nicholeV photography

Special Session Offer . . . . . Ghost Town Photos!!

Nichole Van — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:27:35 GMT

Okay, so remember my ghost town sessions (Session 1 and Session 2)? They are some of my favorite images of all time, I have to be honest. I am actually going back up to the ghost town next week to take some personal photos but I thought that it would be fun to offer a discounted session in the ghost town to one lucky client.

The ghost town is located in rural Montana about 6 hours north of Salt Lake City. So here are the details:

Tuesday, July 27th in the evening or Wednesday, July 28th in the morning or early afternoon
A 2-hour session for a couple, bridal/groomal or small family (you pick!)
$550
Includes all proof digital files on CD (so a digital copy of every image I take) and your choice of 3 art print digital files with copyright release for personal printing

Whew! That's an insane deal, folks! Please email me (nichole [at] nicholeV.com) if you are interested.

So just imagine . . . . . this could be you!!

Workshop Winner!!

Nichole Van — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:32:48 GMT

Running out the door to a wedding shoot, but thought that I would post a winner to the blog contest. We pulled all entries into a spreadsheet, determined how many entries each post received and then scrambled all the entries. Then we used www.random.org to generate a random number.

And the winner is . . . . .

Brittany C. of Cascio Photography!!!

Congratulations! Please contact me and we'll see about arranging your August workshop attendance or a workshop in a box (whichever you prefer!)

Win a Workshop and Other Goodness!!

Nichole Van — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:52:34 GMT

Wow! There is a lot of amazing goodness in this post! Read on!

For starters, if you’ve ever been to Utah in the summer, you know that July is our sepia tone month--everything becomes a little brown and muted. So it's a good thing I love that vintage-y look! In celebration of hot, desaturated days I’m putting my vintage action sets on sale on Flourish Emporium. For a limited time, get my vintage action and textures sets for only $30.

Chic Vintage Actions and Textures,
Antique Vintage Actions and Textures, and
Ethereal Actions and Textures

Or add them all to your cart and receive my multiple action discount and get them all for $76.50. Even better, use the 10% off coupon included in this email to get an additional 10% off your entire order, making a purchase of all three sets only $68. That's nearly 50% of the regular retail price of these action sets.

To receive an additional 10% off your entire Flourish purchase, enter this coupon code at checkout:

july073110

Visit http://shop.nicholeV.com to see everything Flourish Emporium has to offer. This sale will run through Monday, July 26th.

In addition to Flourish goodness, I'm also wrapping up most of my {life as art} 2010 workshops. I launched my {life as art} Lighting Workshops last month and they are receiving rave reviews. The workshop is an intensive, hands-on learning of off-camera lighting with lots of incredible images, wonderful food and laughter mixed in. We are doing our last Lighting Workshop of the summer this week. But be excited. I have plans to release a {life as art} Lighting Workshop in a Box sometime in the early fall, for all those who can't travel to an in-person workshop. Here's a sample of some of the images we've been doing at the Lighting Workshop:

Then, on August 5-7 we are conducting our last {life as art} Professional Workshop of 2010 in Salt Lake City. The {life as art} Professional Workshop has completely redefined industry standards for workshop excellence and is 3-days of in-depth discussion of creativity, composition, natural light, Photoshop and business practices. Attendees also receive my {life as art} Workshop in a Box. We still have a couple spots available in the August workshop and even better, we are GIVING AWAY one spot in the workshop to a lucky winner. That's right, one lucky person will have the entire $1100 workshop fee waived and be able to attend the workshop for FREE. And never fear! If you win and can't attend the workshop in August, we will send you a {life as art} Workshop in a Box instead.

So how to enter?!

To receive 1 entry into the contest, just leave a comment to this blog post.
To receive 5 entries, post a link back to a nicholeV website on your blog or other page (i.e. http://shop.nicholeV.com or http://workshops.nicholeV.com) and come back here and leave a comment with a link to your link.
To received 10 entries, if you love Nichole Van products, post a blog review raving about the product that you love the most and link to it. Again, come back here and leave a comment linking to your post.

Yep, that's a total of 16 possible entries and past contests have proven that more entries do matter. Note that all online posts need to post-date this blog entry (sorry, no digging up old posts) and entries need to be visible publicly, as I do verify them. The winner will be chosen using a number generated via random.org and will be announced on Monday, July 19th.

The fine print: The winner of this contest will have the $1100 workshop fee waived for the August 5-7th workshop in Salt Lake City. The workshop fees are not transferable to another {life as art} workshop date. The winner will be responsible for all travel and lodging expenses possibly associated with attending the workshop. If the winner is not able to attend the workshop in person, they may opt for a {life as art} Workshop in a Box instead.

And what's a contest without a coupon code for my {life as art} Workshop in a Box? Visit http://workshops.nicholeV.com and enter this code at checkout and receive $50 off your Workshop in a Box purchase:

boxjuly073110

Whew! Now that's a lot of goodness!

N & L Bridals | Utah Wedding Photographer

Nichole Van — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:17:38 GMT

It's been an insane couple of weeks around here, launching my {life as art} Lighting Workshops and just dealing with kids and summer and shooting wedding after wedding. I'll be posting more about all of this over the next few weeks.

But in the meantime, I just realized how incredibly behind I am on posting client sessions. So in an effort to get caught up, here is a wonderful bridal. This couple has just been so fantastic to work with: incredibly in-love, fun, sweet and gorgeous to boot!

K&N Bridals | Utah Wedding Photographer

Nichole Van — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:03:06 GMT

Well, I have so many sessions to post, so thought that I would get started here! These were amazingly fun bridal photos with K & N. They have just been so wonderful to work with and LOVED how their photos turned out.

Huge Sale at Flourish Emporium

Nichole Van — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:16:14 GMT

Wow! I really have been a bad blog mommy. I have to blame it all 100% on my {life as art} Lighting Workshop that launched last weekend. I've done nothing other than eat, sleep and dream lighting workshop for the last several months. But the workshop was fabulous and I now have a lot of catching up to do!

So to celebrate having launched the new lighting workshop, let's do a fantastic Flourish Emporium sale. Go to shop.nicholeV.com and enter this coupon at checkout and receive an additional 25% off your entire purchase.

clickn631

Wow! I think that this is my best sale ever on Flourish, so don't miss out! This sale will run until Sunday, June 30th.

And just a little teaser shot from the workshop last weekend . . . . . the torrential weather just added to the drama of all the images, haha! More to come!

And the Winner Is . . . . .

Nichole Van — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:22:54 GMT

Thanks so much to everyone for your patience with my announcement of the contest winner. To determine a winner, we brought everyone's entry into a spread sheet and then verified how many entries you received based on your postings. We then used www.random.org to generate a number. And the winner is . . . .

Katrina of www.violetrayphotography.com! Congrats, Katrina. I'll be emailing you about your prize, but if you see this before you receive my email, don't hesitate to email me.

Thanks again to everyone who entered. And never fear. I have many more contests planned, so there will be more opportunities to win!

Also, as a sidenote, if you've been interested in attending my Lighting Workshop, be sure to check the website. Due to shuffling of attendees and such, I currently have at least one opening in each of my Lighting Workshops, even workshops that were previously sold out!

http://workshops.nicholev.com/lighting/index.html

I've been hard at work developing the Lighting Workshop for the past 6 months and it promises to be amazing. So come and learn how to create your own amazing light in every photo, regardless of the time of day you shoot.

The Ultimate Giveaway!

Nichole Van — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:12:15 GMT

Well, if you're like me, you might be dreading the summer months. Not only is it miserably hot, but the wedding season really heats up around here. That means long hot days shooting in full sun, every weekend a workday and my kids on break from school and bored out of their minds. I can't wait! So in an attempt to lift my spirits, I've come up with some fun stuff on Flourish Emporium!

First of all, I have to keep telling myself that being busy is a good thing, right? Well, as long as you can keep on top of it all. Managing your digital workflow and cutting down on editing time can really help. That’s why I’ve decided to offer a first-ever sale on my Workflow Action Set. From now until May 28th I will be selling the Workflow Action Set for $85 (regularly $99). Combine that with a 10% off coupon code good for anything at Flourish (see below) and you can own the workflow set for $76.50. The beauty of the Workflow Action Set is its ability to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to make edits to multiple photos at one time. Automating your workflow can save you hours in front of your computer, so you can spend more time in the hot sun taking pictures! You can read more about the Workflow Action Set here: http://shop.nicholev.com/prodpage.aspx?type=a-workflow

If you are a Lightroom or ACR user, you may also want to take a look at the Proofing Presets, which allow for fast, beautiful proofing of client images in both color and black and white. The Proofing Presets are currently on sale for $49 ($44.10 with the coupon). Read more about the Proofing Presets here: http://shop.nicholev.com/prodpage.aspx?type=p-proofing.

Also, for the next 2 weeks everything on Flourish is 10% off. Just go to http://shop.nicholev.com and enter the code

SUMMER528

at checkout.

And of course I can’t leave you without mentioning my {life as art} Professional and Lighting workshops. I just wrapped up a professional workshop in beautiful Orlando, FL! But if you missed that workshop don’t worry. I have more scheduled for the summer and fall. Find out more at http://workshops.nicholev.com. And don’t forget that anyone can now attend the Lighting workshops, so if you want to learn more about taking shots like this one below, be sure to check out the lighting workshops.

Finally, if you are looking for a great workshop experience without the travel then be sure to check out my {life as art} Workshop in a Box. Use the code

SUMMERBX528

for $50 off your Workshop in a Box purchase (good until May 28th). Check it out at http://workshops.nicholev.com.

Okay, but my best news is a huge giveaway. To help me get over my summer heat blahs, I'm giving away EVERYTHING on my Flourish Emporium site. That's right, folks, the winner of this contest will receive a DVD in the mail with every single product on my Flourish site on it. Everything! That's nearly $1200 worth of products for free! How's that for a little summer pick-me-up?

So how do you enter to win?

You can leave a reply in the comments to this blog post to receive 1 entry into the contest.

Receive 5 entries into the contest by bragging about any nicholeV site and linking to me on your blog or your Facebook page or Twitter (you get the idea) and then link me to your link in a comment to this blog post. Note that your link needs to be publicly accessible to me so I can verify it.

Receive 10 entries into the contest by posting an image edited using nicholeV products and again giving me a shout-out and a link back to one of my websites. Link me to your image by commenting on this blog post and again, your link needs to be publicly accessible to me so I can verify it.

Yeah, that's a total of 16 entries that you could get into this contest! Note that the links you post back must date after this blog post (sorry, no digging up old links, though I love you for having linked me in the past, haha). This contest ends on May 19th at midnight MST.

Yay! Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions!

Happy shooting!

Kimberly Senior Photos

Nichole Van — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:22:05 GMT

Gotta love a beautiful senior with some wonderful spunk! I had so much fun with these images! Here's just a few . . .

K & N Engagements

Nichole Van — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:51:12 GMT

Whew! Back from lovely sunny Florida. We had an amazing workshop down there and I will be posting images from the workshop within the next week or so. In the meantime, I have so many sessions to catch up on!

This is an engagement session I did right before leaving for Florida. K & N were so much fun and such an adorable couple together! Just couldn't get enough of them. So bear with me, as there are a lot of images, haha!