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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. 

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My First Solo Print Showing

…right in downtown Placerville.  They will be hanging in River City Bank, Placerville, CA through September, 2009.
What a rush!  Many thanks to River City BAnk for allowing me to show my prints.

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This just in…

Here’s a few more from the Trash the Dress in Bridgeport, CA.
I’m trying out a few new filters and some HDR to see if I can bring out some details and add some pizazz.  If you look close you can see a couple of brides and a couple of photographers.

Such a beauty…even when she’s wet.

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Brides, brides, brides and not a bridezilla in sight.

One of the beautiful models at the wedding portfolio shoot.  I think she was very elegant and a little bit 1920’s looking (not her age, the era.)

Her partner was not quite so 1920’s.  But, he still looked very good with her.

I liked this portrait of her because she had a beautiful smile that lit up...

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My Last “Studio Lights” Assignment

I’m just finishing up my last “studio lights” portrait assignment for the Folsom Lake College Portrait and Wedding Photography class I’m doing.  So, as usual, I called in the fam.  Pictured here are my headless oldest son, my son’s headless girlfriend and her little boy (not headless).  He’s been in many of my pictures before...

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Light, light, light.

I was beginning to feel like I had hit a wall with my photography…especially with the last photo shoot I did up in Woodland with the pin ups.  I really felt the need to branch out of my natural light comfort zone and head into the “artificial” light, so to speak. Plus, I want to...

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