Kyle’s killer session was a classic example of how good planning leads to great results!  We’ve known his parents for some time and we explained to them when they called to schedule Kyle’s senior pictures how important it would be to meet for a consultation to plan the session.  If you don’t meet ahead of time there will inevitably be general disorganization and cluelessness about what we’re doing and where we’re going on the day of the session…  With Kyle what came out of the meeting was that we wanted to get some natural photos with the fall colors and gritty urban shots.  So by planning our timeline and locations we were able to cover a lot of ground and finish right on schedule!

Kyle is a great kid and when both his mom and dad joined us on his session we were excited!  We had a lot of laughs, and we got some great photos!  We met on location first to get the nature shots – here’s one of them:

Pontiac is always a good idea for gritty urban photos for a high school senior.  It’s a cool city with a bunch of hidden treasures and while it has had its share of tough times and it might not be the shiny cosmopolitan locale that some of its neighbors are, Pontiac is a tough and resilient town and we love being there.  We have had some of our favorite senior sessions there and Kyle’s was no exception.  These next two photos were taken there:

Ally loves the way this next one highlights Kyle’s eyes…

Here is our fun behind the scenes vine with a couple quick highlights from the morning!

Great morning – little rural, little urban, all good with @kyle_otis !! https://t.co/tEh3mJYvKD

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) October 14, 2014

Finally we headed back to the studio (right on schedule I might add) and grabbed a few shots indoors – we’ll leave you with this one on the grey.

So there you have it!  Kyle’s killer senior session where planning made perfect!

Happiness is photographing Hanna for sure – we first met Hanna and photographed her with her little brother about three years ago on location on a cold winter day, and we fell in love with all of them back then – what a great family!  So when they came back around to the studio to talk about Hanna’s senior pictures we were thrilled!  We planned a great day and we had nice weather too so everything was lined up just right, and Hanna looked beautiful!

We started off in the studio with our black background and the fan for our black and blowy look – we are big fans (no pun intended) of this pose where Hanna’s arms frame her face but her hair is still flowing outward…

Love it.

Meanwhile we introduced a new edition to the studio in this next photo…  one of our new chairs!  Hanna led the way with the first photos on this exquisite piece so it will be known as “Hanna’s chair” going forward – if you follow this blog you know that’s how we roll.

Meanwhile here is our fun behind the scenes vine which leads us into the location part of the session!

Hanna Rybak was killin' it the other day! So Glam! ❤️ @Hanna_Rybak https://t.co/yT2lAgIi1b

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) September 14, 2014

Hanna’s session had a little of everything since we did some studio work, some photos in a natural setting in a park and some urban shots as well.  Let’s start with the pretty before we finish with the gritty.  Black-eyed Susans have been everywhere this year and we used a pretty patch of them here – Hanna’s flowery dress is totes appropes don’tcha think?

Lastly we moved into the city where the new color of the wall-formerly-known-as-the-white-wall was great for Hanna – love her confidence here:

And there you have it – nothing but pure happiness on this day with this girl!  We loved it – time flashed by since the last session when Hanna was but a freshman in high school and she is just as sweet now as she was then!

Awesomeness abounds with Alexa when we get together.  We love this girl and we have been so happy to have her representing our studio this year as a spokesmodel.  We had her pegged back when we photographed her sister Jordyn two years ago for her senior photos and we wish we could photograph Alexa every 6 months!  For now we can be satisfied with the two awesome sessions we had with her this year – the spokesmodel session back in the winter which was all in the studio and her senior session which we split  between studio and location which we are proud to present to you here!

This was the last session of our crazy lucky week of weather that we’ve been talking about for the last several blog posts… once again the forecast wasn’t looking great but it didn’t matter.  Once again the weather was perfect for our awesomeness with Alexa!

Awesomeness indeed!  Love the backlight on her hair, the water, the dress, the pose – it’s all great.  Next we went to another spot with a bridge that we really like and got this shot of Alexa just sitting and being cute!

Here is our fun behind the scenes vine of the morning and these two photos in particular!

@lexxxinthecity killin' it on her senior session!!! ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/waMUlmjAWN

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) August 25, 2014

At this point it was time to head back to the studio where we played around with our damask background and our light blue, and definitely more awesomeness happened.  This would also be a good time to give a shout out to Shifra Raskin for the wonderful job on Alexa’s makeup down the hall at Style The Salon here in the Orchard Mall.  First let’s take a look at the photo against the damask backdrop…

…and lastly the blue.  This shot in particular we really love just because Alexa is clearly having so much fun here – we just love how she’s in this moment!

And so there it is – awesomeness all the way around!  We hope you enjoyed these – we certainly enjoyed our time with Alexa!

Noah’s future is extremely bright indeed!  Fresh from a summer studying out on the West Coast, we spent a morning with him for his senior session and found him to be a pretty impressive guy who really has it together.

This was a session of firsts for us since we found a couple new spots that we had never used before.  For example the barn in the photo above we have photographed many times before but for whatever reason we had not ventured around to the back of it where this cool little wall is, and we love the broken wood down in the corner.  The photo works even better with Noah because he’s a tall guy, and we also love to position seniors off center on a wall like this.  As you will see in our behind the scenes vine below we’ll even have them “look off to their future” for the shot!!!  Haha!

"Looking to the future" with Noah – a great senior session to start the day this morning! Ha! https://t.co/lB30z8AFCu

— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) August 7, 2014

See?  We told you he has a bright future!  We then grabbed a shot in between some nearby trees and we love the way this one turned out…

Then we did a little venturing off the beaten path where we found the cool little bridge that you see in the vine.  It is a ground level bridge with a little creek running below it and it’s perfect!  Of course now it’s going to be “Noah’s bridge” going forward since that’s how we roll.

So after a very successful outing on location we came back to the studio for a couple last shots and got this great one on the simple white background.

Once again, we are glad we met Noah – great kid (not to mention great parents) and we look forward to big things from him.  We hope you enjoyed these photos from his session!

As we put Alexa in the senior spokesmodel spotlight for the class of 2015 she continues the trend as the third straight one whose older sibling was a Frameable Faces senior!  Alexa’s sister Jordyn was featured in this post from the class of 2013 – she is the fifth one from the top lying down with her face towards Ally’s camera in a close crop.  We are big fans of these girls and we have been looking forward to photographing Alexa for a long time!  We can say without any doubt that it was worth the wait and we are so happy to have her representing our studio!

We started out on the black background and we love the way the above photo turned out.  The shirt, the leather, the shoes – great combo.  Often the approach to a photo is a collaboration and the fashion is such a key part of a senior shoot.  The seniors bring a couple of suitcases of style.  Both Alexa and Sierra in this class said the exact same thing when they showed up for their sessions – “Okay I’m movin’ in!”  Then they go through the clothes with Ally who can help match the clothing with the photo set up.  Keep in mind for senior pictures we always meet with our senior ahead of time to go over strategy as well.  With our spokesmodels we can experiment a little more, but Alexa nailed that first look right out of the gate.

Next we moved to our spotlight set above which we built last year and it has proven to be a popular one.  It is versatile too since we can make the spotlights different colors but for this session we went with standard white.  Love it!  After we finished with the spotlight we broke out some colors.  We started out with Alexa in a green dress against the pink background:

We were having fun and laughing a lot as you can see in this vine…  🙂

@lexxxinthecity spokesmodeling! Star quality & so fun!

Then we went with a set up that is a little more elaborate and really cool.  A rustic wooden floor with a classic purple settee and a patterned fabric backdrop.  Oh – and love the shoes once again!

Another great outing and another outstanding senior in this upcoming class!  Great job Alexa!