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RIP: Joseph Vincent Paterno

Michael Miville — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:08:41 +0000

I was lucky to meet and photograph my hero and he will never be forgotten! Take a moment and read my other post about Joe. My Dream Come True!

The Wedding Ride

Michael Miville — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:24:03 +0000

An important part of a wedding – and often times an important part of many events leading up to the wedding – is transportation.While your wedding will likely be the most memorial day of your life, it can also be the busiest, so planning reliable, stress-free travel is a must for any bride and groom.

One of my favorite transportation services is Expressions Limousines located in Ephrata, Pa. Expressions Limousine is a family owned business founded in 1999 with the simple philosophy to “treat each customer the way we would expect to be treated”. Expressions is fully licensed and insured, with a complete fleet of luxury vehicles and a friendly staff of professional chauffeurs.

Expressions offers a wide array of travel options from classic limos to Hummer Limousines to trolleys and much more, perfect for the wedding day, bachelorette and bachelor parties and assisting out-of-town guest to and from the airport.

Choosing the travel option that is right for your wedding can be as diverse as wedding styles themselves. Consider the size of your wedding party and who else may be riding along with you to ensure your vehicle will accommodate everyone. Also, let your travel style reflect the overall theme of the day. If you’re planning an over-the-top bash, a Hummer limousine will keep your wedding party feeling like high-rollers before the wedding even starts. An elegant affaire may prefer the sleek style of a classic limo. While an outdoor or artistic wedding may enjoy the whimsy of oak benches and brass accents in Expressions’ trolleys.

Expressions offers many choices for your special day, with options to accommodate 6 to 28 passengers. All Wedding Limousines come equipped with water, snacks, soda, non-alcoholic champagne, glassware, coordinated napkin colors, a red carpet, “Just Married” signs and a properly attired driver – all at no extra charge.

You can meet the team at Expression Limousines next Sunday, January 15 at The Best Wedding Showcase, hosted by Renee Kopp at the Host Resort in Lancaster.

For admission discounts look for the Miville Photography ad in this month’s Clipper Magazine or visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/mivillephotography and be sure to stop by and see us as well for special discounts and giveaways.

For more information about Expression Limousines visit http://www.expressionslimo.com/contact.html or call 717.555.5466.

If you’ve worked with Expressions before, leave a comment to tell other soon-to-be brides and grooms about your experience!

Down by the Susquehanna

Michael Miville — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:16:43 +0000

Julie and Shaun’s wedding along the river was held at Shank’s Mare on York side of the Susquehanna River. With some beautiful colors, details and a beautiful ceremony that seemed magical along the waterfront, this wedding was spectacular and fun at the same time. Enjoy the photos and don’t be too jealous that they are in shorts while it’s now cold. It was steamy and hot that day!

Enjoy these photos and check out more from this day over at my Facebook page.

Such cute shoes!

Julie looking amazing!

The girls having “fun”!

Awwwww!!

Fun on the river!

How cute are they!!?

Their rings were beautiful!

A special moment by themselves!

Lauren & Scott’s Lauxmont Wedding

Michael Miville — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:03:54 +0000

The wedding of Lauren & Scott was held in the Sunken Gardens of Lauxmont Farms. I was brought in to help photograph their wedding by Katy of Katy Trefry Photography who’s family owns the farms. While I was photographing the guys, Katy and Jamie were photographing the girls. It was a bit warm and humid on the day and a chance of rain was making things move a little quicker.

After the entrance of the groom and groomsmen, the bridesmaids came down the long steps into the sunken garden and were joined by the bride and her loving dad. The ceremony was just beautiful and rain free. After a few family, wedding party and bride & groom photos, we made our way down to the reception just as the skies started to open up. Luckily the reception was under one of the tents overlooking the Susquehanna River. The humidity started to take it’s toll on the cake, as you can see the leaning tower of cake below. So, they cut it before dinner. They also had some awesome shortcake in glasses for those who didn’t want any cake. Everything was beautiful and it turned out to be a great time despite the weather. Enjoy the photos.

Shrooms amidst the grass and clovers

Scott in front of the house

Cherry’s on the bottom

Giving away the bride

A truly beautiful setting

Such a fun couple

A little get away

Love this one!

Entering the cocktail hour at the pool

The leaning tower of cake

Bridesmaids have the most fun!

Mmm, what a way to finish the night

Our New Home

Michael Miville — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:01:05 +0000

Today is the Grand Opening in downtown Lancaster of our new office space, The Candy Factory. I’m so happy that our businesses have gotten to a point where office space has become necessary. It’s very exciting and scary at the same time. I will have some landscape photography showing inside as well as a photo, which may be one of my best ever, that I took the other week at our faux bridal shoot. I haven’t revealed the photo anywhere. So, if you’ve got a little time tonight, you should come say hi and check out our new space. It looks like it’s going to be a wonderful night to walk around downtown Lancaster on a First Friday. We hope to see you out.

The location is 323 N. Queen St., Lancaster, PA 17603.

Candy, candy candy!

300 Block of North Queen

The space before anyone moved in.

Cool seating area

Mel testing our new chair and desk

Check it out

Michael Miville — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:29:17 +0000

Hey everyone, I just wanted to send out a few quick things and send you in the direction of an awesome photog to check out. First, no I’m not slacking on putting up blog posts. I just literally don’t have the time at the moment. I’ve been so busy photographing and trying to get caught up on post work that I just haven’t been able to write one. Stay tuned in the following weeks however, I’ve got some fun Get To Know You sessions, family sessions and stuff that even amazed me when I looked down at the camera. It’s been a busy summer and it doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down until late October. So, keep checking back, I will get back on my Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule next week.

In the meantime, this is Chase Jarvis.

He is truly one of my photographer inspirations at the moment. Capturing still photos as well as video. I must say that not only is he someone I look up to photographically, but he just seems to have way too much fun doing it all. If I only had half of his energy and vision I’d consider myself an elite photographer. He inspires so many people and this past weekend I had the opportunity to try something truly amazing and it was inspired by him. So, thank you Chase!

Check him out at ChaseJarvis.com and his Chase Jarvis blog, also check out his book The Best Camera and his iPhone app.

Photo courtesy of Frederick Van Johnson’s website.

Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner

Michael Miville — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:32:04 +0000

Sorry, no real blog post today, just too busy trying to catch up. But I wanted to update you on something pretty awesome that just happened to me yesterday. I entered a contest the other week put on by this awesome photographer Jessica Claire. The winners get the opportunity to go on a photo walkabout with Jessica and a couple of models in NYC followed by a short processing class with a Q&A. I’m sure thousands entered, simply because she has a pretty big following. Not only does she have that following because of her photography but also because of her line of photography equipment bags called Shootsacs.

I was going through my email yesterday and came across what I thought looked like an ad for a Shootsac and without fully reading it, I deleted it. A few minutes later I got an email from someone on Facebook congratulating me on winning the Jessica Claire Walkabout and Classroom and as another winner she would meet me in NYC. I am pretty skeptical and almost thought that was spam because I didn’t recognize the name at first. After thinking about what she was talking about for a couple of minutes, I decided to go back to the original email that I deleted from Shootsac. I pulled it out of the trash and that’s when I realized I had been one of the lucky 15 winners. I was blown away and I’m totally stoked to go hang in NYC with Jessica and some other really good photogs. I plan to take plenty of pictures and some video which I’ll share when I return. The walkabout is on June 28th and is sponsored and hosted by Adorama, so I’m sure they’ll have some gear to check out.

Keep checking the blog to see some pictures of the walkabout. You can also check out the Shootsac Blog which shows my name on the list of winners. I still can’t believe it’s on there. Have a great Friday everyone!

The Raven

Michael Miville — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:07:47 +0000

I’ve been photographing some organization events that I can’t really talk about. However, I have been given permission to share a few photos of Super Bowl winning coach from the Baltimore Ravens, Brian Billick from an event in Gettysburg, PA. It was a beautiful, sunny day in Gettysburg and we started out at Devil’s Den on Little Round Top. A tour guide was giving us a great history lesson of the locations while we overlooked the rocky yet beautiful terrain. The trees, flowers and grasses were all in full bloom and the landscape was pure Pennsylvania goodness. We headed out across Hancock Ave. through some of the monuments and statues with a couple of quick stops for more history lessons.

We arrived at the new Gettysburg Battlefield Museum heading into one of the rooms to meet up with Brian Billick. To my surprise he was already hanging out. After a few snacks and something to drink, Brian sat down in front of the dozen guys to talk about his experiences in the NFL and how he was able to motivate a bunch of millionaires to go bang heads with each other. He was so animated and such a great speaker. I am so lucky to be able to have this opportunity. After his conversation, I was able to snap a few portraits of him and then it was off to watch a quick movie about Gettysburg and check out the Cyclorama. It was a wonderful experience and I feel blessed to be able to have been a part of this day.

Little Round Top

Looking over Devil’s Den

Super Bowl winning coach Brian Billick

Such an animated speaker

Simple portrait of the coach

Movie time

Up close and personal with the Cyclorama

Abe Lincoln Statue

Wedding of Maria & Troy

Michael Miville — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:37:07 +0000

Malvern, PA in the Philadelphia region was the backdrop for Maria & Troy. The wedding ceremony was held at St. Philips and James catholic church in Exton, PA followed by a beautiful reception at the Hall at St. Peter’s Church in Malvern. The weather was beautiful with breaks of sun through the clouds and just a little sprinkle now and again to keep it from getting too hot.

Starting at the brides house with my friend and fellow photog Olé from PhotOle Photography, we captured some details of the girls getting ready and then some portraits of Maria with all of her girls. I then sent Olé ahead to capture some photos of the guys.

The wedding was as emotional as it was beautiful. With some family trauma months before the wedding, tears were shed but everyone made it through the beautiful catholic ceremony. After we went to the grotto behind the church for a few pictures and then found a little grungy run down motel on the way to the reception for some great photos of the bride and groom.

The reception location was beautiful and set so far back in the woods that even the limo’s got turned around at one point. But the bride and groom joined the hors d’oeuvre hour before being introduced by one of Maria’s radio DJ coworkers from 105.7 The X. A little dinner, cake and dances was what this night offered before I took them outside for a night cap of photos. Then it was on with the bands and singers, performing a bunch of songs for the bride and groom. Then the groom himself got up with his band and jammed out a little. It was gorgeous night and I was happy to be a part of it.

Runner moonlighting as a beautiful bride

Maria

Macro Ring shot without a Macro Lens

Troy

Cut out in the brick church entrance

Cool grungy location… check!

Yummy Cake

Cover Art

HDR from Lightroom into Photomatix Pro

Michael Miville — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:56:24 +0000

Today’s tutorial is a little trip using Lightroom to process some desert photos into an HDR image of the Palouse Falls region in Washington State. I start out with 3 photos with different exposures that I started in Lightroom and exported using the PhotoMatix Pro plug-in. The nice thing about doing it this way is that once you save the file out of PMP it opens right back up into Lightroom next to the images you were using to create it. It’s a pretty quick and simple process, so check out the 4 photos below that I used to start out, then the video and at the bottom is the final image.

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PhotoMatix Pro tutorial using Lightroom from Michael Miville on Vimeo.