537-REG/Canon_5296B002_Speedlite_600EX.html" target="_blank">Canon 600 EX</a>, with another off camera 600 EX.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The second flash is important. It&#8217;s creates a &#8220;rimlight&#8221; which defines / highlights the silhouette of the couple and helps bring them out from the background.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Have we mentioned how much we love the Canon 600 EX?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If for no other reason, it uses a radio sync transmission system that works flawlessly. Officially, the master flash can trigger the slave up to &#8220;98 feet,&#8221; but we&#8217;ve tested it across parking lots and gotten great results. No need for pocket wizards or any extra gear.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If you&#8217;re into keeping your life and gear list simplified when it comes to off camera flash, the 600EXs are for you!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The off camera 600 EX is either on a stand or being held by an assistant as seen in the position below.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-8775 alignnone" title="lighting-diagram-1389082234" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/lighting-diagram-1389082234.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="674" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Having an assistant is great because it means that you can move and have the light move with you accordingly.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We try and keep the flash at 2 or 10 o&#8217;clock to our 6. You can also try with the light at 12 o clock  and lower to the ground to wrap the light around your subject for a silhouette.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Our off camera flash is normally zoomed in to around 70mm. If you&#8217;re trying this technique and finding that the light is overpowering the background or wrapping around the subject too much, you might want to adjust the zoom or use a <a title="Snoot at Strobist.com" href="http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101-cereal-box-snoots-and.html" target="_blank">snoot</a> modifier.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Our off camera flash usually starts off at half the power of our on camera flash, both of which we try and keep turned low for three reasons.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1. Conserve battery life</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2. To increase recycle time</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">3. To be less noticeable</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">For the photos above, our on camera flash was at 1/32 and our off camera flash was at 1/64.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This doesn&#8217;t matter as much for black and white photos, but if the ambient light is really warm, gels can help your flashes match the color of the indoor lights.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That&#8217;s about it, except this: we try to really watch for our shots, so as not to cause a distraction.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If the couple has their back to you, it&#8217;s a good moment to take a break and hold off.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Choosing your shots carefully means you get more keepers, and it also means you&#8217;re less noticeable.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That&#8217;s about it! How do you light your receptions? Did this help you? Do you have any more questions?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Let us know in the comments below!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Michael and Carina</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We are so excited that the New Year is finally upon us!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A lot of people would probably say that the past year flew by; for us, nothing could be further from the truth!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2013 was such an amazing year, filled with so many new major steps for us, both personally and for our business.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That&#8217;s also why 2013 seemed to last forever for us, I suppose.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The more routine life becomes, the quicker life seems to pass by. At least, according to this awesome <a title="How Time Feels" href="http://youtu.be/6LyCC6jjcx8?t=2m13s">Vsauce</a> video.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2013 was full of amazing personal and business experiences, new faces, friends, and making new memories., and we&#8217;re happy 2014 took its time getting here.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Here are some of the goals we set for ourselves last year which we were able to achieve. Note: this is not a &#8220;Oh my gosh, how amazing are we?&#8221; list. This is us looking back at a year of hard work and at what we were able to accomplish.</p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>MAKE IT.</strong> When we first moved here, our goal was to make it work as full-time wedding photographers or pack up and go home (i.e., back to Germany), where we had already started to grow a successful photography business  Thanks to our amazing clients and word-of-mouth, we were able to do that.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Incorporate film into our professional work, portfolio, and pricing.</strong> This we did out of a personal love for film, and it&#8217;s been such an enriching experience and taught us so much more about photography. It&#8217;s also helped us refine our personal style.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Not only to survive, but to thrive.</strong> We knew both of us could not live full time off of photography without adjusting our income by raising our prices at the beginning of the year. Raising prices is always scary for any business. As we learned, <em>your clients - </em>not any clients, but <em>your clients - </em>will still see value in what you do and be willing to invest in that. We are so blessed to have had such wonderful clients invest in our work this past year and already for next year.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Our video.</strong> We met with <a title="The Girl Tyler" href="http://www.thegirltyler.com/" target="_blank">The Girl Tyler</a> around New Years, a year ago, and discussed filming a promo video. We knew they were the best in the area, and it would mean an investment. We were finally able to save enough to invest in their work this fall, and the <a title="Michael and Carina Photography" href="http://vimeo.com/77566799" target="_blank">results</a> of their work was spectacular.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Establish lasting, positive relationships with other wedding professionals and photographers.</strong> Last year, we were the new kids on the block, having just moved here from Germany. We still have a lot of room to grow, but we cannot count our blessings of 2013 and not think about the amazing network of professional wedding vendors and friends we&#8217;ve met and been blessed to work with. Too many to name here. You know who you are though.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Our client delivery method.</strong> A year ago, we almost hesitate to say, we were delivering work on DVDs. The process involved was stressful, lengthy, and impractical. <a title="PASS" href="http://pass.us/" target="_blank">PASS</a> has been such an amazing blessing to us and has helped us streamline our customer service.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Getting published.</strong> A major goal of this past year was getting published. And get published we did! We&#8217;re super excited about that. We don&#8217;t submit to a blog, book, or magazine that we&#8217;re not huge fans of, so each feature is a tremendous honor.</li>
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<div style="text-align: center;">What didn&#8217;t work as well as we&#8217;d hoped:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Welcome packets.</strong> Boom. There we said it. We have them, but they are not where we want them to be. We really think some proper welcome packets would be a great addition to our client experience, but we never got around to investing the time and energy into making them look exactly how we wanted them to look. Guess what one of our major goals for 2014 is?</li>
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<div style="text-align: center;">What we&#8217;ve learned in the past year:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Word of mouth goes a long way.</strong> Genuinely valuing your clients is the best way to get more clients. Emphasis on <strong><em>genuine</em></strong>. Maybe we&#8217;re just lucky, but we just can&#8217;t help but get super excited about each new client and vendor that we are blessed to work with.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Don&#8217;t give up.</strong> 2013 has not been one long stream of successes for us.  Yes, we were published in a bunch of awesome places. We also received a lot of &#8220;no&#8217;s.&#8221; A lot of clients met with us and booked us on the spot. Some clients said no. Some potential clients met with us, went through a great consultation, and then never contacted us again. Don&#8217;t let it get to you. <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The only thing holding you back is yourself. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><strong>Be dedicated.</strong> I guess the &#8220;Do it once, and do it well&#8221; saying would apply here. Before each new job, we like to go into it saying it&#8217;s going to be the best yet.  Don&#8217;t settle or make excuses for yourself&#8230; push yourself&#8230; not only because you owe it to your clients&#8230; but because you owe it to yourself. </span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> All in all, more than anything, we are thankful when we look back on the past 12 months. Thankful, and as always when we pause to reflect, deeply humbled.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We&#8217;re so excited about what 2014 holds. Best of all, we&#8217;re excited to tackle 2014 together.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This blog is part 1; part 2 will be posted later this week. We&#8217;ll talk about  what we look forward to accomplishing in 2014.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">xoxo Michael and Carina</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Virginia Wedding Photographers &#124; Williamsburg Wedding Photographers &#124; Hampton Roads Wedding Photographers Hampton Roads, Virginia + Destination Wedding Photographers We love telling love stories through images. A lot of people just took a big step in their own love stories this month and are getting ready to start a whole new chapter by getting married [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/hampton-roads-virginia-destination-wedding-photographers-michael-and-carina-photography/">Hampton Roads, Virginia + Destination Wedding Photographers</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Hampton Roads, Virginia + Destination Wedding Photographers</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8697" title="Hampton Roads Virginia + Destination Wedding Photographers " src="/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/virginia_wedding_photographers_michael_and_carina_photography_29421.jpg" alt="Michael and Carina Photography - Virginia +  Destination Wedding Photographers" width="2048" height="1412" />We love telling love stories through images.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A lot of people just took a big step in their own love stories this month and are getting ready to start a whole new chapter by getting married in 2014 &amp; 2015.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The couples we work with trust us to tell their story because at the center of everything we do is love.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We just spent the past few days planning one wedding with a bride, meeting with another, taking part in a rehearsal and photographed Lindsay and Dylan&#8217;s lovely Williamsburg wedding!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">After scheduling quite a few appointments today, we are looking forward to spending the first weeks of 2013 meeting with newly engaged couples and hearing new love stories.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We are so excited about what this next year holds, as couples have asked us to be their wedding photographers for several destination weddings (fun!) and of course across VA, from Hampton Roads to Charlottesville and Roanoke (we LOVE Virginia!).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The best part about it is? For all of this, we get to do it together.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Our couple become friends, our <a title="Hampton Roads Engagement Photographers | Michael and Carina Photography | 2013 Favorites" href="/hampton-roads-engagement-photographers-michael-and-carina-photography-2013-favorites/" target="_blank">engagement sessions</a> become double dates. . . by the time of the <a title="Williamsburg Virginia Wedding Photographers | Pilar + Jarad | Fine Art Film | Michael and Carina Photography" href="/williamsburg-virginia-wedding-photographers-pilar-jarad-by-michael-and-carina-photography/" target="_blank">wedding</a>, you know if there&#8217;s one thing you don&#8217;t have to worry about, it&#8217;s your photos!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What could be better?</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We&#8217;d love to get to know you and tell your love story. &lt;3</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Day 9 He is at the forefront, preparing to speak again in the photo above. She&#8217;s tucked away in a corner behind me, ever faithful, ever supportive of the love of her life. He goes to speak again, for the millionth time. She interrupts him from the back, motioning him to remind him that he&#8217;s [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/30-days-of-being-thankful-day-9-michael-and-carina-photography/">30 Days of Being Thankful | Day 9 | Michael and Carina Photography</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Day 9</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He is at the forefront, preparing to speak again in the photo above.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">She&#8217;s tucked away in a corner behind me, ever faithful, ever supportive of the love of her life.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He goes to speak again, for the millionth time.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">She interrupts him from the back, motioning him to remind him that he&#8217;s in a smaller chapel with no mic, so he must speak up.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We are so thankful for my (Mike&#8217;s) uncle and aunt (pictured at the end, the lady in the white sweater).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We&#8217;re thankful for family in general of course&#8230; there are plenty more days in November for us to write about them.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We thought we&#8217;d start with these two.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Officially they retired from pastoring and moved out to a house in the mountains like they had always wanted to do.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But really, they travel more than ever, inspired by their faith to do good and make the world a better place.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They still speak in Ohio, Maryland, Virginia&#8230; oh, and Brazil.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He speaks with the fervor of a 19th century revivalist&#8230; and walks away from the pulpit to embrace us with the same mischievous twinkle in his eye as a child.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">These two have supported us through so much. They supported me as a child when I didn&#8217;t even know it, helping ends meet. My uncle was always there for me when my father wasn&#8217;t.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They&#8217;re real examples of living a life based on principles without judging others. They&#8217;re real examples of Christian love.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">After 40+ years of marriage, they&#8217;re also real examples of making love work.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And we are very, very thankful for them.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I have been looking forward to this time for an entire year. My &#8220;little&#8221; brother, Jonas, has been a big part of my life ever since I was seven years old. We traveled together, studied together, went through thick and thin&#8230; now he is 16 years old and actually taller than me. It was the [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/personal-jonas-first-days-in-america-washington-dc-and-virginia-visit-michael-and-carina-photography/">Personal | Jonas&#8217; First Days in America | Washington DC and Virginia Visit | Michael and Carina Photography</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I have been looking forward to this time for an entire year. My &#8220;little&#8221; brother, Jonas, has been a big part of my life ever since I was seven years old. We traveled together, studied together, went through thick and thin&#8230; now he is 16 years old and actually taller than me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It was the hardest thing for me to hug him good-bye in August 2012 when Michael and I moved to the United States after living in Europe for 4 years. I knew I would miss him the most. That&#8217;s why as soon as we found a good deal, we got a ticket for Jonas to come visit us this summer. He has been working towards this vacation all year too&#8230;he will actually graduate from German high school next summer&#8230; *so proud*</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">After a few more &#8220;car adventures&#8221; (yeah&#8230;that is &#8220;positive-talk&#8221; for expensive repairs), Michael and I got a rental car to pick up Jonas from Dulles airport. We ate rice cakes on the way &#8211; a family tradition <img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" />  And I was so excited to finally see my brother again. I was wondering how he would like our new home, what he would think of our apartment, our job, our new &#8220;American way of life&#8221;. I couldn&#8217;t wait to introduce him to all of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Then&#8230;Thursday night he finally arrived. First thing we did was buy him some Starbucks. Yup, welcome to America, bro!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We spent all Friday discovering D.C. &#8211; the gorgeous marble city that I think is pretty similar to Rome. We saw all the monuments and two museums; the Air and Space Museum and the Natural Science Museum. We loved seeing the dinosaur bones. My brother was blown away; after all he used to be a HUGE dino fan! We also saw the White House, the Capitol,&#8230;we walked from place to place &#8211; by foot. It was great! At any given opportunity, we hung our feet in the water/pools. My brother was impressed by it all. One of our last stops on our D.C. tour was the Lincoln Memorial. That place is really special to Michael and I. Yes, it has a lot of history etc. but it also has a special meaning for our love story. In August 2007, when I was 17 years old (yikes, just 1 year older than my little brother now!!!), Michael asked me to be his wife on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after a romantic summer day spent in D.C. Being there brought back a lot of memories and I am super excited to have nice pictures of us there now (thank you, Jo! he has become a pro at photography!). It was also really great making new memories there with my brother.  This place will always be special to me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The next day (after a few more &#8220;car adventures&#8221;), we drove through the Virginian countryside towards our new home listening to John Denver and Johnny Cash. We made a few stops on the way, taking pictures by awesome signs and cars, feeding some hungry stray cats and eventually hitting up a superstore. We really wanted Jonas to experience it all <img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He is having a great time here in America, noticing all the little differences between the two countries, Germany and America. He loves American hospitality, music and BBQ and he is excited to dive even deeper within the next weeks.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I am over the moon. Within these few weeks, I want to show my brother why we love living here and savor every moment together. These memories will last forever. That&#8217;s why I am so thankful for these photos&#8230;they are much more than travel snapshots&#8230;they will remind us of these wonderful times spent together.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Here are some highlights from the past few days&#8230;more to come soon!</p>
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		<title>Williamsburg Wedding Photographers + Virginia Fine Art Film Wedding Photography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We finally have some beautiful, mainly Kodak Portra-400 scans from Tim and Jennie&#8217;s lovely Williamsburg William and Mary Alumni House wedding to share with you! These were developed by Indie Film Lab. Virginia &#124; Richmond &#124; Williamsburg &#124; VA Beach &#124; Wedding Photographers &#124; Michael and Carina Photography Virginia Wedding Photographers &#124; Williamsburg Wedding Photographers [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/williamsburg-wedding-photographers-virginia-fine-art-film-wedding-photography-2/">Williamsburg Wedding Photographers + Virginia Fine Art Film Wedding Photography</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">We finally have some beautiful, mainly Kodak Portra-400 scans from Tim and Jennie&#8217;s lovely Williamsburg William and Mary Alumni House wedding to share with you!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">These were developed by <a title="Indie Film Lab" href="http://www.indiefilmlab.com" target="_blank">Indie Film Lab.</a><br />
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		<title>Personal &#124; New Haircut </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Okay, let&#8217;s girl this blog up a bit! I&#8217;ve been aching to get my hair cut for quite a while now. After all, my last hair cut was more than a year ago!!! I had grown so sick of my super-long locks; I hardly ever wore them open anyways. I just couldn&#8217;t think of any [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a href="/personal-new-haircut/">Personal | New Haircut <3 | Michael and Carina Photography</a> appeared first on <a href="/">Virginia + Destination Fine Art Wedding Photographers</a>.</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">Okay, let&#8217;s girl this blog up a bit! <img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;ve been aching to get my hair cut for quite a while now. After all, my last hair cut was more than a year ago!!!<br />
I had grown so sick of my super-long locks; I hardly ever wore them open anyways. I just couldn&#8217;t think of any cool things to do with them.<br />
So I wore them in a bun and a ponytail. That&#8217;s about it <img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" />  How boring&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Definitely time for a change! After putting together pages of inspiration photos (I know&#8230;I figured my hairstylist would end up hating me&#8230;), I finally got a makeover!!!<br />
I am super excited about it, Lauren from <a title="Shear Style Salon and Spa" href="http://www.shearstylesalonandspa.com/" target="_blank">Shear Style Salon</a> in Yorktown did such an amazing job!!! Even better than what I had hoped for!!!<br />
So I will spend tonight going through my hair and trying out new hair styles in front of the mirror <img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" />  Something I very rarely did the past year&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">PS: PLUS, I am thrilled that my hair won&#8217;t accidentally dangle in front of the camera lens at weddings or photo shoots anymore, haha!</p>
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