This was a classic session with Joe – a classic indeed, and on so many levels! For starters while Joe is not a typical dude at all – he’s actually quite a character – he was very typical in that senior portraits were not really on his radar. Not uncommon for plenty of guys. But you see this isn’t our first rodeo, and we know how this usually goes. The guys get dragged in here and by the time we’re done they’ve had a total blast. In that sense this was a classic session because that’s exactly what happened…. Now while Joe may not completely admit it because of the sibling rivalry thing we know his big bro Scotty influenced this a little because he had a great time on his session too!
Classic Indeed….
The thing is, that was only the tip of the iceberg as to why this ended up such a classic session! Joe’s mom Marilyn (whom we LOVE) enlisted the help of a family friend who happens to own a few classic cars including a 1963 Split Window Corvette that we’re pretty sure once belonged to Rick Springfield! Well Joe is a car freak and the opportunity to take a few photos with this beauty basically landed Joe in heaven. We’ll get to those in a minute, but in the meantime we also have a couple of other photos with some fire and Joe’s pup that are pretty great too so let’s start there. First with some Orchard Lake St. Mary’s gear and a flaming bat!
Pretty cool!
When we went outside the pup joined in for a portrait of a senior and his best friend – doesn’t get much better than that…
1963 Split Top Corvette!
Now to the next level of classic… we think Joe might have been pretty happy in this photo….
You’ll get a little more of an idea as Joe takes this beauty for a spin in our Facebook Live behind the scenes – check it out!
And we’ll leave you with one more:
And there you have it! This session was a classic indeed and you can see why! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with Joe!
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When we asked our son Tony who is a junior at Bloomfield Hills High School who did he think would be a perfect spokesmodel at his school – a girl who is nice, social, well liked, smart and fun with a little extra online influence perhaps, the first name he spoke was Kaitlyn. He was spot on! This girl is amazing. Sharp, sweet and with an infectious laugh like no one’s business, she is perfect! And her spokesmodel session was perfect too! It wasn’t easy – while the light was great the wind was not. It was windy as all get out down in the D which can pose a challenge for a girl with long hair, and it wasn’t exactly warm either, but Kaitlyn still rocked it and produced some of the images that we know will prove to live on as Frameable iconic photos. So let’s get to it!
Detroit Takeover With Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn’s mom Sara is a delight as well and she came with us down to Detroit where we started off on Belle Isle as we frequently do when we head down there. The first photo we’re sharing here is the best Detroit Skyline photo we’ve taken and all it took was recognizing that we needed a different vantage point than we’ve used in the past! We couldn’t be happier with how this looks…
Gorgeous Girl!
Now we did a livestream on Instagram but were unable to record it – however we think Kaitlyn’s Snapchat story was just as good so this time we’ll start with that for some of our fun behind the scenes…
An outfit change and here we are with another closer up with our girl…
At this point we headed into downtown to the Belt Alley and got this awesome photo with these vibrant colors!
Here we have some more behind the scenes fun with our Facebook Live Video replay from the Belt – as you can see Tony actually came along with us on Kaitlyn’s session and they took a few photos together which will surface soon….. 🙂
At this point we made one more location change, heading over to some of the more ratchet areas of the Eastern Market for a little urban decay which makes for great photos! We’ll leave you with this one…
Love.
And there you have it – a spectacular spokesmodel Detroit takeover with Kaitlyn! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with her and we cannot wait to do it again for her senior pictures soon!!!
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Man do we love one year olds. They are so fun at that stage as their little personalities are developing and this dude – Enzo – has personality to burn! Plus he’s a hunka chunka and we had a blast with him and his mommy Ashley for his one year photos! He was here last with his sibs when he was 6 months old and this time around he had an awesome multi layered birthday cake with him. So the stage was set….
Enzo is back
First Ashley had Enzo stylin’ before we got to the cake and we broke out the blue/grey backdrop for a few portraits – we’ll start with those!
Okay how yummy is he?
We also have some fun behind the scenes with the fun Facebook Live we did – here’s the replay:
And one more on the blue in the basket…
Haha! So cute!!! How great is that bowtie?
Let him eat cake!
Now it was time to get to the cake! And what a cake – check it out… you can feel the anticipation! Lol…
We’ll leave you with one more as Enzo was getting his feast on!
Now that’s a happy kid.
And there you have it! To be one and awesome – that’s Enzo! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with him!
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What can we say about Tori and the hands of fate that were all over this story from how and when we found her all the way to the epic spokesmodel session with her and her mom Lora in the YAK! The “yak” would be Pontiac which is where Tori was born hehe… Let’s just say we already have multiple inside jokes and stories from our short time knowing each other – we just seemed to fit from the first minute.
It all started with Tori’s mom Lora walking into the studio and asking about senior pictures really early in the game for the class of 2019 at the urging of another senior mom we love while we were (and kinda still are) in recruiting mode for our new crew. When she told us her daughter went to West Bloomfield Ally and I looked at each other right away and both our wheels were turning… Next thing you know we had Lora and Tori come for a little pow wow and we knew immediately we wanted her on our team! The rest is his-TORI!!! See what I did there? Let’s see how many ways I can work Tori’s name into this blog post lol…
A Vic-TORI-ous Session
We decided on Pontiac as I mentioned earlier on a fairly chilly day and even with some technical difficulties with Ally’s new off camera flash we still pulled off a handful of outstanding photos! Let’s get to a few…
How adorable is she? Let’s also give a shout out here to Yasmeen at The Beauty Lounge for Tori’s makeup and Natalie at Mandy Rose Studio for Tori’s hair!
Let’s also take a look at the hilarious behind the scenes Facebook Live – we LOVE this girl…. haha!
One more photo outdoors before we move to the next phase…
Love. Great style on Tori here and we are pretty pleased with the lighting (when it worked)! That’s the nice thing about spokesmodel sessions – they are a great opportunity to try out new spots, new equipment and new techniques, and while Ally was a little frustrated fighting with the equipment we do love the results!
At this point we headed over to the Flagstar Strand Theatre which you should check out for a show if you get a chance – what a gem of a venue in downtown Pontiac and special thanks goes to them for the access. They set us up in the dressing room where we decided on a whim to get a few really fun shots of the star backstage like this one!
We played around in the theatre and got some cool stuff but the lighting and the angles we tried were a bit challenging. We’ll go back and try again at some point – you can get a sense of what we were doing in this fun Instagram Live we did from inside…
A couple of behind the scenes shots like the pano I grabbed and the shot Lora took below are pretty cool too – they give you an idea of what we were trying to do even if the finished images weren’t quite ready for prime time…
Now we’ll head outside for one more photo which could be our fave of the day with Tori in a cute winter hat…
Just love that one!!! Gorgeous girl.
And that’s a great way to end it for now – we are thrilled to have Tori representing our studio and we cannot wait to get her in front of Ally’s camera again! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!
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Yes Claudia closed in on awesomeness on her senior spokesmodel session and…. oh heck – what am I saying she totally got to awesomeness! You’ll see for yourself in a sec…. Claudia is another North Farmington Raider like us so we expected nothing but the best results and we got them on what was a really chilly day, but Claudia was a trooper and along with her mom Sandy we had a blast capturing some awesome images for Claudia to represent the studio for the class of 2019 with!
Claudia Closes In On Awesomeness
We focused mainly on outdoor photos with Claudia in Birmingham and that’s where we’ll start with a couple at Quarton Lake:
Stunning! The shimmering sparkle of the water and the off camera flash makes for a perfectly composed photo with this beauty if we do say so ourselves….
We also have some fun behind the scenes as usual – first with the replay of our Instagram Live video:
And let’s look at one more from the water…
Love it!
At this point we headed over to downtown Birmingham to get a few poses with an urban feel and that gave us this one:
We have one more behind the scenes livestream replay for you – this one from Facebook Live:
After the last outdoor shot we warmed up and headed back to the studio to get a few on the black background. We’re actually doing at least one of these with every spokesmodel this year so we can do something fun with all of the shots at the end… Love this close up:
And there you have it – awesomeness indeed! Claudia rocked it and we are so happy to have her representing our studio for the class of 2019!!!
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Ellory came to the studio this week with her mom Jodi for some good vibes, her modeling closeup and some fun! We definitely got all three. What a sharp and adorable girl she is and we really had a blast so let’s take a look at some highlights!
Ellory Was Ready For Good Vibes
We photographed the whole session on the black backdrop but with a few different styles and we’ll start with some Good Vibes right off the bat!
The laughing photo is a fun one to set the stage – this girl couldn’t keep the SERIOUS pose for too long without just a little giggling.
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from Facebook Live:
And now let’s change up a couple of styles! We broke out the fan for some of that “black and blowy” glam!
Ellory is such a rock star!
We also have some fun behind the scenes on this too but for whatever reason I’ve been struggling with the audio and covering the mic when we go live on Instagram. No idea why…. we’ve been livestreaming on Periscope and other platforms for 3 years with no problem but for some reason we’re a little snake bitten on Instagram. BUT – in this case it’s kind of funny…. if you watch at the 48 second mark I ask Ellory what she wants to do with her life and her reaction is priceless. First I played around with her acting shocked that she didn’t know, and then I let her off the hook telling her I didn’t know until less than 10 years ago. It’s pretty cute.
Let’s also give a shout out to Valoria at The Beauty Lounge for Ellory’s hair – that’s Valoria making an appearance in the livestream too.
Now let’s wrap it up with a couple more photos! This next one is really nice – Ellory is wearing her mom’s dress here!
And one more – a fun close up from above:
Totes Adorbs!!!
And there you have it – you can see we had so much fun with this little whirlwind of cuteness and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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The Octopus is a really cool animal. They’re smart, fascinating to watch, and there are 289 kinds of them! But why have they become a symbol of a local independent photography studio in West Bloomfield, MI where none of them live within thousands of miles? Let’s find out…
How The Octopus Became A Symbol At Frameable Faces
As you may know we name a lot of stuff here. We name locations for the seniors who pioneer them, we name equipment and some of them even take on their own personas and start tweeting, sitting down for interviews…. etc. Oy.
Meanwhile we have a studio light that is octagonal shaped and we started referring to “him” as “Octo” just for fun. That was how this whole thing started. You see, over the last few years (it will actually be exactly 3 years on 3/31/18) we have been periscoping as you may know, and along the way The📷Doug&Ally📷Morning Show!🎙☕ became a thing. We made the trending list on the app which is owned by and integrated with Twitter as “Twitter Live” and we now have over 22k followers literally around the world. At some point during the show when a newbie shows up we welcome them and give a tour of the studio, and the tour itself has become a daily event with many recurring hallmarks and themes of its own – one of which is Octo which somewhere along the way became “The World Famous Frameable Faces Octopus”. Not sure the exact origins of this can be traced beyond the likely scenario of someone thinking I said Octopus one day instead of Octobox, and…..well…..take a look below and you’ll get an idea of what has happened:
Yes the World Famous Frameable Faces Octopus gave way to the rise of the #Octosquad! Our friend Lauren (@Sound_Of_Boots) usually makes the announcement and everyone gets their octo on. Pretty much anyone can be a member of the Octosquad, just like anyone can be a Frameable – it’s an attitude, a lifestyle if you will, and you just jump on in!
Since then octopuses (yes that’s the proper plural of octopus) have been popping up everywhere. In the studio….
That’s the octo we brought back from the Keys with his partner Fitzy’s Maine Lobster. Fitzy is one of our Periscope friends who sent us that from his trip to Maine.
These little octos who sit by Doug’s computer were a gift by Periscope friends Jacqui Of All Trades and Laughing Leo who brought them to the studio on a visit…
We even found a tiny octo with our friend Steve (Steve named him Ocho) in a bucket down in the Florida Keys on the Frameable Faces 2017 Spring Break Tour…
Octos even adorn our bookmarks which we’ve been giving out as rewards for subscribers of our Patreon page… Our friend @McFannie showed hers off with a tweet!
It’s gotten to be such a big deal that Reflecto seems to be getting a little salty about it…
He’ll get over it….
And there you have it! Now you know how the #Octosquad was born and how the Octopus became such a symbol of Frameable Faces! We hope you’ll join the Octosquad too!
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Yes Aubrey is back! She’s our event photographer Angela (AKA “Nikon Girl”)’s baby, she’s one and she is super delicious!!! You may remember her newborn session from last year and the video birth story Ally created at the hospital when Aubrey was born. Meanwhile she’s growing up and while at first we thought she was all Cam (her daddy), now we’re starting to see a lot of Angela in her too!
Aubrey Is Back
We had a lot planned for this session including the flower pot baby setup and a cake smash! So let’s get to it:
Yes!!! We love flower pot babies!!! SO cute.
Here is some behind the scenes of the flower pot scene from the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast! So much fun…
And while we’re working with the wooden floor and the pink background let’s look at one more this time out of the pot and into a tutu!
How adorable is she?
Super Delicious
So which is more delicious – Aubrey or a cake? We’re thinking Aubrey…
Starting the smash…
Loving the smash!!!
And there you have it! Yep Aubrey is super delicious and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of her return to the studio!
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Lexi had a lively fall senior session indeed – there was lots of fun and laughter because she’s just so funny! She’s gorgeous, smart, nice and all that but she definitely made us laugh a lot. You’ll see how much fun she is in the behind the scenes videos below. Meanwhile she’s a legacy here since we photographed her older sister Helene several years back (before we were writing blog posts for each senior) and we were happy to have her parents Robyn & David back to the studio!
Lexi’s Lively Fall Senior Session!
Like her sister, Lexi waited until we had the pretty Pure Michigan fall colors and since we scheduled a morning session we went out on location to do those first – we’ll pick up the action there:
How amazing is that shot….? She looks awesome surrounded by all the Pure Michigan fall leaves!
We also love this close up with the brick:
At this point we went over to nearby woods behind the West Bloomfield library and here is the replay of the Facebook Live broadcast behind the scenes – it would actually be great to have Lexi back to the studio to co-host some other livestreams – she’s hilarious!
….and here is the result:
Fantastic!
At this point we headed back to the studio for some photos where we went live again this time for some fun on YouTube:
…and one more from that red paper backdrop:
Gorgeous!
And there you have it! A lively fall senior session with Lexi indeed – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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We love getting to know our seniors and on a nice fall day with those Pure Michigan colors outside we got to know Nadia a little better on her senior session! She’s a total sweetheart – and what better day to photograph her than on her birthday!!! Nadia’s mom Cherish joined us as well and we had a lot of fun with her too as you’ll see in a sec. Meanwhile it was a little chilly that day (although that’s all mental as we like to remind our seniors – ha) but the conditions were still just fine for photos and we focused on location shots so let’s get to ’em:
Getting To Know Nadia
Love that shot with the steps as the backdrop!
We also have some fun behind the scenes for you starting with the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
And let’s take a look at a couple more…
Looking super cute in the hooded vest and you can see some hints of fall in the background as well as in this close up below…
A nice pop of color with the scarf too! We also have a little more behind the scenes this time from the Snapchat story from the day:
Fun with those snap filters! Now we’ll leave you with one more:
She looks amazing and nicely framed with some Pure Michigan fall leaves!
And there you have it – getting to know Nadia was wonderful and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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