Easter is an extra special time in our family and we wanted to share some photo love with all of our Curl Photography family, friends, and fans! Hope you all enjoy!

…and with all of these fabulous photos we figued it’d be appropriate to showcase Nick’s green thumb…

HAPPY EASTER , love CURL PHOTOGRAPHY

We hope everyone had a safe and happy St. Patrick’s Day this year. Right before sundown last night after the evening rain showers cleared we snuck outside quick to take a few photos of all the clovers in our yard witht he little dropets of rain left over. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! This is such a special holiday to us around our house. Valentine’s Day is not just a holiday for lovers like all of the card, flowers, and candy companies would have you believe. This is a day to celebrate the people that mean the most to you in your life. It’s a day to take some time to visit, call, text, email, or whatever you have to do to reach out to those special friends & family members in your life and tell them that you care. It’s a day to celebrate all of the loves in your life.

So we put together a little mini-bash if you will to spark some Valentine’s Day party ideas. This theme could go well for this holiday, a bridal shower, or an engagement party for sure. We chose to focus on pinks, white, pale purple and antique vintage tones to help inspire this party.  The decorations can be simple, and can be more grown up than the paper hearts we made in grade-school (although if you have a family with little one running around, decorate with as many paper hearts as their little hands can make.. we all grow up too fast!). And the music should be upbeat and fun, maybe throw on some classics like the Jackson 5.

We choose some simple tissue paper poms, fake white rose petals to line the tables, and simple homemade colorful confetti (made with construction paper and a 3 hole punch) to decorate our table display. And we chose to serve a few small simple treats to your guests. Parties shouldn’t be all about the food, it should just serve as a part of the background, or a conversation starter, like “hey aren’t these cupcakes delicious!” For a small Valentines get together we suggest some small treats like cupcakes, truffles, or bite size candies, and some wine or champagne. We say err on the lighter side, we know we’ve all indulge a bit on the heavy side with all of the winter holidays lately, think of this as a lighter holiday where you can still let your sweet tooth win you over, but in smaller bites. But again, the food and the decor should be the blurry background to a lovely evening sharing stories and love with your family and friends.

Enjoy!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 

xoxo  Lots of love to all our family, friends, & fans!  xoxo

We have a couple of fabulous updates to unveil this weekend. Once being the ever so slightly delayed Valentines Day inspired post (hopefully posted later tonight) and the other being this fabulous Photoshop action.

For all of you photographers out there who have fallen in love (like we have) with how wonderful a tool Photoshop actions can be to edit photos, we have a little treat in store for you…

The makers of Totally Rad are giving away free 30 day trials of their photo editing software RadLab & throwing a little Action Contest. If you enjoy editing your photos in Photoshop we highly suggest checking out the RadLab software. We use this as just one of tools in our bag of tricks to edit most of our Curl Photography photos. For all of you out there with the software already, or for the ones trying it out for the next 30 days, here is a fun recipe we love and submitted to the RadLab Action Contest for all of you to enjoy….

We call the action…   “Curl-it”

Lights On – strength 143%

Boutwell Magic Glasses – strength 73%

Butter Pecan – strength 39%

Pool Party – strength 21%, cross-tweak 100%, funky desaturation 100%, color fade 100%

+ Contrast – strength 40%

Antique Tone – 100%

Go Go Saturation – 49%

(This action is only applicable to the RadLab software and can totally be adjusted to work with the photo you are editing)

**Please note that the people who make Adobe Photoshop have no knowledge or affiliation with us or this blog. Same goes for the wonderful makers of Totally Rad. This is in no way meant to be an advertisement for any specific products or photo editing tools, we just like to share tips and tricks that we have found to be useful along the way.

It is with great pleasure that we bring you these wedding photos from Lucinda & Dan’s wedding. The whole day flew by as one easy, beautiful, relaxed, and love filled day. We could not be more happy for Lucinda & Dan too, as they are two of the sweetest and most genuine people we’ve met, true southern charms! And the Birkdale Golf Club was such a gorgeous background for Lucinda & Dan’s big day. For all of the Brides out there still looking for a venue, go check out the beautiful Birkdale Golf Club. There were so many favorites from the day, we hope you enjoy!

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We are so excited to finally share all of our favorites from Kelly & Scot’s gorgeous lake side wedding. Set at the beautiful Rumbling Bald Resort, romance was in the air. It’s no wonder that the classic love story Dirty Dancing was filmed there, Lake Lure is a true North Carolina beauty. Anyways, back to the gorgeous wedding… its hard to sum up how much fun we had at this weekend. This could is so kind hearted and fun it was an absolute pleasure to work with them on their big day. The whole day was so relaxed and stress free and such a wonderful reflection of such a sweet couple. We hope you enjoy these following photos as much as we do, and we wish nothing but the best in their new life together for Kelly & Scot.