As we mentioned in our last post we spent plenty of time on campus this spring – in East Lansing and Ann Arbor and now it’s time to highlight the Wolverines we photographed from the Class of 2023!!! These sessions are a blast – whether it’s in the Big House or popping champagne at the law quad we are always happy to be a part of these great moments for these college grads. GO BLUE and let’s get to it!
Go BLUE and Go Wolverine Grads!
We’ve got several groups to share some highlights of – we’ll start with this crew at the law quad!
And we have some fun behind the scenes too from Facebook!
Here’s one of Mikaela solo whom we’ve known forever….
Last but not least come the dudes at the Big House!!! This was a blast – even with a major rain delay which “forced” us into the locker room for a few pics, and a shout out to our uber talented photographer friend Susan Adams for the collab on this one – we’ve worked with her a bunch of times and she’s awesome.
Go Blue guys!
Here’s some behind the scenes from the Big House:
Here’s a group shot from the locker room:
When the weather cleared up we finished up on the field…
Here’s the TikTok highlights including this TEAM taking the field from the tunnel!
We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our sessions in A2 with these Wolverines! Looking forward to doing it again next year! GO BLUE!
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Sasha shines in this spokesmodel session which is Part 2 of the highlights from the day we spent with her and her twin sister Sydney! The twins are rising seniors in the class of 2023 at Novi High School and their mom Danielle joined us for some awesome pictures at the studio and in Birmingham! It’s not uncommon for our seniors to do a combo of in-studio portraits and on location! Let’s get to some highlights!
Twin Senior Spokesmodels – Sasha Shines!
We’ll start in the studio on the purple background…
Gorgeous!
Here’s another with an olive and gold background that we really like…
Yassssss!
At this point we headed out on location to Birmingham…
That sparkling water in the background! Love this pic and Sasha was having fun!
We also have some fun behind the scenes from Instagram of the girls together:
Love that! We also want to give a shout out to Haley Cassar on makeup!
And we’ll leave you with one more of Sasha:
Stunning!
Sasha shines indeed in these photos and we can’t wait to get her and Sydney back in front of Ally’s camera for their senior pictures! We’re starting to see some entries on the calendar for the upcoming class of 2023 which has us pretty excited for this season! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with the girls!
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Sara is a star indeed – very comfortable in front of the camera and we’re big fans! She just oozes charisma, and she’s nice, smart – all the things! Okay we’re gushing but it is what it is, and she’s a North Farmington Raider to boot just like us! We went to Detroit with Sara for some spokesmodel pics as she is representing our studio for the class of 2023 and the results are epic. Let’s get to the highlights!
Sara is a star
Our first stop….well, we may keep where the first stop was to ourselves hehe….
WOW right? A beautiful flower among the beautiful flowers!
Next we have a couple from Belle Isle – love this one…
…and this one
A unique photo and one we will be replicating – we just love the way this one turned out…
We have some fun behind the scenes from around Detroit as well like this stream from Facebook:
And another from Instagram which yielded a real winner…
We loved this session and we can’t wait to get Sara in front of Ally’s camera again! We’re so excited for senior season and the class of 2023 sessions are just about here!
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Merrick makes it happen – in general. He’s an accomplished kid – a solid student athlete at the Frankel Jewish Academy and this is not the first time he has been in front of Ally’s camera… he and lil’ sis Sydney were here for portraits when they were little – our families go back a very long way to when I was little myself! But we’re here to talk about the class of 2023 and senior pictures and Merrick is representing our studio, so let’s get to a few highlights!
Merrick Makes It Happen
We started on location on a beautiful sunny morning – our seniors have the option of photographing in the studio AND on location, and if we start in the morning it’s always on location first. If there is sun we want it lower in the sky.
Looking good Merrick!
Oh, and Jax the pup got into the act. Lots of seniors like to bring a pet!
Of course we have some fun behind the scenes first from Instagram:
At this point we headed back to the studio where the dude was on FIRE!!!! Here’s the behind the scenes from Facebook:
And the result!
AWESOME!!!
Yes senior season is just about here – we’re looking forward to getting Merrick in front of Ally’s camera again for his senior pics and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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We became instant fans of Rose – it didn’t take long. Actually we’re fans of Rose and her mom Sharyn whom we recently did a headshot for and we were with Rose at the BBYO Building Entrepreneurship event recently so we’ve become fast friends! Rose is a character in the best way – she’s funny – and she’s smart, adorable, dynamic – all the things! We’re thrilled to have her representing our studio for the rising high school class of 2023 at Walled Lake Northern!
Coming Up Roses
We spent a gorgeous day in Birmingham for her spokesmodel session which has always been a popular spot for our seniors, so let’s get to a few highlights shall we?
Yes! This was a new spot and angle for Ally and Rose nailed it. We also need to give a shout out to our neighbors in the mall The Beauty Lounge for Rose’s hair and makeup!
Next we changed spots and outfits (our seniors typically change outfits several times for senior sessions) and we fired up the Facebook Live for a little behind the scenes fun!
And here’s the result!
Gorgeous girl!
Another outfit change and….wow.
This was the one that got Sharyn… a really sweet moment when mom got emotional over her baby looking so beautiful. I grabbed a pic with the iPhone…
Gets us in the feels…
Okay back to some more behind the scenes fun this time from Instagram:
Rose was posing for this next pic when THE most adorable little photobomber decided to join us – we asked and her mom said yes, so here you go!
Everything was coming up Roses indeed – Rose was making friends! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her as we look forward to the fast approaching senior season – we can’t wait to get her in front of Ally’s camera again!
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Violet came to the studio with their mom Polly and we didn’t know what we were in for – Violet had very strong ideas about what they envisioned for their senior pictures – a goth approach to the makeup and a very specific look. So when Violet showed up the day of the session we were stunned at how cool their look actually was, and much credit goes to Yasmine at Mandy Rose for the makeup – as a matter of fact she posted a little video of Violet’s face before they left to come to the studio…
And there you have it – Violet brings the style, we bring the highlights! We hope you enjoyed them!
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We’ve known Carly for a long time now dating back to her senior pictures about a decade ago and we LOVE her. She’s Ally’s birthday twin and we’ve had a great friendship for years now. She was last here in the studio with her now-fiancé Chet right before the pandemic started with all of their pets, and we liked Chet from our first time meeting him, so when he called Ally to say he wanted us to be there to photograph him popping the question to Carly we were thrilled!
Planning…
We met Chet on location a week in advance in Clarkston to scope out the scene so we could be prepared and in the right spot – Carly had no clue. We had it all planned out right down to the fake goodbye after the question and the photos when we actually headed straight to their house to get photos of family who flew in and surprised Carly again! We were pretty pumped.
Carly & Chet Get Engaged
As for the engagement it happened on an EXTREMELY cold day and I was nervous Chet wasn’t going to get Carly to go for a walk – like why would you just “go for a walk” when it’s like 0 degrees? Well he pulled it off and we were waiting in a nearby gazebo when they approached. Chet took a knee at the end of the bridge right by us. We watched the whole thing as Carly freaked out and then her surprise when she discovered it was us taking pics! Just such an awesome moment. Let’s get to the pics!
First – THE moment…
So amazing!
Think they’re happy?
Here’s some awesome behind the scenes while Carly was still on cloud nine from Facebook…
We took a few more engagement pics of the happy couple – here’s three of them – first on the gazebo:
Back on the bridge:
And we’ll leave you with this one in black and white on a nearby bench…
LOVE it.
We wish them a life of happiness and we were so glad to be a part of that day! We hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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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…
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…
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!
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…
Now we’ll head outside for one more photo which could be our fave of the day with Tori in a cute winter hat…
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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We get excited when Shaista brings back the whole crew! We started photographing her kids shortly after we opened our studio space here in the Orchard Mall and they are just an awesome family – great kids and much fun to have around. The wrinkle this time was that Shaista brought her husband Shabbir to get the whole family in the photos! There’s a little story here – we’ve known Shaista and the kids for years but we never met Shabbir before so the running joke was that he wasn’t real – that we didn’t believe he existed. Haha! Well we can now say he does indeed exist and he’s as delightful as we would have expected. I joked with him that we thought he was a phantom and he replied “Hey I was out working hard for these guys!” Now that’s a good guy. So without further adieu let’s take a look at some sneak peeks of this fabulous session!
Shaista Brings Back The Whole Crew…
Let’s start with the whole fam in a portrait with traditional dress which is always a joy – such vibrant colors against the brown earth tones… love this:
What an awesome group!
We also have some video replays from the live broadcasts we did during the session for a little behind the scenes fun – first on YouTube Live which we just started doing some of – you can subscribe to our channel here!
Next let’s focus in on a photo of just the happy couple!
They look fantastic!
We also have a little more behind the scenes fun this time from the Facebook Live broadcast we did:
They’re Growing UP!!!
Now let’s focus on the kids! We have a couple of photos of the 4 of them being, well…..the 4 of them! Haha!
First in the traditional clothing…
And next in some casual gear…. love it!
So fun!!! You can tell they were having a blast – being kids but still really well behaved – love them!
And there you have it – when Shaista brings back the whole crew we have a ton of fun. We hope you enjoyed the sneak peeks from their session!
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It is time to share a spectacular senior session where Emily embraces her inner (and outer) awesome! The younger sister of one of our former seniors Alayna, we were excited to get the call that she was coming to the studio! Emily recently returned from Oregon for her senior year and her mom Krista, Alayna, and her BFF all came along – we’ll call them “Emily’s Entourage” haha! Meanwhile what a great girl – and that’s why I chose “inner awesome” just because we really like these girls – just nice sweet people! Our conditions for a location session in Birmingham were exceptional and the session followed suit! So let’s get to the photos!
Emily Embraces Her Inner Awesome…
It’s the inner awesome that allows the true beauty to come out and be captured by Ally’s camera and you will see plenty of that starting with this first photo of Emily by Quarton Lake!
Great coordinated wardrobe too – those boots!
Next let’s take a look at some of the behind the scenes fun from the shoot! First we have our 6 second looping Vine where you’ll see us grabbing the yearbook headshot before heading outside…
Next we have the replays of the live Periscope broadcasts from the day! If you haven’t downloaded Periscope yet you can do so here and be a part of our broadcasts or you can watch them on twitter here. Either way you can find us at @FrameableFaces!
Okay now let’s get back to a few more of what we’re here for – the photos!
Love the close up! Now for one in the water – these are always fun!
We’ll leave you with this next one which is uniquely Emily’s – we had another double tree like this one that we had used several times at this park, but this one works even better than the other one! The blue top really makes Emily’s eyes pop here too!
And there you have it! Emily embraced her inner awesome that day indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights from our day!
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So amazing!
