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Welcome to the Sonialena Photography Blog!

Thanks for taking a moment to visit my blog!

This blog chronicles my adventures as a wedding and portrait photographer. I'm based in Southern California but will happily and gladly travel to other parts of the universe.

My blog is also a place for me to share some of the personal photography that I do, as well as sound off on various topics that are tangentially related to photography.

If you're inspired to write a comment or send an e-mail my way, I would love to hear from you!

Category Archives: general

Tips: Pogue on Photography

David Pogue is the technology columnist for The New York Times, and one of my favorite geek guys. I have a few books from his Missing Manual series and am a great fan of the way he makes technology accessible to the technologically challenged.
His latest post is about digital photography, and it has some helpful...

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New Logo – Third Time’s a Charm?

I would make a terrible interior designer – first painting the walls white, then dark gray, then bright yellow. But it’s so much fun changing the colors of my website!
I have experimented with different looks and color combinations, but I know this one is going to be it for a while. I love yellow and...

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Lightroom-licious

I finally broke down and bought Lightroom. I decided to give it a try because the workflow I had with Aperture was not working. I only used Aperture to organize images, so I’ll be the first to admit that I was not using Apeture to it’s full potential.
With Aperture, I was importing my images, exporting...

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Lightroom vs. Aperture: The Saga Continues

A few months ago, I waxed philosophical over whether to stick with Aperture or switch to Lightroom. At the time, Apple had just released Aperture 2.0. I read really wonderful things about it. And I was not up to the task of trying to convert my Aperture library into one that would be accessible to...

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New Blog Look!

So dreary. So gray. Maybe I saw The Dark Knight too many times. And I’m still thinking of catching it on IMAX.
In any case, here is the new look!

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New Site Colors and Logo

I played around with the colors on my photography site and created a new logo. And no, my blog doesn’t match my website yet. One day I will take the plunge and get WordPress up and running, but I haven’t quite wrapped my head around it.
I am still working on redesigning my website so that...

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Aperture Plug-Ins

I only have two plug-ins for Aperture 2.0: one that exports images directly to SmugMug, and one that exports images directly to Flickr. Man, have they made things easier. Since Aperture collapses everything into one library that cannot be accessed by other programs (at least I haven’t figured it out), I used to...

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Site Design

As I continue to plow through my Project Blended website, struggling with every little detail, I’m finally beginning to understand why people hire professionals to do this kind of thing.
I know – duh.
The main reasons I keep going are that I just want to prove to myself I can do it, and I want something...

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The Murky World of Web Design

When I first came up with the idea of a mixed race portrait project, I had no idea that in a couple month’s time I would be puzzling my way through CSS, XHTML, XML, and Flash. I thought that I would go around taking pictures, dump them on my current website, and maybe design...

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Yet Another Logo

On to Project Blended logo number three . . . .
First is was the flower, then the rings. Now it’s these circle people. I made this illustration to use as the banner for my website, and I have to say, I’m really digging it. It looks exactly how I envisioned it. ...

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