I got a phone call from Carlos looking to set up a photo session on pretty short notice…..for his twin one month old boys! I knew Ally would be pretty excited since we’ve had plenty of babies in the studio and plenty of twins, but no twin babies! We had time available the following day which was exactly 30 days from Harrison and Henry’s birth so it seemed like the planets were aligning! And what a session! Are twin boys double trouble to photograph? HECK NO – they’re double FUN!!!
Double Fun with Harrison and Henry!
Carlos and Gina came to the studio well prepared with some monogrammed burp cloths for the boys which we’ll get to. In the meantime for one month old babies it’s hit or miss on how easy it will be to get them to sleep which always makes for easier posing and photographing. So with twins this was somewhat unchartered territory! Indeed, they were not ready to nap when they got here so we had to wait it out a bit…. a little classical music, some low light, some high heat and an hour or two of patience and we were in business!!! We always block off two hours but allow for cushion on the back end with little babies just in case we need the extra time. So without further adieu, let’s meet the boys!
We’ll start with the individual shots – first of Henry:
How great is he?
And here’s Harrison…
Okay how awesome is the tongue…!
We also have some fun behind the scenes action for you – first with the replay of the Periscope broadcast – you can join in the fun and follow us on Periscope at @frameablefaces at this link, or you can just check out the broadcasts from twitter here.
And here is an amazing shot from that part of the session that will definitely make you smile….
Caption that one however you like. 🙂
We have one more broadcast replay this time from Facebook Live and this one was shared and liked quite a bit…
We’ll leave you with one more photo from the session with the monogrammed burp cloths from the Facebook broadcast:
Double fun indeed!!!! Double adorable, double delicious – the list goes on and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Harrison and Henry!
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Not that he would be anyway for any reason, but no – Joseph is no joke! The guy called and scheduled his senior session himself – he came in earlier in the school year to do his yearbook headshot just under the deadline and we planned out the rest together. So right off the bat he showed some responsibility that not all high school seniors display. Plus he’s just a soft spoken but plenty cool and confident dude and we enjoyed hanging out with him a lot.
Calm, Cool & Confident – no joke…
We started out in the studio and went with the blue / grey background which we really like. Here’s an up close and personal shot of our guy in a snappy casual look:
Now just because Joseph handled the plans for this session doesn’t mean that his mom Eleanor wasn’t involved – she came on the session and she got into a couple shots! She’s a sweetheart and here’s a nice one of senior and mom together!
How cute are they?
Okay now it was time to head outside for some location photos at Heritage Park in Farmington Hills, and we did a little behind the scenes on Facebook Live while we were there…
It was a little chilly but the lighting was fine and we got a couple of great photos… First on the rocks – and we’re digging the pink shirt!
We’ll leave you with one more against the picket fence – you can see the confidence with this young man!
And there you have it – Joseph is certainly no joke and we were glad to have him at our studio! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him and Eleanor!
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Here we go moving right along with the upcoming class of 2018 as Sami spokesmodels and slays! We are pretty excited for Sami as we are with all of the members of our new crew so far, and with this session we are particularly excited because we ventured out to a new location we’ve never been to and boy was it worth it! Ally had the idea to give Mill Race Park a try in Commerce, and what a cool spot! The Huron River, trails, a bridge, a covered bridge, graffiti – this park has it all, and all the features are in close proximity to each other. A real gem!
Speaking of gems, Sami is surely one herself. We’ve known Sami for a few years as well as her mom and dad and she is a real sweetheart – everyone has nothing but the nicest things to say about Sami! She’s not only sweet and adorable either – she’s on debate team, Peer Corps, and she dances too! She looked beautiful and the weather was crazy warm – 60 degrees on February 23rd!!! And yes – that was yesterday as of this writing! Ally was pretty excited to go through these and she grabbed 4 to edit so we could rush this out onto the blog and send out in our weekly Friday newsletter which you can sign up for here. So with a quick shout out to the girls at Mandy Rose Studio for Sami’s makeup and hair let’s get to the location shots where Sami spokesmodels and slays shall we?
Sami Spokesmodels and Slays….
So the first landmark we came across was this cool bridge and that’s where we started:
Love it!
We also have plenty of behind the scenes fun from the session for you to check out. First the replay of our live Periscope broadcast – you can join us on Periscope to be a part of our broadcasts here or you can just follow and watch from twitter as well!
There are some great remains from the Commerce Roller Mill which dates back to the 1840’s so we played around with them for some shots – here’s one…
When we were researching this location there was mention on the website of a covered bridge so we (Sami actually) found it and we fired up another Facebook Live broadcast…
…..and here is a resulting photo from the bridge! “Sami’s bridge” going forward since she pioneered it which is how we roll here at Frameable Faces. Actually the whole park is Sami’s…. lol.
How cute is she?
Okay now we have one more shot to share – Ally loves this one of Sami just being adorable looking over her shoulder with more ruins in the background…
We also did a few shots in the studio and you take a look at the behind the scenes fun below! Sami will ultimately be able to share some of these on her own but we wanted to focus on the location for this post since it was a new spot for us!
We’ll finish it off with the Snapchat story we posted from the session – be sure to follow us there too!
So there you have it! We now know when Sami spokesmodels it’s surely something special and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her! She’ll be back on this blog and in the window of our studio – we’re not through with her yet!!! Lol!
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When we say we’re kicking off our class of 2018 spokesmodels we actually mean we’re kicking it off! With a kicker – a female kicker! We are thrilled to have Olivia representing our studio and this is always an exciting time for us as we start to look towards the upcoming senior class which we’ll start photographing in earnest this summer. Some our favorite people of all time and very close friends started out as spokesmodels going all the way back to the graduating class of 2009 and we’ve already become fast friends with Olivia and her mom Liz. But first let’s back up a bit to the fall of 2015 in the bleachers of Bloomfield Hills High School…
“Check It Out! How Cool Is That?”
Our son Tony plays football at BHHS and when he first went out for the team as a freshman we were at one of his games sitting in the bleachers. The freshman team was down on the field and they play before the JV so the JV came up into the bleachers to wait and watch until their turn came. Ally being a nervous mom saw the size of some of the sophomores walking past and then….Olivia comes walking by in her pads and Ally and I said to each other “Check it out! How cute is she? And how COOL is that?” There were no girls on the football team to speak of back in our day. You see it more now but it’s still not that common and we think you need to be a pretty cool girl to be able to hang on a team of guys, and be a kicker where all eyes are on you every time you take the field to begin with!
Needless to say our wheels started turning back then as they often do when we’re on the lookout for spokesmodels. So flash forward to the varsity banquet at the end of Tony’s JV season a couple months ago and there is Olivia looking stunning, so we texted a couple people during dinner to ask about Olivia and we were given the thumbs up. Ally makes a break for it. So creepy right? Like, “we’ve had our eye on you for years and we want you to be a spokesmodel for our studio”!!! Haha! But we still had to see if she was actually interested, meet her and her mom at the studio and make sure it was a fit for everyone. So sure enough Olivia called and said she would be interested and when she and Liz arrived we fell in love with them immediately. Such sweethearts both of them!!!
Kicking Off With Olivia…
While we may be kicking off the proceedings we should also mention that Olivia plays lacrosse and she’s nice and she’s smart – she’s the whole package. But before we get to the beast part we started off with the beauty part of the session…. First we’ll share this one on the brown backdrop – we find the brown to be a great option to go with pink – a good color combo for this year.
We actually played around with a few different backdrops and combinations as we usually do with our spokesmodels and you can see some of the behind the scenes fun here… Let’s start with the replay of our Snapchat story from the day which ends with the “squad selfie”! 🙂
Next we have the replay of our live Periscope broadcast – if you aren’t following us on Periscope and want to join in the fun and be a part of our shows download the app and follow us at @frameablefaces, or you can watch from your browser and/or on Twitter too!
Now let’s take a look at some of the photos we did on the black backdrop. First we have this relaxed and fun shot on our black couch – black on black anything looks cool when it’s lit properly and we are looking forward to more of our black couch which is still a relatively new addition here on the black background.
Plenty of Beauty right? Now time for beast…
What’s fun about these next couple of shots is that it was actually hard to get Olivia to keep a straight face, because as much of a bad ass as she is, she’s actually very humble and sweet and she was giggling. Haha!
How awesome is that shot??? The football / lacrosse mashup!
Let’s take another look at some behind the scenes fun with more live video this time from Facebook Live:
And now one more lit photo in beast mode….
AWESOME! What a way to be kicking off the class of 2018 spokesmodel sessions! Much more to come from our new crew which is starting to shape up to be a very strong class! We hope you enjoyed the highlights from our time with Olivia! Stay tuned….
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To brandish is “to wave or flourish (a weapon) in a triumphant, threatening, or ostentatious way” and in this case we are brandishing Brandon – his senior photos that is, because Ally’s “weapon” is a Canon 5D Mark III, the photos are awesome, and so that does make this indeed a “triumph”! At least we think so… Haha!
We photographed Brandon’s sister Lindsey for her senior session a couple years ago (not to mention for years before that for her dance photos) and we’ve known Brandon for a few years so we were happy to get the call from his mom Michelle that they were returning! Brandon is a great kid – soft spoken but driven and we enjoyed being with him a lot! So let’s get to the photos…!
Brandishing Brandon
We started out in the studio on the black background and this first photo is great in black and white!
So cool…
We also have some behind the scenes action for you – here is the replay of our studio broadcast on Periscope – if you want to be a part of our live broadcasts there you can download the app and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link, and if you prefer to just watch from twitter you can do that here.
Now let’s continue to our location photos in Birmingham where we got some natural photos and some city photos – we’ll start with the natural setting…
There was a little chill in the air on this day but overall the conditions were fine and the lighting was great… We broadcasted a little more at this spot, this time on Facebook Live, and it was around this time that Michelle had to run back to the van to get something – she had a little trouble with the car alarm and she caused a bit of a ruckus… haha!!!
One more by the stream…
Awesome!
At this point we headed over to downtown Birmingham to get some brick and textures where we captured this close up:
And there it is – brandishing Brandon – triumphantly as the definition suggests! We think his session rocked and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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Hey hey Haley! We are excited to have this girl on our blog! Another long time friend of our daughter’s whom we’ve known for years, Haley is a sweetheart and our families are friends. So this was another one of those surreal sessions which seems to be a recurring theme this year…. lol! This session was complete with several wildlife adventures and provided for plenty of hilarity and some hiccups – like actual hiccups! But at the end of the day it was about the photos and it was about Haley so let’s get to the pics shall we?
Hey Hey Haley!
We started in the studio with one of our fancy chairs and the black background – love this!
She looks amazing!
We didn’t spend a ton of time in the studio but we do have a behind the scenes broadcast replay from inside that we did on Periscope – you can download the app and follow us at @FrameableFaces at this link or you can just watch from Twitter here.
We love these types of photos in the meadow – we had just a hint of fall pop in the background and the lighting was really nice – the conditions were great that day! We have plenty of behind the scenes from the location(s) too, starting with a broadcast replay from Facebook Live:
Before we get to the last couple of photos we are including here the Snapchat story from the session because, well…..it’s funny (remember I said something about wildlife adventures)! Plus you’ll also see where the fam jumped in for a photo! Stuart, Donna and Maddy!
So once again we say hey hey Haley – your session was highly awesome! We hope you all enjoyed the highlights from our day with Haley!
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Those of you who know us here know that we wouldn’t “Josh ya” – right? Okay well maybe we would and actually that’s what we’re doing in this post right now! We bring to you….Josh! We have known Josh for a long time and he and our daughter Lacey have been friends for years. We also photographed his older brother Matt for his senior portraits so a little reprise with their mom Gayle was in order and we had a lot of fun and laughs as expected!
Time To Josh Ya…
We had a game plan to do some photos in studio and some on location so let’s start in the studio with the formal look on the grey backdrop!
Now that’s a fine looking dude.
We also have plenty of behind the scenes live video for you on replay! Here is the first of a couple Periscopes we did – this one in the studio. If you don’t have Periscope and you want to join our shows and participate you can download the app and follow us at @FrameableFaces here and if you have twitter and just want to watch from there you can do that too.
Here’s one of the location photos which came out quite nicely – Josh was a breeze to work with!
One more live video this time from Facebook for some more behind the scenes:
And one final photo up close with our man of the hour…
Sweet! So there you have it! We decided to Josh Ya and we don’t feel bad about it one bit. We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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Haven is indeed a fashion maven and she proved it on her senior session. Let me explain:
Some posts just write themselves…. We’ve had awesome style and fashion from our seniors this year and with Haven we were not surprised – she has represented our studio for the class of 2017 as a spokesmodel (just like her sister Jubilee did) and we love this girl! I thought it might be fun to rhyme Haven with maven and when I punched it into a Google search “fashion mavens” showed up right in the definition. Done deal!
Haven Is A Fashion Maven…
So we started this session with the always fashionable cheer uniform – ha, and I don’t mean that sarcastically at all. Haven actually had some great stuff in store for the location part of the shoot, but as for the studio we love us some purple, black and silver when it comes to those Bloomfield Hills Blackhawks!!! Whoo hooo!!!
And while we’re here in the studio here is the replay of our live Periscope behind the scenes broadcast! If you want to follow us from your smartphone and be a part of the shows in the live chat you can do that here, or if you just want to watch from twitter you can do that here.
Here’s where we found out how strong Haven’s hashtag game is…haha – well, we’ll just let the picture tell the story….
How great is that top? Haven walked out with the #slay on and we knew she meant business! Love it!
Here’s the Facebook Live broadcast from that moment!
We’ll leave you with one more fabulous photo from the day…
Spectacular! We had such a great day with Haven our fashion maven and we hope you enjoyed the highlights from our day with her!
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When Jake came in for his senior consultation with his mom Jen we proceeded to have a fun and healthy debate about superheroes. Now actually I’m not really a superhero guy and I quickly found out that I was pretty overmatched, but I think I hung in there…..kinda. In any event Jake is clearly inspired as millions are by superheroes – Batman and Iron Man in particular. So I went searching around and found this awesome quote from Batman Begins:
I think this quote is appropriate for this photo session for a couple of reasons… For starters I think this whole idea applies to photographs in general. Photos can preserve a moment, a person – they can be everlasting. That’s part of the appeal of what we do here whether we’re making new photos or restoring old ones. Senior pictures capture such a cool time in a young guy like Jake’s life! So hold on to that thought for a minute and we’ll come back to it…
Jake The Superhero!
Let’s start with the Batman inspiration in the studio for our first sneak peak…
We also did plenty of broadcasting that day on Periscope and Facebook Live. Okay maybe we went a little crazy – I’ve actually done a collab with Jake’s mom Jen who is also known as Princess Pinky Girl online so she’s a natural on camera as was Jake! Much fun! If you haven’t downloaded Periscope yet you can do it and be a part of our broadcasts here or you can just watch on twitter here.
And here is one of our shots of this fine young lad in the great outdoors…
Let’s see a little more of our behind the scenes from Facebook Live – we actually spent a lot of time cracking up on this session… Jake is a funny dude.
And here we have a shot of Jake chillin’…
Lastly I want to bring it back to that Batman quote from earlier. Here’s where it ties it all together….
Bruce Wayne said as a symbol he could be incorruptible. He could be everlasting. That’s what we achieved with Jake on this last photo which was a first for us, and an idea that Jen brought in. It’s a silhouette that captures the spirit of being a senior – with your life ahead of you. Incorruptible. Everlasting. Arms up to the sky! This photo could be anyone. You can’t necessarily tell it’s Jake, and yet it IS Jake. A symbol – and a powerful one at that….
So cool….
Here’s the behind the scenes of us creating that photo!
And that’s the story! Jake was the symbol and the superhero and we will always remember this session! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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Lily is easy to “fall in love” with – she’s just cool. She gets it – outgoing, beautiful, really talented, smart, and a friend of our Lacey’s! She’s the total package! She has represented our studio this year as a spokesmodel for the class of 2017 and we’ve photographed her a few times now so we know it’s going to be a great day when Lily is in front of Ally’s camera!
It’s also a rare occasion that we have the opportunity to photograph a session at Cranbrook because you need to be an approved vendor or have some kind of special permission. Cranbrook is obviously beautiful and with perfect weather (even if it was a little hot) the planets were aligned so to speak. Lily definitely delivered and her mom Amy came with us too – she’s a delight. So let’s get to some highlights of our day!
In Love With Lily…
This entire session was on location since we were able to get some nice studio stuff on Lily’s spokesmodel session already. So let’s get to it…
Love this bridge by the Japanese gardens. How cute is she?
By the way let’s take a look at some of the behind the scenes fun we had – first with a 6 second Vine for your looping pleasure…
We also have one Periscope broadcast to share but it wasn’t easy… there wasn’t much of a signal on Cranbrook’s campus so we only have the one replay here for your extended viewing! You can watch our broadcasts at @FrameableFaces on Twitter here or join in the broadcasts on Periscope on your smartphone with the app here!
The lighting was fantastic for this next photo and we love the pose – Lily really rocked it – she’s a pro.
For the last photo we found a waterfall that was not easy to get to, but it was totally worth it – what a great spot!
Great one to end on! Love this girl indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights from our day with Lily!
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