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BIG. BADASS. BOHO WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY

You and me are about to make this town a. little. bit. cooler.
Wedding photography isn't a service, it's an experience. 
Only 20 clients per year. Be one of them.  

 

 
 
 
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eye candy GALLERIES

 

STEPH

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Seven years ago I started photographing couples. I looked through my images post shoot and couldn't take my eyes off of it. It was a photograph of my client - a woman with a smile so huge, belly-laughing with the love of her life...she wasn't worried about her thighs, upper arms, or stomach, she was way too busy loving her man to even notice. It brought me so much happiness to capture this moment for them and show them something they never see, but only feel between each other. I kept photographing and seven years later, it brought you here to me. Thank you for stopping in to see what I do.

I'm Steph and I'd like to be your Des Moines Wedding Photographer. I'm in love with amazing people. So, I really hope you read the rest of this page.

I'm really an outstanding photographer, but what I can't do is home decor. If that's what you need, this isn't the place for it. You should go now and never look back. ...read more


CONTACT

 
 
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WELCOME, GORGEOUS,
I'M SO READY TO MEET YOU!

Yes! Want to get in touch?

Steph Kadlicko
steph@5thPhotography.com
318.517.0141

HOME BASE

Home base is Des Moines, IA. Every weekend I'm on the road,
driving and flying to romantic weddings and sessions around the country, 
and across the pond. 
 

 
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INSTA FEED

 
Someone recently asked me what I do with my image colors to make my greens the way they look. 𖣜 So, if you were wondering too, I can share with you some of my macro edits. Keep in mind though, every image is custom tweaked - so what I’m about to describe is general my starting point and then I adjust. No presets. 𖣜 Imagine each slider in @lightroom looking like this: 100_____________0______________100 ...with a little slider that moves along the line. 𖣜 1. Pull out 80% of the green saturation using the green slider (80% left) 2. Pull out 70% of the yellow saturation using the green slider (70% left) 3. Blacken my blacks 85% using the darkness slider (85% left) 4. Bring out my shadows 20% using the shadows slider (20% right) 𖣜 Then I play with exposure a little, and finally touch up my warmth/coolness to finalize the image. 𖣜 I use Adobe Lightroom for object removal, skin smoothing, etc. “Photoshop-ing it” isn’t really a thing for me. It’s very very rare that I’d open an image in photoshop. I’ve actually never used it for a wedding image. 𖣜 . . . . . . . #bohobride #indiewedding #adventurouswedding #dirtybootsandmessyhair #radlovestories #adventurebrides #belovedstories #wanderingweddings #bohowedding #yogaeverydamnday #utahweddingphotographer #fitnessmotivation #desmoinesweddingphotographer #croatia #croatianweddingphotographer #europeanweddingphotographers #splitcroatiaweddingphotographer #europedestinationweddingphotographer #elopementphotographer #intimatewedding #doglovers #destinationwedding #edits #torontoweddingphotographer #adventurewedding #californiaweddingphotographer #irelandweddingphotographer #howto #lightroompresets #engagementphotos
Living with Little Brown is like having the life of a shoe lace and never being able to tie it up. ꤽ Here she is in her ninja suit. ꤽ I told @rachel.ann.wallace...Little Brow is my nighttime cuddling, box eating, cut eye giving, fence climbing, name ignoring, beautiful beast. I wouldn’t change a thing. ꤽ She was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and someone threw her and her siblings in a dumpster. A lady saved them, shared the story, and beautiful soul from Des Moines brought her over to the land of opportunity. ꤽ They needed a foster. She was my countryman. ꤽ I was going to watch her just a little while. ꤽ She decided to stay with our crew forever. ꤽ Actually she ran away multiple times, but always came back. Like she was a boy, I had to let her go and if she came back... ꤽ She walks like a champ on leash and has her own strand up comedy routine in the house. ꤽ She climbs fences - any.kind.of.fences - like a ninja and looks over her shoulder as she runs away. As if a fence was gonna stop her. Psh. ꤽ She gives me stress with this fence thing. I love you little one, more than I can explain. My little Istrian/Posavac hound. ꤽ . . . . . . . #dogsofinstagram #istria #istarskigonic #posavachound #hrvatskiposavac #doglover #croatia #split #dubrovnik #dubrovnikoldtown #puppylove #destinationwedding #hike #frozenriver #elopementphotographer #indiewedding #adventurouswedding #bohowedding #yogaeverydamnday #torontoweddingphotographer #fitnessmotivation #desmoinesweddingphotographer #croatianweddingphotographer #europeanweddingphotographers #splitcroatiaweddingphotographer #europedestinationweddingphotographer #adriaticsea #womenempowerment #bodybuilding #army @preview.app
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