Archive for February, 2010

Customer Spotlight: Captured Moments by Rita Sherman

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Our Customer Spotlight for the Month of February is Captured Moments by Rita Sherman. Owner Rita Sherman, her daughter Sydney and her designer Heather Montasir team up to capture and create unique and beautiful senior and family portraits.

Our marketing team at Zookbinders loves her work and you will usually see her books featured on display at our office here in Deerfield, IL or at the annual photographer trade shows we attend.

Captured Moments by Rita Sherman is based out of Scottsdale, AZ. Read below to see what we learned about Rita Sherman and to check out a slide show of her work. Be amazed by the one of a kind design that is in each of her images.

Studio: Captured Moments by Rita Sherman
Name: Rita Sherman
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Website: http://www.ritasherman.com

Where is your favorite location to photograph?
Anywhere the light is awesome. This is usually in and around our client’s home.

What excites you about being a photographer?
Working with different people every day and then telling their story.

What turns you off about being a photographer?
Nothing, I’m blessed.

What is your favorite marketing tool?
Facebook and former clients.

What or who has inspired you?
Working with creative clients really inspires me. Also Joe Buissink’s gentle spirit and his way of seeing things. Dave Beckstead’s energy!

What’s your favorite f-stop?
2.8

What is your favorite book?
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

What is the #1 reason that client’s hire you?
Because they saw their friends’ images that we created and they want something creative and different.

What do you do when you’re not photographing?
Taking long walks (preferably on a beach somewhere!), going to movies, and just hanging out.

If heaven exists, which photographer would you like to hang out with?
My daughter, Sydney and my other “adopted” daughter, Heather.

Thank you Rita for sharing a little about yourself with us! Everyone, check out a slide show sample below of with some of Rita’s work.

All images and logo provided to Zookbinders by Captured Moments Inc
© Captured Moments by Rita Sherman
All Rights Reserved
Permissions, email: rita@ritasherman.com

New Holga Camera

Monday, February 1st, 2010

OK, I know, if you whip this thing out at a wedding you’re sure to get some looks and maybe even the ubiquitous “how many megapixels you get there?” But wouldn’t you just smile if you saw this new camera from Holga smiling at you?

Information is sparse at the moment, but hot off the press news, a new Holga: the 135TIM ! It’s a Holga half frame camera, but with two lenses by the looks of things, so you can choose to shoot with one lens, or both by switching the switches above the lenses. It has a working aperture selector at the front (the smiley face), and a matching colourflash! It’s available in black, white, yellow and red. For more info go to the Holga blog. If you never have, do try taking some photos at your next wedding with a Holga, any Holga. It creates some truly unqiue images and fun effects.

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