Judd Sather Photography Blog

Happy New Year from Studio J!
We wanted to send a quick message letting all of you know that you can voice your opinions on MN vendors/venues to help future MN brides with their decision making! MN Bride magazine is taking a poll, and you can cast your vote by clicking here!

Make sure to fill in at least six of the blanks to ensure your opinion is heard, and feel free to forward onto other recent brides you may know!

We are SUPER EXCITED to launch our new website within a couple weeks – same URL – www.studiojphoto.com but much more customizable and easy navigation – we’ll announce it here first. Our blog will also change and we’ll try to transfer everything since this blog has an archive or our last three years of weddings! -Judd

Jessi, Amanda, and I cruised down to the Scottsdale, AZ to learn from of the best photographers in the world. Heard it was 40 below windchill the other morning and it was 70 and sunny here today – 110 degree swing… ouch. We all stuck ourselves in the leg with this cactus-like barb. We learned this technique called “Painting with Light” in which we did a long exposure on the camera and ran a flashlight up and down the cactus; then we got creative and were doing “logos in light” ala the 4th of July sparkler trick. Love the colors in the sky with the owl in the cactus. Jessi had a friend Taylor who lives near here and was gracious enough to model for us as we tried some high speed flash shots. The picture of her on the car hood was taken during the daylight hours – pretty cool! -Judd, Amanda, and Jessi

Click here to receive the $10 gift certificate and register to see their pictures! The shopping cart icon will work once Steven and Colette have seen all the pictures first and release them for you to view. The event key to view all the pictures is Colette’s maiden last name.

Click here to view Katy and Eric’s virtual pre-designed album. The shopping cart icon will work once Katy and Eric have seen all the pictures first and release them for you to view. Event key is Katy’s maiden last name to view ALL the pictures.

Here is a compilation slideshow from all 10 photographers at Studio J from 2008. The bulk of the images are from Judd Sather Photography. We are excited to announce that we can handle up to 4 weddings per date this year! We already have 14 weddings booked for 2009 (two dates double booked already) and two weddings for 2010! Email us for availability and new pricing info if you’re interested in us capturing your wedding! All our collections this year include the CD of negatives to print photos on your own.
Click here to watch the slideshow larger in a new window.

It’s a little know fact (not any more) that I design holiday cards with the same first-class look our wedding clients enjoy. Here are a couple examples including my family’s holiday magnet (on fridges everywhere once we send them out!). A bride just emailed me and called me a workaholic! After back-to-back 7am-midnight workdays these last two days I guess I deserve it… it is amazing what you can get done 16 hours in one day! Let us know if you want some sweet holiday cards next year! -Judd

Click here to be notified when Jesse and Chelsey’s pictures are online, and receive the $10 gift certificate!
This was the last wedding I will shoot until May and what a way to end the season – the 43rd wedding in 31 weekends and we get a major snowstorm and crazy slippery roads on the way down to Red Wing! The day started out at this cool bed and breakfast where the women were getting ready – totally decked out for the holidays with gigantic snowflakes falling outside the windows. After my brain caught up with Chelsey’s ultra-fast rate of speech, I was able to get some really cool shots in front of the window including my favorite shoe shot I have ever taken (below). We had to grab umbrellas for the bridesmaids for the snow shots since the snowflakes were so big and wet – the reason you only see one umbrella is because Chelsey broke the first two she tried to open! 🙂 Groom Jesse (aka the American Assassin ultimate fighter) and Chelsey didn’t see each other before the ceremony so we got out of the limo and pretty much walked right down the aisle in this small country church in the middle of nowhere. There was this crazy looking wolf-dog that almost attacked video guy Joe. I love the regal look of military weddings, the saber arch, the discipline, etc. Jesse got word a few weeks ago that he is being deployed for a year to Iraq Jan 9 (5 days after they get back from their honeymoon). We shot two weddings of Army officers in the Red Bull company that were deployed for 22 months and came back last summer; Jesse we’ll see you when you get back and thanks for your service to our country. We are turning around these photos in a record 2 days so you two can enjoy it together for a few days! -Judd, Amanda, Joe, and Kristina

Click here to view their album larger! The shopping cart will work once Jesse and Chelsey have seen all the pictures first and released them.











Here’s their highlight video!