Archive for Photography
Holiday Gift Special!
I know, it’s barely the end of summer and I am offering a special for the holidays! What!? Well, it’s important to get things on the books if you want something for the winter holiday, so don’t wait until the last minute to call for a session. To give you a little encouragement I am offering $25 off of any boudoir or couples package if you get your session on the books by September 1st. The session must be scheduled for sometime between September 1st and December 15th.
Do you have an actor in your life you would like to give a unique gift to? I have very affordable headshots packages.
Please check out my packages here: http://www.heatherbartlettart.com/prices/
Call to schedule your session: 301-638-1072
Snow Angels
I have had these photos for months, just taunting me to be processed. I have wanted to work on them, but when I work on art photos, it’s a process. I can’t just pop in the disk and upload them to the website. I have to lovingly look through all of the images and narrow them down to the most compelling, in my artistic vision. I have to then edit them, if they need it – bump up contrast, saturate the hues. Sometimes the photos don’t look like what I saw with my eyes and I try to make them closer to what I saw. Sometimes I want them to be more dreamy or I want to make a collage out of them. Anyway, it takes time and focus for me to do these photos. That’s why it takes so long sometimes. Also, these are my fun projects I do for myself and my friends and sometimes they have to take a backseat to work I get paid for. Especially now with my house divided, I really need to step up my business or I will have to stop doing art and photography full time and start working retail or something. I will basically be back to where I was well before I was married.
Anyway, these projects are a lot of fun for me and they are very rewarding.
Before the weekend is out I plan to make prints available through my etsy store! Send me lots of energy to help me out!
These are not the last of the Snow Angels photos either – there are more to come!
Boudoir Photos & Erotica Portraits
I enjoy boudoir and erotica photography. I love to honor women and find their goddessy self. One of the things I most want to do is make every woman feel beautiful, sexy and desireable. In my opinion, it’s a vital part of being a woman.
I plan on selling prints of some of my erotica in the very near future and hope you will find the beauty in each subject who has ventured into this bit of my realm…and yours.
Also, I offer boudoir photography as a service. You could have your own boudior photos taken as a gift for somebody, or simply for yourself to celebrate the wonderful goddessy YOU!
Photos from private sessions are confidental unless approved for release by the client. No worries!
This is Amy, and there is more of her to come.
More Fairy Fun
I am having a lot of fun with my fairy photos and my fairytale storybook classics.
Last year was rough for me, emotionally. It’s nice to be bringing some of the magic and wonder back into my world. It’s also nice to remember, and be reminded by those who love and appreciate me, that I have something to offer.
Here is another image of Kyle. I did her senior portraits. You need only look a few blog posts back to see a few of them. I also have used a couple of photos from that session to turn into fairy portraits.
I hope to have a very busy little studio this year. Call me.
Fairytale Fun
I would like to recreate some of the magic of classic fairytales with my photography. I had Ariel in my studio recently posing as Sleeping Beauty. I am waiting on another model this afternoon – who I have to take photos of to collage and layer into the Sleeping Beauty photos, but I wanted to just play with one of the images from Ariel’s session.
I am planning on making prints and posters with the character’s name in beautiful lettering. Postcards, stationary and other items as well. Maybe a book of all of them together. I have often thought of doing my own version of the classic tales and including photos for the illustrations of the story.
Anyway, I did very little to this image – the model is lovely and her dress was well suited to the character. She and her sister designed and made the dress, which is amazing in itself!
I hope to download a number of more elaborate fonts that have a bit more flourish. I don’t always like fancy fonts, but I think some fancy fonts for this is important. Something castle-ee. Something princess-ee.
I have several other characters in mind that I would like to shoot as soon as possible. I’d like to have some of this stuff ready for the fairy festival if I jury in.
Change is Good
I can report to you, my friends, that I am having a happy day. Those were harder to come by during all of my turmoil months back in trying to figure things out, but as with any real change and growth there is some fire, some shaking, some opening of the earth. But at some point, that all settles back down and cools and we are left with a new landscape. It’s different than the old one, but that’s not all bad and even exciting sometimes as you have new places to explore.
I wanted to share with you some of the photos from a recent “Senior Portraits” shoot I did in my little home studio. The model is named Kyle, and she is a senior at McDonough High School. She has long loved old movies, so some of her more personality-driven photos included that theme.
I am working on a page with price schedules for portraits, headshots and fantasy collages, like the one at the bottom, I made from Kyle’s shoot. That page will have all of the pricing and scheduling information on it. I will post a link to it as soon as it’s done. Thanks so much for looking at my photos!
Fantasy Photos and Ethereal Portraits
I am going to be applying for several festivals next year. I’ll let you know which ones I make it in to. For the faerie festivals (Maryland and Pennsylvania) I am working out a way to set up my booth to take photos on-the-spot to then collage as a fantasy portrait. If you always wanted to be a faerie, this is a way to do it and a great way to display your otherkin side.
I also enjoy doing simple portraits that have a bit of a dreamy feel to them. This also lends itself to boudoir photography, which I will also be offering.
I would like to try to get into Unique Boutique. I don’t know if they have room and I’d still have to be juried in and I’d have to decide which medium I want to submit for – 3-d or paintings.
I also may do River Artsfest this year, which is non-juried.
Of course if Artomatic is around I will be doing Body Politics there.
Anyway, I was thinking of offering these both as a service and for some of my photos, offering them as prints and card, etc.
I am working on a webpage devoted to my photography and will list prices and scheduling availability there.
Portraits and Headshots
I have been gearing up with the studio to prepare for all sorts of fun and business. I recently had the pleasure of shooting portraits of my mentor, Tammy Vitale.
She has been a huge encouragement to me. I have found over and over that I really enjoy shooting in the studio and trying to bring out the best in somebody. To capture their essence in a way that they are proud to display. It makes me way down happy when a client is overjoyed at the images.
Studio News
The new fence is in and the gate is up. I know it seems silly but I love my new door. Sometimes it isn’t a matter of a door being fancy, it’s about getting rid of the old ugly door!
Below is the OLD door. Very 1970s in a *bad* way. Installed poorly and a badly added doggy door. The thing was a wreck. I hated the sight of it. It would unsettle my delicate visual sensibilities. But no longer!
Below is the NEW shiney door. I believe it will look smashing with a lovely sign, don’t you? And a new light fixture as well.
These small improvements to my photo studio will make the place much more weatherized and pleasant to look at too.
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’
Hello beautiful people. I have been neck-deep in personal emotional trauma for most of this year and am trying hard to step away from that wreckage. I’ve got some real bumps and bruises on my soul, but I’m still kickin’ and I’m here to tell you that I am ready to roll.
Will and I have been working on getting the photo studio in ship-shape. It will yield more shooting space when we are done and better weather-proofing. The studio is a two-car detached garage, so it can get darn hot and cold in there, depending on the time of year. We are working hard to make the space functional and comfortable. After all, we want you goddesses who come by to get your photos done to feel beautiful and decadent – which is difficult to do when your tootsies are freezing.
I am also venturing into the world of headshots and portraits again. I have had a few people approach me about doing senior portraits for their kids, which I love the idea of doing. I am also going to start offering packages for my fantasy portraits as well. Come on, you know you always wanted to be a fairy! And ladies, finally I will be offering boudoir photography. It’s something I have contemplated for a long time and I think I’m ready to throw my hat into that arena. I have had some ladies tell me that they would love to do something like that. Well, I love the idea and I’m pushing ahead with it.
I expect the studio to be fully functioning by January. You can look for updates and package information here. I will let you know how my studio is changing and I will also add some video logs – which I’ve begun doing on my Weighting for You blog.
I’m very excited about all of this, if you can’t tell and I need the positive energy to push me into emotional recovery.
I’m hoping also to add some portrait galleries to this site today so you can see some of the work I’ve already done in that regard. However, you can click on galleries on the menu and see my fairy portraits.
Have a beautiful day.
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