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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Ellory came to the studio this week with her mom Jodi for some good vibes, her modeling closeup and some fun! We definitely got all three. What a sharp and adorable girl she is and we really had a blast so let’s take a look at some highlights!
Ellory Was Ready For Good Vibes
We photographed the whole session on the black backdrop but with a few different styles and we’ll start with some Good Vibes right off the bat!
The laughing photo is a fun one to set the stage – this girl couldn’t keep the SERIOUS pose for too long without just a little giggling.
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from Facebook Live:
And now let’s change up a couple of styles! We broke out the fan for some of that “black and blowy” glam!
Ellory is such a rock star!
We also have some fun behind the scenes on this too but for whatever reason I’ve been struggling with the audio and covering the mic when we go live on Instagram. No idea why…. we’ve been livestreaming on Periscope and other platforms for 3 years with no problem but for some reason we’re a little snake bitten on Instagram. BUT – in this case it’s kind of funny…. if you watch at the 48 second mark I ask Ellory what she wants to do with her life and her reaction is priceless. First I played around with her acting shocked that she didn’t know, and then I let her off the hook telling her I didn’t know until less than 10 years ago. It’s pretty cute.
Let’s also give a shout out to Valoria at The Beauty Lounge for Ellory’s hair – that’s Valoria making an appearance in the livestream too.
Now let’s wrap it up with a couple more photos! This next one is really nice – Ellory is wearing her mom’s dress here!
And one more – a fun close up from above:
Totes Adorbs!!!
And there you have it – you can see we had so much fun with this little whirlwind of cuteness and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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The Octopus is a really cool animal. They’re smart, fascinating to watch, and there are 289 kinds of them! But why have they become a symbol of a local independent photography studio in West Bloomfield, MI where none of them live within thousands of miles? Let’s find out…
How The Octopus Became A Symbol At Frameable Faces
As you may know we name a lot of stuff here. We name locations for the seniors who pioneer them, we name equipment and some of them even take on their own personas and start tweeting, sitting down for interviews…. etc. Oy.
Meanwhile we have a studio light that is octagonal shaped and we started referring to “him” as “Octo” just for fun. That was how this whole thing started. You see, over the last few years (it will actually be exactly 3 years on 3/31/18) we have been periscoping as you may know, and along the way The📷Doug&Ally📷Morning Show!🎙☕ became a thing. We made the trending list on the app which is owned by and integrated with Twitter as “Twitter Live” and we now have over 22k followers literally around the world. At some point during the show when a newbie shows up we welcome them and give a tour of the studio, and the tour itself has become a daily event with many recurring hallmarks and themes of its own – one of which is Octo which somewhere along the way became “The World Famous Frameable Faces Octopus”. Not sure the exact origins of this can be traced beyond the likely scenario of someone thinking I said Octopus one day instead of Octobox, and…..well…..take a look below and you’ll get an idea of what has happened:
Yes the World Famous Frameable Faces Octopus gave way to the rise of the #Octosquad! Our friend Lauren (@Sound_Of_Boots) usually makes the announcement and everyone gets their octo on. Pretty much anyone can be a member of the Octosquad, just like anyone can be a Frameable – it’s an attitude, a lifestyle if you will, and you just jump on in!
Since then octopuses (yes that’s the proper plural of octopus) have been popping up everywhere. In the studio….
That’s the octo we brought back from the Keys with his partner Fitzy’s Maine Lobster. Fitzy is one of our Periscope friends who sent us that from his trip to Maine.
These little octos who sit by Doug’s computer were a gift by Periscope friends Jacqui Of All Trades and Laughing Leo who brought them to the studio on a visit…
We even found a tiny octo with our friend Steve (Steve named him Ocho) in a bucket down in the Florida Keys on the Frameable Faces 2017 Spring Break Tour…
Octos even adorn our bookmarks which we’ve been giving out as rewards for subscribers of our Patreon page… Our friend @McFannie showed hers off with a tweet!
It’s gotten to be such a big deal that Reflecto seems to be getting a little salty about it…
He’ll get over it….
And there you have it! Now you know how the #Octosquad was born and how the Octopus became such a symbol of Frameable Faces! We hope you’ll join the Octosquad too!
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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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We have always offered custom framing here at Frameable Faces, but frankly we never did it as well as we could. Now that’s not to say that when we custom framed a piece for a client it wasn’t fantastic because it was – pretty much without exception. The problem was we weren’t always as efficient as we could have been and we didn’t talk about it enough which is probably why we weren’t creating the amazing pieces we are now. You see we’ve revamped our entire approach to framing – bringing in a vendor who has been in the game for a long time with an amazing eye and lightning fast turnarounds. Our clients have already seen a difference. Just as an example in our studio alone this photo of Mikaela one of our past seniors always catches everyone’s eye because it’s so stunning.
We decided to print it again and frame it for the window…
So okay, this is very exciting right? But does it make for a very exciting blog post just to say we are doing some awesome custom framing now? Sounds a little salesy or infomercially. But I was having trouble coming up with an exciting, entertaining and valuable way to present it – you know a way that would generate tons of hits to our blog and tons of custom framing sales without selling at you all.
Writer’s Block?
I was stumped. In the past when I’ve been stumped I’ve turned to my handy dandy Portent’s Content Idea Generator to get some wonderful ideas for blogging. I found 7 really great ones so why just stick to one? I want to wow you about custom framing after all right? So let’s not hold back – let’s do ’em all. This could be awesome. Or…..it could be a disaster.
7 Reasons This Blog Post About Custom Framing Could Be A Disaster
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You love the Biebs. Of course you love the Biebs. Who doesn’t love the Biebs? Not…..me of course. I uh, love him – yeah that’s it. And guess what? 1) Every portrait Justin has in his house is CUSTOM FRAMED so you should really consider doing that, 2) The Biebs thought about getting a dog once and decided a photo of a dog in a CUSTOM FRAME would be just as good and it wouldn’t poop on the floor, and 3) The Biebs has a massive CUSTOM FRAME of the lyric “Baby Baby Baby” in his great room and it’s a huge hit when he entertains.
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Okay there is NO way I have time to research 11 reasons the Amish were right about custom framing. Besides is there even a way to research that without visiting the Amish themselves? This blog post is going South already….
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Totally. This is absolutely a thing. If you are having problems in your marriage the only thing you need to fix it is a formal portrait together in a glorious custom frame that you can see when you walk in the door as a reminder of your immense love for each other. Done. Doesn’t even matter if one of you snores (ALLEGEDLY). Phew – okay that was an easy one.
4.
Well YEAH….. of course it’s a Blankety-Blank. Wait, actually that sounds bad. Is this helping here?
5.
13? I don’t have time for this. Maybe this was a mistake – I could think of 13 for a single post but all that work for just a 7th of a post? Okay let’s try a few: 1) Everyone assumes a custom frame will fall off the wall and land on their head. NOT TRUE in most cases. With good craftmanship and a wire on the back it should stay on the wall. 2) Everyone thinks custom framing costs an arm and a leg. NOT TRUE but maybe just an arm. Hey you don’t want garbage on your walls do you? 3) That’s enough – you get the idea….
6.
Okay Portent’s Content Idea Generator what kind of an idea is this??? Really? Um…. I don’t know use a wad of gum to – oh forget it.
7.
There are plenty of reasons to be talking about custom framing! Probably even more than 9. And while canvas, acrylic, and metal are all great ways to display your photos as well, don’t forget about custom framing! You can match your decor and put something on your wall that you can be proud of for years, and we can help you! Okay that was slightly salesy but it’s totally true.
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Zinging around the woods with Zach on an unseasonably warm late fall day is our idea of a good time! Zach is a fun dude – he’s a buddy of our son Tony too so he passes the test for full approval – haha… We are also actually distant cousins with Zach so we’ve known his mom Liz forever too so we knew this would be a fun day.
Zinging around the woods with Zach
We headed over to the woods behind the West Bloomfield library and found a pathway that we had never taken before, and wow what a cool spot! The forest floor was coated with fall leaves and we got some great stuff, so let’s get to it shall we?
Zach chilling among the tall trees!
We also have some fun behind the scenes action as we usually do. Snapchat is being weird but we have our Facebook Live broadcast which is a lot of fun! Take a look:
And now let’s get to the rest of the highlighted photos:
Just relaxing on a log – we were having a pretty chill time.
And we’ll leave you with one more!
Good stuff – Zach looking good up close and personal!
And there you have it – we zinged around the woods with Zach and got some fantastic shots! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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Aparna just turned 16 and her mom Manila wanted to celebrate with some portraits and with a half saree no less! We love the Indian half saree traditional dress – they are so pretty with such radiant colors – a photographer’s dream! Aparna is a sweetheart too and we had fun with the two of them and Aparna’s little brother came along for support as well!
Aparna is a Sweet Sixteen!
So let’s get to some of these portraits. We actually did some in the half saree and some in more casual attire. We’ll start with the half saree:
Beautiful!
This is another beautiful view from above as well…
Now for this session we didn’t livestream, but we do have some behind the scenes in this brief video – take a look!
Now let’s change over to the casual fun:
Love the the “Sweet 16” – and the world – at Aparna’s feet!
And one more on the red backdrop:
So fun!
As you can see we loved celebrating this occasion with Aparna and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Tricia and her hubby came in from Texas and brought in the whole crew for this session and it was a blast – a whole gaggle of little cousins running around and lots of laughter in the studio! Gotta love when three generations get together for family portraits and we certainly love these results. Let’s take a look:
Three Generations
It’s all about family and we’ll start with the whole family portrait on the blue / grey background…
Great crew!!!
We also had a little fun with some behind the scenes in the form of a Facebook Live broadcast – take a look!
And here we start to break it down into each of the families for more intimate portraits of each!
How cute are they?
Haha – awesome – hands full with little ones!
And now here is the coup de grace! Love this collage that Ally put together of the cousins:
So precious! A great one to end it on and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of the three generations that Tricia brought to the studio on this day!
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We’ve had a couple of Hakims here in the studio before – Nadia and Aliya both had their senior portraits done here, and what a delight it was to have the whole fam back in the studio together for a family session! Everyone looked great and we had a lot of fun! So with these highlights we say hello Hakims!!!
Hello Hakims!
They were nicely coordinated with the maroon colors which look fabulous on the brown fabric background and we’ll start with the group portrait…
What a crew.
We also have some fun behind the scenes action for you from our Facebook Live broadcast replay:
Now let’s get into a few fun groupings – first the sibs all together…
Fun!
Next we have the happy couple:
How cute are they???
And we’ll end it with this fantastic shot of just these 4 stunning ladies!
Gorgeous!
So there you have it – we hope you enjoyed saying “Hello Hakims!” as much as we did!
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Love it!
What a crew.
