Senior sessions in and around Detroit always get us excited – there’s just such a buzz around the city and so much to photograph! It’s even better when we have a senior who is down for some fun with personality, style, and the whole fam! Yep Sarah’s parents and older sister came along and we all had a great time! Sarah is a sweetheart and we are pleased to present the highlights of our day with her!
Sarah Around Detroit!
We started on Belle Isle which is how we typically roll – it’s a great location with all kinds of spots to discover – we’ll pick up the action there:
Love that, and love the aesthetically pleasing match of Sarah’s top to the brick around her!
We also have some fun behind the scenes for you as we usually do – first with the replay of the YouTube Live broadcast at Belle Isle:
Here’s a photo now of Sarah over by the conservatory where we found plenty of flowers to play with – and why not with Sarah’s flowery dress!
At this point we left the island to head over to The Belt where there are fun murals to play with, and we captured this fun photo:
So cool with all the colors, and here is the behind the scenes this time from the Facebook Live broadcast replay!
Back to the studio…
At this point it was time to get back to the studio for our signature “black and blowy” setup and we’ll leave you with one of those:
Um……stunning!!!
And there you have it! A stunning session with Sarah in and around Detroit and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!
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Ben’s senior session in the big D was totally bomb indeed. We are photographing seniors in Detroit more and more these days and Ben is a buddy of both of our kids – it’s kinda cool this year for us with some of our seniors because this is the class in between our 2 and Ben we’ve known for a while so it was a ton of fun. Ben’s mom Erin is great too – she came along and we laughed a lot on this session!
Senior Session In The Big D…
We started on Belle Isle which is pretty typical for us when we head down to Detroit and we’ll pick up the action there with the fountain in the background:
At this point we headed over to The Belt alley to get a few more shots and we have some behind the scenes fun from the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
…and here is one of the resulting photos:
We then made another stop over by the Eastern Market to one of our favorite empty buildings for a little urban decay vibe (even though Detroit is very much “un-decaying” and coming back strong these days).
Ben – totally Bomb!
We headed back to the studio at this point for a fiery finish to the session – totally bomb! Here’s the fun behind the scenes action from the YouTube Live replay:
And the killer result!
Bad dude right there….
And there you have it – Ben’s session was totally bomb indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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It’s pretty hard to believe that after basically 9 years of photographing seniors that we never photographed a Farmington Falcon! So finally……enter Kristen! Kristen came to us as a cousin of some former seniors of ours and we were pretty excited to keep the chain going and get some Falcon love on our blog! Kristen was a perfect first Falcon too, so let’s get to it!
First Falcon…
Kristen had a little entourage for her session here at the studio and her lovely mom Jordon met us downtown for the location shoot at Eastern Market as well – much fun! After a quick few shots in the studio we stopped at a park in Farmington before we headed downtown and that’s where we’ll pick up the action:
Nice!!!
We also have some behind the scenes fun as usual from there in a Facebook Live replay:
At this point we headed downtown and we were actually a little nervous because it rained on the way down – it was NOT supposed to! But we lucked out – the weather held once we got down there and we were able to get some great shots. Not to mention an overcast sky can really work to your advantage anyway because the light is nice and diffused.
Love that…
Here’s another:
The color is so vibrant and with the flowers on Kristen’s shirt it ties in nicely!
Time for a little more behind the scenes fun this time from our YouTube Live broadcast replay!
And we’ll leave you with one more photo…
And there you have it! Our First Falcon was a winner and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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We gushed about Dani plenty when we blogged about her spokesmodel session and after knowing her for about 6 months as she’s represented the studio for the class of 2018 we can say with certainty it was all justified. We LOVE this girl and we definitely had a dazzling day with her in Detroit! Her mom Diana came along for the fun and as you’ll see it was a session to remember.
Dazzling Day With Dani
Many of the highlights of this session ended up being in The Belt which we’ll get to, but we started out on Belle Isle and captured this stunner:
Wow – dazzling right? I also have to say that I’ve been playing around with the new Snapchat filters on my iPhone for some of the behind the scenes stuff we put on our Snapchat stories and I think this one of Ally capturing the photo of Dani above is worth including here – like a cool little painting…
Meanwhile we have the YouTube live broadcast replay from Belle Isle as well for you here:
Now let’s head over to The Belt in downtown Detroit where we captured some real winners!
Love it – and here is the behind the scenes Facebook Live broadcast replay that goes with that shot:
Her outfit seemed to be just perfect for the colors there too….
We also went to an art gallery there that rotates installations of different mediums and we’ve been lucky enough to be there when they invited us in to take photos. That’s where this last one was captured:
So cool! And there you have it – a dazzling day in Detroit with Dani indeed! We hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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We’ve had a ball photographing Jordyn while she’s been representing our studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2018, and a perfect day in Detroit photographing Jordyn is definitely our jam. As was the case with Jordyn’s spokesmodel session this was a family affair with mom Stacy, dad Eric, and even older sister Sydney met up with us for part of the day! The game plan here other than the yearbook headshot at the studio was to explore Detroit and explore Detroit we did!
In Detroit Photographing Jordyn…
We started out at Belle Isle which is where we spent a good deal of time. The more we shoot there the more great spots we find. The first photo we’ll highlight is of Jordyn at the James Scott Memorial Fountain:
Great spot, great backlight, great senior! As I said we roamed around the island and even stopped at the beach for a few yoga poses as you’ll see in this fun behind the scenes replay of our Facebook Live video we did!
Here’s another photo with the unique aesthetic of looking through a natural window at our girl…
So cool and Jordyn looks amazing!
To Eastern Market…
At this point we headed over to the Eastern Market area for some murals to play with and some grit and we found plenty of both! First the mural:
Knowing where your light is and how to use it is key…. love the backlight on Jordyn’s hair once again!
We also have some more fun behind the scenes here as we headed into one of our fave empty buildings – this time from the replay of our YouTube Live video:
And the result with the grit:
Awesome shot to finish with! Yes being in Detroit photographing Jordyn is definitely our jam and you can see why! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Capturing Cara has become plenty fun for us here – she is a current spokesmodel for the class of 2018 so you may have seen her here before on her spokesmodel session, and she rocked her return! Cara’s brother Ben was a Frameable senior as well and parents Gina and Kenny round out a great family! Gina came on the session with us and we knew we’d be in for a fun time as long as the weather held up – for a while there the forecast wasn’t looking good but we lucked out! We headed down to the D and started out on Belle Isle…
Capturing Cara!
Here’s a spectacular shot of Cara with the Detroit River and the Renaissance Center in the background!
There are so many amazing spots on Belle Isle – here’s a little behind the scenes fun from our YouTube Live broadcast there!
…and one more shot before we focus on the Eastern Market area….
LOVE this with the yellow and black with Cara being framed by some yellow too!
At this point we headed over to the Eastern Market and Dequindre Cut to take advantage of the many murals and locations to work with there. Let’s start with Cara with a mural backdrop:
Loving it…
Let’s also see some more behind the scenes fun from our Facebook Live broadcast while we were down there!
And one more from this doorway we found – Cara was in the zone at this point – capturing Cara was a breeze!
A great day to be sure and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day capturing Cara!
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Yes we are huge fans of Lauren and her mom Gabrielle, and it’s been so much fun having Lauren represent our studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2018! Her spokesmodel session was truly epic and we spent much of it in Detroit at the old Michigan Building and around Eastern Market. It was one of those sessions that sticks out for sure – just awesome. So we had a slight dilemma – we loved exploring around Detroit and they wanted to go back for Lauren’s senior session. Hey we’re always up for a Detroit session since there is so much going on down there and so many amazing places to shoot. The question was could we possibly top what we already did down there? Hmmmmm…. Could we reach an even higher level with Lauren?
Reaching an even higher level with Lauren…
Ally predicted that we would indeed be able to kick it up yet another notch. And frankly I was confident too – we usually do. We suggested Belle Isle which hadn’t been on Lauren’s radar but she trusted us. Besides there was a little discussion around whether a beach shot might be nice – we had never used the Belle Isle Beach. So we set out with plenty of possibility and adventure in the air and the results? Well…… see for yourself.
Great one to start with right? Love the framing of our girl with the vines!
We also have plenty of behind the scenes fun as usual with some live broadcast replays (excuse my raggedy voice – I was recovering from being pretty well under the weather for a few days). First we went live on YouTube. If you want to tune in to other broadcasts be sure to hit the red subscribe button at our channel!
We ended up spending a ton of time on Belle Isle – some shots at the fountain, a few at the willow tree above, and a few over by the conservatory including this colorful one with all the pretty flowers surrounding Lauren!
I also had a little fun of my own with the pano feature on my iPhone – just for fun here is one at the conservatory that I thought was kind of cool…
AMATEUR iPhone panoramic photo for fun!
Next we headed around to the other side of the island to the beach which we pretty much had to ourselves and this turned out to be a great call! Here is the fun behind the scenes Facebook Live broadcast replay where Gabrielle even took over for a few minutes as guest host as I struggled a little with the wind trying to reflect some light on our subject!
And here is one of the fantastic results. LOVE this of Lauren…
So yeah…. awesome stuff at Belle Isle! But we weren’t done….
To The Belt!
The Belt is a very cool alley in downtown Detroit where we’ve taken photos several times and Lauren had her eye on it so we headed over there for a few and we found this ultra cool art gallery there. They let us come right in and shoot, and sometimes these unplanned things prove to be major highlights! I took another pano while Ally was setting this one up…
Another AMATEUR iPhone panoramic photo for fun!
And here is the result!!!
Wow right???
What a day – we actually finished it up with lunch at Johnny Noodle King and it was the perfect end to a day we won’t soon forget as we indeed reached a higher level with Lauren in our Detroit return! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!
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We are loving Lauren’s likeness in Detroit! Actually I think we’re just loving it on our blog period – Lauren continues to prove why we are so excited about our class of 2018 spokesmodel crew! She came highly recommended and we could tell why the moment she and her mom Gabrielle walked into the studio. We just totally connected with them right away and that’s really how it’s been so far with this group. We were giddy about getting her in front of Ally’s camera and this session was scheduled to take place a couple days after we discovered the Michigan Building downtown with one of our current seniors. There was much more we wanted to explore down there as well as getting over to the Eastern Market for some murals so we had a great plan since Detroit has become more and more popular for senior sessions with the city’s much heralded comeback.
Loving Lauren’s Likeness…
As I mentioned our first stop was at the Michigan Building where we got a pretty cool angle of the amazing and decaying ceiling as a backdrop to our girl – check it out:
So cool!
As always we have some behind the scenes fun for you to show a little bit of the session and how we captured some of these photos. First we have the Periscope replay – if you want to join in the fun at @FrameableFaces on the app you can do that here or if you simply want to check out the broadcasts from Twitter you can do that too.
We also wanted to get over to Eastern Market and do a little mural exploring – these have also become very popular for our seniors in Detroit. We just love being down there – Detroit is so cool…
Lauren is looking great – ripped jeans are a cool look in the city too!
Let’s look at a little more behind the scenes fun, this time from Facebook Live:
Here is a look at a couple more photos… First we’ll show one more from a mural at Eastern Market:
And lastly here’s a closer photo with this half crop… also a very popular shot with various walls for us:
So yeah… we were loving Lauren’s likeness in Detroit and we hope you enjoyed the highlights! We can’t wait to get her back into the studio for her senior portraits soon! We’ll leave you with the fun Snapchat story from the day!
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Cami was certainly “CAMI-RA ready” for her senior session takeover of Detroit! We’re very punny here at Frameable Faces. This was an epic session not like any before it and you’ll see why in a bit. Meanwhile let’s talk about Cami. We’ve known this girl for a long time and we actually photographed her brother Kyle for his senior pictures, but our relationship with Cami goes way back before that when a party favor from a Cami birthday party in the form of a music CD mix became the standard in the Cohen mini van for a good chunk of our kids childhoods! The “Cami Disc” was awesome! We still talk about it from over a decade ago… We’ve known Cami since she was 3 and she and our Lacey were in dance class together at Studio A the year it opened, so this girl has always had a special place in our hearts. She’s got it together too – she plans to be a nurse! We really had an amazing day with her and her mom Bonnie!
Cami was CAMI-RA Ready…
We started in the studio for a couple of quick photos with the plan to spend the majority of our time downtown. Here’s one on the black background before we head out on location…
Definitely Cami-Ra ready! She looks fantastic!
Of course we have plenty of behind the scenes fun and here is the replay of the first Facebook Live broadcast from the studio!
Heading to Detroit!
At this point we packed up and headed downtown for what was supposed to be a trip to Belle Isle and then maybe Eastern Market for some murals and whatever else we might find… well that didn’t happen. Okay well Belle Isle happened – and we love this red bridge there!
Beautiful! The lighting was great even if it was a little chilly…
Meanwhile there would be no Eastern Market for us on this day… Instead Ally had seen one of our clients post a few pics of an old theater downtown that is now a parking garage – the Michigan Building. It’s like a post-apocalyptic scene in there and Ally thought this would be a cool spot – Cami was sold immediately so we went down there, and WOW. Ally’s jaw hit the floor when we walked in – so cool!
Here’s the behind the scenes broadcast from Periscope. You can follow us there at @FrameableFaces at this link or see our broadcasts on Twitter here!
The first shot of its kind for us but certainly not the last…
We were enamored enough with the place that we broadcasted once more on Facebook Live where you’ll see how we improvised with our minivan headlights (shout out to Bonnie for working the lighting from the cockpit lol) as we started to lose some light and the last shot we’ll leave you with came out really cool…
And here is one of the photos from that setup:
Love it!!! Yes Cami was Cami-ra ready and we were ready to make some magic which we did on her pioneering session! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day, and we’ll leave you with the Snapchat story from the day complete with the squad selfie at the end!
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“Shira Soars Over Detroit City” definitely tells the story of this senior session! We’ve actually known Shira for a while because we’ve photographed her siblings and a family portrait that she was in here at the studio a few years back. But Shira’s session took on a whole new approach from the others because we had access to some space and even a roof high above the city of Detroit! So cool! Meanwhile Shira is a sweetheart and she looked so cute for her session!
Shira Soars…
We actually did half of the session downtown in Detroit where her dad met us to get us the access I mentioned, and then we finished up back in the studio, so we’ll highlight a little of both starting with “The D”.
So cool!
We also have some behind the scenes from up top as well from the replay of our Periscope broadcast – you can follow us there at @FrameableFaces at this link, or if you want to just follow on Twitter and watch there you can do that too!
Next we headed up to the roof where we captured this one of Shira – “soaring” above Detroit!
Love it!
At this point it was time to head back to the studio where we got some great shots on the grey paper background with a couple wardrobe changes…
How adorable is she?
We’ll leave you with one more…
And there you have it! A great day in the city and the studio with Shira for sure. We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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The color is so vibrant and with the flowers on Kristen’s shirt it ties in nicely!
Awesome shot to finish with! Yes being in Detroit photographing Jordyn is definitely our jam and you can see why! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
Lauren is looking great – ripped jeans are a cool look in the city too!
