Hello, and welcome to the KJ Blog! I'm Katelyn James, and my husband Michael and I are a wedding photography team based in Richmond, Virginia. We hope you grab some coffee (or a diet coke, in my case) and enjoy viewing our latest work, browsing resources for photographers, and getting a little peek into our life! Read more...
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We had their session scheduled for two Fridays ago and the forecast was not cooperating. We book up about two months in advance, and so I was THRILLED when we had a schedule change for the very next Friday, and Katherine and Nick were FREE! It was perfect timing, and we couldn’t have picked a better day. The light was perfectly soft and glowy! The temperature felt like a warm day in September, and these two were naturals!
I would say that easily 75% of the editing concerns that come up in our workshops and coaching sessions stem from one of two common issues. Either the photographer doesn’t know how to create “pop” in their images or they struggle with a lack of liveliness and warmth! It’s SO HARD to look at your own work and realize what is missing and causing an issue!! After I show them how they can WARM an image without over-doing it, and how I ALWAYS make sure that we avoid grey/blue skin tones in our images, it’s like I showed them a WHOLE NEW WORLD!!!! It’s simple and yet this secret is overlooked, because it requires using a less-popular slider in Lightroom!!
This is our second to last wedding of the year!!! How is it that time already?! We emailed Meagan when we found out we were pregnant, just to let her know, and her response couldn’t have been sweeter! Instead of being worried about how our pregnancy would affect our ability to photograph their wedding she was SO EXCITED for us! She explained that the videographer would be pregnant as well, and there were going to be over 20 kids at their wedding, so the more the merrier!! What she didn’t tell us is that 16 of those kiddos were Tom’s nieces and nephews! How incredible is that?! There were cousins everywhere!!!
Katelyn and her husband Michael are a husband and wife photography team based in Virginia. While they photograph all kinds of weddings – local and destination; in castles, beaches, and barns – their timeless style especially thrives while photographing vineyard, plantation and estate weddings in Charlottesville and Richmond VA. KATELYN JAMES : JOYFUL, GENUINE, TIMELESS.
