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Tate Seimer Expert PageANNOUNCER: Welcome to the VTalk Radio's Photographer Spotlight with your host, John Bentley.
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JOHN: Today on VTalk Radio's Photography Spotlight we have Salt Lake City, Utah, photographer, Tate Seimer, of Cloud Nine Photography joining us today. Welcome to the program, Tate.
TATE: Thanks, John, good to be here.
JOHN: Yeah, now you are the owner of Cloud Nine Photography there in Utah. Tell us a little bit about your photography business.
TATE: Well Cloud Nine Photography's been around now for we're going on our 5th season, and we basically do a lot of wedding business out here. We do a combination of different types of weddings. We do a lot of more SLC temple weddings in addition to resort oriented weddings and lots of outdoor venues and our clients love us because we are extremely personable. We have one photographer who is now speaking so you always know who you're going to work with. You always know who's going to be behind the camera smiling right back at you, and we really do our best to make you as comfortable as possible and make your day as fun and make the photography part as fun and relaxing as possible. That's really our focus. We also do lots of family portrait work and in addition we are starting to incorporate more adventure type photography, ski photography, in addition to just kind of outdoor adventure activities, mountain biking, rock climbing, and those sorts of things.
JOHN: Well it sounds like you're dabbling in quite a bit of interesting areas for photography. Let's talk a little bit about weddings. I would imagine that weddings are probably the biggest part of your business?
TATE: Absolutely. If you go to our website which is www.cloud9photo.com, you'll see that that website is almost exclusively weddings. You'll find some family portrait work there, but our focus is really on weddings. That's what my personal passion is in our industry, and we feel like really do our best work, most inspired work on a wedding day. You'll find some, what I call kind of wedding auxiliary photography as well or supplemental photography at bridals and engagement sessions in addition to that. We use those sessions to enhance your wedding day photography and a lot of times, people will actually display photos from a bridal session or an engagement session on the wedding day so...we're full service wedding photography. We do custom album design in addition to our stellar photography coverage on the wedding day. We feel like we put together really creative artistic albums that are very unique. We don't use any templates. You'll never see the same page in the same album twice or in a different album twice for that matter. So really going for a personable look and a personable feel to your photography, capturing, you know, the really authentic, unique moments. We're looking for emotion and we tend to stay away as much as we can from things that are more posed or contrived. We do some posing here and there with families and that sort of thing, but for the most part...our approach is photo journalistic and more of a kind of a candid artistic look to our work as opposed to a traditional posed look.
JOHN: Now with weddings, though, do you take an assistant with you when you do a wedding?
TATE: It depends on the wedding. Depends on, quite frankly, on the package that our clients choose. They do have that option of having a second photographer. I have been shooting anywhere from 20 - 60 weddings a year now for about 8 years myself professionally, and I feel like, and I think my clients over the last few years feel like I provide more than enough really exciting, fun content that people don't feel like they really need a second photographer. I do take an assistant with me here and there especially if we're at an indoor venue and we're using auxiliary lighting and that sort of thing, but for the most part, we're pretty low profile approach. A lot of times, you don't even notice the work that we're doing until you see your proofs a week or so after your wedding, and you're just amazed at the amount of content that we get and the amount of really fun, exciting images that you receive to design your own album with or make prints with or put up on a webpage, kind of whatever you want to do with them.
JOHN: Now you also do maybe some corporate work? Is that true?
TATE: Yeah, we've done some corporate work in the past. We'll do things like events, ballroom type events. We can do pretty standard sort of head shots and group shots at events, and we're starting to offer a service for realtors where were doing not only kind of the more traditional straight forward headshot that you might want to use on a business card or something like that, but also more life style photography. For instance, maybe you're playing golf or water skiing or hiking or mountain biking, those sorts of things that actually are great for promo material and that sort of thing. So we're starting to put together kind of specialty packages specifically for realtors that are designed for brochures and promotional material like that.
JOHN: Good. Now we are in the studio today with Salt Lake City, Utah, photographer, Tate Seimer, of Cloud Nine Photography and you are listening to VTalk Radio's Photography Spotlight. We're going to take a break here, we'll be right back after these important messages. Do stay tuned.
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JOHN: We are back in the studio with Salt Lake City, Utah,
photographer, Tate Seimer, of Cloud Nine Photography and you are listening to VTalk
Radio's Photography Spotlight. Welcome back to the program,
Tate.
TATE: Thanks,
John.
JOHN: Now we've been talking about your photography
business out there in Utah. Specifically, we've been talking about wedding
about weddings. Let's talk about what are you trying to capture or what is
your philosophy when you approach a wedding?
TATE: Well, John, really, and this is kind of a first
and foremost approach, we're trying to really emulate the kind of relaxed, fun
expressions that we want to see out of our clients and the kind of ease that we
want to put them in so...I for instance when I'm shooting and working with a
couple or a bride or with a family, for instance, I'm smiling the entire time
trying to really not only put people at ease, but also tell people how good they
look, how in the case of a bride or a mother of a bride how beautiful their
dress, their hair is, that sort of thing. And I do that to try to
establish kind of an easy rapport with all the guests and important people at a
wedding, because I know at some point during the day, we're going to be taking
pictures of them, and I just want to see a really natural, relaxed, easy
smile out of them when we're doing that sort of thing, and I also want
them to feel real comfortable with me throughout the day working with them and
working with their family members. So that really lends to the kind of
thing we're trying to capture in images which is a real authentic emotional
expression of the day. We want to try to capture as much chemistry between
the bride and groom as possible and also as much general emotion with family
members and that sort of thing. So and we're also trying to capture the
overall feel of the day all the time we're taking detail shots of jewelry and
decorations and flowers. We're taking overall architectural scenery type
shots of the venue and then just lots of human interaction and emotion
expression. Lots of joy expressed in our photography, I think, and our
clients feel like the expression that we get to their day is just grow into them
and something that they are looking forward to having around the rest their
lives. So that's what we're trying to achieve at a
wedding.
JOHN:
Now you also do a lot of outdoor photography too?
Tell us a little bit about that aspect of your photography.
TATE:
Well when you say outdoor a lot of times people are thinking scenic photography,
and I actually do some scenic photography on kind of what I consider almost like
a hobby level, kind of what a lot of my clients do, just going out and
shooting beautiful scenery. In Utah there's a lot of beautiful scenery to
photography so it's pretty easy to take nice scenery shots, but I'm also
starting to offer what we're kind of calling lifestyle adventure photography
which I'm a very experienced ski photographer. Shot for six years
professionally at both Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts here in Utah, and we've
done quite a bit of high level action sports photography, mountain biking, rock
climbing, that sort of thing and are starting to put together options for
clients to go spend an afternoon with them either skiing, sometimes heli-skiing,
mountain biking, and then we're offering as I mentioned in our first segment the
professional lifestyle services, you know, playing golf and water skiing, those
sorts of things. So that's something that you won't really see a whole lot
reflected on our website quite yet, but that's kind of an area of our business
that we're developing here.
JOHN: Let's talk a little bit about
the
communities and cities around the Salt Lake City area that you cover, Tate.
TATE: Yeah, we basically cover the whole Cache from Ogden down south to
Provo. We do pretty much that whole area free of travel charge
as well as Park City area and the resorts and Little Cottonwood Big
Cottonwood, Canyons, and we're also available for travel throughout the lower 48
and Hawaii. We do kind of custom travel package, and you can contact us
for a quote on coming really anywhere in the country to do wedding work.
So, yeah, we're available for really travel anywhere.
JOHN: What about
is facilities in the area
that you do a lot of work out of or that you enjoy using?
TATE: Yeah, glad you asked,John. We're
one of the preferred photography providers at Rose Sachs Gardens which is an
outdoor reception center here just outside of Salt Lake City up Parley's Canyon
a little bit up in the mountains, and we do quite a bit of work with them and we
do a lot of weddings at their venue, and we do a lot of other kind of resort
oriented weddings up around Alta and Snowbird and up in Mill Creek Canyon, Log
Have, and Mill Creek Inn. We're used to working with outside light and the
thing in Utah is the outdoor light here can be very variable, and we can have a
lot of real harsh sunlight in the middle of the summer, and we just over the
years we do all the techniques with flash and reflectors and if we need to,
we'll use those sorts of things so, yeah, those are some of the centers that
we've worked with. we do a lot Salt Lake Temple weddings, a lot of
Bountiful Temple weddings, Timponogas Temple, and just recently started doing
Provo Temple weddings as well.
JOHN: Well, I have to let you go here,
Tate, but before we do that, why don't you share your website address and
contact information for out listening audience please.
TATE: Yeah, the
website is www.cloud9photo.com
that's
C-L-O-U-D-the number 9 P-H-O-T-O.com. We can be reached here in Salt Lake
at (801) 699-4532 and that's actually a direct line to me. So any
questions that I can answer for anybody, I'm more than happy to do so at any
time.
JOHN: Well thank you
for joining us today on
TATE: Thank you, John, i appreciate your time.
JOHN: We've been in the studio here with Salt Lake City, Utah, photographer, Tate Seimer, of Cloud Nine Photography and you've been listening to VTalk Radio's Photography Spotlight. I'm your host, John Bentley, everybody have a great afternoon.
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