{"id":4,"date":"2006-09-23T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/behind-the-camera-with-kari\/"},"modified":"2006-09-23T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T02:21:00","slug":"behind-the-camera-with-kari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/behind-the-camera-with-kari\/","title":{"rendered":"behind the camera&#8230;..with Kari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">Ok, so this is my first blog entry&#8230;..better make it good, just kidding. I really don&#8217;t know the first thing about blogging so I&#8217;ll just type away! So, where do I start? I am just getting started with my own photography business, finally! Yes, you heard right, I&#8217;m now an entrepreneur. That just sounds strange for me. Anyway, I&#8217;ve always had a love for photography. Taking pictures has always been fun for me. It wasn&#8217;t until I started working at a local photo lab\/studio when I was 16 years old that I became serious about making those pictures actually look good! So I studied up, read a bunch of books, took some classes on manual photography and photoshop (it was the simple 2.0 version at the time) and from there I was hooked. I took the necessary training classes to become a photographer at the studio and have been in the business ever since! That was nine years ago &#8211; wow, time flies! Since then, I have been a photographer at two other studios. I&#8217;ve learned so much over the years, from my work in the studio and especially from all the practice I&#8217;ve had outside the studio. I&#8217;ve photographed countless weddings over the years, each unique, and each one a great learning experience. I&#8217;ve worn out my cute little nephew Conner photographing him constantly since the day he was born (yes I was at the hospital taking pictures!) borrowed my friends and the children of my cousins so I could practice and learn how to get THAT photo &#8211; the one that sticks in your mind long after you look at it because it touches a special place in your heart. I&#8217;ve come to love the look of natural light and I try to use it as much as each situation will allow. Now that I have my own little girl, Nina who I adore, I enjoy seeing all different sides of her and all the unique expressions she makes and the funny things she does. This has given me a whole new perspective on portraits, making me work extra hard to capture those looks that each individual child makes that leaves an impression on their parents and his\/her loved ones. After eight and a half years as a photographer for somebody elses business, I finally decided that the time was right for me to take that extra step. As of September first, I work for myself! It&#8217;s liberating and scary at the same time, but with time and patience, I&#8217;ll get through this startup period and hopefully make this a successful business. Wish me luck!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so this is my first blog entry&#8230;..better make it good, just kidding. I really don&#8217;t know the first thing about blogging so I&#8217;ll just type away! So, where do I start? I am just getting started with my own photography business, finally! Yes, you heard right, I&#8217;m now an entrepreneur. That just sounds strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kariphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}