I don't really do hot. Someone asked me for prom dresses and I sent them a black dress with long sleeves and a white peter pan collar because that is legitimately what I would want to wear. Haha

I like to use the excuse "I'm a wedding photographer - I'm allowed to look at dresses" but I totally have a ton of dresses picked out.

This is my recent favorite:

http://www.bhldn.com/shop_the-bride_wedding-dresses/ribboned-silk-gown

to feel bridal. Or this one:

http://www.bhldn.com/shop_the-bride_wedding-dresses/dulcinea-gown

with a ton of flowers and braids in my messy hippy hair.

I LOVE wedding dresses.

They're pretty standard, I promise. I try to shoot them with a longer lens and line them up and they smile. Done!

I'm super not techy so I'm not sure if there are settings beyond this - I use back button focusing, the single focus point, and continuous focusing. Anything beyond this would be... default?

I have a birthmark on my knee. It's big and amazing.

I want to do more, but the D90 video quality isn't so great, there's no autofocus, and Josh isn't crazy about helping me make them, soooooooooooooo it rarely happens. :)

You have to match the foundation to your skin and I think there's some science to it that I never figured out when I'm standing in stores. I try to figure out if it matches my skin, but when I put it on at home, I always realize it's the wrong color. BTW - Cover GIrl tends to be really pink. Maybelline has matched my skin better, but I've really wanted to try Maybelline Dream Airfoam after seeing this review:

http://youtu.be/coqdzls4ixs

But they only had super dark colors when I was at the story the other day. SO! Picking a color - you might do it wrong. Thankfully, most drug stores have really awesome return policies if you buy the wrong thing:

http://allthingschic.net/2010/08/drugstore-cosmetics-it-pays-to-know-the-return-policy.html

They ALSO have the best sales (every other week a different brand of cosmetics are buy one get one 50% and if you have access to a Sunday paper, there are usually coupons for buy one get one free make up around). I'm mentioning coupons because make-up is expensive. Drug store foundation is around $13 and it feels kind of dumb to spend that much on a tiny bit of make up.

I actually don't use concealer (she talks about a drugstore concealer in the video, btw), but I DO always use a primer because it makes foundation go on smoother. I don't think I'd use one with Dream Airfoam, though, because it's so light.

Get on Youtube and look up any terms that might've confused you - there is SO much start up videos for make up available online. :)

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If you're crediting me, I don't see why not! :)

Caffeine free mint is the best. :)

Hello, hello! I don't like coffee, but I like tea. AND I would love to shoot your hypothetical wedding. <3

I feel like all the adobe programs are pretty interchangeable.

"Fire and Ice" is on instant play right now! It's a Ralph Bakshi cartoon from 1983. There are a ton of gratuitous close up shots of crotches, overly sexed up scenes, and violence. From what I can tell, it's in the same league as "Heavy Metal," but I haven't seen that.

OH! Another one - I saw this when I was really young and I recently rewatched it and it's so amazing. It's a French 1970s psychedelic movie called "Fantastic Planet." If it's not available for instant play, it's honestly worth bumping up in your queue.

Thank you! I use After Effects to make them lovelier :)

VSCO are presets in Lightroom. Alien Skin is a separate program altogether, but you can export from LR into Alien Skin or you can use Alien Skin in Photoshop. :) I hope that helps!

I'm totally like... guessing right now, but I think my aperture is about f/11 and my shutter speed is 1/15th... or slightly slower. I mix it up as I shoot - I do direct flash and I do off camera lights. My goal is to use as much ambient as possible because I never want to recreate the mood of the dance floor - I want the photos to feel and look the way the dance floor felt to them.

Sponge rollers! :)

The Good Hotel. Apparently, it's in the bad area of town, but the hotel and rooms are completely cute.

We mostly did touristy things. I like the sea lions especially. :)

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I shoot entire sessions with just one lens and I do run around a lot. :) My last session I actually shot entirely with the 35mm f/1.4.

I need to have a 70-200 for weddings for churches, but if I can get close and just use a 50 or 85, I totally will.

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I've had about the same forumla since I started using it. :)