NEW BLOG!!!!!

So I finally did it and got myself a new blog... it has so many cool features and I am still so confused with all of them, but once it is all done, it'll be cool!!!
bookmark it!!!! I will no longer update this blog

http://www.mirkaphotographics.com/blog

~Bigger is better - Print Sizes~ Mirka Photography Print Products

Mirka Photography LLC offers a variety of different print sizes as well as press printed products and gallery wrap canvases.
I just wanted to share with you, why I think bigger is better and for comparing I'm attaching an image with variety of print sizes.
This is a wall in my house, it's not large by any means.
I ordered a gallery wrap of Logan in the size below and thought it was going to be huge, when it arrived I thought it was not large enough, for the space that it was supposed to fill.
If you order 16x20 that is a decent size, but if you're planing on hanging that on your wall and think it's large enough, it is most likely not lol, unless you accompany it with other prints or planning to hang it in a very small spot.
Dont let me even start on 8x10's, that size is a desk print if you ask me:)
Anyway, check it out for your self.
Make your family or children's portraits make impression!
 I bet you everyone will rave about your portraits when they see them:)

~Jon & Erica - married~ Allentown Philadelphia PA wedding photographer

It was my pleasure to capture Jon and Erica's wedding day yesterday!

I was so excited and yet very nervous as I left the house. I always get funny feeling in my stomach before photographing a wedding, I just want to do well and capture the couples special day as best as possible and I guess that is why I always get butterflies. I mean, it is one of their most important days in their life's.

It makes it so much better and relaxed, when you get to photograph a couple, that you worked with before. We did an engagement session together about a year ago and I just knew that they are super special and awesome people then and was so excited when they asked me to be part of their wedding.

Erica is beautiful and Jon just adores her, you can see that in his eyes *and ummm I do have a picture of you crying as you could not get over how stunning she looked yesterday, but I'm not gonna post it for your sake lol;) Just kidding)

Anyway, we had such hard time getting there yesterday and I was never more worried then when we got on I-76 in Philly and the traffic just stopped in it's tracks... I mean, I dont like taking I-76, but yesterday I was ready to take my hammer and go knock it down! If you close two lanes in the city for construction, there better be construction going on, but NOOOOOO there was no action, I feel like they just close it down to make it more miserable for people to travel on it...

Ok enough of venting and lets get back to the lovely bride and her groom.

Here is a sneak a peak for you guys,I'm so happy that we all survived yesterday's 93F and the church that had no air conditioning lol.

Have the best time in Tobago and I can't wait for our Trash the Dress session when you come back, I just love Eastern State Penitentiary!!!

The pics will rock!

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thanks Wendy for getting those shots for me yesterday:) It was fun to have you along!

~look what I found:)~

I admit, this little guy keeps coming to our yard for 3 years now, I love him and have been stalking him:) well today he ran up the tree as we came out to the yard, I asked my husband to hover around it, so he could not escape, as I ran inside threw the 70-200 back on my camera and rushed outside to get some shots of this little guy:)
isn't he just darling?!

Ok Ok, now Im really done posting today lol... just wanted to share him with you all and my mom especially:)

~Lost~ Orlando Sea World Fl photographer

Before I leave for a wedding to photograph today, I came across this shot that my mom took of me and my dad while we were visiting the Sea World in Orlando FL, we are trying to figure out, which way to get to the Shamu Stadium... I just love it and thinks it's really funny, because we both obviously pretend that we know which way to go, but we really dont lol...

Enjoy your weekend peeps!

~FYI~ Mirka Psak Photography - NJ children's and family photographer

I was thinking to myself that it would be sort of neat to show you all, why it is so important to do photo sessions at certain times during the day.

So I must thank my little assistant Logan, who surprisingly sort of stood still for me in the morning and afternoon, while I was doing this experiment so I could share.

Some people get super excited for bright sunny day, I fear it lol.

I will 1000x rather get up at 6am and do a session first thing in the morning, then shoot at noon. The difference in light is AMAZING!

The light looses it's magic pretty early on summer days, after 9am it just goes flat and you loose all the detail, not to mention all the harsh shadows that now start showing on the skin.

Of course, you can take pictures all day, in a studio or controlled environment (such as urban alley or warehouse...) or if you know how to use off camera flash and all that jazz or if you're not chasing after toddlers (as most of my sessions are) and can put your model where you need it/ which would be somewhere in a solid shade ha!...

Nothing compares to first morning light and couple hours before sunset light *I have to get pictures of that for you later lol*

So here it is, first thing AM on left and around 3PM on right.

Can you see the difference? What would you rather your portraits look like?

This is why I schedule my sessions the way I do, because I want magic in your images:)

And magic happens with twinkling of light in the tree leafs, and they only twinkle couple times a day:)

~tonite~

Off to bed after a long fun day in the pool - kiddy pool and sun:)

Had to give it at least one shot with this bad a$$ lens and get the moon...

Not too shabby, not too shabby:)

G'nite y'all:)