Our new simple wedding photography website...unveiled!

Just a few days ago I shared our new vision with you for the year, and gave you a hint of our new look & our new face.  Well, today is the big day!  The t's are crossed and the i's are dotted, and we have settled in to drink a cup of joe and admire our beautiful work.  ;)  

Until now, you've gotten accustomed to checking us out at our photography website, our photography blog, our facebook page, and even our diehard friends check out our twitter page.  Plus!  When you receive your photos, you get to visit our client galleries and shopping cart.  That's a ton of places to track us down, and can get confusing at times.  So, we're simplifying!  Now, you can get to every piece of us from our new website, right there at www.natoshaledbetterphotography.com.  

Now the website and blog are wedded and have moved into the same address, and our facebook and twitter feeds are right there hanging out at the top.  We are also looking into streamlining your facebook experience to make it easier for you to "like" your favorite photos right from our blog or comment by logging in with your facebook account.  So, be watching for those cool features to be rolling out soon!

We are loving our new look, and think it totally looks like us.  We are fun, but cool, calm and down to earth (at least, we like to think so!).  It's fresh, but beautiful and shows off the genuine beauty of all our favorite friends and their gorgeous weddings!

See you on the other side!

xoxo

Natosha

Fresh. Beautiful. Genuine

The new year is a great time to focus on the things that are most important to you.  And do something about it.  So.  We are excited to announce a new face for Natosha Ledbetter Photography.  It has been a long time coming, and we are excited about the possibilities for our new look.  Be watching for changes on all our websites, and you just might see a sneak peek of our new face before our new website actually goes up.  ;)

Until now, we have been taking photos because we love it.  Really.  We would do it every day if we could.  But I believe there is great merit in being intentional and purposeful.  That is the motivation for our new year.

This year, we will focus on 3 essential ideas.  Fresh.  Beautiful.  Genuine.

Fresh.  Nathan and I love fresh, crisp (or creamy) things.  We think of fresh cut grass, and cool fresh air.  We want our photos to be a breath of fresh air in a world full of stale sameness.

Beautiful.  You are beautiful.  Your man-to-be thinks you are beautiful.  And we all know you’re going to be amazingly beautiful on your wedding day.  And so are your wedding photographs.

Genuine.  We are just real.  We all do our best, but when it gets down to it, life happens.  And that’s okay.  We understand that we’re not all perfect.  And in a world like we live in when there is so much fluff, we’d rather just be the real thing.  We work hard, try our best, and give it all we’ve got.  That is the real us.

So, our new favorite words are a combination of smells, ideas and goals.  And I could talk about those 3 words all day long.  They are some of my favorites, especially when they are all together.  But instead of blabbing on and on, I am going to show you a photo we took at a recent wedding so you can see what I’m talking about.

There.  Do you think this is fresh, beautiful and genuine?  This is almost the photo taken right out of the camera.  And I think it embodies our new exciting direction for the new year.

I am so glad you cared enough to read my rambling on.  We are blessed to have a few quiet months to ourselves before the wedding season ramps up, so don’t be alarmed if you don’t see a ton of action here.  Just know that behind the scenes, we are working on a fresh direction and a new vision for our sweet little company.  

Thank you for making our year what is has been.

To you, we are forever grateful.

xoxo

Natosha

Fresh beginnings!

I do hope you've been enjoying the holidays, and are ready to begin with a fresh start at a new year.  In case you've noticed, our website is going through some changes and has been down a bit recently.  I am so excited about the coming changes and the fresh direction our photography is taking.  We are eagerly anticipating "go time" for the new website and will have more details to follow.  Until then, Happy New Year!!!

xoxo
Natosha

The real me...

I've never been to a photography workshop, but have aaalllways wanted to.  We just haven't been ale to fit it into our budget so far.  But, I do keep regular tabs on this website called creativelive.com.  Chase Jarvis (commercial photographer for Nike and the like) has stepped in to help the original tech crew that was there last year.  They've got awesome free online classes for creative and technology people (they even have watercolor classes!).  Most of the classes happen once a week for 4-6 weeks and as long as you watch them live, they're free.

So, they have just started weekend workshops with some of the leaders in the industries (like Zach Arias, lighting guru from our own ATL!). I have sooo been looking forward to this week's workshop. Jasmine Star is the instructor (one of the top wedding photographers!) and she's completely dishing out all her photography and business secrets. It started 3 hours ago and I've learned so much already. Fortunately, I've learned I am doing a lot of things right!! Wooo!!! And learning about some things that I need to do more of! It's soo awesome!

So, at this point, I am feeling a bit guilty. I'm okay about staying on top of posting photos and the latest photography news (except the ones I am holding for mag. publications :D ), but I've been hiding on this side of my blog and only sharing part of me part of the time. I am going to try to do better about that. If you're going to hang with me for an entire day (or two) on the most important day of your life, you really should know me better than I've let you know me so far. :)

So, be ready for a little more personality and more real life (even if it's a little 'boring' LOL!) I'll try to keep it from being totally boring, but I am excited about sharing my life for real. Letting you get to know the real me. :) And I really hope I get to know the real you too!

Blog Update!

Wow!

So who would have thought that to be a photographer you have to know web design??!  Good thing I've got the design side of things covered!  I hope you enjoy the new softer version of us in progress this week.  It's time for us to have a more uniform look across the blog and website so you don't go between the two of them and think you got lost and landed on someone else's blog!  :)  Plus, you can't go wrong with a touch of brown to soften things up a bit!

Feel free to look around at the new pages on the blog, but please keep in mind that I'm still working on my web design skills!  Ha!

I hope you're having a happy week!  The newest wedding photos are coming soon!  I promise!

Un-retouched Grandeur!

We're married!

So, while the homefront is quiet here on the blog, we are working furiously (behind the scenes) on the last two weddings of this month.  They both went off without a hitch or a drop of rain.  Nathan and I had an amazing time spending time with these special couples on their wedding day.

You know, the longer we are photographers, the more I believe that wedding photography is great for a marriage.  It's sort of like we get to have all different sorts of weddings.  I know the weddings are so so special for each couple and we work our booties off for each one we work with, but somehow...in the midst of all the hard work, sweat and dedication, I still get to walk up to Nathan after the ceremony with a big grin on my face, hold up my left hand, and say "We're married!"

ME+E, J+J, M+M, N+N

This past weekend was an action-packed photography weekend. Not only did we get a chance to meet Mary Elizabeth and Eric, but we got to meet with Mary and Michael and even Jennifer and Joanna (sisters). Strangely enough, everyone had matching names, including myself (Natosha) and Nathan. :D

On top of meeting with 3 totally different but equally cool couples, we got to watch parts of a sweet HD Videography workshop with Vincent Laforet and Chase Jarvis at creativelive.com. It's one of my favorite resources for learning new things about the huge world of photography and media design.

It was a great time this weekend, and I can't wait to post the preview from our engagement session in downtown Buford.

And what is a post without a photo??

The Life of a Photographer

Just in case you are wondering what your photographers are going through on their personal journey to.....World Photography Domination...just check out this chart.

If you are wondering where we are, I think I'm at the "one exposure per motive" part of the chart.  Nathan might still be lost in "the HDR hole" on our personal shoots, but when we are doing real shoots he is probably somewhere near the apex of the blue line.  :)  I'm really looking forward to leveling out that blue line!