It’s always a great honor to be trusted with the responsibility of taking the photos of an important event – a milestone in the life of a family and a bat mitzvah is certainly one that fits that description! In this case we are presenting a few highlights from Dylan’s recent bat mitzvah with the party theme of “Dylan’s Candy Bat Mitzvah” with the photos by our wonderful event photographer Angela!
A Sweet Time for Dylan
We actually remember when Dylan was born and we have known her parents Danny and Angela (don’t get confused – yes our event photographer and the bat mitzvah’s mom’s names are both Angela) for well before that, so these photos are really neat to have on our blog! Let’s start with the star – Dylan!
The beautiful bat mitzvah girl!
We are also big fans of this photo which Angela is able to capture at each and every mitzvah – the proud parents looking on…
And how about a slightly-silly-but-spot-on family portrait….? You know they were having fun.
Dylan’s Candy Bat Mitzvah!
Let’s head to the party shall we? Here’s a great photo from the candle lighting…
…and here’s Dylan with her crew:
We’ll end it up on the traditional hora dance as the girl of the hour gets lifted up above the crowd!
And there you have it! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of Dylan’s celebration!
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Here we go with the Class of 2019 Spokesmodel Panorama…..RAMA!!! We did this last year and this is just our fun way of stacking these behind the scenes iPhone panoramic photos that Doug took during our spokesmodel sessions. There’s something cool about the way the scope of a panoramic photo can capture and distort a scene in a weird and wonderful way! These are not “professional” photos by any stretch and are not meant to be taken too seriously, but they are a fun way to recap our last few months with our Class of 2019 crew as we head into senior season!
This year’s sessions took us to the usual haunts as well as a new one or two… burned out buildings, majestic theaters, trails and parks, and of course the Frameable Faces studio! We have such an outstanding team representing us this year for the class of 2019 and so in no particular order, here is your panorama…..RAMA!
the class of 2019 spokesmodel panorama rama!
Audrey
Chloe
Tony
Morgan
Kaitlyn
Tori
Josh
Alli
Claudia
Paige
Whooo hooo!!! Another fun Panorama…..RAMA! We hope you enjoyed these!
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Chace is our latest senior from the class of 2018 as we get into our last batch of Spring seniors for this class, and he’s a North Farmington Raider so he’s alright by us by default!!! The strong silent type, we had a lot of fun working to pry some smiles and laughs from him along with his parents Erica & Chet and it turned into a memorable day for sure. You could say we were Chace-ing smiles from this guy and we got ’em!
Chace In The Studio
We actually had an on-location plan for Chace but due to some scheduling and weather issues we changed gears and focused on indoor photos – which we are fine with – you’ll see that the results inside or out can be fantastic! We started out with a formal look on the grey paper background:
Sharp looking dude!!!
Here’s another one up close and personal…
We also had a little fun with some livestreaming on Facebook Live – and while you’ll see Chace isn’t the type that looks for the spotlight, the results from his session as you see already are great!
At this point we changed it up a little with a couple casual looks:
Loving that one in black and white!
Next we changed to the white background to end the session and here’s a fun chilled out portrait that we’ll leave you with:
Nice!
So there you have it – we were Chace-ing great photos and we got ’em! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Chace!
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We are so thrilled with Paige – we totally connected on her senior spokesmodel session and she is just one of our peeps. That’s it. She just is – she totally fits in and we feel like we’ve known her forever. Her mom Maxine? Same way. We just had so much fun, and so Paige is definitely FRONT PAIGE NEWS for our studio as far as we’re concerned and she is representing Frankel Jewish Academy for the senior class of 2019!
Front Paige News
It’s always funny with the spokesmodel sessions when Ally says to me beforehand “okay I don’t want to go too crazy today” because we don’t need a ton of photos for these sessions in order to get some images out into the scene for the upcoming senior class, and yet that’s often what happens. Very often we just fall in love with our spokesmodel crew and Ally can’t help herself – this session with Paige was a marathon and we probably would have been happy to go longer! We started in the studio so we could get a few photos on our red paper and the silver metal setups. First the red with the full length:
Beautiful!
Next we brought out the silver metal… and we started a Facebook Livestream with Facebook Creator for some behind the scenes fun! Click on it and check it out!
And here is one of the results…
Heading Out
At this point we headed outdoors to get a few photos on location and first we returned to an old graffiti wall we haven’t been to in quite some time… this yielded a real winner! LOVE this one:
We made one more stop over by the West Bloomfield Library for a few and we did a little Instagram livestream for some more behind the scenes fun – take a look from our YouTube channel!
And we’ll leave you with this last one outside…
Beautiful with the backlight and the off camera flash! Definitely front PAIGE news indeed, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our awesome day with her!
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It’s a blessing to have both of your grandmas and Noah brought them both to the studio for his 3 year old portraits! Noah is a ball of energy and we had a lot of fun! Noah’s mom Jen was here and she’s been here a bunch since one of her older daughters Emily has represented our studio this year for the high school senior class of 2018 – so we love these peeps!
Noah and the grandmas
So let’s get to a few of the highlights! First with the grandmas!!!
So CUTE!
Awesome.
We also have some super fun behind the scenes action from Facebook Live – we got cut off in the middle but it’s still pretty great.
Now how about a couple of the big man himself…
Love this in black and white.
Oh – and almost forgot – like the title says, Noah decided that this photo session needed MORE COWBELL!!! Don’t all sessions need a little cowbell? Hehe…
Yes!!! A fun and special session indeed! We hope you enjoyed our time with Noah and his grandmas!
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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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Morgan has been on the radar here for a while – usually we’re the ones out recruiting seniors to be our spokesmodels, but this time it was Morgan who recruited us! You could say that she skated right into our zone, shot and scored, and we’re pretty happy that she did! In all seriousness, we couldn’t have known that the U.S. Women’s Hockey team would make the type of splash that they did with the gold medal shootout in this year’s Olympics in PyeongChang in such dramatic fashion when we started talking to Morgan, but now that it happened and it has brought women’s hockey into the spotlight more than ever we are even more excited to work with Morgan. She and her mom Jodi brought so much energy (not to mention cupcakes) to the studio and Morgan personifies everything that is great about these athletes – a sweetheart who can go cute, glam, playful, and pretty but is also dead serious about her hockey and can kick your ass. We definitely scored a hat trick with spokesmodel Morgan.
A Photographic Hat Trick With Spokesmodel Morgan!
So in this case we’ve got the brains, brawn and beauty hat trick, and we’ll start with the brawn/beauty combo before we go to just beauty – as for the brains you’ll just have to take our word for it!
How cool!!! We can’t look at this photo without being reminded of last year’s spokesmodel kickoff with another bad ass beauty you may remember – Olivia! This time Morgan combining the black and blowy setup with the sports theme gave us a killer result!
We also have some behind the scenes fun as usual – first with our Instagram Livestream that we have posted on our YouTube channel – take a look (and we apologize for some of the audio trouble on this one – seems like user error as yours truly may have been covering the mic with a finger or thumb….)!
Moving right along let’s take a look at a couple more outfits and backdrops starting with the Def Leppard rocker chick look! And why not – Photograph is the best rock song about photography ever isn’t it? You can actually read about that right here on this blog in this piece I wrote back in 2013 about the top 10 songs about photography, but I digress…. Check out this rockin’ shot of Morgan…
Got a photograph!!! Picture of!!!
Now let’s go to a change of pace, and style as we move over to the purple and this super cute outfit:
Pretty in Purple!
We have one more behind the scenes livestream too – this time on Facebook Live and this was a fun family affair with many of Morgan’s crew chiming in on the live broadcast – including some hilarious trolling from her little brother. Hehe… As a side note this was our very first Facebook Creator livestream that includes the fancy shmancy intro and outro! Check it out!
We’ll leave you now with one more photo from the brown backdrop with this fun and playful close up of our girl:
Awesome and adorable.
And there you have it – a hat trick indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Morgan! The class of 2019 is off to a fantastic start!
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What a way to kickoff the class of 2019 – with a little “Ally on Alli crime”! And if producing stunning images of this girl is a crime then lock us up and throw away the key!!! Alli was here in front of Ally’s camera years ago when she was a pre-teen but now she’s going to be a senior and this is the class that our own Tony is in too so there will be many surreal moments like this one over the coming months. Alli’s delightful mom Risa joined us in the studio (and even a grandma and a grandpa and an aunt popped in for visits) and it was a bit surreal for her too!
Ally Photographs Alli
Each year we go into the new spokesmodel sessions with some new ideas and techniques for the upcoming season and this year we are focusing on playing around with our lighting. It may not be something you’ll notice per se but we shifted around our soft boxes a little and got a lot accomplished, and Alli looked fantastic. She’s a pro – so great to work with, and so these images are quite awesome and we’re excited to get them out there. We have our typical 4 sneak peeks for you here!
We’ll start with the damask background and we love the way this one turned out!
Just stunning…
We also have our behind the scenes fun as usual – this year we have been playing around with some Facebook options as well as going live on Instagram. First let’s have a look at our Facebook Live broadcast of the making of the photo above:
Next we have this tight crop on the red fabric – Ally is a fan of the hands-framing-the-face. Not all of our seniors choose to do this type of pose but we love it here for Alli!
We moved next to the white vinyl background – loving this next look with the ripped jeans! We also need to give a shout out to Mandy Rose Studio for Ally’s hair and makeup – they did a fantastic job!
Adorable!
We also recorded our Instagram Livestream and uploaded it to our YouTube channel – take a look and please subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss future vids!
At this point we moved to the black backdrop and we’ll show off one of those images before we wrap this one up…
Love the smile! Love this girl!
And there you have it!!! We are off and running with the new crew for the class of 2019 and Alli led the way in style!!! Be sure to follow along for more upcoming sessions – all the links are below and don’t forget to sign up for the weekly newsletter!
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You may remember Alena from the beginning of the year in her spokesmodel session when she began to represent those North Farmington Raiders for our studio? Well we upped the ante attaining Autumn Awesomeness for her senior session! You remember back when it was Autumn right? As of this zero-degree writing it seems so loooooong ago…. but I digress. Let’s reminisce and revisit our day with Alena!
Alena Attains Autumn Awesomeness…
Alena’s mom Mindy is also a North Farmington Raider alum just like us and we’ve known her for many years so we love being with them and this day was no exception. Since Alena’s spokesmodel session was all indoors during the winter we spent most of our energy this time on location in Birmingham and that’s where we’ll pick up the action.
Yes! Could her hair be any more perfect for a fall shoot? We also need to give a shout out to Mandy Rose Studio for the always fantastic job on Alena’s hair and makeup (Michelle on hair and Mandy on makeup)! Actually let’s even kick it up another notch with this one:
Wow. So pretty! And let’s take a look at some of our fun behind the scenes action from the shoot, first with the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
Okay now let’s get to the fun urban stuff – industrial walls, streets and the like! We headed over to another location for these and did another wardrobe change.
Love it! This has been one of our favorite walls for a long time and guess what – we’re not telling where it is!!! Haha – we don’t own the wall so if you figure it out we won’t be mad lol…
Meanwhile we have some more behind the scenes fun with our YouTube Live replay – check it out and please hit the “subscribe” button to our channel while you’re there!
We will leave you with this last photo for now of Alena stopping traffic! Haha!
Wow right? Alena slayed on this session and we attained Autumn Awesomeness indeed!!! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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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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Beautiful with the backlight and the off camera flash! Definitely front PAIGE news indeed, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our awesome day with her!
Love it!
