Kiana Nirvana – it’s a state of being that you reach when you are having a blast with a certain St Johns, Michigan volleyball playing senior and her delightful mom Sonya, and we reached it! They discovered us on Facebook when they saw a couple highlights from another volleyball player’s pics – Alivia – and they gave us a call! St. Johns isn’t close, but Sonya actually spends some time down this way for business so they are familiar with the terrain so to speak…
To minimize the extra trips we met over Facetime to plan out the session which was a lot of fun and we went with some studio volleyball fire and Quarton Lake for the location in Birmingham. We were pleased to get perfect weather and the day was a memorable one!
Kiana Nirvana
We started indoors for the volleyball photos and here’s a highlight:
FIERCE!!! Kiana has come a long way in her relatively short volleyball career and she is already committed to continue it at the college level at Northwood!
Here’s some fun behind the scenes action from Facebook – check it out!
At this point we headed outside to Quarton Lake in Birmingham…
Beautiful!!!
We have more behind the scenes from the location too – this time from when we went live on Instagram:
And we’ll leave you with one more image:
The dress, the bridge, the girl – just a gorgeous photo!
And there you have it – Kiana Nirvana indeed! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Camryn was definitely in command on this very first senior session of the Class of 2020 season! But let’s back up a sec…
Camryn’s mom Rochelle has been my Facebook friend for a couple of years but we had never met in person! We met through mutual connections and I did not realize her daughter was an upcoming senior at our alma mater – North Farmington! So when she reached out to discuss senior pictures we were excited! When you are as active as we are on Facebook sometimes you can make a connection online that becomes a connection offline! I knew we would like Rochelle and by extension it was no shock that we liked Camryn! Camryn is adorable and smart and nice, and she wants to be a pediatrician! She’s got it together, and yes she was in command on her senior session!
Camryn In Command
We started in the studio and focused mainly on the red fabric backdrop and the black. Starting with the black:
Wow! Okay she looks amazing, and now would be a good time to give a shout out to her makeup artist Tina Jones who did a fantastic job on Camryn!
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from the studio on Facebook:
Next we switched to the fiery red fabric backdrop for this full length photo:
Camryn is so photogenic and so comfortable in front of the camera! A delight for Ally to work with!
At this point it was time to head out on location. It was brutally hot out – over 95 degrees but we were not going to be deterred! Not to mention there were supposed to be thunderstorms but those held off as well as we were glued to the hourly forecast for the previous 24 hours and watched it shift thankfully in our favor!
We headed to Quarton Lake and got this gorgeous image:
And of course we have a little more behind the scenes fun from the Instagram Live – the replay resides on our YouTube channel (make sure you’re subscribed)!
We’ll leave you with one more full length photo of our girl:
What a great session!!! Camryn was in command indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Josh made his triumphant return to the studio!!! We love this dude – he and our Tony are the best of buddies and we’re going to miss him seeing him as often when he heads off to Western Michigan to be a Bronco! In the meantime after representing our studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2019 he came back in with his mom Amy to get a few more studio pics so let’s get to a few highlights!
Triumpant Return…!
Gotta love the ivy cap he started off with – it belonged to his grandpa – SO COOL.
We also have some hilarious behind the scenes action first from Facebook Live!
Next we changed it up with a couple different looks on the white background – first with the full length chillin’ on the stool:
Josh changed shirts one more time for these next couple:
Stud!
We went live a second time as well, this time on Instagram!
And we’ll leave you with this up close and smiling pose…
That’s a confident dude – he’s got it together and he had a triumphant return to the studio indeed! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with him!
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Jayden and Jaxon are total characters and they came back to the studio for some pics with their mommy Marla! It had been a while since they had been here so we were excited to have them back and boy are they growing up!
Total Characters!
We kept this session pretty simple with white shirts and jeans on these dudes with the white backdrop and we’ll start with a little brotherly love!
We also had some fun with some behind the scenes first on Facebook Live:
Now let’s give each of these guys their own turn in the spotlight:
First big brother Jayden:
What a big man!
Next it’s little brother Jaxon!
Great smile on that guy!
We also have some more behind the scenes fun from Instagram when Marla jumped in for a few with her boyz!
And the amazing result:
Awww…. how adorable are they???
And there you have it – total characters and total fun with these three! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with them!
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Kendall kills it – in more ways than one! For starters she’s an accomplished volleyball player, so kills in volleyball are important – a kill is an attack that results in an immediate point or side out, and so we attacked this spokesmodel session with gusto! And yes, she killed it. Kendall will be playing volleyball at Michigan and Michigan is our shared connection. You see, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as Kendall’s dad Vada (may he rest in peace) was my friend and teammate on the football team at Michigan so having Kendall in the fold representing our studio as the first spokesmodel we’ve ever had at Ann Arbor Skyline High School is really special for us.
Kendall Kills It
We met Kendall and her mom Sarah (who Ally knew from a previous life in finance before Ally and I and Sarah and Vada got together which is pretty cool) up in Ann Arbor on a perfect Saturday for the session but actually two nights before that they came to the studio for our spokesmodel party where we did a few studio pics so let’s start with one of those:
Love the simple white backdrop with the simple white tank… Kendall looks fantastic!
To Ann Arbor…
Now let’s visit a few of the Ann Arbor images a couple days later where as I said before we had a perfect day! As a side note this is very typical for our senior sessions where we take some photos in the studio as well as on location. We started in the Arb where the peonies were in full bloom so it was actually pretty crowded. So we took a few photos by the flowers but shortly after we found a great spot on one of the trails:
I’m guessing we’ll be using that spot again…
We also have some fun behind the scenes from the day – first from the replay of the livestream we did on Instagram:
We also headed over to the law quad on campus which is really a beautiful setting and we used a couple different spots – here’s Kendall under one of the archway entrances to the courtyard:
And here’s the behind the scenes action on that photo from Facebook Live!
At this point we left the campus to get some photos at a couple of parks and while we usually include 4 photos in these posts we’re including an extra here since Kendall’s session is the last of our Class of 2020 spokesmodels, our first from Ann Arbor Skyline, and – well…..there were just too many good ones not to share an extra!
Love that bridge and how Kendall’s tank top pops right off of it while still almost matching it…
And we’ll leave you with this one, which might very well be our favorite of the day:
What a classic photo!!!! Classic beauty!
And there you have it – Kendall kills it indeed! We loved our day with them and we can’t wait to get Kendall in front of Ally’s camera again. For those of you who have been following along we hope you’ve enjoyed our class of 2020 crew and we can’t wait to start photographing the sessions for the upcoming seniors!!!
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YES it’s time for the Class of 2020 Spokesmodel Panorama…..RAMA!!! This is our third annual post like this, and while these are NOT professional photos, they are a fun behind the scenes way of representing what we’ve been up to with our new crew over the last few months in panoramic style! I took these (Doug – not Ally) with my iPhone XR and we love to stack ’em up and give them their own blog post! Now that we’ve completed all of our 10 spokesmodel sessions we can start rolling these things out – so fun! And what a great crew we have this year….
Yes we went to some of the usual spots including studio sessions early when the weather was still freezing, but we also went to a few new ones including a couple locations in Ann Arbor and we also have spokesmodels from Clarkston High School and Ann Arbor Skyline this year! A first for us! So in no particular order, here is your class of 2020 panorama…..RAMA!!!
Ava
Sedona
Blake
Dana
Kendall
Jordan
Katie
Alivia
Adin
Maddie
And there it is!!! The class of 2020 is HERE and we are so excited! We hope you enjoyed the panorama…..RAMA!!!
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Paige is turning the page – from high school to college out in Boulder as a Colorado Buffalo and what’s crazy about that is that makes TWO of our spokesmodels for the class of 2019 who are attending Colorado in the fall, as Kaitlyn is as well! Hmmm…. Ally and I may have to include Boulder on a new Frameable Faces campus tour to visit these awesome young ladies! Ha! But I digress….
The point here is that we’ve loved our time with Paige and her mom Maxine – we had a great spokesmodel session a year ago now, and we picked up right where we left off this time around.
Paige Turns The Page
We started on location at Quarton Lake in the morning while the sun was low although we had a little cloud cover which can always work to your advantage as well:
Stunner!!!
This was a hard session to narrow down the results from – it was pretty perfect… we did have some fun with the behind the scenes as usual – first with Facebook Live:
And here’s a couple more from outside…
Pretty Paige In Pink!
And one more just flat-out gorgeous photo…
At this time we headed back to the studio to close it out with a few on the white background and we have a little more fun behind the scenes this time from Instagram:
And one of the results:
Paige looks confident, in control and well – ready to turn the page!!! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our session with her!
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I tweeted today that if survive, survival, and thrive are all words then so should thrival be one. Emma was forced into pure survival when she was diagnosed with cancer, but these days since she beat it we would say she’s into THRIVAL. What an inspiration she is! She’s been our friend for years, and her family has all appeared on this blog before. But this time was a little different…
Dropping a Boudoir Bombshell…
We’ve been doing more boudoir lately as you may have seen and in this case Fox 2 Detroit was coming to the studio to do a feature on it. We had a live model ready but she had to cancel so Ally was in a bind and she called Emma, basically telling her she needed her to get ready and come to the studio to pose for sexy photos on television!!! Emma is a beauty and she was game – maybe because she didn’t have a ton of time to think about it!
But what ensued was more than we all bargained for. Ally frankly didn’t give a ton of thought to the fact that Emma was a survivor when she called her. It wasn’t about that at all, and yet when Emma got in front of Ally’s camera and slayed, it became a really empowering and flat out awesome moment. To hear Emma tell us how this put some of her story into perspective to see herself this way after having gone through such intense sickness when she didn’t look “healthy or sexy”. It was a powerful moment for everyone at the studio including the crew from Fox 2. Boudoir takes the story in directions you don’t expect sometimes and the results here are…..well, WOW.
Emma Inspires
Now keep in mind this isn’t a typical boudoir session since we did it here in the studio which can be a little….limiting. But we have some highlights to share on the black background and they still sizzle:
Gotta love a girl in a guy’s dress shirt and not a whole lot else…. 😉
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Let’s bring on Blake!!! Blake is our newest spokesmodel for the class of 2020 representing the Birmingham Groves Falcons! We actually met Blake and his mom Ellory officially together for the first time on a face time call and we laughed a lot even with Blake being a little under the weather at the time so we knew this would work. We are running close to the end of the junior year so we were happy to luck out and get great weather to get a session in with some location photos at the Franklin Cider Mill, but we also started with some photos in the studio so we’ll begin with those:
Bring On Blake…
We kept these simple on the black backdrop and we’ll show one in color here….
….and one in black and white!
Blake was a piece of cake to photograph – Ally commented that he’s a natural – a photogenic dude!
We also have some fun behind the scenes action first from Facebook Live:
At this point we headed over to the Franklin Cider Mill which is actually a great place for pictures when it’s off season – such a classic place and they were very happy to let us take photos there when we asked them permission a few years back. It’s very typical for our seniors to do a combination of studio and on location images…
Love this shot…
We have another behind the scenes vid – this time with the raw feed from our Instagram livestream:
And we’ll leave you with this one at the tree that we really like:
And there you have it – Blake BROUGHT it!!! Good kid – we’re happy to have him and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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Dehko is on the rise and they were here in the studio for some updated headshots… If you like techno you need to get on these local DJ brothers Sam and Jordan who really bring it! Just having them here was hype enough – we had a blast with these guys!
Dehko Drops The Beats
Check out this track:
Now let’s check out a few highlights from the photos! First the dynamic duo on the black:
Looking good…
We also have some fun behind the scenes action from the shoot – first from Facebook Live:
And here’s another dope track too…
Now we’ve got a couple of individual pics of the boyz – Jordan first:
Ally loves guys in pink.
Sam’s up next:
We also have some more behind the scenes from Instagram…
And we’ll leave you with one more photo of the brothers on the white backdrop:
NICE.
We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with these rock stars! Be sure to visit Dehko’s website and check them out on Spotify and iTunes!
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Wow! Okay she looks amazing, and now would be a good time to give a shout out to her makeup artist 
Love that bridge and how Kendall’s tank top pops right off of it while still almost matching it…
What a classic photo!!!! Classic beauty!
