As the horrible news of Prince’s passing starts to sink in I have decided I need to write about it. This has nothing to do with our business, and yet it absolutely has plenty to do with our business. It absolutely has plenty to do with everything as people who know me are aware. Prince was my favorite solo artist of all time from the time I was 11 when my older brother introduced me to such classics as Dirty Mind […]
What to wear for a family portrait session is obviously an important topic. What do you recommend? Do we need to match? Can we wear jeans? These are the questions we get from our clients all the time for family portrait sessions, and they are very important questions! What to wear…. Whenever we meet with a family (or the family member in charge) to discuss the game plan for their upcoming session we usually spend a decent amount of time […]
I’ve been in sales of some sort for a long time. Almost 25 years actually. I took a long and winding road to get to Frameable Faces Photography where I’ve spent the last seven years with Ally and this is by far the most fun “job” I’ve ever had. It doesn’t feel like work at all most of the time. For years working in a corporate environment I always dreamed of the day when my clients would actually come to me […]
The government knows PLENTY about high school senior pictures – trust me. Do not think for a second that they would ever let these secrets get out if they could plug all the leaks. At great risk to my well being I am going to share these secrets with you because, well, I think they are important darn it. So here are 6 secrets about senior pictures the government is hiding: 1. Senior pictures could stop North Korea. If you […]
Photogenic is defined as “suitable for being photographed: likely to photograph well”. It seems about half of the people who come to Frameable Faces warn us that we are going to have a tough time with their session because they are NOT photogenic. Usually we just tell them we can’t help because we just don’t want the burden of trying to make such bad looking people look good. It’s probably hopeless right? WRONG!!!!!!! Some people will go on and explain […]
We have photographed quite a few children with special needs, and we have always found that special needs children make for very special photo sessions. When Kam Carman from Fox 2 Detroit contacted us to do a story about photographing special needs children we arranged for a perfect little child for the story. Conner is the cutest, most outgoing and lovable little boy you could ever meet. We approached this like any other session – we started with a consultation […]
Is there really such a thing as an original idea? Plug that question into Google and it seems that most would say no. The idea to write this post just popped into my head – to write list of top 10 songs about photography. So I jotted down a couple off the top of my head and then went through my iTunes to come up with my list. Then I did a little research and it turns out there have been […]
So how do you answer the question of how to become a photographer? Let’s start by saying that you obviously cannot become a photographer from a blog post. However I’ve gathered a few resources that combined together will give you a good guide for getting started whether you are just interested in photography as a hobby or if you want to become a real pro. It’s certainly not the last thing you should read to become a photographer or a […]
We had a great morning today at West Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills, MI for career day! We presented to two separate groups of 8th graders about a career in photography and it was so much fun. The kids had really great and thoughtful questions, and it got me thinking that I should share some things to tell your kids about photography just as we did today. 1. Getting an expensive camera isn’t the only route to becoming a […]
Sometimes photo restoration can be just as rewarding as creating a new photo. Mike is a client who brought in an incredible photo that was damaged, creased and tattered to see if we could fix it. You can see the results below and after learning that this was what Mike called home while serving our country in Vietnam we can only imagine what this photo means to him. Actually I’m sure that most of us cannot imagine it, but you can […]