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Elated To Extol Emma and Her Senior Portraits!

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Yes we are “elated to extol” Emma and present some sneak peeks from her senior session for a couple reasons.  For starters she insisted to her dad Phil (who you’ll meet as a Periscope guest host in the replay of our live broadcast a little later) that they travel here from Ann Arbor for senior portraits.  We don’t take that lightly since it’s a bit of a hike during the week with work and school schedules.  Emma saw photos from a friend’s senior session that we did and decided we were the studio for her.  The girl knows what she wants and we appreciate that kind of passion, so while we bring our “A” game for all of our seniors, we really wanted to nail it on this day.

To Extol Emma…

Besides as you can see even just in the six second vine loop posted below we had a bunch of fun on this session as well and the conditions were perfect.  Shout out goes to Shifra Raskin down the hall from our studio for the makeup, and Emma looked great!  So without further adieu let’s get to the photos…

Extol Emma

We started on location at one of our favorite spots along the West Bloomfield trail network where the colors were starting to turn for a little of that “Pure Michigan” look…  The colors turned a full week later this year so we were nervous that we wouldn’t have any but as you can see above we found some…

Before we head to our next location let’s look at our behind the scenes footage of our day first with our six second looping vine:

Next we have the replay of our Periscope broadcasts.  There is a little disclaimer on this.  Apparently we recorded these too close to the 24 hour expiration and the comments are missing on the YouTube video below.  BUT, you CAN catch the replays with comments if you like on our Katch.me page at this link for part 1 and this link for part 2.  Emma’s dad Phil helped out by guest hosting and doing a great job!!!

Now let’s get back to a few more photos…  Love these next two at the nature preserve!

Extol Emma

So pretty…

And one in the meadow:

Extol Emma

Loving the backlight on her hair…

We did head back to the studio at this point to get a few indoor portraits and we’ll leave you with one of those on the red couch…

Extol Emma

And there you have it!  To “extol Emma” was our pleasure and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!

MAXing It Out On A Senior Session In The City!

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Maxing it out is how we roll on senior sessions but this time we did it in the literal sense with one of our class of 2016 spokesmodels, Max!  You may remember Max’s spokesmodel session which was in the studio and on fire, and this time we changed it up and headed to downtown Pontiac for some gritty urban style.

Maxing it out…

We’ve known Max and his family for a long time and we laughed our butts off on this session.  Max’s mom Kim came with us and you’ll see her on our Periscope broadcast replay below if you want to watch the behind the scenes footage, but in the meantime let’s get to some photos and we’ll start briefly in the studio for a formal shot on the grey fabric background before we head outside…

Maxing It Out

The grey suit on the grey is such a cool look!

Before we head out to Pontiac let’s take a look at some of the behind the scenes action…  First with our fun looping 6 second vine:

Next we have the epic replay of our Periscope broadcast which was partly guest hosted by Max’s mom Kim!  We even pulled in a couple bystanders for comments at one point!  Haha… Check it out and be sure to download the app and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link:

Okay now let’s head to Pontiac!

To the city

Pontiac is always good for urban photos and we got some great stuff with Max…

Maxing It Out

Digging the hoodie on the stairs in the black and white….

Maxing It Out

Chillaxin’…

One more for you here in black and white:

Maxing It Out

So there you have it!  We definitely were MAXing it out on this day, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!

A Superb Studio Session That Was All About Alana!

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Sometimes simplicity just works.  Let me explain what I mean by that. Ally’s approach to portraits has always been about the people, the faces, the expressions, the personalities.  Sure we love our sessions where we go to interesting locations and get beautiful scenery or gritty urban photos, but we’ve always maintained that regardless of how exciting the location is, it has to come back to the subject – the people, the Frameable Faces.  It’s for this reason that a stripped down approach in the studio with a black backdrop can provide plenty of rewards, and that was certainly the case with Alana for her senior photos.

Family Tradition…

Meanwhile Alana’s grandfather Al was my Godfather and our families go back about 5 decades, so having Alana here was really special and a bit surreal too.  She looked great and we’ve known her since she was born.  Her mom Holly has known me since I was born, so there’s that circle of life thing….  So you get the picture right?  So enough chat – let’s get to Alana’s beautiful photo shoot shall we?  We are starting (and staying) on the black…

All About Alana

So pretty right?

Before we get to the rest of our sneak peeks let’s look at some behind the scenes footage – first with our fun 6 second vine:

Now let’s look at the extended replay of the live Periscope broadcast we did during the session.  If you haven’t downloaded the app and followed us there you can do so at this link.  It’s like Frameable Faces TV!

Normally we would have the video embedded in the post right here, but due to a technical difficulty we seem to be having with this particular video on YouTube, so you can go to this link to watch it at our Katch.me page instead.  Enjoy!

All About Alana (and a little Eureka)

Okay so let’s look at the rest of the photos:

All About AlanaLove that half length shot and this next black and white shot of our “black and blowy” set up…

All About Alana

Such a dramatic look and we love this look on Alana!  We’ll leave you now with one more photo this time with Alana and Eureka!

All About Alana

Awww – a girl and her pup.  Haha!  So there you have it – a simple and superb studio session that was all about Alana (and a little Eureka)!  We hope you enjoyed these highlights!

 

 

 

 

 

A Super Senior Session Encore With Super Mario!

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Everyone loves Super Mario.  No really – like everyone loves this kid.  He’s the real deal – personable, hilarious, thoughtful, smart and good looking.  He is one of our spokesmodels for the class of 2016 and we’ve really enjoyed getting to know him over the past year and in fact through Mario we’ve met several siblings and his parents, sampled some of his mom’s cooking – heck, we feel like part of the family!

Well we feel like Mario is part of our family too and we were looking forward to an encore from his spokesmodel session for his senior portraits.  You will see from the behind the scenes footage (especially the Periscope broadcast from the studio) that we laughed a ton and spent some time creating a special….shall we say, “non traditional” senior portrait to go with the more traditional stuff.  We’ll save that treat for the end of this post.  Feel free to scroll down if you can’t wait, but for starters we’ll focus on the “normal” photos.

Super Senior Session

We’ll start our super senior session in the studio with the blue/grey backdrop…

Super Senior Session

We love this guy.

Next let’s get into a formal look of the black suit, black tie, black background – love the black on black in the studio!

Super Senior Session

Now before we head outside you can get a taste of the super shenanigans that took place in the studio with Super Mario – first with our 6 second looping vine:

Next we have the extended replay of the Periscope broadcasts where the Super Mario Brothers Goomba almost stole the show in the studio…  You can download the app and follow us on Periscope (and just about everywhere else) at @frameablefaces at this link:

Now let’s head out to the location shots – first at the grotto:

Super Senior Session

Mario’s faith is a big part of who he is and that shot says it all.

Okay one more outdoor casual shot in a natural setting…

Super Senior Session

We are big fans of that little footbridge…

Okay so now for the fun grand finale… our Super Mario themed composite shot!  Hehe…

Super Senior Session

Yes that’s actually Mario – not just his face, and yes the characters were actually photographed by Ally too…  Hilarious right?

So there you have it!  We hope you enjoyed these highlights from Mario’s Super Senior Session!

A Sensational Senior Session With Samantha!

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We enjoyed a sensational senior session with Samantha recently on a perfect day here in West Bloomfield!  Samantha is a delightful and soft spoken girl but she’s got a great little sarcastic streak too which we enjoyed a lot!  We had a great game plan for some studio photos and some on location which is a very common approach for us with our seniors.

Sensational Senior

We started on location and hit a few spots around West Bloomfield so that’s where we’ll start with the highlights…

Sensational Senior

Beautiful right?  Let’s take a second here to give a shout out to Shifra Raskin for the makeup. We recommend many of our seniors to Shifra and she always does a fantastic job – she is right down the hall from our studio which is very convenient for our seniors and other clients too!

Next we headed over to one of our favorite meadows for this photo – this one is a total winner…

Sensational Senior

Stunning!!!  Sensational!!!

Before we head back to the studio for a couple of shots let’s take a look at our behind the scenes footage from our morning with Samantha.  First with our fun 6 second looping vine where Ally yelled at Samantha (haha – take a look):

Now we have the replay of the live Periscope broadcasts we did during our session from our YouTube channel.  You can download the app and follow us there (and just about everywhere else) at @frameablefaces at this link.

Back to the studio

Now let’s head back to the studio for a couple of indoor highlights where we focused on our black background that we love and it looks great on Samantha!  First with the “black and blowy” in black and white…

Sensational Senior

And now in color and on fire as you saw in the vine!!!

Sensational Senior

So there you go – a super sensational senior session with Samantha!!!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our morning with her!

 

 

Amanda Astounded Us On Her Senior Session!

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Amanda astounded us on her senior session, and to be clear this isn’t because we didn’t expect it to be a great session.  On the contrary we knew she would be great – and she delivered!  We spent the day with Amanda and her mom Lori who guest hosted part of the Periscope broadcast as you will see below and it turned out to be a perfect day overall!

Amanda Astounded

This session was almost exclusively on location in Birmingham so that’s where we will focus for these highlights.  We started out on the south side of the Quarton Lake Park on the other side of Maple Road where we were able to get the last of the black-eyed susans – just a beautiful shot of Amanda surrounded by all that bright yellow!

Amanda Astounded

Before we move on to the rest let’s take a look at our behind the scenes action from the day.  First with our fun 6 second looping Vine:

Next you can watch the extended replays of the live Periscope broadcasts we did during the session with Amanda’s mom Lori guest hosting for part of it!  You can download the app and follow us here!

Now let’s get back to a few more of the photos!

At this point we headed back to the north side of Maple where we got this next shot that you saw us setting up at the beginning of the broadcast:

Amanda Astounded

Amanda looks stunning and the shot is so pretty with the purple all around!  Next we moved over to the waterfall to use it as a backdrop…

Amanda Astounded

And we’ll leave you with this close up…

Amanda Astounded

Astounding!  Yes – this was an astounding session alright and we hope you enjoyed these highlights from our day with Amanda and Lori!

 

 

 

Lizzie In Da Hizzie For A Fantastic Senior Session!

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Yasssss Lizzie was in da hizzie for a fantastic senior session!!!  You gotta be down with the lingo to understand that but basically it means she was here – but in a much more interesting way.  And why not?  She’s a fun and anything-but-ordinary girl!  She’s cool – sharp, personable and beautiful and we really enjoyed being with her and her mom Rimma!  One by one Lizzie and the rest of her crew have come here for senior portraits and we have loved each one them!

Lizzie In Da Hizzie

Meanwhile Lizzie was ready to rock with style and fashion – she loved the camera and the camera loved her and you’ll see that in the sneak peeks we’re about to show as well as the replay of the Periscope broadcast we did in the studio.  We had a perfect day and our gameplan was studio first, Birmingham second with some pretty and some city.  Let’s start with the studio on the black background…

Lizzie

 

Love it!

Before we move on to the Birmingham sneak peeks let’s go behind the scenes of the shoot first with our looping 6 second vine:

Next let’s take a look at the live replay of the Periscope broadcast from the studio!  You can download the app and follow us there at this link.

As a side note we also broadcast from our location but Periscope was having issues that day – you can see that broadcast here but the volume cuts out part of the way through…

On to Birmingham

Okay let’s get back to the photos…  First at Quarton Lake for some pretty:

Lizzie

Such a pretty shot and love the backlight on her hair…..!!!

One more at Quarton Lake…

Lizzie

We are in LOVE with that one…

Okay and last but not least, to downtown Birmingham for some gritty in the city:

Lizzie

And there you have it!  Lizzie in the hizzie and owning her session like a pro!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her even a fraction of how much we enjoyed photographing her!

Kickin’ It With Jake And The Fam For Senior Portraits!

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Jake and the fam – as in Jake’s parents and one of his brothers – joined us on two separate days for his senior photos because of rain on the original date that prevented us from going on location.  I mentioned this a couple blog posts back with another senior guy that had the same scenario and once again it worked out well because we had so much fun with these guys.  Jake’s little brother Zack is quite the character, and his parents are great – Shari is an awesome guest host as you’ll see in the replay of the Periscope broadcasts from the sessions!

Kickin’ It…

As for Jake – he’s a good guy and the captain of his soccer team, which is why we were “kickin’ it” – see what I did there?  We’ll start with the studio photos which was the first day.  We used a couple of different backgrounds and as we often do with athletes, some fire!  First let’s start with a formal close up on the blueish grey…

Jake And The Fam

Blue backdrop, blue tie, blue eyes – it works.

Next let’s heat it up with some fire on the soccer ball which is of course real fire – no fake photoshopping here!

Jake and the fam

Now let’s take a look at our behind the scenes action, starting with our 6 second looping vine with footage from both days – it’s amazing what you can do with 6 seconds!

Jake and the fam!

Now for our epic YouTube replays from our Periscope broadcasts partly guest hosted by Jake’s mom Shari (and the occasional scene-stealing by Zack)!  We love when our moms guest host!  You can download the app and follow us on Periscope at @frameablefaces here.

Now for a couple of location photos.  We had a lovely day in West Bloomfield for these shots and we started with a nice big tree on one of the trails…

Jake and the fam

And one more before we leave you for now…

Jake and the fam

And there you have it!  We hope you enjoyed kickin’ it with Jake and the fam and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of his session!

A Senior Session Takeover Of Detroit With Ian!

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We are loving Detroit.  This is the most exciting time for Detroit in our lifetime by a mile.  There is so much going on down there and it’s no accident that we have now done two senior sessions in “The D” this year.  The first one was at the Dequindre Cut, and the second one we present to you here.

Senior Session Takeover of Detroit

Ian came to us with very specific ideas about the type of shoot he wanted.  He wanted to takeover the city and he wanted certain landmarks and a certain style.  These can be the most exciting and rewarding sessions to be sure, because everyone is excited, everyone is planning and preparing and in the end this session was a series of firsts for us.  Ian went straight suit and tie – a formal look with Belle Isle and art deco stalwarts The Guardian and Fisher buildings (both built in 1928 three years before the Empire State Building in New York City) as our backdrops.  Lots of personality and great taste with this guy!

Meanwhile Ian’s mom Susan came with us and she guest hosted some of the Periscope broadcast we did on location which you’ll see below.  So let’s get to the photos shall we?  We started out at Belle Isle which has improved a ton since it was turned into a state park – very clean and a pleasure for hanging out.

Senior Session Takeover

This close up of Ian is at the James Scott Memorial Fountain which was completed in 1925 and it really is a wonder.  It’s really cool to see it running!

Next we were able to capture this cool photo with part of the Detroit skyline in the background!

Senior Session Takeover

Now let’s look at our behind the scenes footage from our day in the D with Ian.  First our fun 6 second looping Vine:

And now the Periscope broadcasts both from Belle Isle and The Guardian Building:

On To The Guardian…

Next we headed over to the Guardian Building.  We were in communication with the building management all week to get the proper documentation for permission to shoot in the lobby and had a scary moment when we arrived and the lady at the front desk said they don’t allow photographing that day, but I knew I had the approval and our contact came down to the lobby to give us the green light.  The lighting certainly posed a challenge and we came prepared with our off camera flash but it still wasn’t easy!  We got some great shots and we’ll share two of them here…

Senior Session Takeover

Just incredible design in there and the colors are awesome!  Now for one more in black and white before we say goodbye…

Senior Session TakeoverLOVE that one.  A fitting end to an amazing day in the D with Ian!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!

 

Marc Had A Re”marc”able Senior Portrait Session!

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Marc had a re”marc”able senior session that spanned two separate days and gave us plenty to remember.  Rainouts can be a double edged sword with senior guys.  With girls it’s a drag because you have to watch the forecast and make decisions because girls have to get hair and makeup done.  With guys you can split it up and just do the studio stuff on the rainy day, and sure you have to find another day to squeeze in the location shoot, but at least you get to hang out a second time on a different day!  More fun!

Meanwhile Marc is a really nice kid and we had a lot of fun with his mom!  Marc’s girlfriend hung out for the studio part and his mom Cheri was there for both – you can see below if you like, where she guest hosted our Periscope broadcast of the session in Birmingham!  Meanwhile let’s get to some photos of “re-marc-able” Marc!

Marc Had It…

Yes he had it – style, personality, and good looks, and we started to photograph it all in the studio so let’s look at one of those shots first:

Marc Had

Love the grey on grey!

Now let’s head to the location session but before we do let’s see our behind the scenes action starting with our 6 second looping Vine:

Next we have the replay of the extended Periscope live broadcast with Cheri guest hosting for part of it!  You can download the app and follow us on Periscope here.

Re”marc”able

Now for the location photos:

Marc Had

You can see the tips of the leaves just starting to turn color here…

From the parking structure we headed to an alleyway…

Marc Had

And then we’ll leave you with this one relaxing on the curb…

Marc Had

So there you have it – quite re”marc”able we must say!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights from our day(s) with him!