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Every time we get to photograph the Thompson family, it’s true joy. Their children are so kind and so sweet. Thanks Jordan and Nathan for another great day of hanging out. We value your friendship immensely.
Scott and Alyssa Stebner are Denver Family Photographers and Northern Colorado Family Photographers available for travel throughout Colorado, California, and Kansas. Contact us at hello@stebnerphotography.com or 720-266-8008
I’ve been waiting and waiting to make this post!
My roots were always in and always will be in Agriculture. I grew up around livestock, always knew where my food came from, and went to college to study it. My first big photo assignments were for agricultural magazines out in California, and since moving to Colorado that’s one thing I’ve really been missing.
Well here comes the Clean Dirt Farm , a beautiful company with sustainable roots in Millet Production, specifically Organic Millet. Now many people may not know what Millet is or see it only limited to Bird Seed. However, Millet is naturally Glutten Free, so it’s a super healthy choice.The Clean Dirt Farm cleans and processes the Millet that farmers grow and ships it out to places like Whole Foods Market and countries all over the world.All of this in little ol Sterling, CO
So when the kind folks at the Clean Dirt Farm called me up to help them with a rebranding campaign and doing a few corporate type shots, I couldn’t wait!
It was a true blessing to be on this assignment, and I always feel at home when I can use photography and my passion for agriculture in one shoot.
Dear Canon. Could you please add better weather and dust sealing to the 5dmk2? Thank you
Once the Millet is loaded in the back of a Grain Truck, it is dropped into the processing plant.
Then the Hull is cracked apart and the seed is separated
Then you get an absolutely Beautiful Product ready for World Wide distribution.
Meryl and Her Husband. Together with a lot of hard work, dedication, and ingenuity, were able to make this small family dream a successful operation.
Scott Stebner and Alyssa Stebner are Ft Collins Wedding Photographers available for weddings and corporate shoots throughout Colorado, the Mid-West, and California.
We LOVE the Mathis family. We photographed the hole family back in April when we were down for AJ’s (Alyssa’s Brother’s) wedding, and they contacted us to see if we’d be in the area around Thanksgiving to do another shoot for their seriously cool, trendy, and awesome children Maddie and Jayden. Keeping it short, you guys rock, as always.
We met at one of their family friend’s Salons and took the above set of photos. Of course, some shenanigans had to go down.
The Stebners are Denver Wedding Photographers and Fort Collins Wedding Photographers available for travel throughout Colorado, Kansas, and Colorado.
Before We start with this blog post, we want to make a few things very clear.
1. Scott doesn’t usually have a Mustache. Actually, we found it revolting. Not so much mustaches in general, just Scott’s. He was doing no shave November, and when we decided to make a flier for our annual Ugly Sweater Contest, Scott decided it would make the photo that much better (or worse, depending on viewpoint) to shave it into a mustache.
2. Scott quickly got rid of the Mustache. It was Creepy. Meaning, for a brief moment in time, he was creepy.That’s not a good thing. Honestly I (Scott) couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror and avoided reflective objects. Gross.
3. We love ugly sweaters around Christmas time…not any other time of the year, just Christmas.
With that out of the way, we decided to go full force in the making of this year’s Flier for the Ugly Sweater Party and can’t wait to go thrift shopping while we’re in Kansas for Thanksgiving.
So without any more delay, here’s some creepy Holiday Cheer. Alyssa not so much…Scott very much so. Gross.
We blocked out the Address for obvious privacy reasons. But I mean, come on. If these photos don’t make you fall in love with us as wedding photographers, will anything? We hope you notice the sarcasm 
The last from the triple header from Sunday. We scheduled our sessions from 3:00 – 4:30 to have that amazing light, beautiful flare, and overall warmth that just makes me want to go grab a cup of cider and hug someone. The moons are truly kind people. Joe (the dad) works with youth, so we wanted to do a photo that would work with a website for him. Jonathan (oldest son) is heavily involved in his High School and the FFA, and watched our American Eskimo when we’re out of town on shoots.
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Scott Stebner and Alyssa Stebner are Northern Colorado Wedding Photographers and Northern Colorado Family Photographers available throughout Colorado, Kansas, and California.
I think the best thing we can say is we heart the Hackbarth Family. We did three mini sessions (30 minutes) on Sunday, and the Hackbarth’s session is the one being featured today. Ben and Beth are pastors at our church, amazing friends, and all around funny and encouraging people. Analeigh and Malachi are also the two sweetest, cutest, funnest? , and most adorable (adorable-est?) kids ever. We also did a children shoot for them a few months ago right after Malachi was born, so they are being premiered here as well We are still offering Mini Sessions throughout the fall which are great for holiday cards and general epic-ness. Ok, enough with making up words.
And of course, some Shenanigans!
Scott and Alyssa Stebner are Northern Colorado Wedding Photographers and Northern Colorado Family Photographers available throughout Colorado, Kansas, and California.
I (Scott) absolutely love photography with a purpose. Part of that is I’ve always believed we are given gifts for the explicit reason of giving back. That philosophy led me to Africa twice and hopefully Thailand this year. This week we organized a photo shoot for our Church’s Mission Team with the purpose of encouraging others to pick up and go help those who truly need it. These photos will be used in a video slide show and print material for a campaign to call people to action and service to others who are less fortunate.
The theme behind it was having people who have gone on Relief / Missions trips around the world stand out and say “I went”. Not only I went to a foreign country, but I went to make a difference. I went to make a lasting impact with the purpose of bettering a person, a life, a culture. I went to give up my own desires and focus on those who truly need it. In these photos represents trips to Ethiopia, London, Australia, Thailand, Guatamala, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, India, the Philippines and more. The challenging being something simple. There are people who have a need in this world and they are desperate for people to help…will you go?
You’ll get a kick further down when you see our Home Made Studio set up.
And a quick composite for some banner work. Yeah, yeah, I’m modeling it up too
And some behind the scenes fun
Now for some basic lighting set up that anyone can do. Here’s a picture of our “Studio” which was actually the children’s room at our church. We had a white sheet for the backdrop that we “blew nuclear” with a bare bulb Alien Bees 800. I chose a bare bulb light so it would also put a little Rim lighting on the back of the subjects. On left was my favorite light modifier which is the 54″ Octabank and a little “kicker board” on the right. You can either pay a ton of money for an expensive reflector or go back to your old science fair project days and buy a cheap white board. This was done to help fill in the shadows and ease that transition from the left to the right. I usually wouldn’t include a shot of such a “ghetto” studio, but I wanted to show everyone you can get amazing photos with very, very simple set ups as long as you understand the basic principles of lighting and creativity.
Scott and Alyssa Stebner are Northern Colorado Wedding Photographers available for weddings throughout Colorado and California. But, they will gladly travel to cool and exotic places
Whew, this was such an incredibly busy weekend that was equally as epic and awesome. Alyssa and I have both been out with the Flu and dealt with it a little bit over the weekend, but we survived! Saturday we ventured down to Larkspur to photograph an amazing wedding then quickly jetted up to Loveland for an amazing stylized wedding shoot. I guess I just love being a Loveland, Colorado Wedding Photographer!
Some quick notes, the vendors (which will be listed at the bottom) showed up in amazing fashion and were, in no short supply of words, incredible at bringing their talents to collaboratively work together to create something beautiful and different. The Embassy Suites in Loveland is the real deal and their friendly staff, amazing amenities definitely made it a place we’re staying on the regular. Lastly, the models were absolutely GORGEOUS! (as you can tell).
It was such a relaxing and fun day, and I hope you enjoy the images as much as I do!
Vendors:
Coordinator: Chelsey Penoyer, Embassy Suites, Loveland
Gowns: Dora Grace
Stylist: Fixx Hair Studio
Floral: Hana Style Designs
Cupcakes: The Cupcake Cruiser
Photography: Stebner Photography
We’ve been using our Alien Bee strobe kit for a little over 6 months and have been just loving the results we are getting from it. We’re buying some new goodies soon and can’t wait to write about them. But in he meantime, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about how we lit these two images from a session we did a few months ago, so here ya go.I wish I took a few pictures on the lighting set up, but a description is just going to have to do. So from one Denver Senior Portrait Photographer to another photographer, here’s how we did it.
Image 1:Canon 5Dmk2, 24-70L, f9 @ 1/200th at ISO 100
This was one of our last photos from Matt’s Senior Session at the old Sugar Mill in Sterling, Colorado. I noticed the sun was just about to set during the “golden hour” and loved the look of the sun peaking through the window in the upper right and how it shined on these barrels. I knew I wanted the sky to be a little on the moody end of things and for all of the clutter on the right to be darkened without having to do it in photoshop. So I placed my Paul C Buff Octabank about 3 feet from Matt’s face to the right and up and shined it almost completely away from him towards image left so only the softest of light would be hitting his face. I knew this would accomplish a few things, darken all of my space to the right. Secondly, since my light source was so close to the subject, I knew my background would be less affected by my soft box and more affected by the warm sun rays you see on the windows and the grass behind him. Lastly, I wanted to create some subtle shadows and light on his face, and knew by using the softest part of my 52″ Octabank that I could achieve the look I was going for. I chose a very wide angle lens which gave a little distortion to his feet and legs, but I wanted that “layered” look you tend to get with wide angle lenses over more telephoto lenses. Plus, since my light was so close to the subject, it allowed me to get in where I needed to. This is pretty much how the image looked right out of the camera. I boosted clarity in Lightroom 3.0 to 8 and dodged the window subtly, but it’s an honest image right out of the camera.
Image 2: 5Dmk2, 24-70L, 64mm, F8, 1/200 , ISO 200
Matt is a super cool kid and we wanted to be really different in his senior photo session and incorporate some unique lighting, posing, and locations in his shoot. I really wanted to play on some shadows with this image to give it a lot of attitude. I put the main light about 5 feet from him to give a little more contrast and that way the hottest part of the light would be hitting his face and hopefully creating some cool shadows. Below is the image right out of the camera
I overexposed (in my opinion) the image just a little bit so I brought the exposure down to -26 to bring the sky, shadows, and general lighting and introduced fill light of +7 in Lightroom 3. I added clarity of +10 and brought down the blue channel luminance to -58 to darken the skies as well as the green channel saturation. Lastly I cloned out the distracting telephone pole. All of this resulted in some slight tweeks that I like a little more.
If you have any questions, please let me know and I’d be glad to answer
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Scott Stebner of Stebner Photography is a Denver Senior Portrait Photographer specializing in edgy, artistic, and non traditional senior portraits.