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come join our party | lincoln nebraska photographer

  • February 10, 2014/
  • Posted By : Sarah/
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  • Under : Babies, Families, Kids, Newborns, News, Photo stuff, Pregnancy

In March of 2014 Uniquely You Photography celebrates NINE amazing years of photographing some of Lincoln’s most adorable little people (and their beautiful families). As a “thank you” for the memories, kind words, and encouragement through the years, I thought it would be fun to have a giveaway!

Celebrating 9 years means there are NINE awesome prizes!!

– (1) Complimentary session + 10 digital files
– (3) $300 gift certificates
– (5) $150 gift certificates

A winner will be drawn this Friday, February 14th.  Head over to our Facebook page to see how to enter.

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logan + talon | child photographer lincoln nebraska

  • February 7, 2014/
  • Posted By : Sarah/
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  • Under : Kids

At the beginning of July I met up with these sweet little ones for Talon’s final session of his Bebe Plan. Such a handsome little dude!  I have been photographing both of these kiddos since they were newborns and no matter how many times I see it, I just cannot wrap my brain around how fast kids change.  I always joke with my clients that I need to add a babysitting service to my business so I can see my little clients more often throughout the year. :)

I can still remember both of their newborn sessions like it was yesterday.  We’ve captured so many wonderful moments over the years…like the time during her mama’s maternity photos where Logan hated me and cried for the first 20 minutes of the session. ;) She was completely fine after that and we got some of my very favorite images that day.  I wasn’t offended at all, such is the nature of a 2 year old.  The most important part is that we are friends now and she is completely adorable. :)  Talon is always such a happy guy and full of smiles…and the baby chub, how can you resist? Too cute!

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koa + luna | lincoln nebraska child photographer

  • February 6, 2014/
  • Posted By : Sarah/
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  • Under : Families, Kids

Let’s face it…there is not much cuter than these two little people….or the whole family really. Just picture perfect. :)  Beautiful inside and out. They are easy to photograph and make my job a breeze.  Luna is as sweet as can be with a sprinkle of sass and I have no doubt Koa will be an amazing musician someday – so very talented.

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will turned one! | lincoln nebraska child photographer

  • February 5, 2014/
  • Posted By : Sarah/
  • 10 comments /
  • Under : Kids

I’m still digging through my archives from the last 6 months of 2013.  This post takes us all the way back to June!  Will was a member of my Bebe Plan and had his final session – he turned the big #1!  A big thank you to Will’s mama for choosing me to capture his first year.  It’s always an honor to witness the tremendous changes in these little people over the first year.  This little fella had me at hello…big brown eyes! :) The sweet baby teeth…aaannd dimples?! Holy cuteness! And the super bonus…a thumb sucker. I am a complete sucker for the thumb suckers.  Is there anything more adorable?  Surely not.

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print lab comparison | i purchased my digital files, now what?

  • February 4, 2014/
  • Posted By : Sarah/
  • 24 comments /
  • Under : Photo stuff

So you’ve invested in your portrait session…your clothing, your time — you’ve probably had to pay up on that toy you promised for good behavior during the photo session ;).  You’ve done a lot of planning and coordinating.  You’ve seen your gallery of lovely images and decided you couldn’t part with any of them. You’ve purchased your digital files – now what?  

I’ve seen several others write about their own print lab comparisons and I’ve always been curious to try my own. Since wanting to own the digital files from your session is becoming increasingly more popular, my objective here was to illustrate the inconsistencies among consumer print labs; the labs you might choose to print your digital files.  What labs can you trust? Any?

Your photographer more than likely (hopefully!) uses a professional print lab.  Most photographers work on a color calibrated monitor which assigns a color profile to your images. Professional print labs are able to print your images from a specific color profile which is imbedded into each digital file.  Consumer print labs generally print from a single color profile (not one specific to your file), which often results in poor color representation.  For my test, I sent the same exact file to 6 different print labs – my professional lab and 5 other labs – Walgreens, Walmart, Target, Mpix, and UnitPrints.  I actually sent 5 different images to each of these labs and I was sure to choose images that had varying colors.  I’m not going to share all 5 here, but you can get a good idea of the results with the 2 shared below.  ETA: All files were digitally uploaded directly from my computer. I did print from one specific store.  When given the option I chose “Do not color correct” as I had already edited them on a calibrated monitor. 

A little proof that I did indeed have all the images printed…:)

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Now for the disclaimer: I will admit that these are scanned prints and do have a slight loss of quality due to the scanning process. Most all of them scanned in a bit worse than they actually printed and because that’s the nature of scanning, I went in and matched each one up to the printed file to give the best representation of the printed image. I held each print up to the scanned image on my monitor and made adjustments to give the true color representation.  I am a total geek about color so just trust me on this. ;)

This first image I chose because it had a gray background.  Gray is a neutral, right? WRONG. Much like choosing the perfect neutral gray paint is nearly impossible, so is printing a neutral gray backdrop apparently. ;)

The top left image shows my digital file I uploaded – straight off my computer. The top right is the printed image from my professional lab. Again, because of the scanning it looks slightly different, but I can positively say the print from my professional lab is almost an exact match to my original file.  Now for the others…Walgreens was consistently deep yellow and printed much darker than the original file in all the files that I sent in.  Walmart wasn’t much better. Consistently red.  Almost having a sunburned effect in the shadow areas.  Target was consistently blue across the board and an overall lack of contrast. Blacks were not black. Deep shadows did not have any dimension.  As far as highlights and shadows, Mpix printed okay but the overall green cast on the image – not good.  I have to say for this image, UnitPrints was the clear winner. It was very slightly more blue than the original file, but it was pretty darn close.

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This next image was a vibrant outdoor image with an array of colors…

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You can see again that Walgreens and Walmart were equally ICK! Walgreens was very yellow and Walmart an overall red cast.  Walgreens was especially bad on this particular print. Target was again lackluster with very little overall contrast. The color from Target wasn’t as drastic as the first image, but that just shows you never know what you’re going to get from one file to the next. Unpredictable.  Like the first image comparison, the Mpix image has an overall green cast.  It may not be obviously noticeable to some, but pay close attention to the blue color of the truck in the background and the long curls of the subject on the right.  Green cast is especially noticeable in subjects with blonde hair.  UnitPrints was again rather impressive – just very slight color inconsistencies.  In fact, UnitPrints was the best print for every image.

In the interest of full disclosure, until now I have referred my clients who have purchased digital files to Mpix. Mpix is a very reputable and well known company – I’ve had several decent batches of prints from them, and never a client complaint, but was recently made aware of other photographers who were having color inconsistencies with Mpix as well.  This was also part of the reason for this print lab research.  While I do think with the paper/print quality and attention to detail each file gets – printing through your professional photographer is ultimately the best way to go, I feel confident in referring clients who opt to buy digital files to UnitPrints.  While the paper seemed a bit thinner than the professional print, the color quality was most consistent with each of the digital files tested.

ETA: These results were from my files from my computer and are my opinions only.  I found the comparisons very interesting in general and I encourage all you professional photographers reading to do your own.  If you have good results with Mpix, that is great, keep using them if it works for you!  I think the most important thing is to be able to give your clients a solid referral to a lab you know that has great results. It will ease any frustrations on both your parts.  For clients, ask your photographer if they have recommendations for you.

And now that we have the above established…..I want to talk directly to those clients that purchase digital files. :)  On behalf of every professional photographer out there I want to beg you….if you purchase your digital files, PLEASE print them!!!  Pleeeaase.  With a cherry on top. ;) You have invested so much time (and money!) into your portrait session — to have these beautiful images created for you — but the reality is, most times we are too busy and that disc of digital files gets thrown in a drawer never to be printed.  This is maddening to us photographers! We simply cannot comprehend it. ;)  So please, print your images so you can enjoy them, so you can smile every time you walk past that wall in your home, so you can pass on those family memories when the time comes…and if not for any other reason, so you save your photographer some sanity. :)

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Sarah Ulrich is a professional photographer in Lincoln Nebraska. Uniquely You Photography specializes in photographing newborns, babies, kids and families. If you’re a fan of our blog, come follow along on our Facebook page!


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