Entries from Studio Mathewes tagged with 'studio'
Beautiful Wedding Albums & A Cute Portrait Brag Books
I'm usually loathe to brag*, but my latest wedding album samples from Cypress Albums really are quite gorgeous. They always do an excellent job, and I have a blast creating fanciful image arrangements to show to clients. Secondly, a recent...
An Underwater Dream
Continuing in my series of setting up illustrative still life images, I have an underwater-inspired scene that I constructed from a variety of found and purchased, natural and synthetic materials. I was working in a new environment--my parents' house. My...
Fooling Around: A Butterfly's Dilemma
So in more efforts to create beautiful images from the junk I have laying around, I bring you a butterfly's dilemma. I'm not sure why this butterfly has a dilemma, but you could invent one. Perhaps he or she is...
The Story of A Little Tree
Every now and then I like to pull out fanciful junk I keep around the house and see what kind of illustrative tableau I can create. With some, I start with an image in my head that I want to...
The Only Fabulous: Gilah Press
On Thursday evening I visited the lovely Gilah Press, a letterpress design firm in Hampden. The lovely Nathalie Wilson gave me the heads-up (I'm shooting her wedding in April, hooray!), and I headed over for a little liquid refreshment. Lo,...
Housekeeping: New Stuff For Sale
Some of you may or may not know that I have an online storefront where clients can go to purchase prints and other delightful keepsakes. Well, here I am to tell you all about some exciting changes, complete with awesome-but-unnecessary...
Sketchbook: A Catalog of Ideas
I keep a sketchbook. It keeps track of ideas that I have. I like to collage, mostly, but occasionally I break out the sketching pencils, or play with altering photographs....
Philosophy, Personality, and Pricing
A bride to be recently told me about a conversation with a caterer who pressured her to spend more money on food. She said, "He told me that if I hadn't 'blown all my money on the venue,' that maybe...
My Photography Circa Age 12
I've slowly but surely been wading through the scads of family photographs piled up on the shelves in our apartment. You'd think that being a photographer would mean that your own life has been cataloged quite nicely. Not so, of...
Bridal Expo: Sample Album
This past weekend, I had a table lined up at the Britton Events bridal expo in Columbia, MD. My table was a rather small affair, featuring the new folios, brag books and prints that I really loved. Best of all,...
Studio Samples: folios
This Sunday, I will be participating in a bridal expo in Columbia, Maryland, put on by Britton Events. Never having worked an expo before, I bought myself a nice 6' table, and set to work on getting some new samples...
Studio Samples
It's January. A new year. A time to start afresh with some new studio samples! Here, I've put together two small sample albums--a black "brag book" that parents can fill with their favorite photos from their child's wedding, and a...
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