Matt Ramos Photography – Blog

Today was a beautiful day, and I put it to good use by haning out with Kristen & Rob up in Saratoga this afternoon to hang out and shoot some engagement photos as well as a few with their pride and joy, Melkie (I hope I spelled that right?) This is another really fun couple that I look forward to working with on the big day!

Thanks for a fun session today guys, and will talk to you soon when the images are ready – Here’s a few shots I liked and thought I’d post from the day.

Lately, I’ve been trying to learn a bit more about HDR (high dynamic range) photography as I think it’s so cool with some of the amazing things you can do, which would otherwise be virtually impossible to acheive. HDR photography involves using 3 images (one normally exposed, one under exposed, and one over exposed), and then embedding them all together to create a high definition and HDR range of highlights, midtones, and darks. This was my first attempt trying something like this, but am looking forward to doing a lot more of it to see what I can come up with. We have some upcoming corporate projects that I think this will be really useful for.

Here’s the original 3 images I used right out of the camera, and then the final version below as a composit of all 3 images….. pretty cool, don’t you think? More to come as I get the time! :)

It’s amazing for me to look back over these past few years and see how far things have come. What was once a hobby and way of getting out to just have fun, has become a crazy-busy and fun business, and I’m thankful each and everyday for the opportunities and people I get to meet and work with! As our business has grown, I’ve done my very best to continue to push the envelope in everything I do, learn from my mistakes, offer better services, better products, only the best equipment money can buy, and continuing to try and learn new things from seminars, etc around the country. Why? Because despite the stress I sometimes put myself through, I’ve never been more passionate about anything in my life – and enjoy sharing this passion with others.

With saying that, we are continuing to grow, and wanted to share the following few things that we are pretty excited about….

1) Our website (while highly complimented often) is reaching its expiration date. We have an all new insane website & blog coming soon …. we are going all out on this one, with many new cool features, etc. so stay tuned for details – whooo hoooo!

2) As our photography and album design company are growing at an unbelieveable rate, we have wanted to make things easier (and more affordable for folks that are not local). We now have an all new toll free number available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (we paid to have a professional voice person do a custom setup, so I keep calling it over and over and I find it more andd more humorous everytime I think – lol).

3) We will soon be adding another photographer/assistant to our team….. stay tuned for details on that one too.

4) This one’s going to maybe hurt a bit as we have some great relationships with various wedding planners in the area (and hope they won’t be mad at me), but…….. We are now proud co-owners of http://www.detailsweddingplanning.com/ with April Rounds (one of the top planners in the Capital Region), and are very excited about this new adventure (on top of our new album design company – http://www.ramosdesigns.com/). I invite anyone interested to check out the sites if they are needing services :)

5) We will soon be offering beginner photography/SLR learning classes for those that are new to SLR photography and want to learn how to use their new camera to the best of their ability…. anyone that may be interested in this may feel free to contact my right hand man, Jamaica, at: john@mattramosphotography.com for details!

So, there it is! Just a few things I’m excited about and wanted to share (since my blog readers are like family). As we have now entered our busy season, we are hoping to spice things up with lots of new posts, samples, etc…… thanks to all those that frequently visit the blog as well as all the new friends and clients we’ve been able to make this year!

P.S….. I’ll post it up on the website(s) later, but here is our new toll free number (local folks can still contact us on the regular line, please :)

We got 3 batches of albums in this week, and am really excited to present them to the brides and grooms they belong to. One of our more popular albums as of late is the 9 1/2 x 13 Graphi-Studio “Big-Boy” with the transparent fiberglass cover, which is amazing! These photos don’t really do justice to how they look in person, but thought I would post a couple shots anyway!

Come and get em while they’re hot! :)