Textures is something I have never really been interested in when dealing with post-processing. I must say, I like colorful real images with a little touch of vintage, and I don't like to overdo post-processing. When I saw other photographers edit their images with textures, I loved the results, but it just was not my cup of tea...till I heard about the Florabella textures. Once again, I really wasn't interested in textures! But then I watched a video tutorial where she taught how to apply these textures. I would see a straight out of the camera shot and the after result with just textures and a couple of basic touches (saturation, contrast...). I could not believe what a difference it made! Then we shot a wedding in February where we had a limited time for all the family, bride and groom, and wedding party shots. It was dark, and we couldn't go anywhere due to the lack of time. So we really didn't have many backgrounds to play with, even though the church itself was great! I must say...it wasn't as hard as I thought and we were able to capture some great shots of them together, just being sweet to each other, happy and joyful that they were married, and looking forward to living their lives as a married couple! And honestly, just working with a just married couple makes photography a whole different world! Once I saw them together, the backgrounds didn't matter any more! I realized it wasn't about the backgrounds. I just had to capture their love! And once I found these textures, I decided to play around with them and try to add a little bit more of creativity to the images and make the backgrounds a little but more interesting! I love the results. Maybe a overdid it a little??? Yes, I probably did :) But it's ok! I'm enjoying just playing around with them!

I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank this couple, their friends, and their family for all their help taking these pictures! We had a blast! And it was an honor to take them! She is Nate's pastor's daughter! Such a sweet godly family :)

Have a wonderful day!

Arancha

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

Having fun using textures!!!

My editing will never be the same now that I've tried editing with textures :)

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy this beautiful weather!

Arancha

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

I can honestly say that this has been one of my favorite weddings :) The colors, the decoration, the buttonniers, the bouquet, the cake (multi layered), the red velvet cupcakes... everything was done with a very exquisite taste. My favorite part at every wedding is the bride and groom portraits :D That love, joy, excitement that they have after saying the "I do" really shows in the images! This couple specially was the cutest couple ever! And they love each other sooo much! I LOVE THAT! And I love to see them enjoy getting their pictures taken as newlyweds!

I cannot wait to edit all these pictures! It is going to be fun!

Arancha

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

Last week we headed to Maine to take pictures of Nate´s pastor´s daughter´s wedding. It was a winter theme wedding with a lot of lights and white trees. They also had a lighthouse theme reception :) They both love lighthouses and something important happened in their relationship at a lighthouse! I love it when couples use things they have in common for their weddings! We were also able to bring some Dunkin Donuts coffee cups to use as props!

Due to the cold and the light, we had to take the pictures inside the church building. It was something I was worried about, but it ended up turning out great! I prayed really hard and prepared and brainstormed a lot the 2 nights before :) God blessed!

They were one of the cutest couples I´ve seen! I loved seeing them interact. Honestly, they were too cute! I cant wait to see them again!

Also, while in Maine, we were able to share our burden for Spain at the church. At every meeting we have, our burden and desire to go to Spain increases. We cannot wait to go to Spain! We have so many plans and ideas to start a church there! The church in Maine was a huge blessing to us! We are truly thankful for all the words of encouragement, prayers, and everything! God is blessing us in a tremendous way!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend! :)

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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Sneak Peek: Marlie and Kyle

There was one thing Marlie emphasized: she wanted artsy looking pictures! She brought an amazing chair that we were supposed to take downtown. It was supposed to rain bad, no time to go downtown, so the only thing we could think of was throwing it in the middle of the road by the church :)

Congratulations guys!!! We are so happy for you!

Matt & Brittany's Coffee Table Book

When I asked Brittany what style of photo books she liked, either elegant classic or funky fun, she said funky! Even though I love classic elegant books, funky ones are always so much more fun to design! So here is what I did! I purchased some cute templates and personalized them! These are just a few pages I wanted to share with you guys! :)

Hope you like them! Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Arancha

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Matt & Briitany

It has been a long time since we shot this wedding, but I never shared the pictures! It was a beautiful wedding, and the colors put together were great! Black and white with hot pink accents! Just beautiful! So we truly enjoyed capturing every little detail :) These are just a few!

Have a wonderful day!

Arancha

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Josh and Trina: the big day!

Some of my favorites from Josh and Trina's wedding! I loved this wedding! They mixed black and white with a pinkish tone in all the decoration and it made it all look so unique! And at the ceremony, they hang little frames with their engagement pictures on the sides of every other pew. Something I had never seen before! Very nice! :)

Congratulations Josh and Trina!! And thank you for allowing us to capture your wedding! Such a beautiful day!

Arancha

Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Wedding and Children Photography

Nate too this close up! I'm so jealous, he's starting to get better shots than mine lol

This one is Nate's too! I love that we both can just get totally different lenses and use totally different angles for a same pose! It gives us a lot of variety and we are able to choose the very best one!