It’s a blessing to have both of your grandmas and Noah brought them both to the studio for his 3 year old portraits! Noah is a ball of energy and we had a lot of fun! Noah’s mom Jen was here and she’s been here a bunch since one of her older daughters Emily has represented our studio this year for the high school senior class of 2018 – so we love these peeps!
Noah and the grandmas
So let’s get to a few of the highlights! First with the grandmas!!!
So CUTE!
Awesome.
We also have some super fun behind the scenes action from Facebook Live – we got cut off in the middle but it’s still pretty great.
Now how about a couple of the big man himself…
Love this in black and white.
Oh – and almost forgot – like the title says, Noah decided that this photo session needed MORE COWBELL!!! Don’t all sessions need a little cowbell? Hehe…
Yes!!! A fun and special session indeed! We hope you enjoyed our time with Noah and his grandmas!
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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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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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You may remember Alena from the beginning of the year in her spokesmodel session when she began to represent those North Farmington Raiders for our studio? Well we upped the ante attaining Autumn Awesomeness for her senior session! You remember back when it was Autumn right? As of this zero-degree writing it seems so loooooong ago…. but I digress. Let’s reminisce and revisit our day with Alena!
Alena Attains Autumn Awesomeness…
Alena’s mom Mindy is also a North Farmington Raider alum just like us and we’ve known her for many years so we love being with them and this day was no exception. Since Alena’s spokesmodel session was all indoors during the winter we spent most of our energy this time on location in Birmingham and that’s where we’ll pick up the action.
Yes! Could her hair be any more perfect for a fall shoot? We also need to give a shout out to Mandy Rose Studio for the always fantastic job on Alena’s hair and makeup (Michelle on hair and Mandy on makeup)! Actually let’s even kick it up another notch with this one:
Wow. So pretty! And let’s take a look at some of our fun behind the scenes action from the shoot, first with the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
Okay now let’s get to the fun urban stuff – industrial walls, streets and the like! We headed over to another location for these and did another wardrobe change.
Love it! This has been one of our favorite walls for a long time and guess what – we’re not telling where it is!!! Haha – we don’t own the wall so if you figure it out we won’t be mad lol…
Meanwhile we have some more behind the scenes fun with our YouTube Live replay – check it out and please hit the “subscribe” button to our channel while you’re there!
We will leave you with this last photo for now of Alena stopping traffic! Haha!
Wow right? Alena slayed on this session and we attained Autumn Awesomeness indeed!!! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Lexi had a lively fall senior session indeed – there was lots of fun and laughter because she’s just so funny! She’s gorgeous, smart, nice and all that but she definitely made us laugh a lot. You’ll see how much fun she is in the behind the scenes videos below. Meanwhile she’s a legacy here since we photographed her older sister Helene several years back (before we were writing blog posts for each senior) and we were happy to have her parents Robyn & David back to the studio!
Lexi’s Lively Fall Senior Session!
Like her sister, Lexi waited until we had the pretty Pure Michigan fall colors and since we scheduled a morning session we went out on location to do those first – we’ll pick up the action there:
How amazing is that shot….? She looks awesome surrounded by all the Pure Michigan fall leaves!
We also love this close up with the brick:
At this point we went over to nearby woods behind the West Bloomfield library and here is the replay of the Facebook Live broadcast behind the scenes – it would actually be great to have Lexi back to the studio to co-host some other livestreams – she’s hilarious!
….and here is the result:
Fantastic!
At this point we headed back to the studio for some photos where we went live again this time for some fun on YouTube:
…and one more from that red paper backdrop:
Gorgeous!
And there you have it! A lively fall senior session with Lexi indeed – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Noah is a bad dude – for multiple reasons. 1) He has a great relationship with his mom Michelle who came with us on his senior session. We think that’s bad ass. 2) He’s a North Farmington Raider – always a sure sign. 3) He’s a mixed martial artist! Anyone who doesn’t mind getting punched in the face and is willing to battle in the ring has to be tough, and that’s ultimately what made his session a total knockout! You’ll see what we mean in a bit…
A Total Knockout Session
Noah’s session was in the morning so we started on location so we could get the sun low in the sky and that’s where we’ll start with this cool shot in a nice natural setting:
Kinda nice that you can even see a few highlights of fall colors starting to show…
We also have some fun behind the scenes action for you first from the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
And here’s one more shot from outside:
Good lookin’ dude!
At this point we headed back to the studio for the rough stuff….hehe
Whoa – I would NOT mess with this guy…
Here’s some more behind the scenes from the studio this time from the replay of the YouTube Live broadcast!
And one more classic full length shot again in black and white:
So cool. Yep – the session was a total knockout indeed and now you can see why! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Noah!
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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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It’s a joy to see a family in the process of growing right before your eyes when they are expecting and this fabulous family of three is about to become FOUR! So we met them in a park to get some awesome location portraits of this version of the crew and we had a blast.
Fabulous Family of Three
Corey and Alexis have actually been to the studio before as part of a larger group family portrait session, but this time we got to hang with just them and their cool little man Avery and the results are pretty great. Let’s start with the family portrait of the three of them:
Love that fun look on Avery’s face!
We also have some fun behind the scenes from the morning from the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
So fun!
Let’s get to a few more shots – let’s take a look at Avery just being Avery!
And how about a father / son shot in black and white!
Precious.
And now just the happy couple together…
Awesome. We enjoyed our time with this fabulous family and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our morning!
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Yes there is plenty of evidence of Emily being exceptional – not just on her senior session in case the title is misleading, because we’ve known this for a while. Really since the first time we met her and throughout her time representing the studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2018! Plus she’s a North Farmington Raider which always helps, but she’s no ordinary Raider, she’s an accomplished musician and student athlete! She’s a total character as well so really she’s the whole package and we are huge fans!
Emily Being Exceptional
With Emily we traveled to Ann Arbor and spent the morning photographing on and around the U of M campus which obviously has lots of great spots, and her mom Jen joined – we always have a great time together with them! We’ll start with this one:
Stunningly beautiful!
Now there’s a little story with that one… we had a bit of an emergency situation with a big fat bumblebee who was hanging around in the flowers that decided to hitch a ride in Emily’s beautiful long hair and come along in the car…. let’s just say Emily was a little startled when she discovered Mr. Bumblebee. Holy moly…. haha! But Emily’s a trooper and she survived! Lol…
Meanwhile we do have some behind the scenes from our day – not of the bee but of the bee-yoo-tee. See what I did there? First with the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
Here are a couple more where we explored and took advantage of textures and architecture on campus:
Framed nicely with the full length shot!
Here’s some more behind the scenes fun from the YouTube Live replay:
And now with the close up…
Emily being exceptional indeed!
At this point after a delicious vegan lunch at The Lunch Room where our Lacey met up with us as well we headed back to the studio in West Bloomfield to get a couple more photos including some focus on volleyball – and this next photo is LIT…. We usually play with fire on the black backdrop but this one on the grey is just awesome…
A great one to finish on! So as you can see there was plenty of evidence of Emily being exceptional and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Love it!
The color is so vibrant and with the flowers on Kristen’s shirt it ties in nicely!
