Pro Photography Workshop - Aug 8 & 9

This is our last Pro Workshop of the year!


Friday, October 8 - 2010
5pm: How to build a 6-figure studio in half the time we did
6pm: Shutter Speed vs. Aperture vs. P mode
7-8pm: Live High School Senior session with video lights and flash

Saturday, October 9 - 2010
9am: “Confessions of an Efficiency Freak” - using Lightroom, Photoshop, and Google docs for efficient workflow
11am: Building Your Price List & how to make a $6000 high school senior sale
12pm: Lunch (provided) & individual portfolio reviews
1pm: Using Facebook - why our Facebook page has twice the traffic as our website and blog combined
2pm: Mastering Lighting - Off Camera Flash using Radio Poppers
3-5pm: Live Engagement Session

Bring your camera and brain! Workshop sponsored by WHCC and ProDPI labs - registration form located at www.JuddSatherPhotography.com: $395 for both days and photographers may keep images for portfolio development! Half price tuition for high school and college students.
Enrollment limited to 20 photographers only.

Justin + Marit: 09.25.2010 (Graves 601 and Wayzata Community Church)

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Register to be notified when Justin and Marit's images are ready to be viewed - the "event key" is Marit's maiden name.
Order Professional Prints! (Get free doubles if ordered by December 25, 2010)
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Click here to view Justin & Merit's Wedding Album Pre-design!

Caramel Apple Cake. I almost want to stop the blog post there, it was such awesome cake. some day I would love to have a "cake-off" between Jason and Tara's Red Velvet Cake (August 7 post) and Justin and Marit's Caramel Apple Cake. Caramel Apple edge on uniqueness, Red Velvet edge on taste. We might have to arrange that...

This was a magnificent day September day with no wind, blue skies, and just the right amount of sun. We got some really cool images both at the Graves 601 and down on the docks on Lake Minnetonka. The owner of Sunsets happened to have his yacht out so the wedding party got up on it - great stuff. I love the reflection image of Justin and Marit in the water. We had ducks, trains, and jsut all sorts of eye candy. It was fun to get there early to get some extra getting ready footage including the guys raiding the fridge - hopefully they didn't have to pay for the "kit" they pulled out of the holder in there...

Also great to work with the guys from Capture Studios doing video for Justin and Marit - their video will be amazing! - Judd and Josh

Jeff + Kate: 09.24.10

Images are private!

Kyra - High School Senior Elite Session

We had this great 3-hour session with Kira the other day, complete with getting booted off some property by the COPS. Good thing because we probably wouldn't have gotten the sunflower and road shot at the end - two of my favorites of the year... enjoy! -Judd

Morning Glory

This is what I woke up to Sunday morning. I'm posting the image SOOC style (straight out of camera). The colors were gone before I could change my camera settings - unreal.

African Wildlife Photography!

All photographs by Lee Sather - Produced by Studio J Inc.

Enjoy!

Michael + Rachel: 09.11.2010 (Wesley Methodist Church & Jax Café)

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Click here to view pre-designed album

Finally a gorgeous day! What a nice break from a hot and rainy summer. I was nursing a sore throat throughout the day but Michael and Rachel made it all go away. I wrote that just because it rhymed, but I did have a sore throat.

Rachel had a beautiful haute couture dress that we broke a hook on due to a "lift" shot in downtown Minneapolis. I proceeded to try to sew it back together on the limo complete with safety pin, but one of the bridesmaids did a little better job later - good thing Amanda had that sewing kit!

Two great venues - the historic Wesley Church and Jax Cafe in downtown Minneapolis. I thought the carpet in the bride's room at the church stunk but it was actually just the veggie tray (the brocolli specifically).

There was also this cool photo wall at the reception that made for some fun images during the reception. We created some of my favorite images of the year outside Wesley and at the Guthrie with some full sun behind. Rachel and Michael are just an amazing couple that smiled pretty much the whole day - not bad for a girl who said "she'd never get married." These guys are off to Seattle and San Francisco for their honeymoon - don't forget Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory! -Judd and Joe (video will be coming later)



Here is their Fusion video!

Fine Art Album Revision Deadline - Sept 22

Fine art album deadline is Sept 22 to get revisions in for weddings and seniors! We can guarantee them for the holidays if revisions are in by then. Otherwise we're at the mercy of the Italian album company (Graphistudio) after that. Hey, they make them by hand. Email us with ?'s: info@studiojphoto.com

Justin + Melody: 09.05.2010 (Northwestern College and Scandia family farm)

Wedding Links:
Register to be notified when Justin and Melody's images are ready to be viewed - the "event key" is Melody's maiden name.
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Album pre-design

The toasts are my favorite part of weddings because they are so unscripted and heartfelt. Cathy and Paul are amazingly articulate, well-spoken, and funny. Paul talked about Justin's humility, and I was thinking about how both Justin and Melody have the same uncanny and perfect blend of confidence and humility.

I also love family farm receptions - they are so personal and it's fun looking around at all the details that required countless hours of preparation: sod lines cut around the tress with perfect mounds of mulch, new wax on the hayloft dance floor, sheer fabric strings of lights in the animal stalls, underlighting in the seemingly cloned trees lining the driveway, homemade signs for parking, and crazy animals like the growling Scottish Highlander cow and spontaneously sprinting shetland pony. Nice job Syd and crew!

We have been lucky enough to capture images of Melody 4 times now. The first time was when we just captured a single image of her in a dress that her mom wanted her to wear for the wedding, and Melody presented it to her during her battle with cancer. The whole wedding day, it seemed like we were almost working with models at a staged wedding because we felt so comfortable shooting with each other in a very short timeframe and because, well, Justin and Melody are really beautiful people (inside and out). Except as Cathy and Paul pointed out in the toasts that Melody is a slob and Justin loves hair product. Humility! Awesome.

Some of my favorite images are below and they don't need much description, other than the cool barn spider and Justin and his pipe (we thought it would be funny since he is a philosophy professor.) We shot a little video during the day and we'll try to post that as well at a later date. -Judd, Josh, Joe, Jenna, and Melissa

















Here is their engagement video:


And the fashion video Melody debuted her magnificent mermaid dress:

storyhill fest midwest

Coming soon. What an awesome night!