Kristi Hollowell Photography

I have moved!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:08:00 +0000

Hey look at me! I am super hot stuff now....(HA!). I have a NEW BLOG. I finally caved and got myself a real pro photoblog. Sorry blogger! You are just too dang hard to navigate!
If you are following me here....please head over to me new blog ----------> HERE <--------- and follow me! I promise I will post more! I also have a lot of new things going on behind the scenes and cannot WAIT to share :). Thanks and hugs!

And a couple more for fun.... {St Louis COunty Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:05:00 +0000

My Own (again)

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:58:00 +0000

Sooooo....with winter in full force, I have far fewer sessions that I wish for and far fewer than I am used to so ya know what that means???? Full on torture by way of Mama's lens for my own 4 little loveys! Here are a few from the last couple of weeks!

Sweet Baby A {St Charles Mo Newborn Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:26:00 +0000

Lucky me!!! I got to photograph this sweet little angel at only 6 days old! She is destined to be smothered in lots of love and kisses with 2 big sisters that adore the heck out of her. Mama and Daddy D....you are going to have your HANDS FULL with these gorgeous girls. Congrats to you.

Awesome! Fix it Friday at I Heart Faces is BACK!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:43:00 +0000

I adore fix it friday! If you are not familiar with it- get over to I Heart Faces and check it out and try your own hand at “fixing” the photo at hand. I did not take this photo- I just edited it. I tried to break out of my au naturale (aka…boring at times) editing shell and get a little artsy! What do you think? My fix was done in CS5. I fixed the color and contrast using color balance and contrast layers, cropped the sweet girl in a bit closer. Brightened a very small smidge, ran Florabella “Mademoiselle” and adjusted the overall opacity to 33% and adjusted each individual layer to suit my taste. Then I overlayed Florabellas Jubilee texture and adjusted the opacity to about 60% and erased it from her skin using a layer mask. And VOILA! My “artsy” not so “boring” fix! 2011 is going to be the year I break out of my editing shell and get my artsy on!

Here is the “BEFORE” (it was already a nice photo…dontcha’ think?)

And this is the “AFTER” my “fix”

Fix it Friday!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:42:00 +0000

A very sweet FIF photo!!! I did not take this picture- I just edited it for Fix it Friday at I Heart Faces. You should go over there and check out all of the awesome edits. They are all so different – it is so neat to see all of the different outcomes from the same exact photo! Here is mine- what do you think?

I used PS CS5 for my edit. I cropped in to her sweet face, adjusted bright/contrast, sharpened it up a little, and then used Florabella’s B&W vanilla and added my own “tweaks” to convert it. Do you like it? I do! What a pretty little girlie.

Here is the photo before I edited it;

And her it is after I edited it!

Just Cuz!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:52:00 +0000

She is a crazy amount of pretty AND I was itching to shoot my camera!

Sweet Shot Tuesday!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:38:00 +0000

Its Sweet Shot Tuesday! I have to include TWO pics this week! I cannot decide which I love the most. I took my 4 kiddos out for a shoot this past weekend and decided to incorporate BALLOONS! I have wanted to do pix with balloons for a while now….SO glad I did! I got several but these 2 are my FAVE! Thanks for looking! Please let me know whatcha think

J Family Sneak Peek! {Wildwood Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:35:00 +0000

What a sweet family I had the privilege to photograph!!! These sweet little girls are gorgeous and were so animated and FUN!!! And little baby L- he did not really wanna smile…but who needs to when you are as gorgeous as he is! Check out those baby blues. Thanks so much J family! I loved hanging with y’all for the afternoon :). Hope you enjoy your sneak peek!

More of my own :)

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:53:00 +0000

I was just not happy with any of the pics of all 4 last week- so we had to go out for a little re-shoot. I “think” I am happy with one of the pics of all 4 together….but I did get some FUN individuals!!!

Fix it Friday at I Heart Faces!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:02:00 +0000

It’s another fun FIF at I Heart Faces and here is my entry! I did not take the original photo- I only edited (“fixed”) it. What do you think of my fix? Please leave me a comment and let me know!

I used CS5- cropped it to a square, used curves to bring some light to his sweet face, used Florabella haze action to put a dreamy haze over the photo and voila!

Here is the original

And here is my “fix”

My Own! {St Louis Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:05:00 +0000

So- I finally got a good session out of my own! We desperately needed a pic with all 6 of us and I couldn’t figure out HOW I was going to manage. My 2 year old is VERY anti photo…hates every second of it and avoids looking decent in any way in front of the camera at all costs! My 4 year old is….well, he is 4. So anyway- a timer was out. Even a tripod and a remote was sorta out. SO….after much thought, prayers, and finger crossing, I talked my Sis in Law (who always helps me shoot my own anyway- she ROCKS)- into manning the tripod and the shutter for me and…..IT WORKED! It was still a challenge getting the 2yo and the 4 yo roped in and looking, smiling etc at the same time but we actually managed!!! HURRAH! LOTS of motion blur in the alley pic with the 4 kiddos but hey! I can’t expect to have it all. All in all- I am super happy.

Oh! And for my photog friends who wanna know exactly what I did….I used my tripod – framed my family (minus me) the way I wanted, set my shutter speed, aperture, and ISO for proper exposure, had my camera set to BBF so I focused it ahead of time and BAM! All my SIL had to do is press the shutter! Oh….and make the 2 yo smile and look which was way more difficult then pressing the shutter! Also- having my camera set on BBF made it alot more simple for my SIL to refocus between shots!

Here are the results! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU S!!!!!!

Please Vote!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:35:00 +0000

Please vote for my photo on the Posh Principessa page on Facebook! You will have to “like” the page to vote, and then please vote for the picture of Graycen….make sure to vote for the PIC and not the ALBUM! Thank you, thank you , thank you!!!!

Orange Week! at I Heart Faces

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:08:00 +0000

Orange week at I Heart Faces! I shot a few photos of my sweet girl in a field of wheat and the bright orange setting sun illuminated it to a perfect shade of orange.

My Sweet Girl (and her sweet BFF :) )

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:31:00 +0000

Modeling her adorable Posh Principessa goodies! Thanks Tiffany!

Pretty Girl! {West County St Louis Mo Children’s Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:18:00 +0000

Fix it Friday at I Heart Faces!

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:39:00 +0000

I love FIF at I Heart Faces! I have not participated in a while but could not resist the photo today. What a sweet little girl. And I adore the light hitting the side of her face and her sweet eyelashes. I really did very little to “fix” this photo. I cropped it to bring her face a bit closer, upped the contrast and toned it up a bit (all in CS5). I ran Florabella “London” and adjusted the layers to taste and then adjusted the opacity of the entire action to about 30%. Sharpened it a bit and BAM! I also did a vanilla/espresso B&W conversion.

Please comment and tell me what you think!

Here is the original- I did not take this photo! Just did the edits below.

My “FIX” in color

And my B&W conversion!

For Miss C :)

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:12:00 +0000

Fun Family! {West St Louis County, Wildwood Mo Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:40:00 +0000

Thanks so much for coming back K family! So happy to do another shoot with your awesome fun.

Gorgeous and Super Sweet Senior { West County St Louis Senior Portrait Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:55:00 +0000

Sweetest most gorgeous girl ever. I loved shooting Miss C….she is absolutely CLUELESS as to how gorgeous she is :). C….YOU ARE! But keep on being your sweet self. You are as gorgeous inside as you are out.

Pink Week at I Heart Faces! {Wildwood Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:14:00 +0000

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness, it was “pink week” at I Heart Faces ! I am too late to enter my photo but I am gonna share it anyway! I cannot skip out on recognizing such an important subject!

A Gorgeous Family and Some Best Buds! {St Louis Children’s and Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:07:00 +0000

Love them!!!!

Lotsa Sweet Kiddos! {Wildwood Mo Children and Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:19:00 +0000

Oh wow! I am so far behind on my blogging! I switched from PC to Mac….and- I have NO.IDEA how to blog from my Mac! I use Windows Livewriter – so now, every time I wanna blog, I have to transfer my photos from one computer to the other and it just take FOREVA! So….my lazy behind has been slackin’ on the bloggin’! But here are a couuple of sessions worth of photos I really want to share! Aren’t these lil ones the sweetest?

K Family Sneak Peek! {St Charles Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Here ya go K Family! A super quick sneak peek of your gorgeousness. I had such a fun time with y’all! Thanks for allowing me to capture your sweet family. Your gallery will be up quickly.

Sweet Baby L- 6 months old! {Wildwood Children and Family Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Kristi) — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:12:00 +0000

Oooooooohhhh sweet sweet beautiful girl! This is the happiest, sweetest little baby girl. She was nothing but laid back smiles our entire session! Easiest baby shoot EV-ER! Thanks so much B family. It was so great to meet you your sweet girl. I look forward to doing her 1 year pics!