All New Website

If you haven't seen already, we have re-done our website! Check us out at www.litwinphotography.com. Clients and event guests can now use our all new client proofing and ordering system easily but entering the gallery with the password, and then simply add your photo choices to your favorites using the link at the top of the page, then simply click the shopping cart icon when you are ready to check out and you're ready to go!

Feedback is appreciated and welcome.

Hope

Jonathan & Erin's e-session

This last Saturday Jonathan and Erin came into town for their engagement session. We were supposed to do the shoot out on her mom's land, but due to the awful weather we've had this last week, we stayed inside for photos. They probably dressed a little fancier knowing their clothes weren't going to get dirty! They looked so classy and I had a great time taking their photos.



I look forward to doing your wedding this August!

New website coming soon!

I am currently re-designing the website and the new one is going to floor you! It is gorgeous, slick, photo driven and is a fully integrated site that will provide our clients with EVERYTHING they need from a photo studio :)

Here is a teaser...keep your eyes peeled for the launch of the new site soon.



Hope

Jason Day (UFC)

Last week local UFC fighter Jason Day came in for some promotional photos before heading out to fight in England. Once we got the standard needed shots out of the way, we got to play around with lighting for a bit and got some really dramatic effects.



Good luck in London, Jason!

Warren & Amber

Yesterday I got to do a really fun shoot when Warren brought his dog Amber in for some photos. We love photographing animals, and Amber was so sweet. Sometimes she was even a little too laid back because we couldn't get her attention when she had a belly rub in mind.

Chrysline's Maternity photos

On Tuesday Chrysline and her husband Michael came in for maternity photos. She is due in just a few weeks and is absolutely glowing. She has such a beautiful smile!


She brought her A&W uniform in so we also got to do some really fun photos, including this new take on the standard "mom and dad's belly" photo you see in a lot of maternity sessions:

Jason & Kristine

This last weekend Jan and I photographed Kristine and Jason's wedding, and had a great time doing so. It was like being with family; Kristine's mom Verna had us do her wedding last year, and the best man is married to one of my childhood friends. Everyone was so much fun to hang out with all day, and I must say, Kristine's dad looks great in hot pink.


Check out their slideshow for more of their photos!

Nathan & Kelly

With wedding season in full swing we had a beautiful wedding on April 26th with Nathan and Kelly. Tanya and I got to shoot this wedding and we had so much fun. The skies were blue, the wind was calm, and the sun was warm, we really couldn't have asked for a nicer day or a cooler couple. We also got to play a little in the studio and had some fun on the white high key back-drop for a change of pace.

WPPI Las Vegas 2008

We’ve been so busy with the onset of wedding season that until now I haven’t had a chance to write about WPPI 2008. Better late than never, right?

In March Sarah and I flew down to Vegas for our first ever WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) Convention and Tradeshow, leaving the Litwins back in Lethbridge to look after Jaxen.


We arrived a few days early and had the weekend to play around, but I was eagerly awaiting the tradeshow so I could pick up my new 40D (among other goodies).

At the opening reception we got a feel of how big the convention really was – over 20,000 photographers were in attendance!

The Young Guns Show was one of my favorite parts of the convention, featuring some awesome photographers all under 30. I was excited that Mike Larson came ready to do a demo. Last summer we saw this video of Mike’s infamous camera toss, and I was pretty stoked to see it in real life!
(Here's a link to the video of him in action)

You can see how daring (or terrifying!) it is even from where we were sitting in the back. (That object at the top of the photo is the camera, if you couldn't tell.)

The Tradeshow took up a ton of time, and I STILL could have spent an extra day there!

Here is Sarah standing on the new Olympus camera. I tried to talk her into Canon, but to no avail.

At the tradeshow, I ran into familiar faces: Mark from de Jourdan's with his wife Kristina! I never had time to arrange a meetup with them before leaving, so it was quite miraculous to run into them among the thousands of photographers who were there.

Sarah and I both saw some amazing speakers, but my favorite times were when we went out to the strip to try my new camera. We quickly learnt that when you have a camera and a model in Vegas at night, you get a lot of people who think they should be in your photos! Sarah was usually the model, but I took a few turns in front of the camera and even Sarah couldn’t help but admit Canon was great.


We barely slept while we were there but we had a great time, and I’m excited to go back again next year!