Snow! Holidays! Cards! | Neenah, WI, Family Photographer

It's snowing here!

Makes my thoughts turn to the upcoming holidays... and therefore, holiday cards! Check out this recent card I put together for a client. This is an example of a 5x7 flat postcard, to be mailed in the included envelopes.

All of Baseman Studios' holiday cards are custom-designed by yours truly, starting with 4-6 of your top images from your session, meaningful wording, and a blank "piece of paper." Then I press the "magic" button in Photoshop and end up with something like this! ;)

Ps. Looking for some creative color palettes for your family holiday photos? Try these alternatives to red: sage & hunter greens, whites & khakis, light & navy blues, or even wine, plum & purple tones. Get creative!

Umbrellas & Flowing Skirts | Neenah Senior Photographer

Exciting things! | Neenah, Wisconsin, Wedding Photographer

We've got some great new items coming soon to our wedding packages!

Although still in the decision and placement process, the wedding packages will be revamped a little bit for 2011. The addition of a few products, the removal of some others... one new thing I'm really excited about is albums!

We'll be offering two different styles of albums. The one I'm highlighting today is the "Heirloom" album. This is truly a masterpiece album. I just got this sample in today, so let's begin the preview!

Note: Click here to see this album.. showing full page-spread examples of the custom-design-work by Baseman Studios Photography.

To start, we have a beautiful, textured box with gold ribbon.

Opening the box, we get past the black paper and see the soft felt pocket, which protects a little more.

Ooo... :) First glimpse of the album!

This is the photo-canvas cover option. This album is also available with fine black leather and optional embossing.

Black and white page spreads. Very sleek.

Color page spreads.

Rounded page corners means no bent edges!

Couldn't resist one of my favorite shots from the day.

Baseman Studios knows of a few perfect finishing touches to really make the albums classy.

Look at that binding. These albums have a nice, long shelf life.

The professional prints are adhered to a wonderful, thick substrate and "hinged" to lay flat, whether you're in the middle of the album...

.... or the beginning or the end.

Again, immaculate quality, professionally done, bound to last forever. Naturally, what you'd expect from Baseman Studios.

These are perfect for displaying on easels, coffee tables, bookshelves, or anywhere!

Sunkissed, Round 2 | Neenah Senior Photographer

It was time for some more work with the flash outdoors. So I rounded up Anna for another go in the sun.

Got a few good results, a few bad results, and spent the rest of the time having fun in the shade doing my favorite thing: natural light.

We did some editing together.. I was showing her some tricks that I use.

Oh, Photoshop layers, I love you. :)

One of my favorite natural lighting ones.

Keep your eyes peeled for more.

Lovely legs. | Neenah Senior Photographer

Vision #6 | Neenah Photographer

Number 6 in the "Vision Series: Works of Art."

Does your photographer have vision? Find one that does.

Somehow your brain just remembers colors more vivid, detail more intricate, and scenes more picturesque than it was in real life. Do we just automatically romanticize everything? Is the world dull and drab, except to our eyes?

You decide.

April showers bring April flowers!

Snapped some shots of daffodils right in the backyard yesterday... Tulips should be blooming soon.... Can't wait for the rest of spring!

Vision #2: does your photographer have it? | Fox Cities Photographer

In honor of the W. family, here's #2 in the "Vision Series: Works of Art."

Does your photographer have vision? Find one that does.

Vision: does your photographer have it? | Fox Cities Photographer

The new "Vision Series: Works of Art."

Does your photographer have vision?

Sample.. check it out!

Just a little something I threw together as a sample senior graduation announcement.

Mariah's Collage!

I finally gave her graduation gift to her this weekend.. I couldn't possibly wait until May! :)

This collage was a lot of fun to make!

Another collage

Just can't get enough of these lately! :)

This is a sample 10x30 collage.. These are perfect for hard to fit spots in your house, both horizontal and vertical.

Collage time!

A recent family project

Joel's great-grandpa Baseman is being inducted to the Wood Floor Association's Hall of Fame. They wanted me to fix this photo up a bit and try to make it a little sharper. This was a challenging project... good to test my skills again!

Another holiday card!

Sample holiday card

Here's a sample holiday card!

A little retouching action..

An attempt at making sharpness out of blurriness... click to view them larger.




Please note that these are not my images. All copyrights belong to the owner and have been used with permission.

Some more of Blair's shoot..

A little different action on this than before.

I love this one! I spent a couple hours messing around with the right textures (3 in all) and saturations getting the "right" look.. still didn't achieve what I saw in my head.. but I think it's better than what I was imagining. :) Also, I would have preferred to cut it off at the chest, but I didn't have a stepladder to get up high enough to do that. I like it anyway. Even the fingers.