Susan Shetler Photography

Love Is

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 02:06:00 +0000

Keri Lynn

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:48:00 +0000

Keri braved the cold weather and let me take a few snapshots of her at a park in Burnsville.

It was a fun afternoon trying different poses. Keri, you're a natural model...and beautiful inside and out!

October 13th Mini Sessions in Eagan

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:54:00 +0000

Now's the time to take your Christmas card photo! I'll be doing 20-minute photo sessions at the beautiful Blackhawk Park in Eagan on October 13th.

FAMILY PORTRAITS CHILDREN COUPLES

The park offers woods, a lake, and a bridge for great backgrounds.

SPECIAL $75 (normally $100)

15 Professionally edited photos on CD with copyright release

Email me to schedule your appointment

Emily {Eagan Portrait Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:33:00 +0000

Emily is a fellow photographer from the Twin Cities who now lives in Canada. She's very talented (you can view her work at http://ecoemilyphoto.blogspot.com/). It was getting close to 9 pm, so I had to grab natural light as fast as I could to capture these images of Emily that were taken outside a Caribou Coffee in Bloomington.

"D" in Bloomington

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Here's a really, nice young man whom I met last night. Just three images within a minute's time. Doesn't he look like a perfect gentleman?...and that he was. It was very nice to meet you, "D."

Students

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:38:00 +0000

The students where I work are always game to let me take their pictures. I needed a group shot for a bulletin board and this one is my favorite from today.

Wedding - Jim & Laura {Eagan Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:24:00 +0000

Most of my wedding photography is done with Noemi Hedrick of noemiphotography.com. I often use my Canon 70 - 200mm lens during wedding shoots. It's a portrait lens that also works for group shots.

People will ask me if I take wedding photos and I say, "Yes", but in the next breath I'll recommend Noemi because she is great at setting up shots and making everyone laugh and have a good time. I love working for her and people love having her as their photographer.

Sheila & Pro

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:38:00 +0000

Autumn

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:46:00 +0000

Fall is a beautiful time of year to get family portraits.

Thanks, Neterers, for letting me take photos of your handsome family!

Little Mr. Jayden

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:56:00 +0000

What a sweet boy.

And his auntie.

Grandpa's helping him stand.

This is a team effort.

We missed having grandma with us. Next time!

I look up to my auntie.

Plop me in some weeds and I'm still content.

And this is my favorite.

Thank you, Evans family, for letting me take pictures of such a handsome, young man!

Jennifer {Senior Portraits} part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:12:00 +0000

Jennifer really is as sweet and cute as she looks in these photos!

Thank you SO much, Jennifer, for letting me take your senior portraits. You and your mom are great!

Jennifer {Senior Portraits} sneak peak

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:14:00 +0000

I ENJOY doing senior portraits for friends and family! Jennifer is the beautiful daughter of a college friend.

There are many more great photos of Jennifer. I'll post a few more within the week.

Thank you, Cynthia and Jennifer, for a FUN time last Saturday morning!!

Kristina {Senior Portraits}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:35:00 +0000

This is my niece. I love being her auntie! Isn't she beautiful? She has more friends than Oprah and she's tons of fun!

Picnic

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:56:00 +0000

I had an opportunity to take photos at a big picnic in Bloomington. Many of the people were friends, classmates, or business associates from over the years. It was a wonderful day! Below is a sampling of people who attended.

One of my favorite areas was the photo booth, where people could wear funny hats and get portraits taken. My favorite photo of the day was taken by a friend who used my camera to get me and my husband sporting a Ma and Pa Kettle look. You'll see.

Bloomington Family {Eagan Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:28:00 +0000

Family Black and Whites

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:53:00 +0000

I had the opportunity to photograph a really sweet family today. As I was editing the photos, I realized I was making a lot of them black and white. I love black and white photos in thin black frames with wide white matting and white frames with wide white matting. Either way, their classic. There are so many great frames out there that hold several pictures and black in white photos in these look really sharp, too!

I have more photos to edit, but had to share these black and whites!

3 months and growing... {Eagan Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:43:00 +0000

Here's another photo of Jayden, taken in his back yard. Precious!!

Jayden and Grandpa {Sneak Peak}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:44:00 +0000

I met a really nice family tonight when I took photos of 3-month-old Jayden!

It's late, but I really wanted to post at least one photo tonight. I LOVE this one. More will follow...

Cutie Pie! {Eagan Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:27:00 +0000

Photos taken June 3, 2011.

Portraits of Vilma {Eagan Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:55:00 +0000

Vilma wanted fashion portraits while all dressed-up in gorgeous gowns. We were near some townhomes and didn't have much in the line of great backgrounds, so I used some trees and also some open apertures to get blurry backgrounds.

Isn't she beautiful? She has a warm personality, too!

Backyard Dandelion

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:34:00 +0000

What a nice day today! I HAD to go outside and take my camera along. There were no neighbors to take pictures of (I prefer people pictures), so I took a macro shot (my second favorite kind of photo). One of these days I will get a macro lens, but in the meantime, I used my Canon 70 - 200mm at 200mm. ISO 200, 7.1 at 1/500.

You can click on the photo to see it larger.

I hope you're enjoying this fall-like, Minnesota day!

Wedding Poster

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:15:00 +0000

Fellow photographer, Noemi Hedrick, gave me some of her images to make a wedding poster for the Burnsville, MN Costco (where I work part-time).

I've worked with Noemi (as her second "shooter" at weddings) for three years. Her images are gorgeous. She knows how to set up shots to get those kinds of images you want to make into large canvases (very artistic and creative). Plus, she has a great personality and is fun to work with!! Check out her blog here.

Thanks, Noemi!

Girlfriends!

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:27:00 +0000

I had to take pictures of these gals today. They are good friends and they were looking pretty as ever!

I love kids! {Eagan Photographer}

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:14:00 +0000

On my way back from taking some "growth" photos in a nearby woods, I heard the kids playing outside. They are big hams and enjoy seeing their pictures on my blog. So, I took a few pics and here they are...ta daaah!

These kids are like my grandkids. Not only are they sweet, but they have great parents, too!

Week 16 - Growth

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:55:00 +0000

I almost didn't capture any "growth" pictures for my weekly photo challenge, but I had some free time this evening and the weather cooperated (it's been cold and rainy around here).

The trees are budding and leaves are starting to open up. Every year I get excited for the spring changes, including seeing much more green! I check each day how far along the shrubs and trees have gone from bare branches to fully opened leaves and seed pods. So, it made sense to try to capture some of these changes for this week's theme of "growth."

I don't own an actual macro lens, but I still try to get macro shots with my 70 - 200mm lens. For a lot of these shots, I used an aperture of around 7.1, shutter 1/160, fully zoomed in to 200mm, white balance of "cloudy" and ISO of 400. There was a lot of noise in the pictures, for some reason, so I used Adobe Lightroom 3.0 to reduce the noise.

I couldn't zoom in as close as these photos are...but rather, I cropped the images significantly.

The photo below was cropped...

and then I cropped it more to get in real tight.

My lens doesn't produce sharp, macro images...

but it's fun to try!

The theme for next week is "trees." If you'd like to join me in taking a tree photo :-), feel free to post one on my Facebook wall to be critiqued by me and other photographers.

I'd also like to mention that I am booking photo sessions for this spring and summer! I love to take photos of families, seniors, and children. I have a special going right now until the end of May, so call me if you'd like to book an hour session. 651-528-8221