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We had our second annual high school senior spokesmodel party yesterday for the Frameable Faces class of 2013 and it was a blast! Our group of 11 had been looking forward to this for a while and to finally see all the spokesmodels in the studio together wearing Frameable Faces t-shirts and having fun is one of the real highlights of the year for us. Each year we try to take it up one more notch and we definitely did this year…

When the spokesmodels arrived yesterday all of their t-shirts were laid out on a table with their spokesmodel cards which they can pass out to their friends.

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Frameable Faces t-shirts!

Once everyone arrived and introduced themselves to each other they started exchanging cards and I think some sort of card game broke out… hilarious!

Next was a special presentation – this year we added the spokesmodel video which includes video clips and images from each of the sessions – take a look!

Frameable Faces Spokesmodels Class of 2013!

After raucous applause we got down to the business of taking pictures for this year’s composite photo which will be revealed soon so stay tuned! We can’t wait to see the results of this – in the meantime here is last year’s from the class of 2012 which adorns one of our studio windows as a huge mural!

We were about to eat dinner next but everyone decided that they had to first put on our tutus for some bonus fun – what is it with seniors and tutus? Meanwhile one of our spokesmodels (Kyle) had to leave early leaving Donovan as the only boy – I don’t think he minded and things got pretty funny as you can see by clicking the link below… at this point Samantha hadn’t arrived yet so this is everyone minus Kyle and Samantha….

Spokesmodel Silliness!

At that point we ate some pasta and salad for dinner, and then we finished off the night with the piéce de résistance – the Just Baked cupcake tower with a Frameable Faces cake on top!!! The Chubby Hubby, Red Velvet, and Grumpy Cake cupcakes were the first to go…. YUM!!!!

All in all it was a great night and we are so happy to have these amazing young people representing our studio! As someone said during the party, “Peace Love and Frameable Faces”!!!!

Frameable Fun with the G’s!

April 12, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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We’ve been photographing this family since before they were a family! M was one of Ally’s first subjects when she went back to school to study photography. They’re like family to us here and we always welcome a session with them whenever they ask. The fact that they’re insanely photogenic doesn’t hurt either!!

The “reason” behind the timing of this photo session was that “R” was getting braces the very next day, and M and T wanted a fun family photo session before she got them. 🙂

Ally loved getting some of the fun “interactive” poses with T and B and the sweet, loving mom and daughter poses with M and R, too. But when the kids got together in their poses, everyone ended up collapsing with laughter. Those two could have each other in a headlock one second and pull out the best, most amazing expressions in the next. They’re just like our own kids – laughing and smiling in one moment but then they’ll switch modes on a dime and push each others buttons in the next! The G family is one that we’ll claim as our own….whenever we’re around these guys, laughs are abundant, fun is obvious and great times are had!

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A Newborn Addition to a Lovely Family!

March 24, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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You should’ve heard the excitement when we got the call to photograph this sweet newborn! 10 days old at the session and she was pure sugar! Sweet, smushy and very cuddly!

Baby “S” came into the studio with her her dashingly handsome dad, her exquisite mom and her adorable big brother. Put them together and what a beautiful family!!! We had to so some coaxing to get these amazing smiles from big brother, L, but when we “popped” the flash, we got some fabulous smiles out of that little boy! Don’t you just want to jump right into that photo and just squeeze his little face?!?!

After we captured the newest family photos, little Miss S got her very own turn in the spotlight. What a little love she was! She let us change her clothes, move her around and barely woke up for it. There’s just something some amazing and wondrous about a sleeping newborn baby. Little lips, little nose, little finger and little toes. Ally was swooning!!!!

It’s families like this that make our job not really a job. We are so lucky and so blessed!

“A” For Absolute Frameable Family Photo Fun!

March 16, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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You already know how much fun we have in the studio. And if you haven’t ever had a session with us, you can probably tell by looking at our images how much fun they look. But when we have a family in here that can make US laugh….that’s when the real fun begins. This is the the “A” family. From the moment they came in to the studio, the boys were all about F-U-N!

M is all about being the big brother. It was so much fun to watch him interact with D. D is a typical little brother. So funny, keeping the family (and us!) in stitches. One liners were abundant and we were laughing while we were photographing their entire session.

And talk about some talent, too! M brought in his cello (and gave Doug some serious cello envy, since he was a cellist in the Orchestra back in high school). He played the theme from Star Wars and wowed Ally. D is a pretty accomplished lego maniac. You should have seen the pieces from his collection that he brought in! Impressive!

J and J, you guys have some pretty amazing boys. We had so much fun with you all! Enjoy your sneak peaks!

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The E Family Session

February 25, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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A few weeks ago, we had the E family in the studio. They were such a blast to work with! J and Ally had been friends since high school, but had fallen out of touch until recently. We had such a nice time working with her, her husband M and their sweet kids! So much personality in the studio!!! The sounds of laughter were echoing throughout the mall. Those are the kinds of sessions we love!

The B Family – B for beautiful that is…!

February 20, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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Ya know how there’s that one family that you’re always so excited to see when they stop by your studio (or workplace)? The one with the adorable little kid who’s all personality that you just want to squeeze and talk to all day? The people who you just click with – you can just sit and talk to them while you’re working so that your work doesn’t even seem like work?

THAT family came into the studio a few weeks ago. You may recognize little MIss E from our studio walls. She made Ally fall in love with her because of her super sweet personality that just shines through in every single photograph. So when her parents came by several months ago and wanted to book a session, we were over the moon excited to work with them!

There was a ton of laughing and so many big personalities at Frameable Faces that day! Not sure how you didn’t hear all of the noise, jokes and wit from where you were, but we can assure you….it was there!!!

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Watch out for the B family!!! They’re definitely going places! We expect big things from these guys!

Frameable Pups!

February 10, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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Let’s “paws” for this blog post as we celebrate a few of our frameable pups! Pet photography is lots of fun and while dogs are not allowed in the Orchard Mall as a rule we have an exemption for our canine frameables who come to our studio for their close up. Yes sometimes Frameable Faces Photography goes to the dogs. Ally has been known to be a bit of a dog whisperer – she has a pretty good rapport with these furry friends and we thought we’d share a few images of Buster, Jasmine, Chuck and Maggie… enjoy!

Cold outside? It’s “haute” in here!

February 1, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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“Haute” is listed in the dictionary as “fashionable, high-class”, and we found a gorgeous model to work with to showcase our “Haute” sessions here at Frameable Faces. These sessions are so fun and we wanted to display a few of the images from this shoot. Sometimes it’s fun to push the envelope a little and share the results with a significant other. Sometimes it’s fun to, ahem, really push it with a boudoir shoot and we do those at a private location, but for now we’re just talking fashionable, sexy and fun in the studio, and our model was all that and a bag of chips! 🙂

Attention Small Business Owners – 10 things you should know

January 27, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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I just read a fantastic blog post that I wanted to share. http://virtualphotographystudio.com/photographyblog/2010/05/running-a-photography-business/comment-page-1/#comment-11993 It is entitled “10 Things You Should Know About Running A Photography Business”, but you could easily remove the word “Photography” as most of these are universal and wherever the topic is specifically photography related you could easily insert products or services from your own trade.

For us this was mostly reinforcement that we are approaching our business the right way but we still have two weaknesses on this list and we’ll be the first to admit them:

Number 3 – we need to hand off some of this bookkeeping – NOW. I’m good at tracking many aspects of our business but I’m not exactly an expert bookkeeper and some of this stuff bogs me down. When I read this point it kind of smacked me in the face….

Number 6 – actually more of a strength for us overall (so maybe I lied). We do this well – we are specialists and not generalists (love that way of putting it by the way). We do NOT specialize in event photography. We will not photograph huge events. Or even pretty big events. We will photograph certain smaller events and we are selective about which ones will fit for us and our clients. We are fortunate to have the talents of miss Angela Bell as well for some of our informal events such as engagement parties that require more casual images – she is our second photographer and she does a great job on those. As a rule however, we specialize in portrait photography – all kinds. Yes it’s a broad category but it’s one category we enjoy the most and it’s where we rock. I listed this one because we need reminding – as do all business owners – to resist the temptation to accept a one-off job that isn’t really what you do best and isn’t what you want to be known for. We’ve done this before and we’ve learned that we should not be doing it or we should at least think it all the way through first.

Hope this helps and we would like you to add any advice for us and for each other if there is something you don’t see on this list. Please comment and join the discussion!

– Doug

Senior Highlights From The Classes of 2011 and 2012!

January 24, 2012

by Doug Cohen

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We love photographing high school seniors here at Frameable Faces! As we prepare to start photographing our new crew of spokesmodels for the class of 2013 we have been reflecting on the fantastic class of 2012 and how great of a class it was. Having gone to high school together (go North Farmington Raiders!) we still talk about high school a lot and we keep a couple of our yearbooks here at the studio. The current seniors get a kick out of them. They are vintage 80’s yearbooks – big hair, skinny ties and the like. It’s fun comparing the changing styles and that leads to conversations about changing trends in senior pictures.

Do a search on Wikipedia for Senior Portraits and the article will tell you that senior portraits date back at least to the 1920’s, but today’s senior pictures aren’t your grandparents’ or even your parents’ senior photos… today they are way more awesome! North Farmington High School’s yearbooks for example didn’t even have color senior headshots in the yearbooks before 1988 and “back then” seniors weren’t typically going on location for part of a three hour shoot. So as we look forward to getting started with the class of 2013 we take a brief look back at a few of our favorite images from the classes of ’11 and ’12….