Jasmine Star Photography.

First off, Here are my 3 blogs of interest that I enourage you to check out:

• Jasmine Star Photography: http://www.jasminestarblog.com/ (Fantastic photographer!)
• Hiding Place: http://letitia.wordpress.com/ (Letitia, the owner of this blog, is a good friend of mine and her blog always enourages me! She writes well and always has something wise to say :)
• Boomama: http://boomama.net/ (she is just downright hilarious and I love the way she writes!)

Jasmine star photography is one of the first blogs that I started to get frequently updates from, via the “feeds”. Every time I see that her blog is updated, I get so excited, I just want to grab a warm cup of cocoa, put on good music and sit at my computer filtering through her images. Jasmine is a photographer that I aspire to be someday. She is based in Orange County, California and her work is simply amazed. Every wedding, engagement session or anytime session is even more unique than the last. One of the things that truly stands out about Jasmine is her storytelling. On top of being a fantastic photographer, she is a great writer. She doesn’t just show the pictures, she tells the story behind the photo’s so that by the time reader is done reading and looking at the pictures, he or she will think that they actually know these people, or at least will have a desire to know them!
Another aspect about Jasmine that makes her photography stand out above the rest is that she lets her readers in on how she creates her beautiful photos. She tells of how she edits different photos and what in-camera settings she used. She doesn’t leave her readers in the dark, but lets them become part of the experience so they, to can go take great pictures without being a “pro”. Being an aspiring photographer, this is great advice and an excellent learning tool and I experiment with my own camera and editing software.
Photos aside, Jasmine is transparent. She lets readers in her personal life and isn’t afraid to share her struggles and bad days with them. For example, her mom is going through a difficult time health wise currently, so just today Jasmine posted a blog entitled “hopeful” that described her being worried but having faith has her mom goes in for surgery in the new future. This gives Jasmine a chance to share her faith, as she is a Christian. I admire her, as she balances work, her faith, and family. She is definitely someone I look up to.
More about her photo’s, Jasmine always finds the perfect light, the perfect setting or the perfect angle to shoot. She’ll shoot an engagement session or a wedding one day and it will be spectacular. The next day she’ll post photo’s up from another shoot and it will be different angles and styles that I didn’t see in the previous post. I love how she gives each couple their own “style”. It makes each shoot so much more unique and valuable. Even if she shoots at the same venue more than one time, she tries and finds different places to shoot in the venue then she did last time. Her creative spirit inspires me to think outside of the box when I am shooting.
Jasmine Star photography is definitely a photographer to check out and keep up on because she knows photography in a very distinctive way. Her photos never cease to take my breath away.