Squishy Face {I Heart Faces - oh so silly contest}

This photo always brings a smile to my face...just thought I would share :)



 

This photo was submitted to the I Heart Faces photo challenge – www.iheartfaces.com

Little Ones

Meet Jackson and Miranda! Last week we had the pleasure of getting these two little ones in front of our camera. Newborn photoshoots are a lot of work, but capturing this cuteness makes it totally worth it!

Cant wait to see them again at 3 months :)

For info our newborn and other photo packages click the "small cost" tab at the top of the screen.

Free-Throw Face

One of the great things about shooting sporting events is the facial expressions of the athletes. Just by focusing on the face you can capture anger, frustration, excitement, exhaustion...but as I sat under the basket I took particular notice to the obvious amount of concentration and repetitiveness during free throws. Some guys open their mouths some stick out their tongues, but whatever their "thing" is I've noticed that they do it on every single free throw shot (I have multiple pictures to prove it). I bet after shooting thousands upon thousands of free throws it has become second nature / routine and they don't even know they do it. 

I have also been paying more attention to the expressions from the crowd...just by focusing on the raw emotion from the fans in the stands it is easy to create a mental picture / story of what is probably happening on the court at that time, that however will be a blog post for a later date.

2012 Prices!

We are excited to let you know our 2012 pricing :)  The good news is, it hasn't changed much!  We've added a Baby's First Year package and have consolidated some of the sessions to give you the best price! Please see the "Small Cost" tab above!!

Excited for this year and for our newborn and 3 month-er coming up this weekend!! 2 sweet little girls :)

Thanks to everyone who follows our blog and to our clients in the past 2 years :)  We love taking photos and providing you with memories that last forever!!

Photoshop

We often get asked if we do a lot of photo editing...? I would say yes we rely on our good friends at Adobe on a regular basis. (we use adobe lightroom and adobe photoshop elements) However in order to properly use the editing software we still have to have a quality photo. Here are a couple examples of how Adobe was used. All three of these pictures are actually the same picture. 

This one is the SOOC (shot out of camera)

 Played around with some lighting angles and converted to a high contrast black and white.

 Blew out the exposure, put some "pop" in her eyes and played around with the skin tone. 

I think that the editing part is the fun creative part of doing what we do...and Sara, by the way, is probally going to kill me for putting these pictures on here. (but I really liked these photos!)

Winter Sports

Winter is typically a slower time for photo shoots, obviously most people don't want to brave the freezing cold for family photos. However, that doesn't mean that we put the camera away for the winter. It gives us a chance to take the camera to some of the Triton boys and girls basketball games. Both teams are off to a great start and we look forward to supporting them as the season progresses.

Here is a little bit of what we have been up to this past week.

Catching Up

So we have been completely slacking on the blog updates lately!! We have still been busy as ever, still have a few more "fall" sessions to finish up. Not that we are hoping for snow anytime soon but we are really excited that a few people have already asked us about taking snowy wintery pics! We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving...here are a few shots from some of the photoshoots we had the last couple of weeks.