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FASHION WEDDING STYLE…..

cheriefoto — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:56:12 +0000

From my good friend Rob Van Petten…Great photographer out of NYC……

Dear Cherie…..I was doing portfolio reviews at Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts… Lots of fun. There were students doing fashiony based wedding and you were their hero. SO there…….Happy Easter to the good eggs and the bad bunnies…….
Big Love, Rob
With that great email…..and discovery…..I decided on Easter…to make a collage of some of the fashiony brides we have shot…….Along the way…..Happy Easter and Happiness to all……To all the cool students….at Boston University!!
Would love to hear directly from you…..!!

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COOL KIRSTIE KELLY COUTURE WEDDING GOWNS

cheriefoto — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:20:29 +0000

We got to shoot Kirstie Kelly the absolute amazing designer of couture wedding gowns in the world. She has done so many amazing celebrity wedding gowns and we had her in our studio for a little shoot. She does an exclusive wedding fashion line with Disney and this gown she did for the movie Enchanted. She was such a nice woman and great designer it is always nice to be able to photograph the designer of such amazing wedding gowns.

Here is the info on her and her studio and gowns:

One of bridal fashion’s break-out stars, Kirstie Kelly’s stylish Brentwood design studio is open by appointment only. With the salon all to themselves, each bride is lavished with Kirstie’s personal attention and artistry. Her finely-crafted gowns incorporate luxurious silks and satins, and have been called “clean, fresh, original, and beautiful.” Popular with celebrities (or those who want to feel like one!), Kirstie has also designed for television and film. While dedicated to “creating garments that express the unique personalities and subtle qualities of today’s woman,” Kirstie’s silhouettes have a classic, timeless beauty. Kirstie’s latest achievement was the creation of the enchanting princess bridal line for Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings!

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TRASH THE DRESS AND A FASHION SHOOT ALL IN ONE….

cheriefoto — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:18:58 +0000

This is a rather long story…..but it seems people like really long stories…so here we go….We had an amazing bride this year in April Taya who is a photographer and got married at the Union Station in Downtown LA…We loved this wedding on so many levels….Since Taya is also a Los Angeles wedding photographer (it is always a joy to shoot for another photographer, they really understand the job at hand and seem to pick the right things all around) she had the sensibility to find the right light and the ambience of an amazing place to get married…and it was all about the photos for her….After the wedding we started to talk a bit and she mentioned that nor only did her husband work at a refinery but she did as well as a pipe fitter…How cool is that…I laughed..and imagined…Well my mind went crazy since we am always looking to shoot in unusual locations in the Los Angeles area…..A shoot was born..We decided to go a do a “Trash the dress” location shoot there after the wedding and was pretty excited about that along…Then we started to think well maybe we will bring a couple of models…We are getting calls daily for models to shoot with us….so we felt ok..this was a great opportunity to do something really fun..It grew and grew….to the point where we had such a great team it was just one of the most fun and organized shoots we have ever done…from Khari, creative to Ali design and dressing to Yulitzen doing makeup to Hedley and myself and 4 amazing and beautiful women in clothes that rocked!!!! It was one of those magical days when mostly everything went well…..Always remember to get a shooting permit……That is all I am going to say about that!!!!..Except that we were going to shoot at sunset right in front of the refinery and there they were a team of people to stop us from shooting..After careful negotiating and some sweet pleading…we came to a good solution..and we got to get our shots….

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SURVEY OF EDGE EFFECTS BY LARRY BROWNSTEIN

cheriefoto — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:57:04 +0000

MICHELE CELENTANO, in her presentation at this year’s WPPI conference, articulated a concern that’s on the minds of many photographers these days: Our clients have sophisticated digital cameras that are often just as capable as ours, and with the cost of film being a thing of the past, they are experimenting more and becoming better photographers. Will they still need us in a few years? And, if they are using cameras similar to those used by professionals, how will we continue to remind and convince them of that need? Celentano’s answer was to encourage her audience of professional photographers to raise their game in every way possible. Most specifically, she suggested using the best lenses—not only for the sharpness and other advantages they offer, such as the shallow depth of field that comes with a large-aperture lens, but also because of the psychological edge reclaimed when using better, more professional equipment.
Along the same lines, photographers must learn other ways to distinguish themselves. A recent trend is to use Photoshop techniques to add a special touch. There are myriad software
offerings, from big companies down to individual photographers. In this article, I will explore software that specifically addresses adding edges (also called borders or frames, as different
manufacturers use different terminology) to an image. These software packages are from three photographers whose names may already be familiar to Rangefinder readers: I’ll be reviewing Cherie Steinberg Coté’s EdgyGirl, Kevin Kubota’s Sloppy Borders and Parker Pfister’s Parker J Edge. I’ll also take a look at onOne Software’s PhotoFrame, which you may remember from
this year’s June issue. The first package I experimented with was EdgyGirl Volume 1.
The best thing about EdgyGirl is its simplicity. Each edge is simply a layered Photoshop file. First, open the file with the desired edge in Photoshop. Then copy and paste your image file into the
edge effect file and adjust to taste. The Photoshop files even tell you where in the layer stack to paste your image—there will be a layer labeled “Paste Your Image Above This Layer.”
The edges are grouped into several categories: 4 x 5 Polaroid, Painted, Sloppy and More Edges. The 4 x 5 Polaroid edges simulate the peel-apart Polaroid films and the unique artifacts they
leave behind. Most of these edges also add a bit of smudginess and scratchiness, too. (The lowest numbered file, EdgyGirl_001, has the least smudginess and scratchiness, with the higher
numbered files having progressively more.) The Painted edges have a more sharply defined insideborder and painterly outside borders with white space around them. The Sloppy borders are
fairly conservative black borders with some irregularities, and these are the closest thing to the sloppy borders that are offered by many photo labs. The More Edges folder has one edge
that simulates two Polaroid SX-70 prints that are paper clipped together and two others that are Polaroid peel-apart films with the paper still attached.
I found it difficult to choose the best edge by viewing the file icons on my Mac, as the icons are simply too small for this purpose. Instead, I viewed the same folder via Adobe Bridge with
nice big previews. This made for much more efficient work, and I knew I’d be happy with an edge before opening it.
While EdgyGirl provides a simple way to access some useful edges, there is one inconvenience that comes with this simplicity: The image sizes are fixed and may not match the size of the
image file you are working with. This is easily remedied with the Image Size command. I never found it necessary to match the pixel dimensions of the edge and the image file exactly. Instead I
just ballparked it—with good results.
Kubota Image Tools provides an application called Kubota Sloppy Borders, which combines a variety of templates—TIFF files with borders in them, much like the edge files provided by
Cheriefoto—in conjunction with several actions (used for the setup) and scripts that are run from the File menu.
When you run the Single Border script, a File Browser window appears, allowing you to choose from the numerous different borders available. Just as with EdgyGirl, it is a bit hard to see the edges at this small size, and it might be useful to use Bridge to view them larger before selecting one. The program will take the selected border and do the necessary processing to copy layers to a single file, resize the layers to match and add a white border outside the black sloppy border.
Another nice feature of the program is that it allows batch processing so that borders can be added to a group of photos without great effort. It also provides a convenient way to make
4 x 6 proofs with sloppy borders. The borders available range from thin to thick, with numerous variations that evoke cut-off sprocket holes, a blur from emulsion curving at the edges, etc. In fact, these effects look very realistic—as though they were from a traditional analog photographic process. However, all the borders are pretty much a variation on a single theme and don’t include such things as Polaroid or painted borders. Also, you’ll have to read the installation instructions to know where to place the various action and script folders and how to set up the program.
I also looked at Parker J Edge Volume 1 from Parker J. Pfister. Pfister includes a movie that provides all the necessary instructions. (Just as with Kubota Sloppy Borders, installation requires
that a file be copied to the Photoshop Actions folder; this file is loaded via the Actions palette. Pfister’s Edge, however, does not add the complication of scripts.) Parker J Edge has an action for inside edges—edges that fit inside (and thus overlap) the existing image area. It also has an
outside edge action that adds the edge and an outside white border around the existing image area. There is also an inside knockout action that, instead of adding a dark border, uses the
selected template to fade towards transparency. There are also some other burning and fading effects that are more generic and don’t require you to select a template file.
Pfister’s actions that work with a template edge file require you to position the edge by grabbing the corners of the edge layer and dragging it to superimpose it over the image file. (This is an
improvement over EdgyGirl, which requires you to resize them. But it is not quite as convenient as Kubota Sloppy Borders, which automatically resizes the edge to fit.)
Lastly, I looked at onOne Software’s PhotoFrame. PhotoFrame provides the largest number of options. It has numerous types of edges and borders. There are so many of them that it actually
becomes a liability, as many of them are artificial or cutesy and may not be appropriate for most professional photographers’ needs. Don’t get me wrong—there are a lot of excellent ones, in-
cluding overlapping numbers, emulsion effects, cut-out masks, watercolor, Mondrian and even fingerprints. Unfortunately, it can be time-consuming finding the good ones. On the other hand, they do provide two features to assist with this: View Grid allows you to preview several selected frames in a grid; the Favorites list allows you to keep your most useful frames in a convenient area for reuse. Optional collections of unique frames by several different photographers are also available. Each application has its strengths. EdgyGirl is so simple that
anyone who understands layers can begin to use it immediately. It also has a nice variety of edge styles. The Polaroid edges and painted edges are very eye-catching and make for some
nice variety along with the more conventional sloppy borders it provides.
Kubota Sloppy Borders is easy to use once it is set up, as it doesn’t require you to resize the edges. It also provides a batch capability that some photographers may consider a critical fea- ture. For example, a photographer can add borders to several hundred wedding photos with ease. Also, the package provides an action that will batch process a folder and make 4 x 6 proof
images with sloppy borders.
Parker J Edge is quite simple to install and provides a unique capability—the knockout, or fade to transparency, as well as the inside and outside edge effects. Also the manual step of dragging the edge to resize it allows some added control over how the edge appears, which some photographers will appreciate.
PhotoFrame provides the greatest variety of edge effects, but the downside is time wasted sifting the good from the bad. PhotoFrame also has the largest learning curve by far. (As I usually do with new software, I tried to learn PhotoFrame without the manual. As such, it took me a while to figure out that as I was selecting new frames, I was also adding them to a layer stack of frames. In other words, they were all overlapping and I had to delete the older frames if I didn’t want to create a
complex overlap.)

EdgyGirl retails for $150; Kubota Sloppy Borders retails for $125; Parker J Edge retails for $199; PhotoFrame Pro 3.1 retails for $159.95. See the individual websites listed below for more
information on these products.
Adding interesting borders to images is a simple and effective way to add a distinctive finishing touch to your photographs. At the same time, it provides another way to distinguish professional photographers from the crowd with digital cameras. You could say that it might just give you a little edge over the competition.

Larry Brownstein is the photographer and author of two books, Los Angeles,
Where Anything is Possible and The Midnight Mission. His photos appear
in numerous books, magazines, calendars, etc. His stock photography is repre-
sented by Getty Images. He has a growing wedding photography business. His
work can be seen at www.larrybrownstein.com.

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Your Wedding Day Event @ The Ebell!!!

cheriefoto — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:27:26 +0000

The Ebell and Your Wedding Day Magazine Event……

I will be posting a few images from this event asap…..

It was magical…..

Jeannie Ward from made a Marie Antoinette Room….

Nikki Khan from Exquisite Events made a Bollywood Room.

Micheal Willms from…..from Entertainment Design Events….made the Disco room!!!!

Eddie from Tic Toc Flowers

Did some very striking and unusual Floral arrangements……

Stay tuned for these amazing Panoramas from each room we made..and more pics ASAP!!!

For anyone looking for an amazing place to be married the Ebell of Los Angeles is for sure somewhere that you should check out. The history alone and the charming 1020’s architecture and the most interesting places to shoot all over the building. Please do yourself a favor and check them out.

Bridal Fashion

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TWITTERING….

cheriefoto — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:51:31 +0000

Hedley and I are doing it!!!!
Hedley Jones…..Cherie Steinberg….
Twittering…..
Keep up…
Shot with Louis Verdad yesterday…Photos to come…..
Will be in Fashion mags in Mexico and Spain….Stay tuned…!!!
Exclusive photos to come…..

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FACEBOOK…JOIN US ON FACEBOOK….

cheriefoto — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:48:28 +0000

Hedley and I have joined the Facebook generation….

Join us to find out who our friends are and see what we are doing…..

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NIK FILTERS AD

cheriefoto — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:16:54 +0000

Nik Filters has used this photo for a series of ads in so many photo magazines over the past few months. Thanks Nik for using this images and thanks for the wonderful software that helps me every day!!! Special thanks to Tony Corbell and Janice Wendt.

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WE LOVE BRIDE & BLOOM MAGAZINE

cheriefoto — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:36:00 +0000

Bride and Bloom Magazine just came out with their Spring 2008 Issue!! What an amazing magazine…..All the latest trends and ideas to make the perfect wedding….There are pages of all the most amazing Wedding Dresses from Vera Wang, Monique Lhuillier, Amsale, Reem Acra, Angel Sanchez and Elizabeth Fillmore….All my favs….Check it out girls…There are some really unique and edgy designs….!!!

We also were lucky enough to shoot a spread for them..and it is in this Spring Issue!!

Check it out…

Congratulations Carol Poon, Sarynia Villanueva and the rest of the incredible staff at the magazine…….for another job very well done!!

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