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Nate and Arancha Photography

Huntsville Baby, Children, and Family Photography

I have noticed that I barely use my blog anymore! But I do use our Facebook fan page waaaay more! So I encourage you to LIKE our page to get more updates and to see more images!

Here is the link! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Huntsville-AL/Nate-Arancha-Photography/59681445127?ref=ts

Have a great day!

Arancha

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Sneak Peek: Andrew and Ashley

A cute couple at Downtown Huntsville :) Can't wait to meet their baby! I'm already planning this newborn session!

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I love this shot! She is a cutie!

It was freezing but worth it! We got sooo many cute pictures of the 5 of them! They did a wonderful job and we had a lot of fun! She is a pro at decorating with balloons! She does an amazing job! So we decided to add a little bit of that to the pictures :)

Arancha

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Look at that cute little smile!

Her grandma came to the photo session and made her look at the camera for every pose! Every time she smiled, she would stick her little tongue out! I loved it! It´s just too cute! More to come!

Arancha

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A fun photo shoot with a very fun girl :)

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Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Baby, Children, Senior, and Family Photography

We have a winner!!!! Becky Cook, you get all four Christmas templates for your Christmas cards! :) Congratulations and thank you all for being a part of this giveaway!!!!!

Our First design giveaway!!!!! Get a free Christmas templates set!

Our first design giveaway! Get the whole set of Christmas Templates for free! All you have to do is share our Facebook page with your friends or fellow photographers on your Facebook and comment on our blog telling us that you did! The names will be drawn on Monday! :D

Another photographer's kit! R.C.M. Photography

One of my favorite families ever! They´re such a blessing!

Arancha

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Senior Sneak Peek: Alexandra

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Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Baby, Children, and Senior Photography

Photographer's Starter Kit: {B. Malpedo Photography}

Photographer's Starter Kit

If you ask any successful photographer what is one of the most important things to have a successful business, they will say branding. Branding shows your style, your personality, it makes a difference between your business and other photography businesses. It also sets a good presentation of your products. When I first started my business, I decided to design all my stationary and website all matching (and make it as cute as possible.) The problem: I wasn't very good at designing, so it took me a lot of time and design changes to find what I wanted!

With our new photographer's starter kit, you will have a cd case, letterhead, label, and thank you note designed with your business colors (all matching!) You can print them all yourself or order them, depending on how many clients you are having or what printer you use. I sometimes just buy my own linen paper and print it out myself! And it looks great!

So if you are interested, send us an email and order yours for only $20!

Arancha

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Christmas Card #3

It's gonna be a 4 card collection! I'm having so much fun designing these!

Christmas Cards Templates!

We are now offering Christmas Cards templates! We have two designs now but we are working on two more :)

We hope they can be a help for your business or simply for your own Christmas cards this year!

Send us an email if you are interested!

Arancha

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This one is my favorite so far! Let us know if you need a different color!

I love family sessions!! I cant wait for my own family photo shoot!

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Senior: Bekah

I honestly had a blast taking these pictures! All my seniors are just amazing! We were able to visit a couple of places and the very last one was Burrit on the Mountain. It had beautiful spots to photograph! I cant wait to go back!

This time I had my friend Damaris come with me to take care of my baby. She made him laugh so hard! Nate wasn't able to come, so I honestly almost lost my head somewhere. I'm so used to having him with me during photoshoots that I kept forgetting my lens, my keys, my phone...at each spot I took a picture lol But thanks to Bekah's mom (who was a wonderful assistant) I made it! She kept making me laugh and she was such a blessing to us!

And don't ask Bekah how I made her laugh for the pictures. She will probably say that I made her laugh by command...not sure if that really happened (or maybe it did hehe).

I hope you enjoy these images! She was so natural at posing that most of the time I didn't even need to tell her what to do. She just looked that good standing in front of the camera :)

Have a great weekend!

Arancha

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What a princess :)

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Nate and Arancha photography-Huntsville Baby, Children, and Family Photography

Look what a beautiful family we photographed in Knoxville!

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A very intellectual baby :)

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Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Baby, Children, and Family Photography

I won a $50 gift certificate to spend at Love by CC! Check out her etsy website! She has such adorable photography props!!!!! I already ordered 2 newborn hats!!!! Can't wait to see them!!!!!

Have a great day and do not forget about our referral program! Let us know if you have any question!

Arancha

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Senior: Erica

I had so much fun taking these pictures! I love it when our customers are up to any idea we have! We found some spots that I had never seen before and right by my house! So we tried like 5 locations that I had never used before, including a field (which turned out in some sunflare pictures:) ) She is a very sweet girl and I can´t wait to see what the Lord has prepared for her!

Thank you so much Erica!

Arancha

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Referral Program

Every year, September is to me like the beginning of a new year. It means colder weather, beautiful colorful leaves on the trees with the coming of the fall, school, new styles...I just love September! And after reviewing some aspects of my business, I realized of some changes I needed to make. One of them is our referrals. It is something I had been wanting to do but I was never sure how to approach it. So here it is! Nate and Arancha Photography´s Referral Program! Here are all the details!

- You must be a customer of Nate & Arancha Photography, which means, you have already booked and had a session with us.

- The number of referrals is unlimited. The more people we book from your referrals, the more savings for you!

- For each full session we book from your referral, we will give you a $20 credit for you to use in any product or session. You can do a mini session, full session, purchase cards or an album...

- For every mini session we book from your referral, we will give you a $10 credit.

- For every 5 referrals we book from you....you get a COMPLIMENTARY MINI SESSION! (and all your pictures on cd!)

Or

- For every 7 referrals we book from you...COMPLIMENTARY FULL SESSION! (and all the pictures on cd, of course!)

We are always trying to improve our business. Not only in our images, but also in giving our customers a great service. Suggestions are more than welcomed! But we hope that with our referral program we can be a blessing to you as you will be to us!

For more information, contact us! info@nateandaranchaphotography.com

Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Baby, Children, and Family Photography

Love photographing baby girls!

As photogenic as her mommy! Remember Mayra's maternity pictures? Here is her baby girl! She's already older than a month!

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Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Baby, Children, and Family Photography

Discussion Board and freebies!

We´re starting topics on our Discussions Board! (on our Facebook fan page) I think it will be a great way for us photographers to help one another! I´m not the best photographer out there, but anything I can help with, I´ll be glad to!!! So all photographers, let me know any topic you would like for me to start! It can be lighting, editing, albums, poses, etc...I started two already! Check it out and give your opinions! :)

Also, I´ve been giving a freebie. So if you want it too, make sure you comment on my freebie post on Facebook!

Here is the link to our fan page!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Huntsville-AL/Nate-Arancha-Photography/59681445127?ref=ts

Thank you!

Arancha

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Coffee Table Books

I remember when Nate and I were looking for a wedding photographer. One of the things that really wowed us was the magazine style books. We thought it was the most amazing wedding product ever. Now as photographers, we have seen all kind of albums that we love and would love to have for our wedding pictures. But this, a coffee table book, still remains special. I spent hours designing this one and was looking forward to seeing the results. And here it is! A 10x10 coffee table book with a custom hard cover. It is one of those books that you can leave on your coffee table permanently and it won't make your house look like you didn't pick up. It's just made to be there and show to all your guests the story of one of the most wonderful days of your life. From beginning to end. The whole story of your wedding day.

I hope you like it!

Arancha

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Complimentary set of cards with your August session!

August Promotion! Book your session for August and you will receive a complimentary mini accordion book or a set of cards! (this includes birth announcements, Christmas cards, senior cards, etc.). This is the one I designed today. Colors and layout can be customized! :) I'm thinking Christmas for mine!!

Email us or call us to get yours! info@nateandaranchaphotography.com

Have a blessed day!

Arancha

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Our past 5 months

Wow, it's been a long time since I have posted anything personal! It has been a wonderful 5 months being a mommy! An I am looking forward to enjoying many many more! Sure some parts have been tough...but God has blessed us with such a wonderful and good baby, that the tough parts have been veeeeery few :) We have a smily, happy little boy that loooves to look around, see people, see colors, play with mommy and daddy... I just love him!

I had to put my photography aside for a little while! I honestly didn't find the time to do anything but I finally organized my days better where I can get everything done and get free time to just play with him! :) And I am very excited to see that our fall calendar is filling up! I'm working on new products and offers that I will be posting about soon!

This last contest has been my favorite! I once realized that since God had blessed us with the ability to take pictures, we should use it to help others too! Also, when I was little, I looooved contests and always tried to participate to win something. Unfortunately, the winning part didn't work so well for me lol but I still enjoy seeing other people winning! and even more giving others the opportunity to win! All these questions that were asked were awesome! It was fun answering all your emails and please, if you have any other question you would like for me to answer (even when there is no contest), let me know and I can write a blog post about it :)

One of my photography dreams has been for a while to have my own photography workshop...I don't see it happening anytime soon though! But helping others in photography is something I truly enjoy! Although I need to be helped too in many areas!

Today is saturday! Family time, shopping, movie...I'm looking forward to it! On my shopping list: candy for my family in Spain, picture printing, and sippy cups lol

Wow... I rambled like nobody else lol

Have a good weekend!!!!!

Arancha

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Little Sergi :)

F.A.Q. Poses

How do y'all get so many great ideas with locations and how the people pose? Are they more your ideas or do the people in the pictures give their opinions?

I love cities, so usually I will find downtown (in whatever city we are at) and walk around a lot! its helpful to be there a day before or an hour before and check out the location. It helps get ideas and poses so when you get there with the clients, you know what you want, and the session will flow :)

For couples' poses: before I started the business, I used to check a looooot of photography websites from David Jay, Jasmine Star, and other famous photographers for inspiration. I would look at a lot of wedding magazines too just to get inspired. I would think about a session and then write down or even draw poses that I had in my head so I wouldnt forget and I would bring the paper with me to the session and review it on the way to the session.

I always pose them the way I like or the way I think would go well with the background, couple...and then tell them to feel comfortable with each other. If they feel awkward in that pose, it's gonna be noticeable in the picture. So if they feel comfortable, they will look more natural in the pictures, which is what I am looking for. I usually choose a pose, have them look at me for the first shot and smile, and then have them interact with each other and just take a lot of pictures while they are having fun with each other, talking, or just looking at each other. As I take pictures, I move around and try different angles of each pose.

Look for walls or just play with the depth of field. A head-shot at a 1.8 aperture will have a very blurry background and make the subject pop! And if there are some colors in the back it can help a lot!

I hope this is what you were looking for!

Stay tuned, I'll be posting pictures of a very cute little boy!!!

God bless you!

Arancha

F.A.Q. Lenses

What lenses would you recommend investing in?

It all depends on your budget. I loooove the 50mm 1.4 and I use it 90% of the time. It's sharp and lets you take pictures in low light situations :) But if you can afford it, go the 28-80 mm 2.8 or the 50mm 1.2! The 50mm 1.2 is my dream lens right now :)

I hope this helped!!!!!

Have a great day!

Arancha

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A beautiful baby girl!