Yes Claudia closed in on awesomeness on her senior spokesmodel session and…. oh heck – what am I saying she totally got to awesomeness! You’ll see for yourself in a sec…. Claudia is another North Farmington Raider like us so we expected nothing but the best results and we got them on what was a really chilly day, but Claudia was a trooper and along with her mom Sandy we had a blast capturing some awesome images for Claudia to represent the studio for the class of 2019 with!
Claudia Closes In On Awesomeness
We focused mainly on outdoor photos with Claudia in Birmingham and that’s where we’ll start with a couple at Quarton Lake:
Stunning! The shimmering sparkle of the water and the off camera flash makes for a perfectly composed photo with this beauty if we do say so ourselves….
We also have some fun behind the scenes as usual – first with the replay of our Instagram Live video:
And let’s look at one more from the water…
Love it!
At this point we headed over to downtown Birmingham to get a few poses with an urban feel and that gave us this one:
We have one more behind the scenes livestream replay for you – this one from Facebook Live:
After the last outdoor shot we warmed up and headed back to the studio to get a few on the black background. We’re actually doing at least one of these with every spokesmodel this year so we can do something fun with all of the shots at the end… Love this close up:
And there you have it – awesomeness indeed! Claudia rocked it and we are so happy to have her representing our studio for the class of 2019!!!
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Ellory came to the studio this week with her mom Jodi for some good vibes, her modeling closeup and some fun! We definitely got all three. What a sharp and adorable girl she is and we really had a blast so let’s take a look at some highlights!
Ellory Was Ready For Good Vibes
We photographed the whole session on the black backdrop but with a few different styles and we’ll start with some Good Vibes right off the bat!
The laughing photo is a fun one to set the stage – this girl couldn’t keep the SERIOUS pose for too long without just a little giggling.
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from Facebook Live:
And now let’s change up a couple of styles! We broke out the fan for some of that “black and blowy” glam!
Ellory is such a rock star!
We also have some fun behind the scenes on this too but for whatever reason I’ve been struggling with the audio and covering the mic when we go live on Instagram. No idea why…. we’ve been livestreaming on Periscope and other platforms for 3 years with no problem but for some reason we’re a little snake bitten on Instagram. BUT – in this case it’s kind of funny…. if you watch at the 48 second mark I ask Ellory what she wants to do with her life and her reaction is priceless. First I played around with her acting shocked that she didn’t know, and then I let her off the hook telling her I didn’t know until less than 10 years ago. It’s pretty cute.
Let’s also give a shout out to Valoria at The Beauty Lounge for Ellory’s hair – that’s Valoria making an appearance in the livestream too.
Now let’s wrap it up with a couple more photos! This next one is really nice – Ellory is wearing her mom’s dress here!
And one more – a fun close up from above:
Totes Adorbs!!!
And there you have it – you can see we had so much fun with this little whirlwind of cuteness and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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The Octopus is a really cool animal. They’re smart, fascinating to watch, and there are 289 kinds of them! But why have they become a symbol of a local independent photography studio in West Bloomfield, MI where none of them live within thousands of miles? Let’s find out…
How The Octopus Became A Symbol At Frameable Faces
As you may know we name a lot of stuff here. We name locations for the seniors who pioneer them, we name equipment and some of them even take on their own personas and start tweeting, sitting down for interviews…. etc. Oy.
Meanwhile we have a studio light that is octagonal shaped and we started referring to “him” as “Octo” just for fun. That was how this whole thing started. You see, over the last few years (it will actually be exactly 3 years on 3/31/18) we have been periscoping as you may know, and along the way The📷Doug&Ally📷Morning Show!🎙☕ became a thing. We made the trending list on the app which is owned by and integrated with Twitter as “Twitter Live” and we now have over 22k followers literally around the world. At some point during the show when a newbie shows up we welcome them and give a tour of the studio, and the tour itself has become a daily event with many recurring hallmarks and themes of its own – one of which is Octo which somewhere along the way became “The World Famous Frameable Faces Octopus”. Not sure the exact origins of this can be traced beyond the likely scenario of someone thinking I said Octopus one day instead of Octobox, and…..well…..take a look below and you’ll get an idea of what has happened:
Yes the World Famous Frameable Faces Octopus gave way to the rise of the #Octosquad! Our friend Lauren (@Sound_Of_Boots) usually makes the announcement and everyone gets their octo on. Pretty much anyone can be a member of the Octosquad, just like anyone can be a Frameable – it’s an attitude, a lifestyle if you will, and you just jump on in!
Since then octopuses (yes that’s the proper plural of octopus) have been popping up everywhere. In the studio….
That’s the octo we brought back from the Keys with his partner Fitzy’s Maine Lobster. Fitzy is one of our Periscope friends who sent us that from his trip to Maine.
These little octos who sit by Doug’s computer were a gift by Periscope friends Jacqui Of All Trades and Laughing Leo who brought them to the studio on a visit…
We even found a tiny octo with our friend Steve (Steve named him Ocho) in a bucket down in the Florida Keys on the Frameable Faces 2017 Spring Break Tour…
Octos even adorn our bookmarks which we’ve been giving out as rewards for subscribers of our Patreon page… Our friend @McFannie showed hers off with a tweet!
It’s gotten to be such a big deal that Reflecto seems to be getting a little salty about it…
He’ll get over it….
And there you have it! Now you know how the #Octosquad was born and how the Octopus became such a symbol of Frameable Faces! We hope you’ll join the Octosquad too!
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Morgan has been on the radar here for a while – usually we’re the ones out recruiting seniors to be our spokesmodels, but this time it was Morgan who recruited us! You could say that she skated right into our zone, shot and scored, and we’re pretty happy that she did! In all seriousness, we couldn’t have known that the U.S. Women’s Hockey team would make the type of splash that they did with the gold medal shootout in this year’s Olympics in PyeongChang in such dramatic fashion when we started talking to Morgan, but now that it happened and it has brought women’s hockey into the spotlight more than ever we are even more excited to work with Morgan. She and her mom Jodi brought so much energy (not to mention cupcakes) to the studio and Morgan personifies everything that is great about these athletes – a sweetheart who can go cute, glam, playful, and pretty but is also dead serious about her hockey and can kick your ass. We definitely scored a hat trick with spokesmodel Morgan.
A Photographic Hat Trick With Spokesmodel Morgan!
So in this case we’ve got the brains, brawn and beauty hat trick, and we’ll start with the brawn/beauty combo before we go to just beauty – as for the brains you’ll just have to take our word for it!
How cool!!! We can’t look at this photo without being reminded of last year’s spokesmodel kickoff with another bad ass beauty you may remember – Olivia! This time Morgan combining the black and blowy setup with the sports theme gave us a killer result!
We also have some behind the scenes fun as usual – first with our Instagram Livestream that we have posted on our YouTube channel – take a look (and we apologize for some of the audio trouble on this one – seems like user error as yours truly may have been covering the mic with a finger or thumb….)!
Moving right along let’s take a look at a couple more outfits and backdrops starting with the Def Leppard rocker chick look! And why not – Photograph is the best rock song about photography ever isn’t it? You can actually read about that right here on this blog in this piece I wrote back in 2013 about the top 10 songs about photography, but I digress…. Check out this rockin’ shot of Morgan…
Got a photograph!!! Picture of!!!
Now let’s go to a change of pace, and style as we move over to the purple and this super cute outfit:
Pretty in Purple!
We have one more behind the scenes livestream too – this time on Facebook Live and this was a fun family affair with many of Morgan’s crew chiming in on the live broadcast – including some hilarious trolling from her little brother. Hehe… As a side note this was our very first Facebook Creator livestream that includes the fancy shmancy intro and outro! Check it out!
We’ll leave you now with one more photo from the brown backdrop with this fun and playful close up of our girl:
Awesome and adorable.
And there you have it – a hat trick indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Morgan! The class of 2019 is off to a fantastic start!
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What a way to kickoff the class of 2019 – with a little “Ally on Alli crime”! And if producing stunning images of this girl is a crime then lock us up and throw away the key!!! Alli was here in front of Ally’s camera years ago when she was a pre-teen but now she’s going to be a senior and this is the class that our own Tony is in too so there will be many surreal moments like this one over the coming months. Alli’s delightful mom Risa joined us in the studio (and even a grandma and a grandpa and an aunt popped in for visits) and it was a bit surreal for her too!
Ally Photographs Alli
Each year we go into the new spokesmodel sessions with some new ideas and techniques for the upcoming season and this year we are focusing on playing around with our lighting. It may not be something you’ll notice per se but we shifted around our soft boxes a little and got a lot accomplished, and Alli looked fantastic. She’s a pro – so great to work with, and so these images are quite awesome and we’re excited to get them out there. We have our typical 4 sneak peeks for you here!
We’ll start with the damask background and we love the way this one turned out!
Just stunning…
We also have our behind the scenes fun as usual – this year we have been playing around with some Facebook options as well as going live on Instagram. First let’s have a look at our Facebook Live broadcast of the making of the photo above:
Next we have this tight crop on the red fabric – Ally is a fan of the hands-framing-the-face. Not all of our seniors choose to do this type of pose but we love it here for Alli!
We moved next to the white vinyl background – loving this next look with the ripped jeans! We also need to give a shout out to Mandy Rose Studio for Ally’s hair and makeup – they did a fantastic job!
Adorable!
We also recorded our Instagram Livestream and uploaded it to our YouTube channel – take a look and please subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss future vids!
At this point we moved to the black backdrop and we’ll show off one of those images before we wrap this one up…
Love the smile! Love this girl!
And there you have it!!! We are off and running with the new crew for the class of 2019 and Alli led the way in style!!! Be sure to follow along for more upcoming sessions – all the links are below and don’t forget to sign up for the weekly newsletter!
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