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Sasha Slays It On Her Class Of 2022 Spokesmodel Session!

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Sasha slays the game like no one’s business on this spokesmodel session in Pontiac, and this was one of those unique days you just can’t plan for – we’ll get to that in a minute.  In the meantime let’s talk about Sasha.  She’s a spokesmodel for us at Frankel Jewish Academy for the class of 2022 and this girl has style!  She and her mom Kristine joined us on a perfect and slightly breezy day and we think you’ll enjoy these highlights!

Sasha Slays

It seems every time we go to Pontiac there is something different to see, new murals, new decorations, new art and in this case a new look for an old location that we stumbled upon.  Let’s get to the photos:

Sasha Slays

Stunning!  That trellis was not there last time either…

We also have some fun behind the scenes from the day – first from Facebook Live:

…and one more outdoors:

Sasha Slays

What a perfect mural for Sasha – that saying seems to describe her to a tee.

At this point the session took a turn for the awesome…  we were taking a photo on the steps of a building we’d been inside of back in 2012 – we hadn’t been back in quite a long time and a guy peeked his head out of the doorway and asked if we wanted to come inside and check the place out.  It’s the newly reimagined Lawrence Street Project and it’s as cool as we remembered it – with a stage, lights and equipment for live concerts and parties.  You can rent it out and they have a new Facebook page – we highly recommend you check it out!  We did the rest of Sasha’s session in there… and it was so cool!  Here’s some behind the scenes from Instagram Live:

 

 
 
 
 
 
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…and here are a couple results!

Sasha Slays

Such a cool stairway…and Sasha looks beautiful!  Love the hat – love accessories in general.  We always encourage our seniors to bring bring bring – and to be themselves!

We’ll leave you with this one on this cool chaise upstairs:

Sasha Slays

Love.  And there you have it – when Sasha slays like this again we’ll have another round on the blog from her senior session!  We can’t wait, and you should book your session now!

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Mademoiselle Maddy Made Magic In A New Location For Us!

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Mademoiselle Maddy made magic indeed at a spot we’ve never photographed, and what a spot it is!  Her senior session was a breath of fresh air – for starters she’s adorable, nice, an artist and wants to be a teacher!  She is a rising class of 2021 West Bloomfield High School senior and we actually went to high school with her dad Mike!  Her mom Angela, her stepmom Jennifer, just everyone involved in the planning were all pleasures to work with and it was Angela who joined us at Goldner Walsh Garden & Home in Pontiac for a beautiful day!  We did the entire session there except the yearbook headshot, and we can do future sessions there for a fee too!  So let’s get to the highlights!

Mademoiselle Maddy

The cool thing about this place is not only all the plants and flowers they have inside, but the very cool props they have outdoors – almost like a little amphitheater for events, a bridge – all kinds of things to work with such as this little structure below:

Mademoiselle Maddy

How beautiful is that – and she?

We have some behind the scenes from our day as well first from Facebook (although the signal gets a little shaky):

At this point we had an outfit change in our portable dressing room and went exploring a little – yes the place is that big and there is beauty everywhere…

Mademoiselle Maddy

Love it.

Here’s another with the same blue jumpsuit with a pretty trellis and great backlight:

Mademoiselle Maddy Here’s a another outfit and a couple more spots – we’re including an extra photo because this was a fantastic session and we want to show a little more of Goldner Walsh as well as Mademoiselle Maddy!

Mademoiselle Maddy

This one was indoors and we have behind the scenes highlights from this one from Instagram:

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Great day with @maddy.kosh at @goldnerwalsh for #SeniorPictures!!! Love love love this spot!🙂🌻 #ClassOf2021 #PontiacMichigan #SeniorPortraits #Photography

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We’ll leave you with this one against a wooden door that we love as well – this place is like a studio!
 
Mademoiselle Maddy
What a great pic to finish on – Mademoiselle Maddy made magic on this day indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!
 
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Leah Leads Us Back To Action…and Pontiac For Spokesmodel Pics!

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Just being able to write “Leah Leads Us Back To Action” is a joy for so many reasons!  For starters this was our first photo session in months after being home to flatten the curve of the pandemic, so just getting out and being back at it doing what we love was exhilarating.  But to be with Leah and her mom Emma made it even better because we’re friends and have been for many years.  So to have that interaction for the first time and to do it with people we already know and care about was sustenance for the soul!  Leah is representing the Bloomfield Hills Blackhawks for the class of 2021 and when you add in the fact that she brought her “A game” and SLAYED – well that’s just the icing on the cake….  Let’s get to some highlights!

Leah Leads Us Back To Action

We decided to go edgy and head to Pontiac, masks and all!  We like to photograph in Pontiac from time to time for a little urban vibe.

Leah Leads

Love. The. Shoes.  And the gorgeous girl wearing them.

We also have some fun behind the scenes action for you first from our Facebook Livestream:

Leah had a few outfit changes so next up we have a lyrical costume with pointe shoes – this next setup is amazing: 

Leah Leads

Just so cool – the costume matching the rail, Leah on pointe – just the whole thing…. wow.

Moving around downtown Pontiac we discovered a little spot we either hadn’t noticed before or was newly painted since last fall:

Leah Leads

Such a fun wall and Leah has that little smize going!  Here’s some more behind the scenes this time embedded straight from Instagram TV!

The final shots just happened impromptu as Leah jumped up on a barrel and flashed the peace sign – with the shades on – just a great way to sum up how we were feeling that day!  Love this girl.

Leah Leads

And there you have it!  Yep – Leah led us back to action which felt so good and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!

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Gettin’ All Municipal With Michael In Pontiac For Senior Pictures!

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Gotta take a second to pat myself on the back for my alliterative title here for the day we got municipal with Michael! We dig the urban shots in Pontiac and we had a good time getting edgy with this dude. Michael is another senior we’ve known for a while since he and our Tony have been going to school together for years so we were looking forward to this one!

Gettin’ Municipal With Michael

We headed to Pontiac which is what Michael chose for the fun edgy city images.  We had a great time, talked some football and we got some great stuff, starting with one of our fave looks – the fire escape…

 Municipal

Lookin’ good!

We also played around with some graffiti and murals and some live streaming for the behind the scenes fun – first with Facebook Live:

We did a little exploring and this photo is pretty cool with the reflection in the glass of our guy:

Municipal

Here’s another outfit change with a little ASU style in the black and white…

Municipal

So COOL.

We also have another behind the scenes replay for you this time from the Instagram LIVE:

And we’ll leave you with one more:

Municipal

Good stuff!

Rock on – we got municipal with Michael and the results are killer.  We hope you enjoy the results of our day with him!

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In Pontiac and In The Zone With Zaire For Senior Pictures!

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I’ve always said when a senior calls the studio themselves and sets up the appointment for their own senior pictures that it’s impressive.  Not a HUGE thing per se, but it’s usually an indication that they can take some initiative and get things done and we were impressed with Zaire from the start.  What a great kid – even called ahead on the day of the session to let us know he might be a few minutes late, and when I said don’t sweat it he said it was important to him to apologize.  That says a lot!  As for his mom April she’s great too – she has just a little going on with Zaire’s graduation coming up AND Zaire’s sister graduating from college out of state – she’s stressed!  But there’s NO stress here at Frameable Faces!  Especially when we’ve got such a great senior to photograph and a great day in Pontiac to do it!

In The Zone With Zaire…

Now we will say that we started briefly in the studio to get a few photos on the grey in Zaire’s suit, and while these turned out just fine we’re only going to show you the fun behind the scenes replay of the Instagram live from our YouTube channel because we just love the location photos so much!

Good times and the dude was looking dapper!

To Pontiac

To Pontiac we went and Zaire kept the nice clothes on for the first set of photos where we got this result:

Zaire

One of our faves from the session for sure…

At this point we went more casual:

Zaire

We like the reflection in the glass on that one…

Zaire

Same outfit, different sidewalk!

We also have more behind the scenes fun with the replay of our Facebook Live video at another cool spot…  take a look!

And here is the cool result!

Zaire

Love that one!

So as you can see we were indeed in the zone with Zaire and had a fantastic time with him – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!

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A Vic-TORI-ous Senior Spokesmodel Session For The Ages With Tori!!!

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What can we say about Tori and the hands of fate that were all over this story from how and when we found her all the way to the epic spokesmodel session with her and her mom Lora in the YAK!  The “yak” would be Pontiac which is where Tori was born hehe…  Let’s just say we already have multiple inside jokes and stories from our short time knowing each other – we just seemed to fit from the first minute.

It all started with Tori’s mom Lora walking into the studio and asking about senior pictures really early in the game for the class of 2019 at the urging of another senior mom we love while we were (and kinda still are) in recruiting mode for our new crew.  When she told us her daughter went to West Bloomfield Ally and I looked at each other right away and both our wheels were turning…  Next thing you know we had Lora and Tori come for a little pow wow and we knew immediately we wanted her on our team!  The rest is his-TORI!!!  See what I did there?  Let’s see how many ways I can work Tori’s name into this blog post lol… 

A Vic-TORI-ous Session

We decided on Pontiac as I mentioned earlier on a fairly chilly day and even with some technical difficulties with Ally’s new off camera flash we still pulled off a handful of outstanding photos!  Let’s get to a few…

Tori

How adorable is she?  Let’s also give a shout out here to Yasmeen at The Beauty Lounge for Tori’s makeup and Natalie at Mandy Rose Studio for Tori’s hair!

Let’s also take a look at the hilarious behind the scenes Facebook Live – we LOVE this girl…. haha!

One more photo outdoors before we move to the next phase…

Tori

Love.  Great style on Tori here and we are pretty pleased with the lighting (when it worked)!  That’s the nice thing about spokesmodel sessions – they are a great opportunity to try out new spots, new equipment and new techniques, and while Ally was a little frustrated fighting with the equipment we do love the results!

At this point we headed over to the Flagstar Strand Theatre which you should check out for a show if you get a chance – what a gem of a venue in downtown Pontiac and special thanks goes to them for the access.  They set us up in the dressing room where we decided on a whim to get a few really fun shots of the star backstage like this one!

Tori

We played around in the theatre and got some cool stuff but the lighting and the angles we tried were a bit challenging.  We’ll go back and try again at some point – you can get a sense of what we were doing in this fun Instagram Live we did from inside…

A couple of behind the scenes shots like the pano I grabbed and the shot Lora took below are pretty cool too – they give you an idea of what we were trying to do even if the finished images weren’t quite ready for prime time…

Tori

Tori

Now we’ll head outside for one more photo which could be our fave of the day with Tori in a cute winter hat…

Tori

Just love that one!!!  Gorgeous girl.

And that’s a great way to end it for now – we are thrilled to have Tori representing our studio and we cannot wait to get her in front of Ally’s camera again!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!

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