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Our Very Own Spokesmodel – Lacey Lights It Up!

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Lacey lights up the blog with these highlights from her spokesmodel session, and why not?  She’s been lighting up our lives for almost 17 years – heck she was the original inspiration for the existence of what eventually became Frameable Faces when her arrival inspired Ally to pick up a camera!  We’ll try to contain our glee for sharing these photos and keep it somewhat professional, but it could be tough…. lol.

Our Very Own Spokesmodel

It is a bit surreal to say the least to be coming up on Lacey’s senior year and to have her (and even a few of her friends) spokesmodeling for the studio.  She is used to being in front of Ally’s camera as you can imagine but this was different and we approached it like we would any other senior and she delivered with the best of them.  We spent most of the session in Detroit – the city is seeing a massive comeback the likes of which we haven’t seen anything like in our lifetime so we’re spending a little time down there.  We’ll be offering Detroit sessions for an added fee this year to account for the time and travel.  Detroit is in demand and we’ve enjoyed hanging out down there a lot lately – for sessions and just for fun.

Lacey Lights

That’s our baby!  Let’s give a shout out here as well to Mandy at Mandy Rose Salon in West Bloomfield for Lacey’s makeup!

Keep in mind that there are some amazing photo ops in Detroit, but at the end of the day it still comes back to the senior.  The stunning photo above could have been any brick wall – it’s the lighting, the talent of the photographer, and the GIRL that makes the photo…

Now having said that, this next photo isn’t one you could find just anywhere and there are plenty of great spots in the city, more of which we’ll explore with other spokesmodels.

Lacey Lights

Pretty cool huh?

Before we move on to a couple more photos let’s take a look at our behind the scenes footage of our day – first with our fun 6 second looping Vine:

Next we have the replays of our live Periscope broadcasts from the day on our YouTube channel.  If you still haven’t downloaded the Apple store app of 2015 you can do so here, follow us at @frameablefaces and come along on our senior photo shoots for the rest of the class of 2017 along with lots of other shows that we broadcast!

First at the Russel Industrial Center:

Next at Belle Isle:

And lastly at the Dequindre Cut:

Lacey Lights It Up!

At this point as you saw in the broadcasts above we headed over to Belle Isle and explored a little and that’s where we captured this one:

Lacey Lights

Oh hello Lacey!  Hehe…

Lastly we headed over to the Dequindre Cut and this was one of the last shots of the evening with a little off camera flash as the light started to fade…

Lacey Lights

Love it.  And LOVE her.  And there you have it – Lacey lights us up whenever we think of her and she lit it up that day!  We hope you enjoyed these highlights of her session!  We’re pretty proud of the photos and of our girl.

Lily Leads The Way For Our Class of 2017 Spokesmodels!

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Lily leads the way for the spokesmodels of the class of 2017 with these highlights from her session and we are thrilled about it!  It’s that time of year again where we start to introduce the young peeps who will represent our studio for the upcoming class of seniors for the school year of 2016-17!  This is such a fun time for us as we put together our new team, build relationships with new friends, have amazing photo sessions and present these awesome guys and gals to you!

Lily Leads…

Lily will be a senior in the fall at Bloomfield Hills High School and she’s a really talented dancer!  She is also a friend of our daughter Lacey (also a spokesmodel) so we got the “seal of approval” on Lily….  haha!  We definitely fell for her the first time we met her – actually Ally met her before I did at a Starbucks when she was with Lacey and Ally raved about her.  Her mom Amy is a delight as well – she joined us on this session and we had a ton of fun!  We’ll start in the studio with a brand new backdrop that we got from Ambrelee Taylor at Peek A Boutique Design Co.  We actually met Ambrelee on Periscope (more on Periscope in a bit) and this is the Hollis backdrop:

Lily Leads

How adorable is she?  We love kicking off the new class with Lily!  The rest of the photos we’ll share for now are all on location at a graffiti wall and then at Heritage Park in Farmington Hills.  First the graffiti:

Lily Leads

We’ve always been a fan of that look!

Before we head on location we will continue as we did last year with our behind the scenes fun, first on Vine for your 6 second looping pleasure:

Next we have the replays of our live Periscope broadcasts from our day on our YouTube channel.  If you download Periscope you can tune in live at @frameablefaces, join in the fun and get some ideas for your own sessions at this link!

Periscope was the app of the year in the Apple Store for 2015 and it’s owned by twitter – you can join our worldwide audience in our broadcasts and you can comment along and be part of the show!  Here is the broadcast from the studio:

And here is the broadcast from on location:

Lily Leads us to Heritage Park

We had a perfect day for our location – mild as can be!

Lily Leads

And we’ll leave you with one more for now… we love hats and headbands – accessories make for some fantastic photos!

Lily Leads

Gorgeous!  If Lily’s photos are any indication, we are going to have an amazing class of seniors this year!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights from our day with her and we hope you’ll come along for the ride!

Blair’s Beautiful Wintry Blast of a Session!

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Blair’s Beautiful Wintry Blast was…..well…..a blast!!!  We alluded to this before but this winter of 2015-2016 was a tricky one.  I say that because this winter there really was no winter.  We only had a few seniors who were waiting for snow to do their sessions and we literally had just enough days with snow to make it happen.  No extras at all – no room for error or rescheduling.  When we got our precious snow we had to scramble the troops and get outside to shoot!!!  We did luck out with Blair since the day that worked out for us saw plenty of snow on the ground from a snow fall two days earlier.  Not to mention that it was considerably warmer at this point, so the conditions worked out very nicely after all!  Blair deserved it because she is a total sweetheart, and I think her pups enjoyed it too as you’ll see in a bit!

Starting in the studio…

But before we get to the white stuff let’s start in the studio where we spent a little time before heading out on location.  First on the simple white backdrop:

Beautiful Wintry Blast

Love it!

Next we brought out the black backdrop for this one:

Beautiful Wintry Blast

Beautiful girl!!!

Okay now we have a little behind the scenes action from our day for your enjoyment.  First our fun 6 second looping vine:

Next we have the full replays of our live Periscope broadcasts from our YouTube channel for your extended viewing pleasure.  If you still haven’t downloaded Periscope you can do so and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link.  First the indoor scope:

And now the outdoor scope!

Beautiful Wintry Blast, Beautiful Senior

At this point using Blair’s home as a base we headed out into the commons area of the subdivision where she lives (also the one I grew up in) for some wintry photos, and for this first one we had a couple of furry family members join us!  Say hi to Kramer and Jelly!

Beautiful Wintry Blast

Love this photo!!!

Okay one last one of Blair having a little fun in the snow…

Beautiful Wintry Blast

So pretty!  And so there you have it!  Certainly a beautiful wintry blast of a session with a beautiful Blair!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights from our day!

 

 

 

A Frameable Day Starting in Detroit & Ending in Birmingham!

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We had a fun and Frameable day two days ago that started in downtown Detroit and finished up at Social Kitchen and Bar in Birmingham!  It was such a great day that we just had to pop onto the blog and talk about it!

Class of 2017 spokesmodel season in full swing

We headed out with two new spokesmodels from the class of 2017 to get some photos in Detroit and it was an epic day with Aria and Maya along with their moms and Aria’s little sister Sedona, complete with burgers for lunch in Corktown at the Mercury Bar.  We spent some time photographing the girls at The Belt Alley which was our first time doing a session there.  We will have plenty more to come from the session but here’s a little behind the scenes fisheye shot made with my iPhone and an Ollo Clip.

Frameable Day

Frameable Day

After we finished our day we had dinner plans with some friends at Social Kitchen and Bar in Birmingham.  We had been meaning to get there for some time since we had heard nothing but great things about it and the owners are clients of ours with a current class of 2016 senior – Cooper.  Let’s just say all the great things we heard were true.  The food and the drinks were amazing – Ally got the sea bass and I got the short rib French dip sandwich.  I also had a Social Mule to drink which was amazing….  and speaking of drinks, the bartenders were former seniors of ours!!!  Mark and David from the class of 2012!  We hadn’t seen them in a while and David’s name had just come up in conversation recently…  Crazy!

Here are a couple of photos from their sessions which were both done in Birmingham:

First Mark – this was the original fence shot we did…  Hard to believe these two sessions took place over 4 years ago already…

Frameable Day

Next David – a night time shot using off-camera flash with the rain starting to fall…

Frameable Day

And here we are with them the other night!!!

Frameable Day

With former Senior Friends Mark and David at Social in Birmingham!

So much fun!  Great weather, great city, great spokesmodels, great food, and a great little reunion!  A truly FRAMEABLE DAY!!!

Sara Slayed On Her Supreme Snowy Senior Session!

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Sara slayed.  Yes she did.  That’s a good thing for those of you who aren’t down with the lingo.  Think of it as Sara being a warrior – an underdog warrior going up against a big and deadly snow dragon (session), slaying it and emerging victorious with all of her beauty intact!  That’s what happened.  Just like that.  That’s not to say there weren’t a couple moments of chilly adversity and windy cold to conquer – there were.  But all metaphors aside, this girl was a lot of fun to be out in the cold with and we got some fantastic results!

Snowy Scramble…

Snowy sessions can be a bit of a scramble and that can be part of the fun…  You see it’s hard to schedule a snow session in advance since we don’t know when there will be snow.  It’s been especially tough this year since there has basically been no winter after two of the most brutal winters on record in 2014 and 2015.  So when I happened to notice that some snow was in the forecast I called Sara and her mom to see if Sara could be ready in, like… a day!  No problem was the answer!  So we started on location – which is where we’ll start here:

Sara Slayed

Love it.  She is really a beauty (and she barely knows it)!

One more in the snow…

Sara Slayed

Now before we come in from the cold let’s take a look at our fun behind the scenes action from our day.  First with our 6 second vine for your looping enjoyment – you may even notice that Sara was just a tad chilly out there – hehe:

Next we have the Katch.me replays of the indoor and outdoor Periscope live broadcasts we did of the session.  If you still haven’t downloaded the 2015 app of the year you can do so and follow us at @frameablefaces here.  First the outdoor broadcast:

Now the indoor broadcast as we move to the studio:

Sara Slayed…

We love these next two photos from the studio after we warmed up a little…  the first one is just so darn cute:

Sara Slayed

And we’ll leave you with this last one you can just see how Sara owns it with the “black and blowy” setup!

Sara Slayed

And there you have it!  You can see now that Sara slayed indeed on her senior session and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!

Noah Was A Natural In Front Of The Camera!

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Noah came to the studio with his mom and he is the second senior guy in a row that we’ve posted about who had their mom on the session and has a great relationship with her.  Now that’s not to say moms who don’t come have less than great relationships – actually only about half of the moms come to the sessions and that is totally fine!  But this is a case that it’s bears mentioning that Noah and his mom were really sweet together and mom Susan even jumped in for a portrait with her baby!  And yeah okay, so what if that embarrasses Noah just a little – we’re guessing it doesn’t because he’s such a good kid.

Noah was a natural…

So this session took place in the studio and yeah Noah was a natural in front of the camera – easy to work with and comfortable posing for portraits.  We started right out with some fire!  We love setting stuff on fire, in this case a basketball since Noah plays for Roeper High School.  Check it out:

Noah

Fierce!  Ally got some of Noah’s cool intensity with that photo.

Next we had Noah put on the letter jacket which is always a good shot.  School pride baby – with a little bling to boot…

Noah

Cool right?

Okay before we switch up the backgrounds let’s take a look at some of our behind the scenes action from the session.  First with our 6 second looping Vine:

Next let’s take a look at the replay of our Periscope broadcast from our YouTube channel.  If you haven’t downloaded Periscope yet you can do it and follow us at @frameablefaces here.


Okay now let’s switch to the white background for a couple more photos before we wrap it up:

Noah

And now for Noah and his mom Susan!  🙂

Noah

So cute!  Okay that will do it for now with Noah – a total natural indeed!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with him!

Looking For A Winning Senior Session? It’s Naiel By A Mile!

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Naiel is a great kid – another in a long line of them from the class of 2016.  It’s been a great year for our seniors and this session was another winner!  It’s really nice to see a senior guy have such a great relationship with his mom too – Hina joined us on the session and what a pleasure she is!  This was a Saturday morning session which we like to start on location when the lighting is better outside, so we met them at Heritage Park to begin the fun.

Winning…!

Hehe…  yes we won that day – big time!  Awesome time and awesome session.  Naiel is a handsome dude and he did a great job.  Let’s get to a few of the highlights!  First we have a pretty cool relaxed pose against a tree that we really like:

Naiel

I really like that one with Naiel looking off camera…

Next we have a spot we found that we never used before at Heritage Park which going forward will be known as “Naiel’s Spot” since that’s how we roll here at Frameable Faces.

Naiel

Before we head back for the studio photos let’s take a look at our behind the scenes action from our day.  First as we usually do we have our 6 second vine for your looping pleasure:

Next we have the Katch.me replays of our live Periscope broadcasts which were a lot of fun as you’ll see.  If you still have not downloaded Periscope for your mobile device you can do so and follow us at @frameablefaces here.

First the location broadcast:

And now the studio broadcast!

Naiel By A Mile…

Let’s cross the finish line back in the studio on the black backdrop!  First with a more formal shot – the guy has style!

Naiel

And lastly this sitting photo a little closer up…

Naiel

And so it was – a real winner of a session with Naiel!  We hope you enjoyed these highlights of our morning with him!

 

Check Out Seth’s Sensational Senior Session!

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Seth is a sensational senior straightaway.  No doubt about it.  He is actually the third in a series of senior siblings and we have enjoyed them all.  All three were photographed at the same beautiful private location for the outdoor portion of the sessions, and yet each session has it’s own aesthetic – same spot, different seniors and different styles!  We really had a good time with Seth too – love it when senior boys are game to hang out and have a good time, and yes some photos happen along the way!  Great photos!  So let’s get to ’em…

Let’s Dress It Up

We love it when senior guys go a little formal with the suit and tie and that’s what we started with in the studio with Seth.  Take a look:

Sensational Senior

What a stud.

After a few of these photos we headed out to our location but before we get to those photos let’s look at some of our fun behind the scenes action – first with our six second looping vine:

Next we have our two Periscope broadcast replays from our YouTube channel.  If you haven’t downloaded Periscope yet you can do it and follow us at @frameablefaces here.  First here is the studio broadcast:

Next we have the follow up broadcast from the location on a day that was a little windy and chilly…

Sensational Senior Seth

So let’s take it outdoors for a few sensational shots!  First up, Seth chillin’ on the steps…

Sensational Senior

Moving right along to another spot and another outfit by the water:

Sensational Senior

Something about this photo is just really cool.  He’s “gazing off into his future” haha!

Okay one more…

Sensational SeniorAnd there you have it!  A truly sensational senior session with Seth!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!

We Really Like-ah Mycah! Okay Actually We Love Her!

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Yeah, to just say we “really like-ah” Mycah wasn’t enough.  We love her!  We fell in love with this girl the minute she walked into our studio the first time.  She’s just cool, and funny, and beautiful, and smart and – okay we could go on and on, but yeah – she fits in.  Instant connection.  The snowfall we had for this session was a little unexpected and yet it really did work out nicely.  We had a great time and Mycah just slayed (that means she did an amazing job)!

We Really Really Really Like-Ah Mycah…

So we started out on location at a nature preserve that we love and got a few shots there mainly with one outfit and a letter jacket addition which warmed our hearts because it was a dear old brown and gold North Farmington Raider jacket!  Go North!  Let’s take a look at these:

We Love Her

How stunning is she?

Next we have a little Raider Pride going on…..

We Love HerWe’ve been told Mycah is a heck of a track athlete….

At this point it was time to head back to the studio but before we do that let’s take a look at our behind the scenes fun from the day!  First with our 6 second looping Vine:

Next we have the replays of our Periscope broadcasts from our YouTube channel for you.  One outside and one in the studio!  If you haven’t downloaded Periscope yet (the 2015 app of the year) you can do so and follow us at @frameablefaces here.  Okay so first on location…

And now in the studio…

Okay Actually We Love Her…..!

So let’s take a look at a couple of amazing studio photos against the black backdrop.  Mycah looks fantastic in this red dress!

We Love Her

And last but not least we are really happy with the results of this black and white photo in our “black and blowy” set up!

We Love Her

Wow!

And that will do it for now!  You can get a sense for why we love her!  We hope you enjoyed these highlights from our day with Mycah…  Actually, you’ll see here as a little bonus she came back to visit a couple nights later while we were broadcasting at the studio and we made a little vine out of it!  Enjoy and we’ll see you soon!

The Torch Is Passed To Jake – Another Cohen Raider!

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This is pretty cool.  Me and my brothers are at the ages where we have kids all coming up through high school and moving on to college, and last year we photographed our nephew Jared for his senior portraits.  This year we have another nephew – Jake, and Jake is the only one to carry on our tradition of Cohen boys playing football for the North Farmington Raiders.  Jake even wore his dad’s number 45 jersey which was a little surreal to see on Holland Field since I can remember watching my older brother Jeff wear that number on the same field when I was a kid.  So here we go with another Cohen Raider!

The Torch Is Passed…

With Jake we kept it indoors and relatively straightforward in the studio on the black background, and we’ll start there with a photo in just a nice casual outfit…

Another Cohen Raider

Before we proceed with some of our beloved Brown and Gold (and black and white) Raider photos, let’s take a look at some of the behind the scenes action.  First with our 6 second looping vine:

Next we have the replay of our Periscope broadcast with a minor disclaimer… for whatever reason my download of the actual broadcast from the app didn’t save, BUT we still have the raw video right here embedded in this post from our YouTube channel, OR you can watch the broadcast with the comments intact from our Katch.me page at this link.

Another Cohen Raider!

Okay now let’s get to some BROWN and GOLD!!!  Jake brought his jersey and his letter jacket for several shots and we love these…

Another Cohen Raider

This next one came out really nicely in black and white… fierce!

Another Cohen Raider

And here’s the final one we’ll share with you for now in the letter jacket…

Another Cohen Raider

Cool huh?  And there it is – another Cohen Raider gets it done.  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our photo session with Jake!