Just Awesome Monday | Showing off our Friends

This post is short and sweet folks! I’m running around like crazy getting prepped for our first STYLED SHOOT tomorrow – I’m so excited I can barely handle it and I cannot WAIT to show off all the fun stuff we have in store!

For today, we just wanted to share the amazing video of our dear friend Natalie’s Wedding. We have been so blessed to have Natalie become a bigger part of our lives this year and although we weren’t at her wedding, we were able to share in the day thanks to the images of the fabulous Katelyn James, and of course, the video we are sharing here from Josh Gooden. When we first started in this industry, it felt like just me and Jen against the world. We didn’t know it was OKAY to be friends with others in the industry, and we definitely had no idea how important our “industry friends” would become to us. I use the term industry friends in quotations because truthfully, they are our best friends. Our business has brought us more joy than we ever thought possible, and one of the biggest ways it has done that is through the people we’ve met, the friends we’ve made, and the joy we’ve gotten to share with them all. Natalie + Huey, we are SO excited for you guys! -A

June 11, 2013 - 12:24 am

Josh Gooden - Thank you so much for sharing this! I love how we all connected so much through WPPI. We need to have another reunion soon!

June 10, 2013 - 10:39 am

Natalie - You both are too sweet for words! I love you to pieces! Thank you for sharing our video and for celebrating with us from afar! Xoxo!

June 10, 2013 - 10:34 am

Katie - I could watch Natalie’s video all day!! I loved it!! I feel so lucky to have her (and both of your!!) as my friends! Love you guys! xoxo

The JA Breakdown | PASS + Prints = LOVE!

Happiest of happy Fridays!

As you know, we’ve been using PASS as our image delivery software for the 2013 wedding season and we are LOVING it. Never has it been more easy for us to get images to both our clients and vendors quickly, but most importantly with a professional, clean and beautiful look that everyone is LOVING!

Our only “gripe” with PASS is that we were still having to upload our photos to two different places as lots of our clients, their friends and their families were wanting to order professional prints and PASS did not yet offer this service.  We love when our clients take the time to get their images printed to display in their homes, and when we get to create heirloom albums and canvas wall art for our couples we are SO excited! Your photos were made to be held in your hands and put on your walls, not hidden away in a drawer or living inside your computer! So we had no problems uploading to a second place so that family and friends could get beautiful, professional grade prints made from their photos, vs. heading to WalMart and hoping for the best, but it did create a “bottleneck” of sorts in our business.

Last week, PASS announced that their new print feature was rolling out and ready to go LIVE. I’m not gonna lie I literally stalked my email waiting to get the email saying our account was active! We’re well into our heavy season and we have lots of clients and families that are ready to get some prints made from the gorgeous weddings we’ve had this year!

PASS has partnered up with an AMAZING professional lab and is offering professional prints at an incredible price. 4×6′s are $1.00, 5×7′s are $2.00, and 8×10′s are $4.00, with a flat rate shipping of $6.00 – these are the sizes that our clients friends and families most want to order of themselves or of family pictures, so we are so happy to be able to let our couples, their families and friends go through and print whatever they would like! They can order straight from the gallery and all payment and shipping is handled through PASS – LOVE IT!

Now of course, for albums, larger prints, and canvases, we want our couples to come back to us and let us order for them, making sure we can be a part of the process in helping them choose the best images as well as having quality control over the printing process to make sure they are getting the beautiful prints they deserve. But for the quick gift prints and fun shots from the reception, we are LOVING this new offering from PASS!

So, how does it work? Easy peasy! I’ve included some screenshots below with instructions on how folks can print images from their PASS galleries! To all of our clients with PASS galleries, this feature is now LIVE on your gallery, so feel free to share your links with family and friends so they can order prints! xoxo! – A

 

1 | Access the PASS gallery – in this case, we’re using Karen + Jeff’s gorgeous Key West Wedding as an example! http://jenandashley.pass.us/karenandjeff

2 | Click on an individual image. When you do this, you’ll see a menu appear on the right hand side of the screen. Select the bottom button (the one indicated by my sweet pink arrow below) to go into the print feature!

3 | Order Prints! Once you select the print button, it will ask you to either login or create an account. If you already have a PASS account, just login and then you’ll see this shopping cart pop up! If you haven’t created an account, you can do so via Facebook or using your email address! Once you are in the print cart, select the sizes and quantity you want for that image, then feel free to keep shopping or checkout! Click the view cart button to checkout!

4 | Checkout! Once you’re ready to checkout and have made all of your print selections, go into view cart and this screen will appear. You’ll need to click that top arrow button at the top of the screen (enter sweet pink arrow again!)

5 | Confirm your order! Make sure everything looks right in the menu, then select the “checkout now” button!

6 | Enter your info and wait for goodness to arrive at your doorstep! Fill in all your info, payment into, and shipping info and you’ll all set. HOORAY!

June 7, 2013 - 1:53 pm

ashley goodwin - I love love loveeeeee me some prints, hooray! :)

Lyndsey | Back Bay Maternity Session

It sounds cliche to say, but one of the greatest joys I have as a photographer is watching my clients go from being sometimes total strangers, to people we consider our dear friends, to husband and wife, and eventually to parents, home-owners, puppy owners, and everything in between. We truly are VESTED in our clients lives and when we get to experience life with them, it’s the best reward of any job, ever.

We knew Lyndsey and Forrest just a little bit before their wedding, but through the planning process and months afterwards, they’ve become some of best friends. We are SO excited for this next chapter in their lives and we just know that River is going to be the coolest, most mischievous little nugget around. I seriously cannot wait to meet him!

I’m sharing a super quick peek today, as I shot this session mostly in film and I cannot wait to get the scans back to share the rest! This session was just dying to be shot in film! More coming soon! – A

 

June 7, 2013 - 6:19 am

Krista A. Jones - Seriously ladies, these photos are STUNNING! The light is just incredible and Lyndsey is gorgeous! Amazing work!

June 6, 2013 - 6:42 pm

tPoz - beautiful!!

June 6, 2013 - 4:50 pm

jennifer - so sweet! I love how light and airy the images are.

June 6, 2013 - 1:27 pm

Donn - YOU are awsome! Thanks for giving me images I can cherish forever!

June 6, 2013 - 11:46 am

Lyndsey - love love love! You’re too good for words my friend <3

June 6, 2013 - 10:27 am

Natalie - That light… oh my goodness! Gorgeous shoot!

June 6, 2013 - 10:22 am

Emilia Jane - Love that last image!! <3