After our fun ten outfits shoot, Audrey and I decided to do it again. There are still mountain of stylish and unqiue clothes in Audrey’s wardrobe. This time Audrey picked out her own matching hair piece. It was not that long before our session got crashed! Twice! Wesley was not too into studio photos last year. I had to put a little chair for him to sit still and take his pictures. After seeing Audrey in studio, Wesley demanded pictures of his own. He was not styled to be in the studio pictures and was holding his water bottle in his orange sweatshirt. This prooves that kids changes all the time and they will take good pictures when they are in great mood, or when they see someone else doing...
Remember Baby Elliott’s 6 months session? This cutie is back for his 1 year old studio session! I have been photographing this cutie since he was born in the hospital one year ago. After his Fresh 48, newborn, 3 months, and 6 months gaming theme session, he’s really growing up with me. I was honored to attend his big one year old birthday party two weeks ago and saw him smashing his first cake. His parents want to do a balloon and bubble themed studio session for his one year old photoshoot. So here we are, we filled studio with lots of balloons for the first setup and blew lots of bubbles for him to play after. Although he had a rough long week before the session, he still aced his...
I always think that subjects will be more relaxed in the second part of a session because they are really in the mood for taking pictures. Here are the second five outfits that we shot that day. I really love the red coat outfit and the grey sweater one. The red coat is actually 2T and she is four! It was too big for her last year, but it fits well now. As you can tell, she loves the coat too. She came up the poses demostrating her coat. She’s due for her modeling headshots, so I snapped a couple here and there. I love the red coat headshots and the grey sweater ones. She was on fire in the second part of our studio session. We are a great...
This is one special session for Matt and Alyzza. I met Matt from his big family reunion a few years ago. Our families became friends. I’ve witnessed him growing from a boy to a man. Matt contacted me a few weeks ago for prom photos. This is his junior prom. The way he asked his prom date is so romantic. He played guitar and sang Magic!’s “Rude”, but he changed lyrics a little bit to fit his needs. The girl’s dad also held a big poster for him to ask his daughter to go to prom with Matt. The girl of course said yes. She is Alyzza – an almost 16 years old girl where Matt go to dance class with for a long time. Matt and Alyzza are both...
My little girl is growing so fast. I was going through her closet one day and found there are so many clothes that she hasn’t even worn and she will outgrown of them very soon. What can I do about this? We have to wear it at least once, right? Let’s take some studio outfit photos! I picked out ten outfits and matching hair accessories. We shot ten outfits within 2 hours. That would not happen if it was last year. She takes directions really well and always has her own ideas. I just give her one simple idea, and she will derive other poses based on that idea. She really enjoys posing and modeling. These are the first five outfits we shot that day.
I had so much fun shooting with this multi-talented girl. Before the session, we brainstormed the concept of this session for a while, and I decided to focuses on her talents. We shot at the beautiful historical Liberty downtown. While waiting for my session, I took pictures of Huey’s on the Square and Clay County Historical Museum. It was my first time meeting Katherine. I was very impressed with all her talents, including her skills to style her outfits, doing her own makeup, and her hair. Her parents were with us during the session and I really enjoyed talking to them while Katherine was changing outfits. Her dad helped us watching traffic while we took a shot of Katherine dancing in the middle of Main St. At the end of...
One of my really good friends is going to have her first baby! Remember this gorgeous couple that got married two years ago? Nancy and John are beautiful from inside to out. They are expecting their first baby. It’s a girl! They already have a name picked out. Her name is Mia. Mia was also on my list of girl names when we were picking out names for our little girl. Nancy wanted a really natural looking maternity session that she is able to show everyone. At first I thought we could shoot in a park as for natural setting. After driving to the actual park a few days before the session, I was so disappointed. It is still too cold and there was no leaves or grass in the...
Remember baby Elliott from his fresh 48, newborn, and three months sessions? Yes, this is the fourth time I am photographing baby Elliott. We had an impression that baby Elliott did not like my camera in the past two sessions, so his parents and I were a little nervous about this session. His mommy and daddy did tell me that he is getting a lot better with camera and will smile. That made me feel a lot better. Our discussion on the theme of this session started before he was born. Baby’s daddy is a serious gamer. He wanted to do a gaming themed session with baby Elliott. Maybe this baby is a natural gamer like his daddy. He seemed really comfortable sitting in our setup. I let his parents...
This is the third time I am photographing baby Eli. I first met him when he was only 9 days old from his lifestyle newborn session. He has been such a good baby since the beginning. Then his mommy Michelle brought him to see me at his 8 months studio session. In that story, I said that I never saw a baby as photogenic and cooperative as Eli. He sat still in the studio “reading books”. He was a little tired after 30 minutes, but was ON FIRE after I gave him some yogurt melts. This time we are celebrating his upcoming one year old. Michelle wanted to do an outdoor family session with the fall leaves. She invited me to their lake house in the beautiful Weatherby Lake area....
This is one special session for all of us. John and I started our current day job the same day – we were in the same start group almost 10 years ago. We still work for the same company and we both feel proud of being part of this big family. John has a beautiful daughter Julianne and a handsome baby boy Jack. Julianne just turned six and she was another flower girl in a wedding with Audrey. They also filmed a marketing video together for our day job’s annual conference. As usual, we planned to do lots of candids shots of the Bertics, but only do a couple posed shots for Christmas cards. It was such a chilly morning that we could not predict. We started at 8:30am to...
