Facebook and August Happenings!

It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged. The last couple of weeks have been really busy and I haven’t had a chance to sit down and write my thoughts down. August has flown by so quickly and it’s almost September!! We’re getting some new materials together for the Bridal Symposium at Reliant Center. It will be our first time at that show. I’ve heard great things about it but have never actually had a booth there.
Our new sample albums are coming out soon!! They are a totally fresh new format to expand our unique product offerings. We will be giving some of these sample albums to our favorite vendors that have worked with us in the past and continue to work with. Some of our favorite venues where we’ve work at in the past have requested samples of our work and of course our favorite wedding consultants who bring us great brides. They will all be getting our Montage Media kits with this album and all our brochures and information. Everyone’s been asking for them and I’m finally getting the final sample albums from the book binder next week. I’m very excited to see the albums!!
Last weekend, I did the engagement session for my good friend Peter and his beautiful fiancé Nikki. We drove down to the Warehouse district where we had fun exploring that always “interesting” neighborhood. As the name would suggest, there are lots of warehouses in that area, but many of them have been converted to small art galleries and sound recording studios. The buildings are really old and have amazing eclectic flair. The urban landscape and textures of all the building and their aged facades are a photographer’s dream. As you know I love going to abandoned areas and rustic places to capture my engagement pictures. I’ll be posting their pictures online here very soon.
Facebook – I’ve recently become a big fan. I’ve been able to connect with so many friends and with past classmates from both college and high school. Many of these people, I have not heard about since I graduated. Talk about a blast from the past. It’s crazy catching up with all these people. When they find out I’m a wedding photographer now, they’re usually in shock. It’s pretty funny!! Let me explain, back in high school and college, I was the math and science nerd that played sports and did engineering type of work. I did take art class one time but that was a train wreck. I cannot draw for the life of me and I didn’t have an artistic bone in my body. I was not even really interested in photography until two years after graduating from college. If someone was to tell me that I would be shooting weddings and knowing all the nuances of the wedding rituals, I would have fallen over laughing. It is funny where life takes you. It’s been so much fun and I’m still excited every time I go to a wedding.
Until next time!! See everyone soon and be safe.

Trung Huynh

Yesterday, I had a photo shoot that was so much fun!! One of my good photog friends, Jen, asked me to do her engagement pictures. She and her fiance Dave are so cute together. As with all my photo shoots, I take them in my car and we go on a photo adventure. We never know where we’ll go or where we’ll end up. The places are never planned out. When we see something cool, we’ll stop and take pictures there. The spontaneity and the creativity in shooting in a totally new environment every time is fun for me and all my couples love it!! It’s so much fun because we go to some really random places, like cargo bays, run down houses, back sides of convenience stores and any other crazy place we happen upon as we’re driving. Well, with Jen and Dave, we started at Sculpture works (the place where they have all the 15 ft tall president heads), inside the warehouse and out on the fire escape. It was a really cool building with lots of really random things inside like a canoe and a huge candle holder, and some plaster molds of president’s faces…very random. To top if off, we took some picture on a toilet that was sitting by itself on a hill behind the building. Too funny. We ended up in downtown at this really cool green abandoned office building along the bayou. Here are some of the great pictures we took yesterday…

We’ve done some of the final preparations to get ready for the upcoming bridal show!! Hope to see everyone at the upcoming Bridal Extravaganza Show (http://www.bridalextravaganzashow.com/) at the George R. Brown Convention Center, on July 19-20th. We’ll be at booth #531. Be sure to come by and say HI!!

Our new assistant

Hey everyone, here is the newest member of the our Montage team, Kristie. We got this shot of her in our studio play session where we fiddled around with the new Larson softbox we bought. It was a fun filled night with experimenting with different light and just shooting for fun. We do that every once in a while to stay fresh and hopefully discover something totally different that we've never done before. It helps to keep expanding your horizons and learning new things all the time. here's a great shot of her.
Trung

Wow, it’s been an extremely busy couple of weeks. There are so many things going on with the business that I’ve been barely finding time to update the blog. I have so much work to do now that I simply couldn’t do it all myself anymore and decided to hire a studio assistant/photographer assistant. After 75 resumes and many phone calls, I decided to hire Kristie Akin. Welcome Kristie!! I’m so excited about having her come on board to help me with everything from image processing to assisting at weddings. Her bubbly personality is contagious. Having graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography, I’m sure she will be an asset to our studio.
Last Saturday, Stephanie and Will exchanged vows at St. Anne’s Church and had their reception at the Marriott in the Medical center. Stephanie’s dress was absolutely gorgeous. We had so much fun at the church before the wedding with Steph and her bridesmaids getting all silly. Of course, the guys had to one up them and perform some aerial acrobatics off the ledge. The reception was at the newly renovated Marriott. The modern, but comfortable interior décor screamed to be photographed. (If I had money, that is how I would decorate my house.) I could have taken pictures for days in there with all the cool décor they had in the lobby and near the ballrooms. Here are some pictures from that wedding. Check out the rest of the pictures when their gallery is up!!
I recently unveiled a really awesome perk for all my Bride and Grooms!!
All my brides and grooms get their own wedding webpage they can personalize to their heart’s content. In addition to having a personalized website address, all of the couple’s images will be in one place, from the engagement, bridal and the wedding. They can use this page to share all their images with their friends and family as well as communicate to all wedding guests wedding day information, registry locations, or anything else they want. The sky is the limit. It’s so cool and all the couples so far have loved it. It’s been a great way for the bride and groom to keep all their guests up to date with any changes.
Here’s one of them http://www.montagephotographer.printroom.com/schweitzerwedding

Trung

My First blog Post!

Good Evening Everyone,
This is so exciting. So many new things are happening in the business. We're getting geared up for the upcoming July Bridal Extravaganza show on July 19-20, at the George R. Brown convention Center (www.bridalextravaganzashow.com). Come visit us at Booth #531/533. There will be bridal show specials!!! We have a totally new booth layout with a lot of new images to show off. (We've had a really busy Spring season. )
We will be unveiling our brand new Couture Bridal Album!! It has a pewter metallic cover with vines etched on it...so cool!!
Trung