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  • Tampa Bay Birth Photography Featured on Barefoot Birth

    I’m absolutely thrilled to be on Barefoot Birth’s blog yesterday. I have worked with Charlie Rae a few times and can say she LOVES her job. She featured two of my mama’s births that happen to be best friends. Dana gave birth to Aria Skye in December, you can see her blog post here. Katie gave birth to Connor James in January, you can see his blog post here.

    I’ve pulled a few amazing comments from these two best friends from Charlie Rae’s Barefoot Birth blog post, but if you’d like to see more, please visit here.

    ” Katie lived with Adam and I in our first year of marriage (Adam knew we were a package deal, lol), and she lived with us in another house in the couple months leading up to Kaia’s {Dana’s first daughter} birth and I truly believe that’s how Katie got fertile enough to conceive her firstborn Kylie, since the doctors had always told her she wouldn’t be able to have babies because of her severe cysts and fibroids in her ovaries, then my pheromones are all around her, she was at my first birth and conceived her first baby a couple weeks later.”

    “People say we are like twins. There is never one without the other!

    Birthing our babies was the most amazing adventure to have together. We are so in tune with each other that I knew when her contractions started, before she called me.”

     

    How sweet! I hope I get the pleasure of working with some more best friends through the adventure of their children’s births!

     

    Ashley Yvonne Photography, a Local Florida Photographer in the Tampa Bay area specializing in Family and Children Photography, Portraits, Water Birth and Newborn Photography

     

    Blog Post Author: Ashley Whitehead

  • The S Family – Phillipe Park {Tampa Bay Family Photographer}

    The ‘S’ Family

    S Family August 2013
    The S Family at Phillipe Park in Safety Harbor
    Family Photography by Ashley Yvonne Photography

    I met with this family at Phillipe Park in Safety Harbor on a hot, hot day! Regardless of the temperature, I was AMAZED to see mother Jenni running around after her little girls with a smile on her face and energy radiating from her. I know many, many great mothers and she is the description of a great mother. (Yes, I’m sure if you go to Urban Dictionary you’ll see her name under Great Mother!) Dad thank you for being such a great sport and roughing it out with us in the heat!! You are definitely smitten on your little girls!

    I had a wonderful time getting to know this family of four. Thank you as well to baby sitter, whose name has escaped me! You were a HUGE help and they obviously love you to pieces as are evident in the smiles on their faces.

    S Family August 2013
    The S Family at Phillipe Park in Safety Harbor
    Family Photography by Ashley Yvonne Photography

    Ashley Yvonne Photography, a Local Florida Photographer in the Tampa Bay area specializing in Family and Children Photography, Portraits, Water Birth and Newborn Photography.

     

    Blog Post Author: Ashley Whitehead

  • Inspirational Speech from a Famous Actor {Advice for Our Kids}

    I didn’t watch the Teen Choice Awards but recently stumbled across this video of Chris “Ashton” Kutcher, he revealed his real name in hopes of connecting with the young audience in attendance and those watching. This was such an inspiration to not only young children that aspire to be like him, but ones like me as well.

    Our kids have so many influences around them both good and bad. We try everything we can to let them see the good and hope they aspire to be “good” in every way. Most of the time we don’t have control over what they take in but I believe messages like these can help them see that even a famous actor is a real person, who has real problems and who has real emotions. He too once worked at a grocery store and outside in the hot sun. He started from the bottom and worked his way to where he wanted to be.

    As for adults, sometimes life can get rough and tough and in the business world alone, you feel like running a Small Business can be such a complicated task. He took a piece of Steve Jobs from a recent movie he was working on and said this, “Everything around us that we call life was made up of people that are no smarter than you,” he said. “And you can build your own things, you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life — don’t live one, build one.” Its nice to be reminded of things like this because we can feel like we aren’t as good as other people may be. Hearing something like this is inspiration to keep going and get to where I want to be. I want to build my small business into a successful Tampa Bay Photography Studio.

     

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    Ashley Yvonne Photography, a Local Florida Photographer in the Tampa Bay area specializing in Family and Children Photography, Portraits, Water Birth and Newborn Photography.

     

     

     

     

  • Professional Albums vs Shutterfly {Tampa Bay Baby Photographer}

    I wanted to expand on my topic of Print Lab Comparisons and talk about Albums. We’ve already discussed the quality of images from  non pro labs which you can view here.

    I know many companies like Shutterfly offer amazing deals on Albums for as little as $60. It seems like a great deal, I know. If you think about any product that is consistently offered at a extreme low price, it could quite possibly mean that the product is of low quality. And when I say quite possibly, I mean, it usually is.

    An example, a very close friend of mine spent thousands on her wedding photographer. They came out absolutely beautiful. She specifically asked for pricing with a DVD of images. She was advised (by a few of us) to get her album designed and printed by her wedding photographer. She decided to design her album, which took her weeks to get the right style she wanted. She thinks she spent about 5 hours adding the photos to the templates she bought. She decided to send her template to Shutterfly because she got a deal on an 10×10 Album. She wanted it to be bigger then that but she didn’t see spending more money on an Album. It arrived, she liked it, just satisfied enough that she gets to see her wedding photos in an album. I specifically remember her not being overly enthusiastic but her words were “Hey, at least I have some of my photos in one place.” Fast forward six months, after family members, friends and her and her husband opening and closing the book, some of the pages are falling out. Fast forward a year, now she’s kept the book on the shelf permanently because three pages fell out completely, five pages are hanging by a strand and one is wrinkled from someone spilling water on it. Now she’s going back to her photographer for a 40 page Album. Her Shutterfly album was only 20 pages and she wants a lot more photos in this one. She’s already spent around $125 and her time, and she feels she’s wasted the money and is slightly embarrassed that she has told people she doesn’t have an album of her wedding photos. Now, she’ll get an Album with double the amount of photos and she doesn’t even have to spend time designing it. Oh, and if someone has an accident, it won’t wrinkle up, because pro albums have water resistant pages! She regrets not spending the extra money in the first place and said she was embarrassed by the quality of the album that represented the most important day of her life.

    I know of many other stories related to this that represent other non- pro labs and I sincerely hope that this hasn’t happened to you. If you’re one of my families, let me know and we will get a FAB album pronto!

    Just as I stated before, after all the time, money and effort you’ve placed into a session or event. Don’t let a non-pro lab’s album degrade the quality of the images that were professionally photographed. Not to mention the work you did to create something for the photos whether it be your wedding details, an outfit, etc.

    Contact us if you’d like to learn more about our Pro-Lab Album options 813.277.6275 or email info@ashleyyvonnephotography.com

    Ashley Yvonne Photography, a Local Florida Photographer in the Tampa Bay area specializing in Family and Children Photography, Portraits, Water Birth and Newborn Photography.

  • Print Lab Comparisons- Why choose a Pro Print Lab {Tampa Bay Baby Photographer}

    All you’ve been able to think about is your amazing, beautiful, caring session with your photographer last week. Your little girl is only three days old once, and you’re so happy and tearful about the photos you’re seeing on the projector. They’re more then you ever expected and you’re so happy you hired a professional photographer. You spent so much time, money and labor decorating her room, wait till its hanging up on her wall! Then you say, “Okay, when can I purchase the DVD so I can run to Target and print these out?”

    As a photographer, my heart sinks a little because I know that after all your hard work to decorate your little girls room, your hard work picking the perfect photographer, your hard work to pack the little one up and come to my studio, you decide Target equals all of this unparalled hard work.

    No ladies. Although Target is great for so many things. Prints of your (only once) newborn little girl, is not one of them. I’m not just going to pick on Target. There’s also Wal-mart, CVS, Walgreens, Sams Club, Costco, etc.

    I know you’d like to print your photos because you think it’ll help save on costs. You’ve already invested on professional services just to get where you are, the final product should also be from a professional lab. It does make a difference and the difference will impress you. Why degrade all of your investment on the one thing that will be displayed for all of your family and friends, and will speak to the beauty of the session you were involved in and the beauty of your newborn little girl? They weren’t there for the session so the photo quality and durability needs to speaks volumes for generations.

    Paint the Moon did a comparison analysis on print labs from those listed above that you can view here. Her blog is directed towards photographers but the photos are great for families to view and see the difference the colors and quality make. The most important part of her blog about this is “The important thing to note is not the comparisons between the chain labs, but the fact that all of the non-pro labs turn out not only mediocre at best quality, but wildly inconsistent prints each time you send something to print, so all the time and effort and money you’ve spent getting your photos just right is wasted by turning over the final product to a lab that is not dedicated to making the absolute highest quality prints possible. A pro labs job is to make your work look AMAZING.”

    In addition to her comment above, photographers have to color calibrate their software to their pro labs color profile which cannot be done at a non-pro lab. Every machine is different, ever technician is different so you leave it all up to chance.

    There’s a lot of work involved to provide you high quality images. After all, you wouldn’t invest all this time, effort and money if you didn’t expect superior images, albums, etc. Obviously, an added bonus is that we do all the work for you, find the best pro lab, pick the highest quality paper, order your prints, and inspect for quality.

    If you have any questions please contact me at 813.277.6275 or email me at info@ashleyyvonnephotography.com

    Up next week, we talk about selection of Albums and the ever so popular Shutterfly.

    Ashley Yvonne Photography, a Local Florida Photographer in the Tampa Bay area specializing in Family and Children Photography, Portraits, Water Birth and Newborn Photography.

  • Connor James Water Birth {Tampa Bay Birth Photographer}

    Connor James Water Birth {Tampa Bay Birth Photographer}

    Yay! Another water birth for this Tampa Bay Birth Photographer! Matt & Katie are amazing! They gave birth to their beautiful baby boy Connor James January 16th at 7:06 pm, weighing 9 pounds 9 ounces. One of the reasons I love birth photography is because I get to see the first time the parents lay eyes on their newborn. The love that pours out from them is so contagious!

    Personally, when I get to photograph that birth, and then their newborn photos, and up to their 1 year and so on, I have such a bond to that little one. Its absolutely amazing!

    Take a look at Connor James Home Water Birth Video

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    Ashley Yvonne Photography, a Local Florida Photographer in the Tampa Bay area specializing in Family and Children Photography, Portraits, Water Birth and Newborn Photography.