Do you like to have fun? We do, especially with our photos. We wanted something a little different than the average blog out there, so along with our super talented Blog designer we came up with a Favorites section - or "Wiebner Faves" as we like to call it. What is it you ask? more »
Well, under each photo, you will see a "Vote for Favorite" box. If you really like that image, if it tickles your fancy, or makes you laugh, or just plain old makes you smile - go ahead - check it. We know you want to. Each time that box is clicked on a photo, it adds to the running tally for that image. The top 14 favorite images on the entire blog will be shown as thumbnails in this section. Just so you can see the most popular images of all time on the blog. A little something out of the ordinary - it never hurts to be different!
Also, blog posts can be favorites. Now that we have comments available, you will see a little bar meter at the bottom left of each post. Once the meter hits a certain number of comments, its automatically promoted to a "Wiebner Fave Post". :) Something else just for fun!
Are you ready to advance your business? Education in our industry is important to us. The more photographers that are aware in the industry the better it is for everyone. Won't you join us in making our goals a reality? We participate in various workshops, seminars and speaking engagements. Listed below are various engagements - some are our own workshops, others we will be hosting or speaking at. If you wish to participate, please drop us a line or click the link to find out more info!
I find it incredibly difficult to write about us when put on "The Spot". "I need a 500 word bio about you and Joel, now!" Who can do that? How do you make your own personality shine in a few words, let alone that of two people? Well, I am going to give it my best shot. If you really want to know about US - who we really are - read the blog below. We really try to keep it updated as often as possible, and hope that our fun, casual personalities shine through in the words you read and the images we capture for our clients. The blog below is our way of communicating our lives - both personal and professional - with clients, friends, family and colleagues. We believe strongly in using words and images together to communicate our passion.
I am going to keep this short and sweet - Joel and I were meant to be together - to live, love and be happy making photographs. We were both photographers before we met over 9 years ago - we met behind a camera, and continue to feed off of that energy. We are a rock solid husband and wife team and we wouldn't want it any other way - we work together 24/7 and never tire of each other. We have had our business since November 2000, and have thrived on photographing weddings as our main photography genre since 2002. We love what we do. We like to think we look at the world in our own way - not photojournalistically, not traditionally, not artistically. Just as a Wiebner. If you like what we see, then you will like us too. Oh and don't forget to comment in the blog on our two little darlings - Haydn and Zane - they are pretty darn cute little Wiebners. Enjoy! - Rita
Joel and I both used to work with Sarah's dad, West at our old job, waaaay back when. We were happy to hear from him when he contacted us for some cool and different senior photos for Sarah. We couldn't wait! We met up with them along the river near Marietta, and away we went. Sarah was super easy to work with, and did whatever we asked. We found a really awesome field, and really awesome light, and got some really awesome photos!
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Sam's Downtown Senior Session Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sam came to the studio with his step-sister Samantha the other week (Samantha is one of our babysitters!) and we walked around downtown getting some shots for his senior photos. He had more fun than he expected - Joel and I are super easy and laid back when we are shooting, and we quickly put Sam at ease. It also helped that Samantha was there, and since we have known her for 6 years, it was like a big walking photo party! Sam really enjoys basketball, so after we got some urban shots done, we headed to a nearby basketball court and got a few shots with him and his favorite basketball. We don't get to photograph seniors as often as we would like to, so it was fun getting to do something a little different for once. Enjoy the pics!
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The Beautiful Grace - Now a Senior Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The other week we had the pleasure of working with another sibling from one of our favorite families. It's hard to believe Grace is ready to be a high school senior. We first met her 4 years ago when we photographed her sister Jessica's wedding. We also did her other sister's wedding in 2006 - you may remember seeing Carrie on the blog if you have been following for awhile. :)
Grace has certainly grown into a beautiful young lady, and although she was a little nervous, we tried to make her as comfortable as possible. We even managed to get a few giggles out of her. We really had a blast walking around downtown with her. It is a very different experience though for us, photographing just one person instead of two. Most of our clients are couples in love, so its fun when we get to do something different. Not that we don't love our couples :) cause we totally do, just photographing one person is, well, different. We ended up picking some spots to shoot that we have never thought of before because it was easier to do with just a solo subject. We are pretty darn happy with the results :) and Grace we hope you are too!
We started out at the studio and actually played around in the foyer to our building.
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Love this ivy that we have all over her, makes an awesome background.
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Soaking in some sun!
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And we borrowed these blue doors from a local church, you would never guess though!
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This is one of my favorites. Joel was down below setting Grace up for something and I stayed up above and then looked down and saw this great shot. This is one of those things that I just couldn't do with a couple - there isn't enough room in that tiny little space! :)
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Back at the studio Grace did a quick change and we did some more casual stuff using the stairs.
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This was one of those giggles - I think Joel said something corny or nerdy to get her to laugh - it worked! ;)
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Yeah, Grace is 17.
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Emily - Senior Portraits Saturday, September 1, 2007
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of photographing Emily for some senior photos. We had done some photos for Cindy, Emily's mom, earlier this year, so she and Emily wanted us to be there for senior time! We brainstormed about where Emily would like to go, either a special place to her or somewhere she frequents, and she came up with the North Museum of Natural History & Science - which is located at the corner of F&M College Campus here in Lancaster. It is literally a block and a half from our house. We walked there for the shoot, met up with Cindy and Emily outside and off we went! Emily was excited because this was one of her favorite places to go with her mom as a kid. We were glad to find some great little nooks and crannies in the museum and ended up with a few shots outside. Emily was a fun teenager to work with, and we asked her why she wanted to use us for her senior portraits (instead of going to the usual people for senior portraits) - and she said it was because she wanted something different. She said none of her friends would have photos like these and she was excited! That's what we love to hear! So here are a few from her session!
First up here, we found a cool reddish-orange elevator we had some fun with.
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And I just loved these doors and the light pouring in...
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Down in the basement they had aisles and aisles of antique "trophy" type cases, with various "stuffed" animals in them.
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Found this hidden in a corner!
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Outside we found some more wildlife.
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And a beautiful close up of Emily - she had gorgeous eyes!
Still swamped and still working on photos from vacation! Sorry guys, hopefully I will get some done next week. We have 2 weddings this coming weekend also, so be prepared for some juicy wedding photos early next week! Anyway, let me get on to Adam. Our trip to California was initiated by Joel's Aunt Laurie's pestering (just kidding!) about us needing to come out to visit. So we did, and we actually stayed at her house for the entire trip. Joel has 4 cousins - and Adam the 2nd youngest, is a senior this coming year. Aunt Laurie asked us if we would do some photos of him while we were out there, and we said of course! So we tromped him around to a few different places, and he was a piece of cake. Joel had him laughing the whole time, making it easy to get good expressions!
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