Everyone loves Super Mario.  No really – like everyone loves this kid.  He’s the real deal – personable, hilarious, thoughtful, smart and good looking.  He is one of our spokesmodels for the class of 2016 and we’ve really enjoyed getting to know him over the past year and in fact through Mario we’ve met several siblings and his parents, sampled some of his mom’s cooking – heck, we feel like part of the family!

Well we feel like Mario is part of our family too and we were looking forward to an encore from his spokesmodel session for his senior portraits.  You will see from the behind the scenes footage (especially the Periscope broadcast from the studio) that we laughed a ton and spent some time creating a special….shall we say, “non traditional” senior portrait to go with the more traditional stuff.  We’ll save that treat for the end of this post.  Feel free to scroll down if you can’t wait, but for starters we’ll focus on the “normal” photos.

Super Senior Session

We’ll start our super senior session in the studio with the blue/grey backdrop…

We love this guy.

Next let’s get into a formal look of the black suit, black tie, black background – love the black on black in the studio!

Now before we head outside you can get a taste of the super shenanigans that took place in the studio with Super Mario – first with our 6 second looping vine:

"SUPER" fun behind the scenes with @MarioKakos_! #supermario https://t.co/bJdMAI7pqh

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) October 4, 2015

Next we have the extended replay of the Periscope broadcasts where the Super Mario Brothers Goomba almost stole the show in the studio…  You can download the app and follow us on Periscope (and just about everywhere else) at @frameablefaces at this link:

Now let’s head out to the location shots – first at the grotto:

Mario’s faith is a big part of who he is and that shot says it all.

Okay one more outdoor casual shot in a natural setting…

We are big fans of that little footbridge…

Okay so now for the fun grand finale… our Super Mario themed composite shot!  Hehe…

Yes that’s actually Mario – not just his face, and yes the characters were actually photographed by Ally too…  Hilarious right?

So there you have it!  We hope you enjoyed these highlights from Mario’s Super Senior Session!

We enjoyed a sensational senior session with Samantha recently on a perfect day here in West Bloomfield!  Samantha is a delightful and soft spoken girl but she’s got a great little sarcastic streak too which we enjoyed a lot!  We had a great game plan for some studio photos and some on location which is a very common approach for us with our seniors.

Sensational Senior

We started on location and hit a few spots around West Bloomfield so that’s where we’ll start with the highlights…

Beautiful right?  Let’s take a second here to give a shout out to Shifra Raskin for the makeup. We recommend many of our seniors to Shifra and she always does a fantastic job – she is right down the hall from our studio which is very convenient for our seniors and other clients too!

Next we headed over to one of our favorite meadows for this photo – this one is a total winner…

Stunning!!!  Sensational!!!

Before we head back to the studio for a couple of shots let’s take a look at our behind the scenes footage from our morning with Samantha.  First with our fun 6 second looping vine where Ally yelled at Samantha (haha – take a look):

Lots of beauty (and some yelling by Ally) with @sambburnstein! Haha! https://t.co/JutdKO7zRm

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) September 29, 2015

Now we have the replay of the live Periscope broadcasts we did during our session from our YouTube channel.  You can download the app and follow us there (and just about everywhere else) at @frameablefaces at this link.

Back to the studio

Now let’s head back to the studio for a couple of indoor highlights where we focused on our black background that we love and it looks great on Samantha!  First with the “black and blowy” in black and white…

And now in color and on fire as you saw in the vine!!!

So there you go – a super sensational senior session with Samantha!!!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our morning with her!

Amanda astounded us on her senior session, and to be clear this isn’t because we didn’t expect it to be a great session.  On the contrary we knew she would be great – and she delivered!  We spent the day with Amanda and her mom Lori who guest hosted part of the Periscope broadcast as you will see below and it turned out to be a perfect day overall!

Amanda Astounded

This session was almost exclusively on location in Birmingham so that’s where we will focus for these highlights.  We started out on the south side of the Quarton Lake Park on the other side of Maple Road where we were able to get the last of the black-eyed susans – just a beautiful shot of Amanda surrounded by all that bright yellow!

Before we move on to the rest let’s take a look at our behind the scenes action from the day.  First with our fun 6 second looping Vine:

Perfect day for a senior shoot with a beauty like @amandawigler! ☀️ https://t.co/1fEfJSlWKk

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) September 26, 2015

Next you can watch the extended replays of the live Periscope broadcasts we did during the session with Amanda’s mom Lori guest hosting for part of it!  You can download the app and follow us here!

Now let’s get back to a few more of the photos!

At this point we headed back to the north side of Maple where we got this next shot that you saw us setting up at the beginning of the broadcast:

Amanda looks stunning and the shot is so pretty with the purple all around!  Next we moved over to the waterfall to use it as a backdrop…

And we’ll leave you with this close up…

Astounding!  Yes – this was an astounding session alright and we hope you enjoyed these highlights from our day with Amanda and Lori!

We love being at the point where we have so many legacies coming to us for senior photos, and this is the second younger sister in a row on the blog!  Jacqueline jumped in some photos with her older sister Melanie last year so we got to know her a little bit and together with mom Andrea we really enjoy these girls!  If you click on the link to Melanie’s session you’ll see that they could be identical twins even though they aren’t!

With Jacqueline we took a slightly different approach than with Melanie, not spending quite as much time in the studio and heading to a different location before ending up at their house like we did last year.  Let’s start with a studio shot on the black background shall we?

Love it!

Jam Packed…

From here on out it was all location and we jam packed plenty of ground into the rest of the shoot.  Before we get into the location photos let’s take a look at some behind the scenes footage from our day.  First with our fun 6 second vine:

Jacqueline was a joy to photograph on her senior session! https://t.co/Oq0igHe0Ji

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) August 31, 2015

Next we have the replay of our broadcast on Periscope with Melanie guest hosting at one point for her little sister’s session!  So fun – you can download the app and follow us at @frameablefaces here.  Meanwhile here is the broadcast which we posted on our YouTube channel.

Now let’s take a look at our location photos!  Jacqueline looks beautiful in these!

That’s the shot we spent a good amount of the time getting in the broadcast!

Love that close crop from the covered bridge at the same location, and let’s look at one more close up back at the house…

Stunning!  And there you have it – Jacqueline’s jam packed session – jam packed with beauty and awesomeness!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!