Vendor Spotlight | Kimla Designs

 You know how we love and support our photography vendors!  They make our lives so much easier! Today's vendor is Kimla Designs.  

 

Kimla Designs offers Photoshop Templates & Marketing Materials for Pro Photographers.

Our shop is full of beautiful vintage inspired photocards, albums, digital frames and overlays, digital backdrops and high quality digital papers.

website: http://www.kimladesigns.com/

fb : https://www.facebook.com/kimladesigns

blog: http://kimladesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

Scroll down and check out her amazing vintage inspired designs, and I'm sure you will recognize some of the gorgeous photographs from some of our favorite photog crushes.

Oh and Kimla Designs have generously given our fans a 40% discount for the remainder of May!  Use the code LFBKIMLA at checkout!

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Vendor Spotlight | The Shoppe Designs

You know how we love and support our photography vendors!  They make our lives so much easier! And we love the freebies!  Today's Vendor is The Shoppe Designs!  You are going to be so excited to read all about them.  Oh and check our our fabulous winner from the Swoon The Moon giveaway here!  Winner email me at hello@lovephotographsbeautifully.com

Shoppe ~ Design for Photographers is an online store featuring an extensive library of layered Photoshop design templates and actions made specifically for photographers. The Shoppe has designs for wedding, senior, family, baby and boudoir photographers as well as unique film like actions. 

Customers may choose between our monthly subscription option for $40 per month and get $400 per month in Shoppe Dollars to spend in our store, or you can just buy what you want. Just need one card? Just buy that card it is that simple. New designs are added every week to help members get the most out of their subscription and always keep you coming back!

From full marketing sets to branding and logos, as well as signature action sets and texture packs, seasonal cards and album designs, The Shoppe intends to have everything you need for your company’s marketing and other design and editing needs. Layered and editable Photoshop files allow you to have as much or as little control over the designs as you like! Our easy video tutorials are also helpful along the way if you are not an expert in Photoshop. We also love to take suggestions from our subscribers for new products they would like to see! With unique, high quality designs and actions and incredible customer service, we will be your one stop Shoppe for the design needs of your growing business.

The Shoppe is giving you a taste of their actions for FREE! Download a sample set of 4 FREE ACTIONS from their most popular sets now!  You will need the code love2013

https://theshoppedesigns.com/shop/product/sample-action-set/

To find out more about this fabulous vendor please visit them here and most definitely follow them on facebook here  - you won't regret it.  Their fan page is full of awesome giveaways and super sales!

Vendor Spotlight | Swoon The Moon

One of our missions here at LPB is to support some of the awesome vendors who provide photographers with amazing goods and services, so we will be featuring great vendors once a week.  This week we chose the awesomesauce that is Swoon The Moon Photography and Design!   Oh and Summerana entries click here to find out if you won her amazing action set!    Congrats Winner - Email me here!

About Swoon The Moon

Leah Nicole is a cloud-chasing, bag-loving, gear hoarding, Photoshop junkie that is never far from her camera. Her primary focus is on High School Seniors, Couples, and Conceptual/Creative Sessions, with a special place in her heart for all things rusty, rooted, or abandoned. Leah seeks clients who allow her to bring her imagination to life. Her work has been described as bold, visionary, soulful, and ethereal, and her editing style reflects that in both timeless and unpredictable ways. To her, images are like a blank canvas, awaiting the artists' vision to breathe life into them. After all, with so many in this amazing industry, she strongly believes that how you present your images sets you apart from the crowd. Through this approach, she began to develop a number of distinct editing tools: textures, Lightroom presets, Photoshop actions, and cloud overlays; and now those tools are available to you.

Find more about Swoon the moon HERE & HERE!

 She has generously offered to give one lucky winner a 100 dollar shop credit, eeek... Link after these gorgeous rich stunning photographs.

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Vendor Spotlight | Summerana

  One of our missions here at LPB is to support some of the awesome vendors who provide photographers with amazing goods and services, so we will be featuring great vendors once a week.  And click here to see our Polka Dot Bungalow Camera Stap. Congrats to the winner, email me here with your address!

 
 This week's vendor is amazing, I love her actions, her positive attitude, and did I mention she's stunning.   The original vendor for today had technical issues with their website, so we moved Summerana's spotlight up last minute.  She didn't bat an eyelash.  So here is a little about Summerana!

Grace Pamela is a 23-year-old mom, model, designer, volunteer and location photographer. She is self-taught and is learning and growing through her passion for art and creativity. Her goals in life and in her business are to show that anything is possible no matter where you come from in life and to help others succeed. Her business, Summerana.com, is the go-to place for both photographers and photography clients offering resources, custom photos, templates, actions, textures, giveaways, volunteering, memories, mentoring, inspiration and more.

Her business name came from putting her two daughters names together and you'll often see Summer and Liliana in her work as they are her favorite models!

She just introduced her new action set and it's amazing.  The NEW Colorosity Lights Action Collection for both PS and PSE!! There are over 50 Light Actions and even more tools to completely customize your look. 

Before Image Courtesy of Maple Hill Photography

After Antique Brass Action

You can find more about Summerana here - 
http://www.summerana.com
https://www.facebook.com/summerana.photo...
http://summeranaphotography.com/subscrib...
http://www.youtube.com/user/GracePamelaLove
https://pinterest.com/summeranap/
https://twitter.com/GracePamela


Summerana has generously offered to give one of our readers an action set from her NEW Colorosity collection for PS or PSE!  Eeeeek Yay!  Use the code COLOROSITY at checkout through May 6th - 40% off!

Also, check out her giveaway to win her entire collection for a year!
http://summeranaphotography.com/

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Vendor Spotlight | Polka Dot Bungalow

 One of our missions here at LPB is to support some of the awesome vendors who provide photographers with amazing goods and services, so we will be featuring great vendors once a week.  And click here to see our Magic Hour Foundation Camera Bag Winner. Congrats to the winner, email me here with your address!

This week's vendor has the prettiest custom camera straps with lens cap holders.  OMG.  I wish I had one of these when I lost four 50mm lenscaps in a month.    That is almost 10 dollars a cap with shipping.  EEeeek.   

A little from Polka Dot Bungalow.

Looking for a way to dress up that boring, black strap that hooks itself to a world of art? You have found it…lovely camera straps, camera strap covers and props. Polka Dot Bungalow was established in 2009 and has blossomed into a photographers {amateur or professional} ambiance . When wearing one of these lovelies, I want you to feel pretty and to do that I aim to keep style and a love for design as the focal point when creating…Go make memories with class!  

 If a custom design is requested to match a color or branding, we are happy to dream up a product just for you.

Be True ~ Be Lovely ~ Be You

 Find more about Polka Dot Bungalow Here

www.polkadotbungalow.com

www.polkadotbungalow.blogspot.com

 And now for a giveaway, Stephanie with Polka Dot Bungalow has generously gifted one of our readers with their choice of a camera strap or camera strap cover!  <3

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Photographer Foundation Spotlight | Magic Hour Foundation

It's no secret that we love the Magic Hour Foundation. Their mission to gift cancer warriors and survivors with free photography services immediately struck a nerve and I knew I had to volunteer.

We all have been there when family members have struggled with this disease and many of us have lost amazing friends.   This is a way for our community to show our support and love.  

I've been trying to write this blog about the Magic Hour Foundation all day.  I even considered paraphrasing what is on the Magic Hour Website.  But I decided to go another way.  I'm going to tell you why I volunteered.  

I grew up with my grandparents, so my aunts were always very involved in my life.  When I was a teenager, they were closer to my age than my grandparents, who were ancient.  So we were extremely close.  My aunt Lori was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32.  It was a long long struggle full of ups and downs.  I still can't make myself go into it without getting extremely upset.  But we lost her.   My grandmother still keeps her photos all over the house, has tattered snapshots of her in her purse and even has her drivers license in her wallet.   Those precious pictures are all my grandmother has left of her middle daughter.  It's excruciatingly beautiful.   I want everyone affected by this horrible disease to have those memories and mementos   So I volunteered for my area in South Carolina.  

I have yet to photograph my first Magic Hour Session and I know it will be an emotional roller coaster.  But it is something I need to do as a photographer to give back to the world.  

For more information on how you can become part of this amazing organization.

www.magichourfoundation.org

www.facebook.com/magichourfoundation

 One of the founders Alan reached out to us a few weeks ago and offered to gift us with a Lowepro camera bag to say thank you for all that our fans have done for the cause.    

To enter to win the Lowepro bag see rafflecopter below.

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To view our Cradle Will Rock Winner - Click Here and winner should contact Rhonda Here.

Vendor Spotlight | Cradle Will Rock

 

 One of our missions here at LPB is to support some of the awesome vendors who provide photographers with amazing goods and services, so we will be featuring great vendors once a week.  Scroll down to see our Intuition Backgrounds by Becky Gregory winners!  Congrats ladies!

 Wardrobe is key in photography, we all know it.  Bright colors and crisp classics are some of my favorites and I smile so big when clients text me what they are wearing to their sessions.  So recently Gingersnapography Family Photography has been posting some adorable bright, perfect for spring and summer dresses on her adorable little clients.  I nosily asked for the brand.  I had to know more.   And that is how this week's vendor was chosen.  

A little from Cradle Will Rock Designs 

Cradle Will Rock Designs was founded in early 2000 By Rhonda Smith -  mother, designer, And boutique owner residing In Seal Beach California!

As a lover of all things vintage - Cradle Will Rock Designs ensures all handmade pieces are made with quality and llongevity in mind.  Items are made in Southern Cali.  All items are finished professionally.  Cradle Will Rock Designs has been featured in various magazines, worn by celebrity kids, and can be found in boutiques nationwide.  

 Rhonda has generously agreed to gift one of our readers with a custom girls tank dress!  We love giveaways!


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See more of her adorable designs here and find her boutique here.
http://cradlewillrockdesigns.com/

 

and now our Intuition Background by Becky Gregory Winners....  Contact Becky at beckybee3@gmail.com to claim you stunning prizes!

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