tag:www.jocelynmathewes.com,2010:/cgi/mt//feed/studio 2010-09-10T21:10:48Z Movable Type 4.24-en 12 1 12 tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2009://3.300 2009-04-28T12:00:00Z 2009-04-28T12:35:02Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2009://3.295 2009-04-09T12:00:00Z 2009-04-06T19:46:05Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2009://3.257 2009-04-02T12:00:00Z 2009-03-30T20:06:09Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2009://3.290 2009-03-26T07:00:00Z 2009-03-26T18:16:56Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.233 2008-11-15T14:39:39Z 2008-11-15T14:48:16Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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,... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.232 2008-11-14T19:09:32Z 2008-12-23T23:22:52Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.213 2008-10-28T15:14:04Z 2008-10-28T22:59:55Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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.... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.157 2008-10-02T15:51:11Z 2008-10-02T15:02:33Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.182 2008-09-22T21:30:49Z 2008-09-22T20:39:19Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.84 2008-03-07T15:18:23Z 2008-09-19T01:12:30Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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,... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.78 2008-02-26T21:18:45Z 2008-09-19T01:12:30Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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... tag:www.studiomathewes.com,2008:/blog//3.62 2008-01-14T16:17:05Z 2008-09-19T01:13:09Z Jocelyn http://www.jocelynmathewes.com 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...