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Pure Hannah, Pure Michigan Fall Colors, Pure Awesome!

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Yes this was a purely great session – some Pure Michigan Fall colors, plenty of pure awesome and pure Hannah – the latest Frameable Class of 2017 senior!  Now we actually did a combination of photos in the studio which are great for any season as well as some on location and we found one perfect brilliant red and orange fall tree that we’ll get to in a bit…

Pure Hannah

Meanwhile Hannah is a sweetheart and a friend of our daughter Lacey so we knew this would be a great session and it certainly was!  Hannah’s mom Shari joined us and she and Ally have known each other forever so we had plenty of fun!  Let’s start in the studio on the black background…

Pure Hannah

Beautiful!

We also have some behind the scenes fun here – first with the replay of our live Periscope broadcast from the studio and you can join us and be a part of future broadcasts by downloading the app and following us at @FrameableFaces at this link, or you can just watch from Twitter here.

Moving on to our next studio setup for one more before we head outside:

Pure Hannah

Love that background with the ripped jeans!

Now it’s time to head outside!  First on the West Bloomfield Trail Network where we were able to find a really pretty red and orange tree – here’s the broadcast from this portion of the session this time from Facebook Live:

And here’s the result!

Pure Hannah

How great is that?  Love the maroon to go with the reds and oranges too!  We explored a little and went over to a nearby nature preserve as well where we did one more broadcast on Periscope:

And here is the final sneak peek for now – fittingly a photo of just pure Hannah!

Pure Hannah

And there you have it!  Pure Michigan, Pure Hannah, Pure Awesome!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!

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Bruw-ing A Stellar Senior Session With Max-imum Results!

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So of course this title is a play on words right?  Well it’s because this stellar senior session features Max and he’s been here in the studio before….with his coffee beans and his cold BRUW filter which is his very own company!  This enterprising young entrepreneur is getting it done and you can check out his website along with a few photos by US at www.bruw.net!

Stellar Senior Session…

But here we need to get to the task at hand and that’s the highlights from Max’s stellar senior session!  Max’s mom Susan accompanied us and even his dad Dave came by for a bit on location!  We started out in the studio so let’s begin there with a formal shot of our guy on the grey paper background:

Stellar Senior Session

Niiiiice!

We also have some behind the scenes fun for you first with the replay of our live Periscope broadcast in the studio.  If you want to be a part of our shows there you can download the app and tune in at @FrameableFaces at this link, and if you just want to watch from twitter you can do that here.

Now it’s time to head outside where…

Fall colors were a-BRUW-in’

Yes they were!  Plenty of great spots to shoot right in and around West Bloomfield and that’s just where we stayed!  The first shot features more brick than oranges or reds but it’s cool!  Just Max chillin’

Stellar Senior Session

The next photo is a bit unique in that we don’t think we’ve used this chair on location before – it’s a neat photo with some of that “Pure Michigan” color in the background!  Here’s the behind the scenes of the shot from Facebook Live…

…and the result!

Stellar Senior Session

Pretty nice!

One more Periscope replay for good measure (we were having a lot of fun)….  lol!

And one last photo of Max – and just as the rain started to fall too…. good timing!

Stellar Senior Session

And there it is!  We BRUWed a stellar senior session with Max for sure, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!

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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
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Ally & Doug can be reached at the studio at tel:248-790-7317 or emailed at mailto:info@frameablefaces.com
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Aiming For Amazing With Atara, And Getting There!

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Aiming for amazing with Atara is not exactly difficult since it’s not a moving target.  The girl has been nothing but amazing since we have known her!  Beautiful girl, smart, nice, and her family is about as good as they come.  Atara represented our studio this year as a spokesmodel for the class of 2016 so you may remember her awesome spokesmodel session from back in March.  She is great in front of the camera so we were excited to do it again for her senior session.  In March we were in the studio the whole time so this time we focused exclusively on outdoor locations.

Aiming For Amazing

This time around we met Atara and her parents on a cool fall morning at the Franklin Cider Mill for our first location, and of course cider and donuts were part of the plan.  YUM.  Okay let’s not get too sidetracked…. let’s focus on the amazing we were aiming for – let’s focus on Atara!!!

Aiming For Amazing

Love that bridge at the cider mill!  Such a pretty photo!

Okay before we check out the rest let’s look at our fun behind the scenes footage from our morning.  First with our 6 second looping vine:

Now let’s take a look at the extended replay of our live Periscope broadcast with a special guest host – Atara’s dad Rabbi Joey!  If you still haven’t downloaded the Periscope app you can do it and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link:

Okay now let’s continue with a few more photos!

Aiming For Amazing

LOVE this one.

Aiming For Amazing

Pretty girl in a pretty gazebo!

Okay one more for good measure with a specially requested tree…

Aiming For Amazing

The color combination there is fantastic and Atara looks amazing!  Come to think of it, that’s what we were aiming for after all right?  I’d say we got there.  Totes.  And so there it is – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our amazing day with Atara!

 

Catching Up With The Captivating Miss Caitlin!

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It’s time to do a little catching up with the captivating miss Caitlin!  We love Caitlin – she is one of our spokesmodels for the class of 2016 and you may remember her from her spokesmodel session which was truly spectacular.  It’s always fun to come back and do a senior session 7 months later on a beautiful fall day with one of our peeps, and Caitlin definitely captivated us on this day!

The Captivating Miss Caitlin

Let’s start out at the studio.  We didn’t spend a ton of time here because we did plenty of studio work the last time around and this time we had some great “Pure Michigan” fall colors to play with.  We’ll take a peak at one from the black and blowy set up:

Captivating Miss Caitlin

Love this!  Caitlin just rocks the black and blowy…

Before we head outside let’s take a look at our behind the scenes footage.  First with our fun 6 second looping vine:

Next we have the extended replay of our Periscope broadcast from the session.  You’ll see here that we went to a tunnel that we’ve been to several times before but it’s not a common spot for us so it’s a treat when we do get there!  You can download the Periscope app and follow us there at @frameablefaces at this link.

Okay now let’s get outside!

Heading out for some fall…

We headed out to some trails by the West Bloomfield library which we love and got this photo on one of our fave little footbridges:

Captivating Miss Caitlin

Wow!

Next we grabbed a photo by this one particular tree that turns a lovely red every fall… here it is in a closer crop of Caitlin:

Captivating Miss Caitlin

Love it.  Okay we will leave you with this one looking out from inside the tunnel that you saw in the Periscope.  It’s a neat photo because of the natural vignette that the darkness of the tunnel creates shooting out into the light with the fall colors in the background!

Captivating Miss Caitlin

Captivating indeed!  And there you have it – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Caitlin!!!

We’re Juiced Up To Show You Jordan’s Senior Portraits!

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We are definitely juiced up for Jordan and we’ve been Jonesing to show you a few sneak peeks of her portraits from her senior session!  We love Jordan.  She is a friend of our daughter’s and we’ve known her for a while so we were excited for this day.  Funny side note – Jordan was in a seminar that we gave over the summer for a program up at the University of Michigan on entrepreneurship, and we broadcast the presentation on Periscope.  Jordan was excited to be the star of her own Frameable Faces Periscope and she definitely rocked the broadcast and the session!

Juiced Up…

So yes this was a day we were juiced up for and we started on location on a perfect fall day.  For now let’s start with this gorgeous photo in a meadow…

Juiced Up

OMG – we are in love with this.

Okay let’s chill for a sec.  Let’s have a little fun with our behind the scenes stuff before we move on to more photos.  First with our fun 6 second looping vine – love this one:

Next we have our replay of our Periscope broadcasts – for some weird reason both of these broadcasts cut out towards the end so we apologize if the transition is choppy in the middle but we still have over a half hour of fun footage for your extended viewing pleasure!  Be sure to download the app and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link.

Okay now let’s get to the rest of our photos!  This bridge is one of our fave spots…

Juiced Up

Love it.

Now from one bridge to another – we love this little footbridge…

Juiced Up

Back to the studio

At this point we headed back to the studio for a few more and we’ll leave you with one of them in black and white:

Juiced Up

So there it is!!!  You can clearly see why we were juiced up to show you Jordan!  We hope you enjoyed the highlights from our day with her!

 

The 5th Annual Senior Spokesmodel Party With The Class of 2016!

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If you have walked by our studio then you have seen the long white mural of high school senior spokesmodels that graces our window.  Maybe you’ve noticed that we change it up every year with our new crew, and we take those photos at our annual get together with our team when we PAR-TAY at the studio!

Spokesmodel party time!

We gathered at the studio with our peeps and as we always do, we brought in food from the Pine Lake Market who does a fantastic job of catering (ask for Nick).  We even had a birthday cake for Caitlin since it was her birthday on the day of the party!  This year we incorporated a couple new platforms that we weren’t using last year like Periscope and we broadcasted our crew introducing themselves – take a look:

Squad goals…

Next we premiered the new Spokesmodel Video which is a big highlight for us every year.  This represents months of photographing these awesome kids who we get very close to, and we are very proud of this…

The video includes this collage that we also worked on this Spring – because just (Frameable) FACE it – the class of 2016 is a B16 DEAL!!!

Spokesmodel Party

Next it was time to take the pictures for the mural which is always a lot of fun, and we posted a little behind the scenes vine as we usually do for sessions, but this time we managed to get a glance at all of them posing!  Take a look…

A Celebration of Murals…

Since this was our fifth mural we thought it would be fun to celebrate that milestone on Instagram – check it out:

Spokesmodel Party

And let’s give the new one its own spotlight – it’s about to get its own spot in our window where you’ll be able to come by and see it in all its glory!!!

Spokesmodel Party

So there you have it – another great new team to represent our studio as we roll into a new season of seniors!  WE CAN’T WAIT!!!

Spokesmodeling Outside Was So Great With Cait(lin)!

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After another brutally cold winter we are finally able to get outside for some sessions and it feels so good!!! While it was still a little chilly the conditions were still pretty darn good on this one and we have to say that spokesmodeling outside was SO great with Caitlin!!!  We saw a bunch of deer and were treated to the sounds of a particularly industrious woodpecker too!

As for our spokesmodel, well the pictures will speak for themselves!  Caitlin is beautiful and a total sweetheart!  A total natural in front of the camera, we were looking forward to photographing her and this session didn’t disappoint.

Let’s start with a couple of studio shots before we head out to one of our favorite meadows, beginning with our black background:

Spokesmodeling OutsideWe love Caitlin’s style – so far the class of 2016 is really bringing it!

Next let’s look at one on the white background which is nice and simple and you can never go wrong with it.  As excited as we were to go outside, more often than not our seniors do a combination of studio and on location so we usually highlight both with our spokesmodels wherever possible.  It’s not a rule by any means – we’ve had seniors who have done all inside or all outside.  Either way we go for three hours and it’s really just personal preference.

Spokesmodeling Outside

Here is our fun behind the scenes vine as we get set to go outside!

First we hit the meadow and we were pleased to find it looking particularly “meadowy” with tall reeds and the sunlight was great!

Spokesmodeling Outside

The combination of her outfit with those shoes is fantastic!  The backlight on her hair is beautiful and this was the first time we took this chair outside.  This shot just came together perfectly.

You may know if you’ve followed us for a while that sometimes if a senior uses a new prop or pioneers a new spot it gets named for them.  On this session we found “Caitlin’s rock”!  This is a nice shot to end with for now – hazy and soft.

Spokesmodeling Outside

So that’s it for now – we hope you enjoyed these highlights from Caitlin’s stunning session and we are looking forward to more outdoor shots as it continues to warm up and Spring starts to bloom.  Ironically we have two class of 2015 senior sessions to highlight coming up – one all indoors and one all outdoors – so stay tuned!

We A-Love-A Atara – Our Newest Spokesmodel!

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Yes we “a-love-a” Atara – our newest spokesmodel!  We have known her and her family for years but we hadn’t spent a ton of time with Atara in the past.  We always knew she was a sweetheart but having her represent us for the upcoming class of 2016 has allowed us to get to know her better and she is awesome.  This spokesmodel session was a bit of a family affair since at one point or another both of her brothers and parents popped in for a bit here at the studio and we had much fun.  Atara is extremely photogenic and talk about a virtuoso performance….!!!

We broke out the damask backdrop first which has been a favorite over the years for this shot, and we also added a new hair light this year which we used for the first time in this session and we are loving the results!

Atara

Pretty in pink right?  Here would be a good time to give a shout out to Shifra Raskin down the hall from our studio for the makeup.  Shifra does a great job and in this case we think she had a pretty good “canvas” to work with!

Next we broke out our brand new purple backdrop and we love the way Atara looks in front of it, especially with the red dress.

Atara

While we’re at it let’s take a sec to look at our fun behind the scenes vine from the shoot!

Next let’s take a look at the red backdrop that you see in the vine which we are always fans of:

Atara

Lastly we did some black and blowy with Atara and this is the first one of these we have posted for the class of 2016.  OMG…

Atara

Incredible!

And so there it is – you can see why we a-love-a Atara so much!  The class of 2016 spokesmodels are really bringing it and we are having a blast with them!  We are so proud to have this wonderful young lady representing Frameable Faces!

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Our Triple Streak Of Guys Concludes With Good Guy Jeremy!

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It’s funny how our seniors can run in streaks, and our current “triple streak” of guys concludes with Jeremy.  If you notice I usually like to use words in my titles that begin with the same letter as our senior’s name, but there seem to be a shortage of synonyms for “nice” that start with “J”.  Jeremy is just a nice guy – pure and simple.  Fun, well-rounded, cool and relaxing to be around.  Ally and I talked about it when we finished – that we just like the kid!  His mom joined us on the session and the session flew by.  Time flies when you have plenty to talk about and you’re having fun.

We actually started out at Jeremy’s house for the location part of the session so let’s begin there:

triple streak

Photographing at someone’s home is often a nice move – it makes it easier for our senior to hop inside to change with access to all their clothes, and if it’s a chilly day it’s easy for us to duck inside to warm up a little as well!

Here’s another shot from Jeremy’s house:

triple streak

Next let’s take a look at the behind the scenes vine of our afternoon…

The barn is not at their house so as you can see we went exploring a little in their neighborhood where we came across a little trail with a stream and some nice fall colors where we captured this shot…

triple streak

After a successful outing outdoors we then headed back to the studio for a couple photos where we got this one in the suit and tie on the black…

triple streak

So that’s a wrap on our triple streak of guys and all three of them were fantastic!  Jeremy was a good one to end on for now before we return back to the next few senior girls!  Hope you enjoyed the highlights from this session!

 

Hanging Downtown With David!

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We were hanging downtown with David for his senior session – downtown Pontiac that is – for some cool urban shots.  We’ve hung out in and blogged about Pontiac before and we love shooting there!  Meanwhile we loved being with David and his mom and it was no surprise since we had a great time with David’s brother Alex a couple years ago for his senior pictures.  Alex was featured in the last photo on this blog post.  What a great family!

For David we started out in the studio and we spent a little time here with a couple different backgrounds before we headed out on location.  Let’s start with the grey…hanging downtown

Now that’s a good looking and confident guy!  Next we broke out the black for a few shots – here’s one:

hanging downtown

Just a good casual look for David there, and while David pulled it together pretty well for some nice smiles on these photos, we actually spent the better amount of the session laughing our butts off…  Our behind the scenes vine gives you a little taste of that…

The second half if you can’t tell is David “saving a sneeze”…  haha!

Okay so you could see from the vine that we are ready to move on to the location photos.  It was a chilly day but David was a total pro and was able to block out the cold for these shots:

hanging downtown

We love this particular set of steps of the entrance to this old building!  They’re the staircase to a big future for David!  Ha!

Here’s one more city shot against one of our favorite brick walls that you may have seen here before – the color just pops and we like David’s serious pose here.

hanging downtown

So we hope you enjoyed hanging downtown (and in the studio) with David!  We definitely did and we were happy to share these photos!