What is a gallery wrapped canvas? * It is a high quality print on an artist's canvas.* The canvas is stretched over custom-made wood stretcher bars.* It is available in any size with a depth of 1.5" or 2.5". What's so cool about gallery wrapped canvases? * Canvases make a bold statement.* They appear to float on your wall.* They don't need a frame; the structure is inside the art. Order by Dec. 14 to ensure delivery by Christmas!Prices starting at $90 Bridal Canvas Engagement Canvas Family Canvas Wedding Canvas Infant Canvas ...read more

The Car Barn The Car Barn will transform your next party into a magical event to be remembered! From the time your guests set their eyes on the vintage exterior of The Car Barn, they will be greeted with the "WOW" factor...and will be overwhelmed at the fun and excitement the over 7,000 square foot interior space holds! Inside the foyer, guests are immediately drawn to the vintage feel of a player piano and other antique furnishings sure to get the conversation rolling! As they round the corner onto Bentley Lane, the main dining and dancing area, they will be surprised to find the space has been transformed into a virtual city! As guests stroll down Bentley Lane, they are entertained and amused by the intricate landscape of downtown Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, and the incline railway. Guests will be delighted to see The Blues Brothers perched on the back of a vintage truck complete with beverages and/or hors d'oeuvres to get the party started! From there, guests feast their eyes on the movie theater complete with popcorn machine, and as they move down the paved brick lane, they are delighted to see the storefront replica of a Krystal restaurant, a local barber shop, the town pub, a replica of the Las Vegas Harley Davidson restaurant, and the winding streets complete with street lights through the rest of the town! The Diesel Lounge, located upstairs, changes the pace for guests to relax away from the music and visit the large bar area complete with game tables, large screen TVs, fireplace, and relaxing couches perfect for a break from the party! For quiet chatting, relaxing, or feasting on the wonderful food prepared specifically for your event by The Car Barn, The Diesel Lounge gives guests an oasis away from the life of the party! Car Barn - A Unique Chattanooga Venue has received approximately 442 profile views in the last three months. Event Space / Capacity Seated Standing Bentley Lane 250-250 350-350 The Diesel Lounge 250-250 350-350Contact Info:6721 Heritage Business Court (located just off Lee Highway and 153)Chattanooga, TN 37421 all info from: http://www.thecarbarnchattanooga.com/ Wedding Ceremonies at the Hunter. The Museum has gorgeous facilities to accommodate both a ceremony and reception. Our 8,000 square foot outdoor River View Terrace offers panoramic views of Chattanooga North Shore and the Tennessee River. It's a stunning setting for a ceremony. Having a winter wedding or worried about the weather? The Museum's versatile spaces can easily accommodate both the ceremony and reception indoors. Ceremonies may begin at 7 p.m for up to 200 guests. There is an area for the bridal party to get dressed and an area for the family and groomsmen to relax between photos. For the reception, the Grand Foyer and Auditorium open into one another, creating more than 4,000 square feet of space. This area has a small terrace and soaring 40-foot windows. These two spaces can accommodate your guests for either a cocktail or seated reception. There's a stage for a band or DJ and plenty of room to dance. The Grand Foyer and Auditorium are available until 11 p.m. Info from: http://huntermuseum.org/hunter-ceremonies/ Lookout Lake Bed&Breakfast; 3408 Elder Mountain RoadChattanooga, TN 37419 423-821-8088 Celebrate the most special occasion of your life in a setting equally as special. Imagine a garden wedding against the backdrop of Lookout Mountain or a candlelight ceremony in front of the huge dinning room fireplace or a festive reception with outstanding food served in beautiful surroundings to celebrate your commitment. http://www.lookoutlakebedandbreakfast.com/events.htm Tennessee Aquarium (423) 785-3019One Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN 37401Host your special day on the banks of the Tennessee River. Dine surrounded by plump potbelly seahorses or host a reception in a forest under glass. Sip cocktails strolling through a butterfly garden, and delight in fun-loving penguins, mysterious jellyfish, colorful reef fish and amazing sharks. http://www.tnaqua.org/Home.aspx Sunrise Farm (423) 544-00352727 County Road 302, Trenton, GA 30752Perfect for photo opportunities, large fields surround the farm and a breathtaking bluff view is located just across the road, which is still part of the farm's property. The large gazebo is a fantastic setting for any party, or wedding ceremony. This is a wonderful site for a gorgeous event http://www.sunrisefarmllc.com/ Castleton Farms (865) 235-2500150 Cedar Grove Road, Loudon, TN 37774Castleton Farms would love to make your special day one you and your guests will never forget. We offer several unique and elegant outdoor locations for your event. http://www.castletonfarms.com/ Laurelwood (423) 949-5511657 Kell Ridge Rd, Signal Mountain, TN 37377Laurelwood is a wedding venue located on top of Signal Mountain just north of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its buildings and grounds are nestled among many acres of rolling pastures and woods which give you and your guests both complete privacy and peaceful beauty. http://www.laurelwoodweddings.com/ ...read more

Congratulations on your upcoming marriage! Planning a wedding in the Chattanooga, TN area has never been easier! I The Chattanooga Bridal show is your opportunity to plan your wedding in one day! Meet the area's finest wedding professionals face-to-face and find the ones who share your vision for your special day! Many vendors will offer samples, coupons, and budget-saving discounts. Every registered bride will receive a copy of Chattanooga Premier Bride Magazine free! The brand-new, full-size East Tennessee Pink Book will be available for purchase! Tickets are $10.00 at the door or $8.00 online. Click on the link below to register for your $2.00 off door admission coupon. This coupon is valid for admission at the door only. Your ticket price also includes a year's subscription to Brides Magazine for each registered bride-to-be.Be present at our final fashion show of the day for your chance to win cash prizes! Purchase your tickets online to receive the special online only price! Or click on the link below to get a Coupon for our show emailed directly to you. Chattanooga Premier Bridal ShowSunday, February 6, 2011, 12 pm - 4 pmChattanooga Convention CenterOne Carter PlazaChattanooga, TN 37402 http://chattanooga-bridalshow.com For more information please contact us:423-322-9650 www.facebook.com/shadesofgreyphotography ...read more

Shades of Grey Photography Looking for the perfect Stocking suffer? Send a Gift Card today! Few gifts are appreciated more than portraits. Shades of Grey Photography Gift Cards are a beautiful and easy way to give portraiture as a gift. Gift Cards can be for any amount, applied towards session fees or any studio product. Purchase your Shades of... Grey Photography Gift Card by calling the studio 423.322.9650 or go to our site www.shadesofgreyphotography.net. We will gift wrap your gift card and mail it to you or the recipient free of charge. If you need it by Christmas, we can send you a printable download to print! ...read more

Price: $2,150As our most popular packages, The Story Book is a great way to reserve Shades of Grey without a big financial commitment up front. Many brides begin with this package and add on other options a la carte or you can upgrade to Premiere or Epic at anytime. The Story Book includes unlimited coverage of your wedding day with two photographers and rights to all your images on a DVD.A 50% retainer fee is required to reserve Shades of Photography for your wedding day, and the remainder of the cost is due no later than 48 hours prior to your wedding. This allows everyone to enjoy the day without having to remember to bring the checkbook. Premiere CoveragePrice: $2,950With Our Premiere Coverage, you'll receive everything in the Story Book, as well as an 8 X 10 custom album and online viewing of your wedding photos at GreyPrints.com. Through GreyPrints.com, your loved ones can view and even order photos from the day, via a secure, password-protected server. This is particularly popular with clients who have family members unable to attend. EpicPrice: $5,800Our Epic coverage includes everything in the Story Book and Premiere Package, and much more. Couples receive two mother's albums, a 12 X 16 custom album (instead of the 8 X 10 offered in Premiere ), an engagement session, a framed and matted 12 X 12 or 13x19 photo from your engagement session for guests to sign during your wedding reception. Plus a Bridal or TTD Session or your one year anniversary shoot. Brides who choose this coverage want to remember the day in all its splendor and capture some of the new moments that occur as newlyweds. AlbumsEvery Shades of Grey album is custom-designed with the photographs you select and then hand-crafted by the world's leading album companies. By working with top album vendors, such as Graphi and Asuka, we're able to offer over 56 different album variations to ensure your album is as unique as your wedding. Engagement SessionPrice: $175Usually lasting between two and three hours, an engagement session allows you to capture the essence of your relationship prior to your wedding day. Shades of Grey travels to multiple locations, photographing you in beautiful and significant settings. You're given all images from the session on a DVD and full rights to the images. Bridal SessionPrice: $175Getting away from wedding guests for an opportune photo on top of a mountain is no easy task. To make it a little easier, many brides-to-be utilize a bridal session. With the bridal session, Shades of Grey travels to multiple locations with the bride-to-be, wedding dress in tow, for two or three hours. The bride-to-be is given all images from the session on a DVD and full rights to the images. Trash The DressPrice: $175Since the dawn of time, brides have carefully washed and packed their wedding dresses, gently setting them in a cedar closet or stuffing them in the attic, secretly hoping that one day their daughters would want to wear the dress at their own weddings. Over the past century, disheartened mothers have learned their daughters often don't wear their mothers' wedding gowns for two reasons: 1) moms and daughters aren't always built the same and 2) styles change. Recently, brides began looking for an alternate way to memorialize their wedding gowns. And trash the dress (TTD) was born. When Shades of Grey trashes your dress, you'll go to multiple locations, get wet and/or dirty, and change how you look at wedding gowns forever. In other words, you'll have a blast, and your dress will be all the worse for your wear. Not surprisingly, TTD isn't just for newlyweds. Many happily married women have pulled their aging wedding gowns out of hiding for a TTD session, and they were thrilled with the results. (For less timid brides, there is no need to worry. Despite the name, all TTD sessions do not result in great damage or any to the gown if you choose.) The bride is given all images from the session on a DVD and full rights to the images. Maternity, Infant, and ChildPrice: $175With all maternity, infant, and child packages, parents-to-be are provided a minimum of 30 high-resolution images on a DVD, as well as full rights to the images.Price: $300Mothers-to-be can book a maternity session and add on a newborn session. This is particularly popular with mothers-to-be who want to make sure the biggest moments are captured: pregnancy and birth. Moment in TimeMoment in Time is for people who want a single maternity session or a single session for their infants or children. There is no time limit, but most maternity sessions last a couple hours, infant sessions last two to three hours, and kid sessions last 90 minutes. Most sessions take place in the studio and outside, and parents or parents-to-be are given a DVD of at least 30 images, with full rights to the images. Grey MilestonesPrice: $575A great way to document your child's development during the first year, Grey Milestones includes four photo shoots spread throughout the year. We recommend the first session take place within the first week of life, when your newborn is still in that teeny tiny newborn stage. The remaining three sessions can be scheduled at three, nine, and 12 months of age—or when your child hits important milestones you would like to remember. Smiling, sitting up, crawling, and your child's first birthday are all milestones you may want to document, and Grey Milestones makes it possible. Womb to YearPrice: $900Newborns are constantly developing and changing. Almost overnight, a newborn's personality and profile completely change. That's where Monthly Moments comes in. With this package, you'll receive a maternity session and 12 sessions (one each month) during the first year of your infant's life. You'll also get a discount off of a first year of life album, an album with photos chosen by you and designed by Shades of Grey to showcase your bundle of joy's development from pregnancy to one year of life. Mix & MatchPrice: $400Want a few sessions for your baby or Child, but aren't quite sure when? Our Mix and Match package allows you to schedule three sessions any time you want. Sr. Photo SessionsPrice: $225Entering senior year of high school is a landmark occasion that begs to be photographed. You will spend a couple of hours with a Shades of Grey photographers at multiple locations—including the senior's home. We like to have the senior guide the session, but we're always ready to give suggestions. 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Exclusively for Shades of Grey Photography clients.Preserve every moment with archival quality Prints and Canvas Gallery Wraps. While experiencing a personal online gallery of your images. Grey Prints offers three types of professional papers for you to choose from:Kodak E-Surface, Kodak Metallic,andTrue B&W; Paper. Finishing Services Grey Prints offers Luster Coating which provides a sheen that visibly enhances your prints and provides superior protection. The coating protects against fingerprints, UV rays, and typical over-spraying found in home/office environments. Luster coating provides for a richer, enhanced sheen on prints of every size. Lustre Coating is not available on metallic prints.Beautiful Prints, Custom Frames Prints Choose from three of the highest quality photo papers so your photos will look sharp and last for years. Have your prints professionally mounted to add support or custom framed so they are ready to hang when they arrive. Gallery Wraps Canvas Gallery Wraps provide a modern and elegant solution for displaying that perfect wedding photo. Your image is printed directly on high-quality canvas, stretched over a wood frame, and comes to you ready to hang. Invitations and Cards We have a full assortment of templates that allow you to create beautiful invitations, thank you cards, response cards, and more! Our tools make it easy for you to use one of our designs or create your own! Make every thank you, invitation, announcement or Christmas sentiment even more personal with Folded Greeting Cards from Shades of Grey Photography. Our pearl and linen papers add a unique feel to your card at no additional cost. (call for details ) Endless Possibilities Need the perfect gift for your wedding party? Looking for other unique and elegant ways to preserve your precious memories? We have a full range of professional prints and services for every occasion. Proof Albums Looking for an easy way to view all of your photos? Our 8x10" and 10x13" Proof Portfolios are perfect! You can view all products at www.greyprints.com - sample gallery ...read more

Take a look inside Shades of Grey Photography from Brides to Bellies! Our goal is to provide photography that is passionate, intimate, and bold. We will be updating this blog show monthly so come back and take a look at our new clients and their images. In order to provide clients easy access and viewing of proofs, all clients receive a private online viewing gallery, an online slide show, and high-resolution digital negatives on a DVD. Custom-designed albums are available upon request and offered in many of our packages. Click Here ...read more

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Jennifer and Brandon dropped by yesterday to have some headshots done of Jennifer. We also tried to grab a few of the kids. Here are a few of my favorites from the session. The challenge here was shooting a few different looks for Jennifer's headshots, Jen and Brandon together, the kids individually, then the family together -- all in the span of about and hour and a half. The white and thunder grey seamless worked really well here. I was able to produce several different looks on the same two backgrounds simply by varying the shutter speed, my subject's proximity to the BG, and the use of a BG light. Here are a few of my favorites. I'm particularly happy with the headshots on white. This was a simply two-light setup. 1 AB1600 with 7" reflector on the white background, 1 AB1600 into 2'x3' softbox on the camera axis and just in front of the subject and a silver reflector below. ...read more

Gap Kids No. I haven't unexpectedly landed a lucrative international contract. But I did shoot Sean and Katelyn in my basement against a sheet of seamless thunder grey. And the results were rather Gappish, IMHO. I used an AB1600 into a 2'x3' softbox as key, with a reflector on shadow side as fill. And an AB1600 with 20 degree grid on the background. All of these were shot with the Nikon's 85 1.4. ...read more

I can't imagine why, when there are so many accomplished, working pros out there blogging technique, but I do get the occasional request to explain my lighting (jaredwielfaert.com). So, for reasons not entirely unrelated to search engine optimization, I will use this space to share the wealth. Such as it is. And this, only with the proviso that you could do much better. Check, for eg., Strobist.com, Joe McNally, and Robert Benson to get started. First, a bit of background. Last summer, before I moved to Cleveland, TN, I conducted a series of shoots in Toronto with the goal of experimenting with location lighting and building my portfolio. None of these shoots was for a particular purpose; only one of them paid. I simply took a couple hundred bucks, rented and borrowed some equipment, and, with the help of a few friends, began making pictures. Shoot 1: Ballerina on the Rock My first shoot that didn't involve bribing the kids to say cheese or shooting my dad holding a cellphone to his head was of a ballerina I'd contacted through Craigslist. I had posted an add calling for "Dancers, athletes, yoga intructors, etc." to help me work on my port. The incredible Camille, one of about 20 who replied, was perfect for what I had in mind. I'd been wanting for some time to shoot a ballerina on some giant granite rocks in a waterfront park overlooking Lake Ontario. Camille showed up on an unusually cold May morning (8 degrees C), put on some cool dresses ,and scaled the highest of the rocks, about 8' off the ground. I put my Alien Bee 1600 into a 22" beauty dish on a sandbagged, 13' lightstand, with an assistant holding on for dear life, and hoisted it to its full length. In back of the rock I put up two stands, each with two Nikon Speedlights stacked together, all lights set to 1/2 power. Everything was fired via Pocket Wizard radio remotes (PWs). We more or less needed all of this power to fight the sun, which can more powerful and omnipresent on a mildly overcast day than direct sun (which can simply be blocked out of the frame.) The goal was to expose Camille properly, while underexposing the sky by 1 -2 stops. To do this, I set my shutter speed to 1/250th, the D200s fastest sync speed, and found the smallest aperture at which my lights could properly expose my subject. Which, in this case, ranged between f11 and f16, depending on the subject's distance from the lights as she moved around. I didn't have nearly enough power to get the sky as dark as I would have liked, but ended up with fairly nice balance between subject and sky. (In this, my only setup shot, the righthand speedlights failed to fire. I may have been relying on optical triggers at this point. By the end of the shoot, I had the AB and 3 of the 4 speedlights on PWs, which I had rented or borrowed for the shoot.) When I first asked Camille to scale the precipice I was planning on a much wider crop, with the height and severity of the rock to add to the shot. But some busyness on both sides -- power lines, trees, and other rocks -- broke up the composition. I should have given up the idea at that point and moved to safer rocks nearby, where Camille could move uninhibited by the height and unevenness of the rock. But I stuck to my original location, but with a much tighter crop, and ended up with more static images, as a result. Still with the help of some fortunate moments with the wind and some white tulle, we managed to grab a few really neat frames, given my relative inexperience doing this type of shooting. Here are a few of my favorites: ...read more

This past weekend I shot an "engagement shoot" with some old friends. Tommy and Jessica are graduates of the University of Tennessee and alum of the Pride of the Southland Band. We wanted to incorporate some of that history into the shoot, while having as much fun as possible. We began on the intramural athletic field, which doubles as the band's practice field. My assistant and I arrived about 30 minutes early and set up some lights in order to do a few set shots on the field. We wanted to ambitiously light at least a few of the band images to elevate the look a bit and make it more evocative of performance. I first shot a few individual portraits, with 2 AB1600 monolights in back of the subjects for rimlight, and 1 SB800 into silver umbrella as key. I didn't like the look of the hard rimlights, so I softened up the monolights with a 2'x3' softbox and 22" beauty dish. This more or less gave us the look we were after. We then shot the two together on opposite ends of the frame, the beauty dish on Jessica and the softbox on Tommy. I really love the way these turned out. They have a nice editorial feel, which might ordinarily be a bit too bright and contrasty for an engagement shoot. But because of the band theme, I think it works well here. The rest of our shoot was dedicated to a more traditional take on the genre. First, while my assistant was loading everything back up, I shot the couple playing football with Tommy's trumpet. Which made for some really cool shots. Then, with about an hour and a half left before dark, we moved quickly through five more locations, using mostly natural light, reflectors, and a single, handheld speedlight into shoot-through umbrella. ...read more

This past weekend, I did a location shoot with a lovely family here in Cleveland, TN. The Munger's were good sports, working patiently outside on a blustery December afternoon, with grandma and grandpa pitching in now and then to keep my umbrellas from becoming sails. Our goal was to produce some nice individual portraits of the kids and also a family portrait, if time permitted. I pulled out the AlienBees for some portraits of the kids in the front yard, using my (by now) customary beauty dish-softbox crosslighting. The big lights allowed us to bring down the already dark ambient to produce some really nice effects. After a few of these, the kids began to turn purple from the windchill. So we moved things inside to the Munger's beautiful kitchen table. The window light inside the kitchen was exquisite, but much too low to get usable results at ISO 100, even with the excellent 85 1.4. The client wanted nice, clean files that will print really big, if necessary, so I wanted to avoid getting my D200's rather noisy ISO 400. So I placed an AB1600 with a softbox outside on the deck to fire through the window, blinds, and curtains. Shooting through the window helped to further diffuse the softbox and also saved us some space to move around in inside the kitchen. To give a bit of separation on the shadow side, I put a silver reflector to the side of and slightly behind the subject. We were all really happy with the results. Finally, we turned to the family portrait. The kitchen table was a bit cramped to pull off a group shot. So we moved back outside on the deck, just as the sky was beginning to break up a bit. Moving quickly, I got the softbox up and everyone in place in time to grab 4 or 5 frames, before the sky went dark again. This is my favorite: ...read more