If you’ve followed this blog long enough you know we are very alliterative around here… The “triple s” title for this one was too hard to pass up with our Raider Representative Sophie!!! North Farmington Raiders that is which WE are as well, and we are heads over heels for this adorable ball of energy and aspiring tattoo artist from the upcoming senior class of 2025! We’ve actually known Sophie for most of her life so her mom Carrie gave her to us for the day and what a day! We hung out, laughed a ton, ate, and oh – we took some photos too. Some AMAZING photos. We’ve got a lot to look forward to for this upcoming class if our spokesmodel crew is any indicator so far. Let’s get to the pics!
Sophie In The Sity
We started out at Eastern Market which was definitely bustling on this Saturday morning…
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!
And we have some fun behind the scenes as well from the session which is all part of the fun – this one is from Instagram:
And more behind the scenes this time from Facebook!
To be clear we go into every senior session with a strategy – we have a consultation with our seniors before every session, and while our spokesmodel sessions tend to be our time to experiment with new locations and techniques we don’t always know when we’ll come across an open suitcase in a vintage store that our fun-sized senior will fit in so perfectly! Hehe…. this photo is everything.
How awesome is that?
And we’ll leave you with this one – a gorgeous dress at a gorgeous spot. As you can see it’s typical for our seniors to change outfits multiple times for different looks in our sessions. They can change as many times as they like!
Wow. Breathtaking!!!
We cannot WAIT to get this girl in front of Ally’s camera again along with the rest of the class of 2025 Frameable SENIORS, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Sophie in the Sity!
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Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Teresa’s Senior Session was a “triumphant trio” of studio, outdoors and at the library! We’ve photographed a few seniors at the library now and they are so much fun – partly because if a senior is into books then we have a lot to talk about because so are we! Teresa was no exception – what a delight – smart, funny, adorable – all the things! And this girl loves history which is Doug’s language. A class of 2024 senior from Canton Prep, Teresa and her mom Ugochi joined us for quite the enjoyable day – let’s get to the highlights!
Teresa’s Triumphant Trio
We’ll start in the studio and on the grey background where Teresa wowed us with a beautiful outfit of traditional Nigerian dress…
LOVE!
We also have some fun behind the scenes from this setup from Facebook Live!
An outfit change and a new backdrop later we captured Teresa on the red couch for this one:
Gorgeous.
Okay now let’s get to the second and third parts of the trio! First outside…
Big fan of that one outside, and then we went into the library where we went live again, this time on Instagram. But shhhhhhhh – you have to be quiet in the library! Hehe…
And here is the result – we’ll leave you with this one:
The triumphant trio is complete!
We loved spending time with Teresa and Ugochi and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with them!
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Wow…. we’re coming up on a quarter of the way into the 21st century and this new crew of spokesmodels WILL be one we are honored to have on our team – starting with Allie representing Frankel Jewish Academy! Ally babysat Allie’s mom so things continue to come full circle here at Frameable Faces!
We love our spokesmodels and Allie is awesome – adorable, smart, funny, outgoing – we love her! And her parents Jenny & Ron are pretty okay too – Jenny joined us at the studio for Allie’s spokesmodel session where we brought out a few brand new setups along with a couple of our tried and true favorites! Let’s take a look!
Allie Leads The Way
Love the green on green! The on location photos typically have the overall edge in terms of the percentage that we take of our seniors, but our studio work is so much fun and we’ve been experimenting with some lighting techniques and some new equipment! We picked up a few tricks in Louisville at Imaging USA last month that we’re darn excited for, and our seniors get to choose studio AND location photos so it’s very common for us to do a little of both even if it’s 1/3rd studio and 2/3rds location. Any mix is up to the senior and we plan that out in a consultation ahead of time!
We also have some fun behind the scenes from the session first from Facebook:
And here’s the result:
Love it! Also want to give a shout out to Lisa North of NorthStar Luxe for the wonderful job on Allie’s hair and makeup! Lisa will be one of our choices for makeup this year – she’s awesome.
Here’s the black and blowy which is an old fave, but we have a new backdrop and lighting setup for it…
GORGEOUS.
Oh and we have more behind the scenes on that too from Instagram:
We’ll leave you with one more outfit change – outfit changes are a must! We actually allow as many as you like in our three hour sessions! The sweet spot is usually around 4-5 give or take.
Oh yeah, and there’s a red gel involved on that one…. SO COOL.
So there you have it! We are HYPED. Allie was the perfect spokesmodel to kick it off and we can’t wait to photograph her for her senior pics – we’ve always loved photographing Allie – here’s proof (she’s the older sis):
Cuteness overload. And now she’s all grown up and a total delight. We hope you enjoyed the highlights of her session and we can’t wait to share pics with you of the rest of our crew as we gear up for the Class of 2025!!!
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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An artistic approach is indeed what we took with Amara for her senior pictures and it turned into a really special session! Amara is a soft-spoken sweetheart, she’s a North Farmington Raider just like us and she looked adorable among the art at Danielle Peleg Art Gallery! We’ve known the Pelegs for a long long time and they have done an amazing job with their gallery in Keego Harbor on Orchard Lake Road. We are so thankful to them for the use of their gallery for Amara’s session and we love when seniors have ideas like this for their session! We were joined by her dad Michael and her mom Yarisha for these incredible portraits – let’s get to them!
An Artistic Approach With Amara
LOVE the photo through the sculpture….!!!
Here’s one up close and personal with the pretty colors behind our girl of the hour.
At this point it was time for an outfit change:
There was no shortage of pieces on display for Amara to connect with…
And we’ll leave you with one more:
Beautiful!!!
And there you have it – an artistic approach that yielded fantastic results! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Amara!
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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How’s that for a title! Okay so we didn’t literally take over Louisville at Imaging USA 2024 but it’s about going in with that mindset and we crushed it. We brought the whole team – Doug, Ally, Angela and Michelle and we learned a ton, mingled with photographer friends old and new and we are pretty fired up to bring back that knowledge along with new equipment, techniques and materials for some new styles for our portraits!
*Side note: The formatting seems a little wonky on this blog post for some reason so there may be a couple of empty spaces you have to scroll past – don’t worry, there aren’t photos that aren’t showing up or anything.
Louisville Is A Cool City
We stayed right downtown and the Kentucky International Convention Center is a world class facility. Downtown is pretty clean and walkable – surprisingly we can’t say there was a ton of energy down there – not a lot of people or traffic downtown but it was nice. Here’s the view down market street from the hotel – keep in mind Doug took these photos with his iPhone – these are NOT professional photos lol…
Here we are at Heine Brothers’ Coffee with Metro Detroit photographer Sam Sarkis – one of the very best wedding photographers in the game. Always great to spend time with other photographers we respect to talk shop!
Imaging USA 2024!
This was the home screen of the app that would pop up on your smartphone when you launched it and the app was really well done with every piece of information you could want on every seminar, and you could pick the ones you wanted to attend to populate your calendar and review them as well. The entire center was decked out too… every wall and escalator with kiosks everywhere.
The keynote speaker was Victoria Labalme and she delivered a fantastic talk – very inspiring indeed. Many of the speakers throughout the conference were fabulous.
We did a little Facebook Livestream (of course) right as we entered the expo for the first time where we were able to chat with just about every vendor of note in the business…
What’s also kind of funny it that it was around this time that we were “featured” (haha) in Miller’s Lab’s reel on Instagram – a couple people noticed and messaged us about it!
One vendor we’ll highlight that we were REALLY impressed with was a company called Graphi Studio – we fell in love with some of their albums and we may just be offering some of them to you soon!!!
And that’s the thing…. there was SOOOO much to see.
Here we are with Tomayia Colvin who was one of the speakers – she may have been the best one at Imaging USA – wow. She’s based in Houston and she KNOWS her stuff.
Here is Ron Nichols presenting – he’s the owner of ProSelect which is the software we use for our ordering meetings that you’ve all seen. And boy are the new features coming to that exciting… Holy moly. We hung out with Ron for a while at a sports bar to watch the Lions game (although we don’t want to talk about that too much… 🙁).
So yeah…. in conclusion, we crushed it.
The closing party was lit, putting a nice final touch on the proceedings!
See! We TOLD you Frameable Faces TOOK OVER Louisville!!!! LOL!!!
And there you have it – a wonderful week at Imaging USA 2024 and we hope you enjoyed the recap!!!
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Hey everybody! Okay – so there has been so much going on here at the studio and in our lives, and while it may seem like there’s been a lull in the action it’s really been more like a duck who seems calm on the surface but is paddling like mad underneath. We’ve got BIG plans for 2024!
Plans For 2024
We thought it would be fun to let you in on some of the things we have on tap for the year – Frameable Faces related AND otherwise!
Imaging USA
We last went to Imaging USA in Nashville in 2010 – which is hard to believe… Imaging USA is an annual national photography convention through the PPA, and while we’ve always said we should get back to another one we’re finally doing it next weekend in Louisville! Last time we were at Imaging USA we did a little video recap to document our trip – it seems a bit crude to us now lol… but that was a great trip and we learned a ton.
Funny too because Frameable Faces was really still a fledgling studio in the grand scheme of things…
This time is going to be way different.
For starters we are going with the dream team from our preschool division Angela and Michelle! You know Angela as our event photographer for many years which she still is, but last year she was joined by Michelle here in launching our schools division for day care centers and nursery schools and the two of them are doing an amazing job! More on them soon with a separate tab here on the site with their bios and more info, so stay tuned (we got a bit behind on that). Neither of them have been to Imaging so this feels like a next chapter in the growth of the studio and we are thrilled! It feels like coming full circle a bit and now we’re “grizzled veterans” with a long running and successful studio with a wonderful community, thriving at our beloved home of 15 years now – Orchard Mall!
The Usual but a bit more…
As much as things may change many things remain the same and that is our love of high school senior photos – so we’re assembling our new Class of 2025 (how is that possible) spokesmodel crew – a couple are already on board and we are so excited to start photographing them! But another thing has happened that has steadily grown that we love that we might not have seen coming 10 or even 5 years ago and that’s COLLEGE senior pics! Okay they’re not quite the same as high school senior pics but boy are they a blast.
When spring rolls around we are finding ourselves in Ann Arbor, East Lansing and hopefully elsewhere in the future bopping around campus usually with a crew of friends in their caps and gowns or fun college gear…..and quite often champagne lol. So that’s another thing we get to look forward to these days which is a recent development. And of course we still photograph plenty of corporate headshots, families and newborns. Including newborns of our former seniors – that’s also a newer development!!! Talk about full circle and surreal….
Other updates with the fam
Doug is still jamming in his band Vintage Playboy and the next gig is on April 13th at the B1 Tavern in Keego Harbor – come on out and jam! The B1 Tavern actually has really good food – not just bar food – so come early, eat and make a night out of it!
Doug also still has digital marketing clients with his company M10 Social – if you haven’t been to the website Doug has added a lot to it. There are now THREE blogs there! The M10 Blog for Doug’s thoughts, tips and news in the digital marketing space and social media. Doug’s Music Snobbery where Doug reviews albums, concerts, album rankings, band profiles and lots of other stuff. His Prince album ranking is the second ranked one just behind Spin Magazine! Lastly is Doug’s History Blog – you know he’s a history freak and there are a bunch of photos there from roadtrips to battlefields, president’s homes, national parks and much more – including our epic family western road trip last year where we hit NINE National Parks, THREE president’s homes and more.
We also moved last summer – back to Farmington Hills and we love our new place. Lacey is in Brooklyn having finished up her M.F.A. in creative writing at Long Island University and you can visit her website at www.laceycohen.com! Tony graduated from MSU and moved home and what is he doing you ask…..?
It’s Detroit Jerky Time!
We bought a company called Detroit Jerky! It’s a plant-based jerky – vegan, cruelty free and gluten free and we are so excited to get that going – so we’ve been pretty busy needless to say. Tony is the CJO (Chief Jerky Officer) and we’ll be working out of the Proud Mitten Shared Kitchen in Plymouth. We expect to be in production and selling jerky sometime in March if all goes according to plan. Visit the website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn! It’s delicious – you’ll love it.
Whew! That’s about it for the moment – and that’s plenty. We are so excited for 2024 and we look forward to seeing all of you this year!
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Get the Doug&Ally Morning Show PODCAST at the following links!!!
If this session looks familiar to you it’s because Owen’s big bro Aiden was on this blog a couple years ago and Owen is also a Detroit Catholic Central Shamrock – except this time the sport is RUGBY! Owen and his mom (and our longtime friend) Kelly joined us for a great time at CC as well as a little time at the studio and we got some fantastic stuff…. Let’s take a look!
Owen Crushes It
We started on location at CC:
Home field advantage!
There’s really so much to work with for our Shamrocks on that beautiful campus… and we also have some fun behind the scenes first from Instagram:
This was one of our final fall sessions and we sure got some Pure Michigan feels going here…
One more from CC…
Looking good Owen!!!
At this point we headed back to the studio and here’s a little more behind the scenes from Facebook:
And we’ll leave you with this last LIT pic:
BOOM!
Great way to end it! Hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Owen!
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Anthony is awesome. We love this dude – not a shy young man by any stretch let’s say. This CC Shamrock has represented the studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2024 and he’s done it in style so we were pumped for another go round over at the CC campus this time for his senior pics! His parents Lynne and John joined us for a day of fun so let’s get to some highlights!
Anthony Is Awesome
YES!!! And those fall colors man…. perfection.
We have some fun behind the scenes too first from Facebook:
The Catholic Central campus is beautiful and there is plenty to work with whether it’s a natural setting or some CC landmarks…
Here’s one at the grotto…
Looking good Anthony! Here’s a little more behind the scenes fun from Instagram:
And we’ll leave you with one more by the big CC logo out at the campus entrance:
Anthony is awesome indeed and so was his session! 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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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If you know you know with this kid. He’s funny – we had a blast with him! His grandmother actually set this up and came to the session for the studio part with her sister and then his parents came to the studio to go through the results. They are ALL a hoot. And frankly we can say this here that senior pictures were not really on Drake’s radar going into this, but he absolutely had fun and we laughed plenty with this class of 2024 Waterford Mott Corsair! Let’s get to the highlights!
Dude…..Drake Is Da Man
Drake’s got the milion-watt smile! Love the formal look in the studio and we often think this works really well on the grey paper background.
As does the casual look! What a stud.
At this point we went on location for a little fall color and we actually got some snow flurries!
And we’ll leave you with this one…
Crushed it.
Dude – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Drake! We’ll always remember this guy.
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Jonah makes his return to the blog and we’re pretty pleased to present these highlights of this dude. Jonah has been a fine representative of the class of 2024 for our studio as a spokesmodel and we were excited to get this West Bloomfield Laker in front of Ally’s camera again. This time we photographed at a private location and it was soooooo cool. We don’t have livestream behind the scenes for that reason, but we ain’t mad about it. Not even a little – we had a great time with Jonah and his parents Wendy and Howard and the results rock! Let’s get to it.
Jonah Makes His Return
Looking good Jonah!
The grounds at this place are spectacular – perfect to frame our guy…
As usual Jonah’s wardrobe was right on point as well…
Love the more formal look!
And we’ll leave you with one more:
Awesome. See what we mean? What a day, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with Jonah!
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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!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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