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Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

Luminary Photo stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Luminary Photo for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that Luminary Photo is among the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at Luminary Photo Wedding Wire Storefront.

For more information on the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

About Luminary Photo
Luminary Photo and LuminaryPhoto.com specialize in wedding photography for the past 7 years.  Luminary Photo works with brides and grooms to create stunning rich photography that lasts a lifetime.  Luminary Photo is family owned and operated from Simi Valley, CA but works in and around the Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara areas.  We provide full service natural light candid / photojournalistic photography that tells the story of your wedding day.  They can be contacted at their website or phone (805)587-7611.

About WeddingWire, Inc.
WeddingWire.com, the nation’s leading technology company serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 local wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers to wedding cakes. WeddingWire also offers an online community and a suite of cutting-edge planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire provides free online management tools creating the only market opportunity that gives local businesses control over their clients, reviews, leads and performance. Businesses that join the WeddingWire Network appear on WeddingWire.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com (NYSE: MSO), ProjectWedding.com and Weddingbee.com (both part of eHarmony), and Celebrations.com (part of the 1-800-Flowers family of brands, NASDAQ: FLWS).

Make sure to have an engagement picture session.  This will allow you to get to know your photographer.  More importantly, for your photographer to know you.  We like to know if you are sensitive to light, blink a lot, have a favorite side or a favorite smile.  Your photographer could get some background information on your family members if there is some tension between family.

When taking group shots remember to focus on the photographer.  Contrary to popular belief, the adults are usually the ones not looking at the camera because they are trying to get the kids to do something.  Children will do what they do.  If the adults are not worried and looking ahead, it is easier to get that perfect picture when the munchkins do look up and smile.

My other favorite feature is the new vignette feature.  Instead of just simply painting black to darken the edges of a photo and draw the attention of the viewer to center.  Adobe has made the vignettes sensitive to highlights and color.  It makes for a much better effect and it looks so much better.  I will try putting up a sample of the new vignettes later in the week.

If you want to learn more about Lightroom or Photoshop I can’t recommend Kelby Training or Photoshop User Magazine enough.  If you want to watch Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski show off some of the other new features check out the Lightroom 3 Learning Center.  I love their stuff and they always do a great job explaining the new features of the latest Adobe products.  Lightroom is one of those tools as a photographer that I just couldn’t live without.  Have questions drop me an email at Luminary Photo or hit up my contact page at LuminaryPhoto.com.