YES it’s time for the Class of 2021 Spokesmodel Panorama…..RAMA!!! This is our fourth annual post like this, and while these are NOT professional photos, they are a fun behind the scenes way of representing what we’ve been up to with our new crew in panoramic style! I took these (Doug – not Ally) with my iPhone XR and we love to stack ’em up and give them their own blog post! This year has clearly been a strange one to say the least, and we have a smaller but still amazing crew representing the rising class of 2021! The first couple we did before the lockdown and the next four we’ve completed since we reopened. And what a great crew we have this year….
The Class Of 2021 Spokesmodel Panoramarama!
Here we go – in chronological order!
Adrianna
Ellie
Leah
Maddie
Lira
Giulianna
And there it is!!! The class of 2021 is HERE and we are so excited! We hope you enjoyed the 2021 spokesmodel panorama …..RAMA!!!
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This is the second year in a row we’ve had a spokesmodel named Maddie and we may have to just start recruiting Maddies as a strategy. They seem to be pretty awesome as a category. This Maddie is no exception – outgoing with a ton of personality and just a sweetheart! We’ve photographed her cousins in the past so there is some connection there, her mom Stephanie is a delight, and we’re thrilled to have her representing the Farmington Hills Mercy Marlins for the class of 2021!
Mad About Maddie
We actually started out at Maddie’s house and we had a lovely day for pictures!
Gorgeous right? Love the lake photos…
Here’s another one from the home front:
Okay she’s adorable. Maddie is into theater so she definitely has that presence!
At this point it was time to head outside and hit one of our favorite locations by Orchard Lake, and we have some fun behind the scenes first from Facebook Live:
Back to a couple more pics – how about this close up at Orchard Lake?
Love that one! And we have a little more behind the scenes too this time from Instagram TV!
Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
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We love our Angela. She’s been with us as our event photographer for close to a decade at this point so many of you know her and she and hubby Cam just had another baby! We are so thrilled for them, and even though we were not able to photograph their newborn session for little Autumn this time, we did get a maternity session (the last one was epic too) in in the first week of March at the studio and we have some of the wonderful highlights to show you here!
Our Angela and Cam are growing the family
Angela and Cam also brought little but now big sis Aubrey to the session and she is getting to be such a big girl and so beautiful! Let’s give her the spotlight first!
Love that little touch of sass!
And one more this time with mommy’s tummy!
We also have some fun behind the scenes from Facebook – check it out:
And now let’s get the whole fam…
LOVE.
And we’ll leave you with one of stunning Angela by herself!
That’s our “Nikon Girl!” and we love her!!! She’s so beautiful inside and out.
And there you have it – the growing family, and we can’t wait to actually meet Autumn! Stay safe everyone!!!
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We have had a little run on newborns this year already, and we are looking forward to seeing them again safely for their 6 month sessions! We fell in love with Kim the first time we met her at the studio and her hubby Adam whom we met when Kim returned with him and new addition Alexandra is a great guy too! We really enjoyed having them at the studio for these wonderful newborn portraits! We hope the highlights of the day Alexandra made her debut bring a smile to your face like they do ours!
Alexandra Made Her Debut
First we just captured a few of this angel asleep…
So precious!!!
Here’s some behind the scenes for you from Facebook Live!
And then the big teddy bear came out that they brought with…
How great is that photo???
Now for a closeup…
And we’ll leave you with one family portrait of the three of them!
And there you have it! It was a wonderful day the day Alexandra made her debut, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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One of our favorite all time Frameable Families has grown and they returned this year to let us help them capture the next chapter in their family story! We love Parmesh, Nalini and Neil and this post includes highlights of both their maternity session and the newborn photos of Niko!!!
Nalini wasn’t all too comfortable when she was here for the maternity session but you wouldn’t know it by the results and she was a total trooper! Let’s take a look at a few of those first:
Preparing For Niko
Niko hadn’t arrived when the family three came to the studio for these maternity photos and Neil was excited with the anticipation of getting a brand new little brother!
Love them!
We also have some fun behind the scenes from Facebook Live:
And here’s a few more:
Beautiful mama!
Told you Neil was excited! Hehe…
And one more in traditional dress:
Love the vibrant colors!
Niko Arrives On The Scene!
Flash forward to Niko’s arrival!!! Okay how cute is this little guy???
More behind the scenes fun here…
Such a great time with them! Here’s a few more of Niko…
Love the naked baby pics!
Last one…
Sleep little Niko…
And there you have it – the return of one of our favorite Frameable Families, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of these two sessions!
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Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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We had a wonderful time – extreme enjoyment you might say a few weeks ago with Ellie for her spokesmodel session for the class of 2021! We are pleased to share these highlights during times of stress as we continue to prepare for the upcoming senior class, and Ellie is representing our studio for North Farmington High School – our alma mater!
Meanwhile we go way back with Ellie’s family – Doug went to Michigan with Ellie’s mom Kari and she joined us for the session which we did mostly in the studio, but we did manage to get outside for a bit even though it was just slightly chilly… hehe. So let’s get to some highlights!
Extreme Enjoyment With Ellie
You’ll see for yourself how delightful Ellie is in the behind the scenes stuff, and we’ll get to the photo highlights in a bit, but first we have an added element to this session that we are playing with to start offering this summer…
Susan Adams is a fantastic local photographer whom we have admired for a few years now. She specializes in sports and she has captured some great images of our son Tony as the photographer for Bloomfield Hills Schools. We are looking to bring Susan and her talents on board for yes – sports (more on that in the future), but also for an idea we had for professional behind-the-scenes storytelling through photos of the day with our seniors! As you know Doug documents plenty of behind the scenes fun during our sessions with livestreaming and more on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok with his iPhone. But senior photos are really an event for our peeps and this could be a great option for those who want to include it in their experience. With Ellie, Susan met up with her while she was having her makeup done by Class of 2011 Frameable Faces Senior Gabby Zilberberg! We love when things like this happen! She also came over to the studio to grab a few photos as well, so we’ll start with Susan’s pics:
Getting started…
Great stuff right?
Now let’s get to the sneak peeks from the session!
We started off with a little pink on pink. Love this sweater on this background – just adorable!
And here is some fun behind the scenes from Facebook – should bring you a smile or two!
From there we moved to a wooden backdrop that we love:
At this point it was time to get a few pics outdoors. And actually it was toasty warm! Okay maybe not, but we told Ellie to pretend it was… hehe…
Here’s some behind the scenes from outside that we streamed on Instagram:
And we’ll leave you with this one photo from on location. So pretty!!!
And there you have it! Extreme enjoyment with Ellie indeed! We are looking forward to bringing you more photos of these awesome young peeps and we look towards the summer for senior pictures!
Meanwhile, looking for some fun? A diversion? Check out our podcast – all the links are below and we actually talked about Ellie’s session a bit on episode 8!
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Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Brian and Maeghan have such a great Frameable family in every respect! Their son goes to our awesome next door neighbor Tru Martial Arts, so they’ve walked by our studio a bunch of times. They said it had been way too long since they had professional family portraits so they came in and even brought their pup Denny!
Brian & Maeghan’s Frameable Family
So let’s get to some highlights! We’ll start with the perfect family portrait – smiles all the way around – even Denny!
Love it – and here’s some fun behind the scenes with the crew from Facebook!
Now the sweetest sibling pic….
Love the black and white of these two…
And now the kids get their own moments – ladies first! Ava is so adorable! Loving those glasses!
And we’ll leave you with this one of Nick – Ally loves when guys wear pink!
We thoroughly enjoyed this crew – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with them!
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Love was in the air and dogs were in the studio!!! Okay a few cats too… and what a day! We partnered up with our neighbors Premier Pet Supply down the hall who provided awesome goody bags and we donated a portion of the proceeds to iHeart Dogs Rescue and Animal Haven and Detroit Dog Rescue for pet portraits on the red couch and a couple of heart balloons for a very furry and fun Valentine’s Day!
Frameable Faces Goes To The Dogs…
So without further adieu, let’s take a look at the fur babies!
Rayne and Bastian!
Teddy!
Beau & Bentley!
Blue!
Matilda is back!
Lukey and Morgan!
Oliver!
L-R – Dozer, Forrest, Shiloh, Queso, and Nali (and Chet & Carly)!!!
Zee Roy!!!
Gracie!
How awesome right? And here’s a little TikTok of highlights from the day…
We’re looking at a repeat for St. Patrick’s Day so stay tuned for announcements if you want to bring in your furry family member! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day, and check out all of our links below to our Podcast and other places to find us on the Web!
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Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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To be clear – the goal is not to score a hat trick ON Sam because he’s a goalie, but to use a hockey phrase that’s what Sam IS. Smart, personable and athletic – we love this kid. And why wouldn’t we? We’ve known his parents for a longggggg time. Ally and I were at North Farmington with both of them and Sam’s mom Missy and I go all the way back to kindergarten. Sam’s dad Mike was like an older brother to me when we were teammates in 1985 when I was a sophomore on the varsity and Mike was a senior. Missy and Mike did a great job with this young man and we had a great time with his senior pictures which we actually broke up into two different days. So let’s get to the highlights!
Senior Hat Trick
Our first day was just a studio day and we went with the FIRE!!!
We have some fun behind the scenes from that pic from Facebook – take a look!
One week and a hairstyle later we headed to Birmingham for round 2…
It was a little chilly but that’s all mental anyway I always say (the seniors don’t always buy it hehe…).
For whatever reason our Instagram Live didn’t save, but we do have a little TikTok from Birmingham which we think is kind of cool!
Here’s a couple more to finish with:
Pretty cool fire escape shot – not a fire escape we usually use….
We’ll leave you with this one of our guy chillin’
And there you have it! A senior hat trick with this guy indeed – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with him!
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We were sitting and talking with one of our high school seniors and her mom yesterday and it was a conversation I really enjoyed – one that got me thinking about our seniors and why their sessions are so special.
We have had parents thank us before for “making it such a great experience” for their senior and “really capturing them” or “making them feel so special”. Yes – we are really good at what we do. Ally is an awesome photographer and she connects with people really well.
But here’s the thing, and I said this yesterday in what was a similar conversation to many we’ve had with comments like the ones above:
Often the case is that we made someone’s daughter or son feel good NOT just because we said lots of things, complimented them and focused on them, but because the senior kicked butt. At the end of the day the senior gets credit too. It’s the senior who has to prep, dress, smile, pose – for hours! It’s the senior who projects the confidence and the personality.
Sure Our Approach is Key…
Take the girl who was here yesterday with her mom to place their order. Did we have something to do with her having such an amazing session? Well sure we did. We meet with each senior ahead of time to get to know them. We want to get a sense of what their style is, their personality – and we empower them to be involved in planning their session. We know what questions to ask, we know tons of great locations, we have a great studio with perfect lighting, fantastic backdrops and really cool vintage furniture. We’ve been at this a long time and it’s our livelihood, but we want them to know this is about them. So yes this approach breaks down barriers and paves the way for a better session. It’s really important, and once we’ve done it the senior can own their part.
…But it’s a Team Effort & The Seniors Make It Special
It’s truly a collaboration. No different than a coach and an athlete, a conductor and a classical musician. The girl who was here yesterday really rose to the occasion. SHE was what made it special. She looked great! You could see the fun she was having and the confidence on her face in the photos. Ally laughs at how I always say the senior is “killing it” or “slaying the game” haha… But that’s not B.S. – it’s true! And with yesterday’s senior everyone brought their A game, everyone feels like we really accomplished something great together, and now we’re friends. We can’t imagine the tedium of doing it any other way for something that can and should be so special and our clients come here because that’s what they want.
So yes, we love what we do and we’re good at it, but it’s the team – us, the parents and the SENIORS that make senior pictures at Frameable Faces so special!
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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