Nicole Enjoli Blog

This week I attended my third shootout, which I will blog about later, but that is where these photos were taken.  Those are my rings along with another attendees’… I really like these and they tie into my topic of discussion.  Tomorrow will be my first official 2nd shooting experience!  Teale is the photographer and I will be her 2nd.  The wedding is somewhere in Blaboa Park so it should be beautiful.

Am I nervous?? No, more excited and ready to shoot!!  I feel really good about it, it is the first 2nd shooting wedding of 4 I have coming up!  Not to mention that I booked my very own wedding!!! Yes, I know I didn’t share it but it will take place in about 4 weeks!  Im super excited and am hoping that I am going to learn a lot and gain a ton of experience, I know I am.  So much has happened in such a short time, I just got my camera in January, I didn’t think I’d book a wedding 6 months later but I am not going to shy away from it, I welcome the challenge and am going to throw myself in there!  Don’t worry I have an excellent 2nd shooter lined up for myself  I’ll tell you about him later.

Also in recent news I just bought a 40D… Should be on it’s way to me now…I was going back and fourth with the 5D and since I am sooo indecisive I took the advice of a FB friend which was that it will make a great backup eventually and it is only 1/2 the cost of the 5D, which makes a lot of sense for me right now.  It does a lot that my xsi can’t quite do and I won’t feel ridiculous at my upcoming weddings shooting with the same camera as everyone attending  Feeling good, getting more interest in portrait sessions and I plan on just doing what I’m doing,  This is all fun for me!

Saturday May 29th David and Michelle had their big wedding on their one year anniversary.  One year ago they were married by the court and spent the next year planning their wedding.  It was a sunny day, not too hot, not too cold, all of their family and friends gathered to share a very special day with them.

I love these flower pillows that the ring bearers held…

Beautiful arrangements…

The mariachis were great…

The groom and his mother…

These red arrangements had some of my favorite flowers in them including dahlias and ranunculus…

Mr. and Mrs. Salas…

Here is my little old camera… and some facts about it.

These are the first shots I took with my 50mm…

I’m really happy I got the 50mm, It’s fun!

Spring is in the air and Easter is fast approaching, My little friend, Chantel, who was my flowergirl in my wedding needed her annual Easter photos for the card her parents send out.  How cute is she with her little dress, stockings, patten leather shoes, and matching coat?  This girl is no stranger to the camera, she was on point and loving it.  She is growing up so fast, I had fun photographing her, and she had fun pelting her daddy with plastic easter eggs.

I really like this one….It really brings out her real smile:)

This one is Chantel and her doggy, “princess”.  A fun fact about Princess is that she is my dog “Lima’s” sister, from a different litter… Princess is older and much smaller but believe it or not they are from the same parents…

Putting these photos into my computer and going through them I was able to play with a few of them in photoshop and then it started saying it couldnt do what I wanted it to because “the scratch disc is full” Oh how I hate my old computer and old version of elements I have!  I can’t wait to be able to really experiment with my pictures… download actions, and textures, I must get a new computer soon! One day………………….

What do I think I am doing, it was not too long ago I didn’t really know exactly what a blog was…I know that sounds like I live in a cave or something-  It is what I figured it was but I never thought I would have one.  Here I am, “blogging”, never gave them any thought until I started to read other blogs.  Some are interesting and some not so much.  I heard that blogs are dying which made me think twice about starting one but why not? Will anyone read it? I dont know but if anything else it could serve as a way for me to journal, share my favorite photos and vent.

Let me first say that I am not a computer genius, I get by but I’m well aware that my sites need help ($).  In the meantime bear with me. 

So If your reading this and you dont know me, welcome.  In the picture above is a picture of my husband and I, just married in June. I ordered this photobooth last minute, I wanted it from the start but it wasnt really in the budget but I am so happy we got it, it was a big hit, it doubled as another favor for our guests, tripled as a guestbook, everyone got 2 pics, one to keep and one for our guestbook that everyone signed under their picture.  Genius- whoever thought of this….I love seeing these pics on the refridgerators of our friends and family.  I love photobooths anywhere, anytime- If I see one I want to jump in it… So when I got the idea from one of my wedding magazines I instantly new that this would be my “must have” on our day, and it was one of the many great purchases we made for the wedding, worth every penny, It was the first booth I’d seen at a wedding and happy it was at our wedding.  Here are some more great booth pics from that lovey day…

You can see how our friends and family loved it!  I wish I could have one at my house.