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:
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.
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:
Behind the scenes of another great senior session! Naiel was GREAT to work with! https://t.co/TvyZR4NKep
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!
And lastly this sitting photo a little closer up…
And so it was – a real winner of a session with Naiel! We hope you enjoyed these highlights of our morning with him!
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:
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…
Moving right along to another spot and another outfit by the water:
Something about this photo is just really cool. He’s “gazing off into his future” haha!
Okay one more…
And there you have it! A truly sensational senior session with Seth! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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:
How stunning is she?
Next we have a little Raider Pride going on…..
We’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!
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!
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!
Little Man Anthony was here and he certainly left an impression – he was so easy to work with! Sometimes 2 years old can be a challenging age to photograph – in theory… I do have to say though that while some do better than others Ally is usually pretty darn good getting them to cooperate. She has the magic touch. Having said that, with Anthony the magic touch wasn’t even really needed. He was really good. He came to the studio with his mommy and his Uncles and they were a big help too.
Little Man Anthony
We should also mention what a sweetheart his mom Anita is and she is expecting so Anthony is going to be a big brother soon! So exciting!
So this session was all in the studio but we did use a couple different backdrops and clothing changes. Let’s start with a close up of our guy:
Okay – how awesome is he? And the jacket? So cool…
Next let’s go with some flannel – he looks like a little lumberjack!
Looks like he’s planning something there doesn’t it? Like his wheels are turning… lol!
Meanwhile we broadcasted part of the session on Periscope which was a blast! If you haven’t downloaded the app yet you can do so and follow us at @frameablefaces here. Here is the replay of the broadcast from our Katch.me page with the real time comments intact! Check it out!
So fun!
Okay let’s get back to a couple more photos. Love this next shot where you can see that Anthony was getting into it and having some fun!
What a stud.
And now the coup de grace – the custom Sons Of Anarchy leather outfit made by his dad against the white backdrop!
And there you have it! Little man Anthony was a rockstar indeed – wouldn’t you agree? We hope you enjoyed these highlights from our morning with him!
Summit Live as I discussed in part 1 the other day was a truly special and amazing experience, and so much so that there was no way I could tell the whole story in one blog post. So let’s continue on with the rest of the event shall we? We only got through the first day in the last post but we’ll try to wrap up the rest here.
A-Paneling We Go…
On day two Ally had the honor of moderating the photography panel which included @TerryLWhite (The Adobe Master), @EricNeitzel (The Journalistic Photo Genius), Aaron Roth from @Arkon_Mounts (The Equipment Guru), and @jennamtphoto (The Underwater Portrait Innovator). Here is the replay of the broadcast from our YouTube channel! Note: These broadcasts were originally embedded from Katch.me which no longer exists. The replays we had to replace them with do not contain the comments and unfortunately the first one below was corrupted during the upload from Katch…
It’s a bummer we don’t have this one available because Ally did a pretty darn good job!
Afterwards we fired up another broadcast with a bunch of Peri-friends in the lobby / vendor area and we’ll list a few of them for you and where they appear:
@Skorstar (Caroline Lesley) and her husband @JonErlichman appear right at the beginning. We’ve known them on Periscope for a while now and they are fantastic. Caroline is the creator of the @PeriscopePuppet and it’s the most hilarious thing – her mouth does this weird thing when she talks as the puppet which you never see during puppet broadcasts… Jon has been doing tech trivia for a long time which is always a blast and the two of them along with Seth Cohen are the co-creators of the first Periscope network @ParachuteTV1 which we have been on before and as of this writing we will be returning on Tuesday 1/26/16 with a show called “The Photo Shop” which we are excited about!
@mojojojonez appears around the 1:58 mark – Amanda is a sweetie and we just met her on Periscope not more than a month or two ago.
@KyleKittleson shows up right after at about the 2:05 mark and at that point I got roped into what I’m pretty sure was my first chorus line ever…. Ally became a pretty big Kyle fan over the weekend to the point where I had to tell him I was sick of hearing about him… hehe
@eguerra019 shows up at the 4 minute mark – Ed, or “E”, is an entrepreneur from Mexico and he has told us he may be making a trip to our neck of the woods here in Detroit on business soon!
At the 6 minute mark Ally reveals that she dropped her iPhone in the toilet and she shows off her 7-11 temporary special $12 phone… ugh.
At the 7:30 mark we got “King Cake mobbed” in our scope – I guess a king cake is a cake from New Orleans – hadn’t heard of that but we totally respect the mob game just for the record.
@WickFury makes an appearance at 8:30 – what a good guy and a talented guy too. The first scope we saw of his I think was an awesome stencil art scope he did several months back. Seems he was providing the security for the event!
@Ryan_A_Bell appears to make a few more funny faces at about 10:15 – he’s really good at that. Hehe…
After the day’s events we headed over to a local bar called John Colins for a little get together with the team from Periscope where we met Kayvon Beykpour the co-founder and CEO – what a nice and humble guy. Here’s a photo of us along with Jason Cooper (Sock Cop himself next to me) and his wife Amanda. The girl to Kayvon’s right I think is another member of the Periscope team but alas I’m not 100% sure…. I’ll update this if someone can let me know!
Summit Live Gets Live At Night
Later that night @TheRealJuanJohn had a table set up where he was doing drawings and he did a graffiti version of our “FF” Frameable Faces avatar which I scoped – check it out in this 5 minute replay. Pretty cool!
Day 3 of Summit Live
We woke up to a happy text from @CathyHackl asking if we wanted to grab breakfast. The third day was the day of our small business panel which we were really excited about, and one of our good Peri-friends the stunningly beautiful @BeBonita Viviane Aires came up to our room to do Ally’s makeup for the day! So Cathy and I walked over to The Grove around the corner to grab a bite and I brought breakfast back to the room for Ally.
Doug and Cathy at The Grove!
When we got back Viviane and Ally had already started. Viviane is a makeup artist and beauty scoper based in Philadelphia. She’s awesome and I scoped a bit of her doing Ally’s makeup:
At this point we were ready to rock our panel! We were really pleased that we had a packed room and “Chocolate Johnny” Kapos was the moderator – he did a superb job and there was a lot of talent and knowledge at that table as we were joined by Victoria Taylor (@VictoriaTaylUK – her social media company is called Blend Social), Jana Francis (@Jana_Steals – she is the founder of steals.com), and Sam Martin (@Socially_Sam of sociallysam.com).
Ally and I got to share our philosophy of live streaming for a small business and how to build community around your brand. We discussed how we broadcast together and are both on board together with our strategy as a mom and pop shop. We talked about how you can get direct business from Periscope which should only grow, how to enhance the experience for your clients through Periscope broadcasts, and the importance of viewing this as a long game since we are just starting to enter the early adoption phase of live streaming – 2015 was really the early innovator stage. Joel Comm discussed this in his keynote speech as you can see below:
Joel Comm
Meanwhile this was a dream of ours since we first attended Imaging USA in Nashville exactly 6 years before Summit Live and we were barely a year into building Frameable Faces together as a team. We thought then that one day we would be the ones presenting to big groups about the things we’ve learned building a business. 6 years later and there we were!
Check out the replay of our panel discussion:
Note that @iSocialFanz Brian Fanzo makes his own appearance at the very end of the scope – one of the co-hosts of Summit Live and one of the more knowledgable guys in the community when it comes to all of the different live streaming platforms and social media in general.
Bring On The Puppets
Later in the day the one and only Sock Cop (@JasonBurglar / Jason Cooper) appeared in the lobby and was “doin’ the things” with everyone. Jason himself and his wife Amanda are such a lovely couple from Alabama, and I truly believe that Jason is a comic genius. I mean that. We’ve featured Sock Cop on this blog before for his “senior portraits” haha… It was hilarious when Sock Cop showed up at Summit – check it out:
After the day’s events we joined a bunch of the scopers of @ParachuteTV1 at a cool place (with amazing lamb burgers) called The Press Club.
L to R: Rosie & Jason Stolken, Jon Erlichman & Caroline Lesley and us
Not to be outdone by Sock Cop I was able to get an exclusive scope later that night back at the hotel with none other than the @PeriscopePuppet!!! This broadcast has some amazing and even some awkward moments when the puppet was rubbing his eyeball on my face…
Wow…. lol!
Goodbye San Fran…
We didn’t really scope on the fourth day, but the following day we scoped from the back seat of our Lyft ride to breakfast on our way to the airport, happily exhausted and buzzing from an incredible Summit Live! We hope to be able to attend future gatherings like this with our friends, and we continue to look forward to every day when we can hang out with everyone virtually through the magic of Periscope!
Here are a couple Instagram collages I posted of a bunch of photos of us and our friends from the weekend, and this about sums it up. It was all about the people. The community. The extremely awesome community. To quote @The_Sarah_Moore “we found our people at Summit Live ’16”. Until next time, Periscoping down.
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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…
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…
This next one came out really nicely in black and white… fierce!
And here’s the final one we’ll share with you for now in the letter jacket…
Cool huh? And there it is – another Cohen Raider gets it done. We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our photo session with Jake!
Photo sessions with this crew over Thanksgiving have become sort of a ritual for us and it’s always a blast as you’ll see in these photos. Michael and Susie both have grown kids from before they got married to each other but you would never know they weren’t all blood related if you were to hang out with them. This year there was a new spouse in the mix and she also just fits right in. We won’t even tell you who goes with whom because the point with this crew is how awesome they are as a whole! They coordinated with a little flannel this year which is just great, while Michael and Susie stand out as the leaders of the pack in white. Every year it’s something a little different!
A Little Flannel…
Let’s start first with the “kids” in front of the house in a simple pose – what a great looking group!
Next before we get into the rest let’s take a look at some fun behind the scenes from the session! First with our six second looping vine:
Next we have the extended replay of our live Periscope broadcast from our YouTube channel which is a lot of fun. It’s about 15 minutes long and if you still don’t have Periscope you can download it and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link.
Now one more super fun photo of just the kids before we bring Michael and Susie into the mix:
…and a lot of fun!
Now we have Michael and Susie joining for the last two fantastic photos!
We think that one is so fun with them all peaking out from the sides…
Okay one more to wrap it up!
And so there it is – family, fun and a little flannel! What could be better? We hope you enjoyed the highlights from our morning with them!
The goal with senior sessions is always awesomeness. That’s the goal. We reach that goal with awesome seniors which we are fortunate to have here at Frameable Faces, and awesomeness was easy with Eli. Eli is a cool dude – we like him a lot! He’s easy to work with, an engaging, funny, smart and good looking kid and he’s a North Farmington Raider just like us. His mom Elysa came along for the session and she is a pleasure. They have a great mom/son relationship and we had a blast on a beautiful Michigan fall day!
Easy With Eli…
So yes this session was easy working with Eli, and we started on location at Heritage Park in Farmington Hills. We had some nice fall colors to work with and we’ll start there with our first photo from the day:
Good stuff.
Before we share the rest of our sneak peeks let’s take a look at our behind the scenes fun from the session first with our looping 6 second Vine:
Next we have the extended replay of our live Periscope broadcasts (part on location and part in studio) from our YouTube channel. If you haven’t downloaded Periscope yet for your mobile device you can do so and watch our shows at @frameablefaces at this link:
Okay back to the photos with this up close and personal photo of Eli…
More good stuff right?
Back to the studio…
At this point it was time to head back to the studio where some real magic happened. This black and white with Eli in the hoodie is fantastic:
And last but not least Eli switched into a suit and tie for the GQ look against our grey background…
Nailed it.
And so there you have it – excellence, awesomeness – call it whatever you want but it was all easy with Eli! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
“BAE” is an acronym/term that is kinda so 2013… and yet we think it’s appropriate to bring it back for this girl for a couple reasons. For starters her name is BAY-ley, and while she’s not our one and only BAE per se (see what I did there), she is in fact really cute and fun and we fell in love with her (and her mom) the minute they came to the studio. Actually Bayley came by the studio on her own to set up the meeting to discuss her senior portraits and we were impressed from the start. So as a general term of endearment we’re running with it – Bay is BAE. #sorrynotsorry
Bringing BAE Back…
Meanwhile our plan for Bayley’s session took us to Franklin for the second time for the class of 2016. First to the Franklin Cider Mill and then to a park in Franklin where we found a couple new little treasures. Just a great day – but before we get to the location photos let’s start in the studio with one photo on the black background.
Love it!
Now before we head to our location photos we’ll take a look at our fun behind the scenes action from our day – first with a six second looping vine:
Next we have our extended YouTube replay from our live Periscope broadcasts which included Bayley’s mom Kim doing a little guest hosting! She was awesome! If you still haven’t downloaded Periscope you can get it and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link:
To Franklin
Meanwhile Bayley’s crew – her entourage – showed up for the last part of her studio photos and they met us in Franklin to be Bayley’s cheering section at the cider mill where we got this great photo of Bayley on one of the bridges there:
Next we headed to the park and found a little barn there that we hadn’t used before…
Lastly Bayley broke out her guitar for the end of the session where we grabbed this photo of her relaxing in this little field:
And there you have it! We had a great time “bringing BAE back” with Bayley! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
Those of you who have walked by our studio for the last few years have seen a big canvas of the family we are featuring today, and you may have stopped and said “Hey that’s Jason Carr” or “Hey that’s Taryn Asher” or hey that’s “Jason Carr and Taryn Asher” or “Hey why do these people look familiar?”. Haha! It’s a really nice and unique family photo outdoors in late fall with an evergreen tree as a backdrop. We don’t have too many photos like that, so it serves multiple purposes – a unique and fantastic photo, familiar (and frameable of course) faces to the community that make people stop and smile, and it makes us happy because they are just down to earth cool people.
A SNOWY Family Session…
So when Taryn called and said it was time to get back in for another session with their daughter Gia we got excited – we planned the session and decided on Quarton Lake in Birmingham. What we didn’t plan on was snow!!! I told Taryn that the forecast was making me a little nervous because there was supposed to be a snow storm coming, and I didn’t expect her to answer that she loved the idea of a snow session! So yes indeed – it snowed – hard. The only real significant snow we’ve had so far this year, and needless to say we now have even more unique photos (hint hint)! We’ve photographed high school seniors in the snow but this family snow session was a first, and the results are spectacular! Let’s take a look!
How great is that? Meanwhile Gia is growing up so fast – she is so smart and cute!
Here’s a closer look:
Before we look at a couple more let’s look at our fun behind the scenes video footage – first of our 6 second looping vine:
Next take a look at the extended replay of our live Periscope broadcast from the session! If you haven’t downloaded Periscope yet you can do so and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link, and also follow both Taryn and Jason on Facebook because they live stream there and they are fun!
Okay let’s get back to a couple more photos…
This is the pose they used for their holiday card – love the background here too…
And here is one more pose with the tree that we love:
And that will do it for now! We hope you enjoyed these highlights from our day! Be sure to catch Jason and Taryn on Fox 2 Detroit – we aren’t just friends – we’re fans!
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And there you have it! A truly sensational senior session with Seth! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
We’ve been told Mycah is a heck of a track athlete….
What a stud.
