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Joy & Michael had an AMAZING wedding celebration last weekend!!! Their day started out at the fabulous Wentworth Mansion...a beautiful and historic place I always love photographing in. They were married on the Carolina Girl Yacht with The Battery as our scenic backdrop. Camille did a fantastic job as usual orchestrating everything. All of Joy & Michael's friends and family were on board to help

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Cami & I recently received this really nice letter and endorsement from WeddingBook:"Hi Chris,Sarah Mann here on behalf of WeddingBook.com. I wanted to let you know that we’ve featured Chris & Cami Photography today, highlighting the details on your business, as well as your great user reviews. We appreciate the content you have provided on WeddingBook, and are sure that engaged couples do as

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"The second annual Charleston Classic is in the books, and Miami has bragging rights. Led by James Dews (22 points) and Dwayne Collins (17), the Hurricanes outlasted South Carolina 85-70 in the championship game. Collins, who also grabbed 15 rebounds, was named MVP of the tournament. Miami outscored the Gamecocks 11-5 in the final 2:25 to clinch the Charleston Classic crown, won by Clemson in the

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Earlier this month I had the honor of being ESPN's official photographer of the Charleston Classic. This is the second year of this college basketball tournament. And it's my second year photographing it!Here are a few shots from the Welcome Banquet aboard the USS Yorktown...Team coaches with ESPN Commentators Jay Williams and Justin Kutcher. Jay Williams delivers the Keynote Address. Special

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As the year comes to a close, I begin to look forward to photographing the Family Circle Cup in the spring. Here's a shot of Sabine Lisicki I photographed last year that has just been featured on the official Sony Ericsson WTA Tour website at: http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/page/OffCourtNews/Read/0,,12781~1892475,00.html

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I had an AWESOME TIME photographing Jody's Bridal Portraits a couple weeks ago! We drove down to Walterboro where we had received permission to photograph at Bonnie Doone Plantation. It's such a beautiful place with the most dreamy Spanish Moss covered oaks! On top of that, Jody's dad brought along his amazing new Dodge Charger. I couldn't help doing a few poses with the bright red muscle car

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I recently had the honor of photographing Lee's 4-month portraits. His baby dedication was this past weekend at Ashley River Baptist. This was one of the photos they selected to be projected on the huge LCD screen of him during the service. What an ADORABLE young man!!! Congratulations Chad, Denise, and big brother Thomas! :-)

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Joy & Michael got married yesterday in a FABULOUS wedding aboard the Carolina Girl Yacht! While Cami & I are madly editing the TONS of images I shot, here's a really cute image of them from their Engagement Session. Oh, and this doesn't even show their beautiful parrots and all their fish. :-)

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High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography has fascinated me for some time. So I finally decided to take a crack at it. It involves photographing a series of bracketed exposures of the same image, then merging them together.I used a popular HDR program called Photomatix. Here are a couple of my first attempts from last week. Any thoughts or suggestions on what I could do different?!?

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I photographed Adrienne's Bridal Portraits the other day. Isn't she UNBELIEVABLY beautiful?!? We got so many awesome images from her shoot! This was one of the very first ones.I loved how this shaft of late afternoon sunlight was making the fuzzy ferns glow. So while she was in the changing room, I had figured out that I wanted to place her here where her veil would get that same angelic rim

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WOW!!! What can I say about Julia & Erik's BEAUTIFUL Destination Wedding?!? Cami & I are so honored that they brought us with them to capture their amazing time in the US Virgin Island of St. Thomas. Many thanks to Lori at Bolongo Bay Resort for making everything run so smoothly. Erik & Julia, you guys simply ROCKED!!!Check out some of my favorite shots from their trip in this slideshow. Then

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Here's an interesting question I received this morning:"Hey Chris, I had a question about something I've been struggling with when taking pictures. In short, how do you get good background blur yet maintain good sharpness in a group shot. I know increasing f stops (or closing aperture) will help but I don't know what range i want to be in to get uniform sharpness through the group and blur the

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I just wrapped up shooting Executive Portraits for Dixon-Hughes, one of the largest accounting firms in the nation. The firm celebrates it's 50th Anniversary this year!They had me set up in their conference room. And I used my totally wireless system that I LOVE!!! This time I fired two SB-800 flashes into a large softbox (seen on left) instead of using the Westcott shoot-through umbrella as my

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Dan Rather goes into the Congo (where I was born and my parents were missionaries for decades) to find out what the people in a small village are receiving in exchange for allowing companies to extract their natural resources. Turns out, the mining companies don't want to allow our cameras anywhere...

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I just found out Maria Sharapova is using one of my images from last year's tournament to announce her return to this year's Family Circle Cup!!! I love it: http://www.mariasharapova.com/defaultflash.sps.

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Here are a few of our shots from Erik & Julia's beautiful destination wedding in St. Thomas, USVI. I haven't had time to do any editing yet. So these are completely un-touched, strait out of the camera.The last two were taken during their Trash-the-Dress shoot the morning after the wedding. Erik & Julia were AWESOME to work with, incredibly attractive, so much fun, and completely willing to do

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Cami & I LOVE to travel. So being invited to fun places to photograph fun weddings is like that old Wrigley's commercial...double-mint fun!!!We just returned from photographing Julie & Erik's AMAZING destination wedding on St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. Several of you have asked me what gear I pack for these out-of-town shoots. With new TSA regulations and airline carry-on restrictions, it

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Here's a problem I encounter all the time! I photograph a number of corporate team photos. But it's an ever-evolving process...people leave the company, new employees are hired, etc. Here's a team photo I took for one of my favorite clients, Caldwell Commercial, last year. Larry just joined the team this year. Instead of dragging everyone back down there, I met up with him at the same spot I had

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I can't believe it's been EXACTLY one year since Howie & Julie first filled out that contact form inquiring about our photography services for their wedding! A few months later I got to photograph their AMAZING e-session on Seabrook. It feels like this all happened just a few weeks ago! Where does time go?!? :-)I originally met Julie & Howie at a Johnson & Wales Alumni Event that I was

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Recently I had the pleasure of photographing the AMAZING low country artist, Claudette Bell. Those are her beautiful paintings behind the lamp and above the mantel. Her husband, Bill, has commissioned me to do several shoots for his company. So it was neat to see their beautiful home and get to meet his lovely wife. Visit her website at http://www.claudettebell.com/ or stop by Spencer's Art

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Amity & Ryan are good friends of Kerri & Wes, who's wedding I had the privilege of photographing earlier this year. Their daughter was the ADORABLE Flower Girl in the wedding! So it was fun to get to work with them again in creating these family memories. :-)

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"One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty."- Paul Outerbridge

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Matt Every, the former University of Florida All-American, posted a 5-under 67 Sunday to outlast Michael Sim (teeing off on the 17th), who has had the most dominating year in the 20-year history of the Nationwide Tour! This win at the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship at the Daniel Island, was his first since joining the tour last year."I've always felt I'm talented enough to win," Matt

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I had an AWESOME Engagement Shoot with Tara & Will the other day. Will drove all the way down from Charlotte to make this thing happen. YOU ROCK, Will! It was one of those days that less "adventurous" couples would have called off due to weather...kind of overcast with pockets of rain throughout the day. But Tara & Will were all hyped up to create some unique and dramatic images. I get excited

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Apryl & Ben were a kind referral from my friend and wonderful fellow photographer, Karyn Iserman. We originally met on Valentines Day last year. As much "in love" as these two are, I thought that rather fitting. :-) Since then I've enjoyed getting to know them through their fun Engagement Session and Apryl's gorgeous Bridal Shoot. We photographed the Bridal Shoot on historic Church Street since

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