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My name is Karen Schmautz and I live in beautiful El Dorado County of Northern California.  I am a photographer specializing in weddings, portraits and events. 

Category Archives: portraits

Pyramids and Redheads/Sacramento Bridal and Fashion Photographer

A couple of weeks ago I attended a photo shoot and workshop in one of my favorite locations, Old Town Sacramento.  I never get tired of shooting there because there is so much excellent background.  For example, the above photo.  The sky didn’t quite look like this, so I tweeked it a little to match...

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Makeup Artists and Hair Artists: They help make my pictures pretty

These are the people that make the photographers job easy.  Hair and makeup, done properly, can cut down the processing time for me by 10-20 minutes per model.  When I have 5-600 photos to go through, that’s a lot of time for me.  I am very grateful to these hard working artists. The models are...

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Some shots from the Napa Winery Fashion Shoot

We all had such a great time at a wonderful winery at the top of Spring Mountain in St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). There were a variety of models with many changes of clothes.  I brought some props (sunflower and bubbles) just for fun. Then when the sun went down, we brought out the lights...

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Antique Cars and Models

They kinda go together. Heidrick Ag Museum-7831, originally uploaded by Sierra Springs Photography. Beautiful old cars and wonderful models make for a great day shooting.

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I did a fun photoshoot in Old Town Sacramento a few weeks ago in a place called “Laughs Unlimited”.  It’s a comedy club and there were some models there to audition for a new fashion designer who will be having a fashion show in Sacramento next month.  It was a lot of fun and I...

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