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Matt & Alyssa were married two weeks ago in Delhi NY a few hours from where I live in one of the most memorable weddings I have shot this year. First off, I love this couple…. Every time I have spent time with them I have come away feeling blessed to have known them. It is pretty obvious to all who come in contact with them that they are ridiculously in love. I remember Matt telling me about the years he spent dreaming of dating Alyssa and then finally one day the stars aligned and well the rest is history.  There are so many moments I will remember about this wedding.

It rained during the ceremony the entire time and without question Matt was insistent about being married outside.

That’s just the kind of people these two are.

I just love them and feel so honored that they invited me up to a farm outside of Delhi to be a part of their wedding.

I love grooms that can’t keep it in on their wedding day.

So much love being displayed at this wedding from everyone involved.

Love you guys,

Daniel

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Last week I had the opportunity to spend some time with Erin photographing her for her senior year in high school. Here in the states we call that a “senior session” although I know many of you visit this blog from around the world have a very different idea as to what the term senior means.

Senior sessions can be whatever you make of them. Erin is going to school to be an actor so she asked for a moody feel to her pictures.

I couldn’t resist giving her just that.

For information on how to get your senior pictures with us feel free to fill out the contact form up top or email me at Dlanton@darkershadesofbrown.com

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One of the most useful tools in a photographers arsenal is the ability to mask in photoshop so I thought I would give a brief description as to how we do it.

Typically it takes about 3 minutes to get one just right.

Makes for happy clients.

For information on how we can do this for you and your family feel free to give us a call and we can sit down and make sure we get you and yours in our books.

Daniel

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I first met Chris, Julie & Hallie last year when they started planning their wedding and when we sat down and talked I realized that they really wanted Hallie included in their E session as she is an important part of their relationship. Chris used to work with my wife and when she mentioned to him that I was a photographer they headed on over to my website and noticed that I had posted a family session that included a young girl the age of Julie’s daughter.  By the time I sat down with them they had already decided that they wanted a family/E session feel to these pictures.

Normally I spend the majority of my time just working with two people on an E session and we still did spend time with just Chris & Julie but I just couldn’t resist focusing on them as a family unit as that is what they are soon to become.

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Last week this lovely family invited me to their home for a session and since I almost never post family sessions on this blog I thought it would be a good idea to turn a new leaf and start posting them.

I love me some awesome family chemistry and these guys did not disappoint.

For information on how to book lifestyle family sessions with us send us a line at Dlanton@Darkershadesofbrown.com and we will be sure to get you in our books for an afternoon of fun.

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One of the biggest questions I get when talking to a couple about their wedding reception is our photo-booth.

How it works?

When do we set it up?

We have been offering photo-booth packages for all our clients this year and probably about half of the weddings we do now have them at the reception. It really is a way to get fun pictures of all the adventurous people who attend your wedding. It always amazes me how varied the age groups are that hop on in and do ridiculous things for us.

I never know what to expect.

Give this first image about thirty seconds to load…

It’s worth the wait.

The groom sweating about the decision he made earlier in the day

Love this picture.

Er umm I laughed for 10 minutes.

I’ll give you this much money if you never ever show this picture to anyone.

I WIN!!!!

For information on how to add something like this to your wedding give us a call or send us a line at Dlanton@darkershadesofbrown.com

~Daniel~

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Just a few images from a wedding last week that I fell in love with… Jessica had soo much positive energy the morning of her wedding and felt she had to get on the blog this week.

Hello magazine cover…

Something tells me their Trash The Dress Session next month is going to be insane.

~Daniel~

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We here at Darkershadesofbrown Photography have been talking about this for a few weeks on twitter and facebook and have created a bit of a stir so today I wanted to let everyone know that that we are officially launching our iPad Wedding albums. Ever since I had my eyes on this amazing device I have been thinking of ways to get them into my customers’ hands. So much is changing in how we display our images to our friends and family over the last few years and I can’t tell you how many requests I have received about how to best have images available for things like facebook and personal wedding blogs that people have created for their wedding.

After much thought I think we finally came up with an answer…

The Apple iPad will give you the freedom to personally show your friends all those wedding images you find in your wedding gallery….

Have you ever wanted to:

Create your own slide-shows and load your own music from your itunes account?

Get your images on Facebook?

Show your friends your images without having to bring them over to your house and open up your album?

Something tells me you have and now you can and with the purchase of this album option we will give you a one hour tour with your new device and show you the best way to do all of those things

Does this mean we are getting rid of our albums? Not at all, but we want to give you that additional option and provide a solution to that question you have asked us about displaying images digitally.

For more information about how you can get this option added to your wedding package as well as a demo of how it all works you can give us a call or email us at Dlanton@Darkershadesofbrown.com

~Daniel~

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Sometimes I wish I had more time to spend putting up some of the more amazing wedding vendors I have worked with this past year. Some of the stuff going on in the industry right now is just pretty much a plate full of awesome. A few weeks ago I emailed
Caroline Colóm Vásquez of Paloma’s Nest and asked if I could throw some blog love her way. From a photographers perspective or at least this photographers perspective weddings are all about the little details. The more eye candy I have to get my camera lost in the better. Last year Kristy Rice from Momental Designs introduced me to her work when we all collaborated on a tablescape session and I have fallen in love with Carolin’s work ever since.

Be sure to check out her shop here and her amazing blog here.

Brides…. Get on over and check out her work. I would love to see some of these deigns in some photographs this year.

~Daniel~

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Alyssa and Matt invited me up to their home for the engagement pictures this week outside of Oneonta Ny. I grew up in Oneonta so I had been looking forward to traveling back home to see the city I haven’t been to in about 6 years. When I say I fell in love with this couple It’s a bit of an understatement. Alyssa is an artist so these first few pictures were taken about five seconds after I walked into their home. I wish I could say it was a surprise to have so much fun photographing this couple but I knew I was going to enjoy it after our first meeting about a year ago.

This session was all about them. They wanted an old school “polaroidish” feel to their pictures. It was a blast seeing these images through to what they are today.

Gotta show this picture big because I want to love on it.