Dear Mr Postman, I try to be very patient and even though it may seem like I am stocking your I promise I am not. Haha This past two weeks I have been on a online shopping craze! I am so excited to put all these new props to use in my upcoming newborn and sitter session. I try my best to continually rotate in new props for all my clients to use in their sessions. One of my goals is to get the word out especially for my expecting mothers is to book a few months in advance for their sessions. With enough notice I am able to order in maternity dresses and newborn props to customize your session just for you. With newborn I like to be able to do a few setups to incorporate your interests such as; favorite colors, hobbies, textures, ect.
This Past Friday our baby girl turned three years old! I know every mom says it and no matter how many times you hear it I will never understand were the time goes. My Girls have grown up way to fast and yet they are still just babies. With Olivia turning three and her sister who turned one in February my goal was to finally get a picture of them together to share with everyone. I have many photos of them together but what I really wanted was a timeless one that I could be proud of and turn into art, a giant canvas on our wall. During their mini session I realized how much harder it is to get your own children to cooperate haha. After many frames later I was able to take two different images and incorporate them as one! It took a little more work but I am very happy with how they turned out and thought it would be fun to share with you.
When you think of your wedding day or any photography session you may be planning, do you want to be thought of as just a date? Of course not! As your photographer I want to take the time to get to know you. I want to make sure my style fits with the visions you have and that the final print will look wonderful hanging above your mantel.
Together we will find a date that works best for you or your littles ones. I am willing to work around your work schedule and your littles nap times. Once we choose a date I send over a contract that holds me responsible for delivery of your images. No shows are frowned upon. Lots of work goes into preparing for a session. I hope that you are just as excited for your session as I am but to be on the safe side my contract also holds you responsible for showing up. 🙂
We will work on brainstorming ideas for outfits and backdrops. What colors and patterns work best. I will go ahead and order in any items we may need. Once I have everything to customize your session I then take the time to have it all ready and setup for when you arrive.
90min+ depending on the session are spent making silly faces, sounds and anything silly to get your littles ones to smile and see their personalities show through when you look back on these images.
You may have heard of “raw” or “unedited” images. These are something I do not offer or show clients. Why? Well there area few different reasons. First I like to be able to deliver images to my clients that they themselves are unable to produce. Thus the reason for a professional. Delivering uneditied/raw images would make my job a lot easier but I feel like I would no longer be in business. These images may be “fine” but nobody likes to pay for “fine”. Right? Editing isn’t always as drastic as the images I shared on this post. Some times it might be as simple as sharpening the image to look clean and crisp. As far as lighting I may make a few adjustments mostly when it comes to outdoors but as far as the studio I try to achieve this SOOC (straight out of camera). I do this by using top of the line studio lighting. Again that said there are times when safety comes first and sometimes a spotter is necessary. And of course little ones are prone to bumping there heads and arriving with bruises the day of their session. Most sessions take up to a few hours and weddings taking around 30hrs!
Besides my studio lighting I also invested in lighting that is smaller and more transportable for outdoors, top notch lenses, dslr camera, computer, editing software ect. Professional camera gear is expensive, and a portion of my income is set aside for maintenance, upgrades, and insurance on all of my gear. I don’t believe your photographer has to have the absolute latest gear and the trendiest accessories, but high-quality, reliable gear and backup equipment is important. Often a photographer’s kit bag could easily contain upwards of $10,000 worth of gear. This does not include props such as backdrops, outfits, chairs, baskets ect.
I ask for 2 weeks time for all my regular sessions as a turn around time upon delivering images. In between I try to provide a few sneak peeks as you patiently wait for your images to be uploaded and delivered to your very own online private gallery where you then download and have the option of ordering professional prints that you can have delivered right to your door. Why 2 weeks? During this time I also have other sessions and as much as I absolutely love my job I have an amazing husband and two beautiful little girls who I like to spend my time with 🙂 I also like to make sure I take brakes in between editing images and give my eyes a rest from the computer screen. Sometimes I feel like my eyes go cross eyed haha.
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February 8th I turned 26! Yikes I am starting to feel little old. Well not necessarily feel old but when I take a look at my life it sure seems that way. Feb 18th I will be celebrating my youngest very first birthday and in June my oldest turns 3! And then of course this summer my husband and I will be celebrating our sixth year of marriage. Six years wow that seems like so long! these last six years have gone by so fast and have been so amazing! I could rave for hours about how lucky I have been to find such an amazing husband and father to our little girls but ill just get to the point of this post… my birthday! So it started off when my husband woke me up for chocolate chip pancakes mmm… because my husband had to work that day my girls and I spent the day with my mother. We did a little shopping and then celebrated at La Casita. If you have never had fried ice cream this would be the place to try it! It is absolutely mouth watering! Once we arrived home my husband told me to go upstairs and put on a aqua colored shirt. I was little confused I knew he had something up his sleeve. Not knowing what I went along with it and changed. As I entered my studio he said welcome to your very own cake smash. He had went out and bought cake from Hermans Bakery and balloons from D-K-Scrap-n-Stamp, had it all setup and even figured out how to work my camera with my studio lighting. I was very Impressed!
Then this happened…my dear mother decided I needed some help lol Yes it tasted delicious but having frosting up your nose is not as comfortable as it may seem haha
After all the mess was cleaned up he then surprised me with a new video camera! I was already so pleased with how my birthday had turned out this was just the cherry on top! I am so excited to be able to now be able to capture my little girls dancing with daddy and being all around silly in high quality vs my phone. Big shout out to my amazing husband! You mean the world to me! Now… anyone have ideas how I can top this? His birthday is 3 days after me and I am clueless Ughoo… lol