Posted in photography

*NEXT WORKSHOP DATE: October 9th, 2010. The last one of 2010!*

Here’s an overview of our day together:

• Introductions
• The Technical Stuff (exposure)
• The Fun Stuff (compositional elements)
• Equipment: What’s What
• LUNCH (included)
• Assignment/Hands-on Practice Outside with “models”
• Post Processing
• Sharing of Images/Critique
• Q&A

Who is it for?

Anyone who has a fancy camera and wants to take better pictures.

When is it?

October 9th, 2010 | 9 am to 7 pm

Where is it?

Chandler, AZ.

How much?

$129

How many people?

minimum of 10 people, maximum of 14

What do I need to bring?

• Notebook and something to write with
• Any digital camera will work as long as it has a manual (M) mode
• Your Camera’s Manual
• Don’t forget your camera’s digital memory card (CF, SD, MMC, xD, MS, MD, SM)
• Don’t forget to charge your camera’s battery
• A card reader or your camera’s cable to download photos
• A laptop (very helpful if you have one, but not mandatory)
• If you don’t have photoshop, you can download a free trial version prior to the workshop

Want to read about the other Fancy Camera Workshops?

Click here

Want to more details?

Email me at cristi@cristiowen.com

Want to sign up? Please use the paypal purchase button below:

Fancy Camera Workshop

10/09/10 $129.00

It seems like a few people are having a problem with the paypal link. I’ve contacted paypal, but in the mean time, you can email me and I will send you an invoice!

Posted in portraits

Now is the time to start thinking about your portraits for those holiday cards. Due to my limited availability during the months of October and November, I will be offering sessions for my clients who wish to have their family photos taken on pre-determined dates and times.

Here are the dates and times available:

October 30th and 31st

2:00-3:00
3:10 -4:10
4:20-5:20
5:30-6:30

All the sessions will take place in downtown Mesa. Here’s a recent engagement session shot in downtown Mesa.

The cost of the session is $250 and it includes:
1 hour portrait session
your images on a online password protected gallery for 30 days
5 high-resolution image files of your choice e-mailed to you.

If you are interested, please email me now to reserve your spot: cristi@cristiowen.com

And because photographers are not allowed to have a blog entry without a photo, here’s a cute family I photographed while in Montana:

Posted in uncategorized

FRONT:                                                                                                       BACK:

These announcements are completely customizable. Here are a few examples:

The announcements are 5×7 flat custom designed cards and come in sets of 25 with white envelopes for $75. You can print front and back or just front.

You can see more birth announcement designs available here.

Posted in engagements

Ellie and Jonathan love the outdoors. They have recently moved to Arizona, but they already have their favorite camping spot. So naturally that’s where we went for their engagement session. Ellie is an attorney and has a pretty busy schedule. Therefore, we shot their engagement session before she went to work. That’s a first for me. I’m not usually a morning person but this was definitely worth the 4 am wake-up call.

What could be better than a s’mores breakfast?

I guess you can follow it with some cuddling…… and playing in the water:And then coffee and some more cuddling to warm-up:

Time to pack up and leave:

After their session we tried to stop for some prickly pear ice cream. Sadly they were closed. What to do? Take more photos, of course.

Posted in my life

For one week in July I got to spend some quality time with my Alpha Kappa Camera sisters. This was our second retreat and I was so thrilled to share my husband’s home town with everyone. We stayed in Polson, MT in a beautiful home with a stunning view.
Three of the girls weren’t able to make it and we missed them terribly, but still managed to have lots of fun – just the 6 of us.
We went rafting, karaoking, bowling, sightseeing, hiking, dancing, swimming, and of course took a few photos. I actually only brought my Holga, so most of the photos below are from Joanna’s and Trina’s point-and-shoot cameras and my camera phone. The photo above I took with Kara’s camera while sitting out the back window of our car .  Don’t worry, mom, she pulled over and stopped on the side of the road.

Our house, grocery shopping, cherry picking, lunch at Isabel’s, hanging out on the dock, sightseeing, bowling, working, rafting, “all drift”, karaoking, Glacier Park, hiking, waterfalls at Glacier, and being photographed for the local newspaper.

Oh yeah, we were interviewed by the local paper. Because we really are that cool. Here’s the article about Alpha Kappa Camera written by Kate Haake for the Valley Journal. Last photo above by Kate Haake.

And since, I never blogged our trip to Vegas, here’s a shot from March of all of us together. Yes, we are photographers and wannabe models. I can only imagine what the person who took our photo was thinking.

And in case you missed our first trip to South Carolina, you can read all about it here.

In the words of my AKC sister, Shea, “I love us”.