Halina Veratsennik | San-Francisco Bay Area Photographer

International Women’s Day

HalinaV — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:28:29 +0000

Today is an International Women’s Day!

It’s a big holiday in Eastern Europe. It’s like an equivalent to Mother’s Day here in US.

Ladies, I want to wish you happiness, love and good luck! Stay as beautiful as you are already! :)

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Lana | Studio Portrait | SF Bay Area Portrait Photography

HalinaV — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:20:27 +0000

So far I’ve been shooting (=taking pictures) in natural light. I really like it, I like shadows, shades and different color of the light during day. I like the flexibility of putting my subject \ model in front or on the side of the light source (=sun). I like the natural looking surroundings, backgrounds – whether it’s a backyard in San-Francisco East Bay, or Tilden Park in Berkeley hills, or Emeryville downtown (or IKEA :)).

But I also don’t want to stand still and do all the same settings over and over again.

So when my friend Lana asked, if I want to accompany her for her Studio Photography Shoot, I couldn’t pass up that opportunity :) I wanted to go and see how other photographer work in the studio settings and lighting. I was also hoping to get a chance to take pictures there myself :)

And I did! :) Here are the results:

To see the photo in big size – click on the preview:

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For Parents | San-Francisco Bay Area Family \ Child Photographer

HalinaV — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:39:52 +0000

Are you a parent?
Does your child play video games?
Do you want him\her do their chores instead and earn their time in front of TV or Diez system?

I came across these coupons made by Louder Than Words Photography. You can download these adorable vauchers and print them in unlimited amount to “pay” to your child.
If you know how to use Photoshop, you can edit them, because the files are in PSD format.

To download these templates (for personal use only) click on the picture or follow this link – http://louderthanwordsphotography.blogspot.com/2009/12/freebie-for-moms-and-dads-too.html

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Happy Valentines Day!

HalinaV — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:19:21 +0000

♥ ♥ ♥ Happy LOVE day everybody! XOXO! ♥ ♥ ♥

A Kiss and A Hug
On This Day of Love

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~ California green-s ~

HalinaV — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:56:33 +0000

Hello! How was your week?
It was raining almost all week here in Northern California.
There seems to be some virus going around (and all our family had it – the little one started that cycle :( ) – Everybody around is sneezing, coughing and have runny noses. It makes me want to stay at home all the time, crawl under a fussy blanket with the cup of hot chocolate, or better a White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks :) .
But on the Up side - after all this rain and a little sunshine nature starts to show great colors – magnolia trees start to bloom, I think I saw some flowers on cherry trees too. And hills, I bet hills are all green. We need to go for a car trip to check it out!

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I installed a new type of gallery for this blog. From now on I will not overwhelm you with the long list of big size images anymore. Instead there will be a gallery of the small preview squares and if you would like to see picture in big size, you just have to click on the preview and the full version photo will slide out. How cool is that?! :)) Click on any picture below to see what I’m talking about:

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Shannon – second post | Portrait Photography

HalinaV — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:02:29 +0000

Some more pictures of Shannon :)

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Valentine’s Day Card templates

HalinaV — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:18:47 +0000

My first, new templates are HERE! :) I made 8 different Valentine’s Day Card templates.

If you are a photographer or you know how to work in Photoshop, than you can buy those for your business \ personal use.

If you don’t have Photoshop, than you can buy those templates and after your payment went through, you can email me with your picture(s) so I can insert those pictures into any template, edit those, and send you a ready for print JPEG file.

Valentine’s Day card templates – whole set for $10.50:

* the download link with the archive will be send to the email address, where the payment was made through. You will receive your file withing 24 hours after your payment went through. Thank You!

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2010 Calendar Template – {Freebie}

HalinaV — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:31:15 +0000

I know that book stores had their sale on 2010 calendars already. Or maybe it’s still going on? 75% off? I need to check our local Barnes&Nobel :)

But I’m having another giveaway \ freebie here on my blog. This time it’s a 2010 calendar template designed by me. I made it specially for my clients. But now I really want to share it with everybody. Here is how it looks like with the photo:

And here is a PSD template that I have available for download:

This template is in PSD format. It is 5×7 size.

Download this template with 2010 calendar HERE

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Caryn + ?

HalinaV — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:35:50 +0000

I’m very glad that during Family Photo Session we found time and had a mini-maternity photoshoot with Caryn. She is Glowing!! And now she has pictures of her soon to be born surprise baby (because they decided not to know if it’s a boy or a girl before delivery) :) And this photos are much more colorful than those from sonogram and ultrasound :)

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Hello 2010!

HalinaV — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:53:23 +0000

Happy 2010 everybody!

It’s a first day of 2010 and it’s time to announce the winner of a free photography session!
Thank everybody for the comments, your nominations!

I decided to make short video of “picking” process… you can hear me talk :))) So…. Here we go:

And a screenshot:

Congratulations Olga Urman! Or I should better say – Congratulations The Verniks Family! I will see you soon for our photosession!

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