Tara and Jamie Photobooth!

We are very happy to announce that we are officially offering some new services and products: photobooths, custom photobooks, and flip books. 

It seems like photobooths are getting more and more popular at weddings.  And for good reason.  They keep guests entertained.  They leave the couple with a little something extra to remember of their wedding day.  PLUS, they're a ton of fun to shoot!  If you have an upcoming wedding, I would consider having one.

I debated going to party city to buy a handful of props (i.e. crazy wigs, etc), but then I felt like I've seen the same types of props overused in a lot of the photobooths.  I talked it over with Jacob, knowing that I wanted them to be unique to each wedding, so we decided that we would bring only one prop and then get creative with what we could find on-site.  It's amazing what you can find to use as props.

The guests at Tara and Jamie's wedding were definitely not camera shy.  We told them to get wild and crazy for the photobooth, and that's what they gave us.  It was even our first time getting mooned!  I'm keeping the blog PG, but if you were a guest at the wedding and would like to view the rest or purchase any of the images from the photobooth, you can go to www.estherjulee.com and under the clients tab, type in the bride's maiden name as the password.  If you have any trouble with ordering, please email us at jacob@estherjulee.com





















Jacob did a fantastic job with all the photos and definitely knew how to work the crowd.  Hope everyone is having an amazing start to their week!  As for me, I had a pretty rough night of editing, so I'm gonna go catch some zzZz's.

Tara and Jamie Wedding (Teasers)

These were a few things I loved about Tara and Jamie's wedding.

1.  Catholic ceremonies are always beautiful to photograph.  Christ the King Cathedral.



And guess what I found there for some sweet ring shots!



2. Al of 2000 AD Inc. did a wonderful job putting together the details at the wedding, and I had a ton of fun shooting them.



3.  Photography was very important to Tara and Jamie, so they set plenty of time aside for photos in between the ceremony and reception.  They even had a trolley take the wedding party around for a few hours to different locations.  It made a world of a difference.





4.  I love fall and all the beautiful colors that come with the season.  These were taken at Piedmont Park.





5.  Never hurts having a good looking wedding party.  Loved this shot of them.



6.  All the photobooth fun!  They didn't even need to be liquored up to get crazy in front of the camera.  This photo is just a preview for the next post.

Playgrounds and Engagements.

I spent all morning trying to figure out what was wrong with the album software and photoshop.  What a way to start the morning getting zero progress.  After I hire another photographer and interns, I'm going to start working on my IT department.  lol :P

At least I found myself a photo I can smile about and the day has not gone to complete waste yet.  I don't know what it is about a playground that brings out the playfulness of people or just makes you want to be a kid again.  ;)

I haven't seen one of these before, but how can you not get on it!  I missed this photo while filtering through the session so I didn't get to post it earlier, but this definitely makes it as my favorite photo of the session.

Tara and Jamie E-session.

When I asked Tara and Jamie what they liked to do.  They told me they were homebodies.  They loved cooking and hanging out at home, which is what we did for part of the session.  I always love how people really become themselves in their most familiar settings.



After I took the photo above, I wanted to do some with feet and cute socks.  Immediately, they were just as excited telling me that's what they do!  (explained below)



Even their screensaver had a photo of their feet from their Cancun trip.  This was the trip that Tara planned out for Jamie where she even packed his bags for him so it'd be a surprise.  Jamie had other plans and managed to sneak THE ring into his bags so he could propose.  She was telling me how she thought she'd have it all together when he proposed, but when he got down on one knee, it was game over.  I wonder how I'd react.  hehe



We also went and took some photos at Christ the King, the church they attend.  Beautiful church. :)















Okay.  Now, that was an acceptable teaser post versus just that one photo.  I'm finishing up packing my bags for Charleston.  I'll be there for three days working from up there. :)  Hopefully, I'll be able to capture some beautiful photos.  I've never been there, but I hear it's nice!

<3 Esther

Tara and Jamie E-session (Teaser).

After two rain-checks on engagement sessions (literally got rained in on both times), last Friday happened to be a perfect day for these two.  What do they say... about third time's the charm?  I know it probably would have been more appropriate to post one of the outdoor photos after saying all that, but this one from the tail-end of the session is my favorite of the day.  They look so good together.  :)