Jessica

Earlier this week Jessica came in for her senior portraits. Her mom and a friend came along for support. It seems she had her portraits done at another studio and wasn't pleased with the outcome. No pressure, here, right? ;-) That just happens sometimes, so we thought we'd do some fun portraits inside and at the park. I'm really happy with how these ended up.

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Carson's First Birthday

Carson came in for his 12-month session last week. He's been so much fun to photograph over this year and this time was no different. We did a "pat-a-cake" session for his birthday -- that's when we put him in front of a (baby-sized) cake and see what happens. He was great. He just dived right into that cake and didn't want to stop. There are a bunch more pictures in the slideshow, so take a look!

Canteen at Karrer Middle School

Last night we were photographing at the Canteen again. We've done this for every one of them this year. This was the final one of the year and we got to test out our new photo printer. Sorry, no pictures to show -- we don't have releases for them.

In the past, for "print on the spot" events, we had four printers set up. We would get a 4x6 print every 90 seconds, which is pretty slow for this kind of thing. And then having to deal with printing to the correct printers, not sending too many at once because they'd overheat, and then matching them up with the right people. It was confusing, to say the least.

With our new printer, we couln't keep up with it to put the prints into folders! It's that fast. And because it printed so quickly, matching up names with pictures was easy. This is definitley a volume printer designed for this kind of work. It's the same printer that's used in the mall for pictures with Santa or the Easter Bunny or whatever. I had always been a little disappointed with those prints -- they seemed "soft" or kind of blurry to me. I don't know what they're doing because the prints from ours look incredible. It prints at a higher resolution than most labs' printers, I believe.

Anyway, back to the canteen. We had only purchased 5x7 paper so the students last night got bigger prints than before, though I doubt any of them noticed. In the past, there were dress-up clothes and props but this time it was just the backdrop. We used our tie-dye backdrop, which is always a big hit. We had several students come back for 4, 5, even six pictures! In the two hours we were there, we printed and delivered 195 5x7 prints, all in easel folders -- by far the most we've ever done at one event.

We now feel completely prepared for other events like Christmas parties at businesses, ballroom dance competitions and showcases, birthday parties, corporate events, fundraisers, baseball games, other sports events, general promotion -- anything that requires a quality photograph quickly.

More pictures in Columbus Bride

Once again, we have a few photographs in the latest issue of Columbus Bride magazine. It's always fun to go through the magazine and see what they've picked.

First, on page 14, there's a beautiful image, highlighting this bride's dress:

Then, on page 47, there's a picture of the flowers from Kim and Brett's wedding:

A few pages later (p. 51) they pick one of my favorite flower pictures from Kelly and Allen:

Also from Kelly and Allen's wedding is a picture of their cake on page 127:

Sara and Matt also have one of their pictures, on page 138:

The next one, on page 170, is also from Kelly and Allen's wedding:

And you can't forget our ad on page 176:

Then Sara and Andy have their wedding featured on page 210 with two of their pictures:


And finally there's one more image on page 230. It's the same picture we used in our ad!:

We love getting our pictures published (who wouldn't?) and it's fun to give our couples as many magazines as they want.

Tea Pups

Once again, we're photographing a new litter of White German Shepherd puppies. These are just three-and-a-half weeks old. They had just started hearing that morning and their eyes are now open. It was fun using the teacups again.

We're planning on doing another set of portraits in a couple weeks so stay tuned for that.

Here's the slideshow. Leave a comment!

Ethan at 6 Months

This is so much fun. Sometimes I can't believe I actually get paid to do what I love. Yesterday afternoon Ethan came in with his parents for his 6 month portraits. They wanted some family pictures, too, so we had everyone in there for some of them. Of course, we had to get some pictures in the tub. At first he wasn't too keen on the idea, but he warmed up to it. Then he didn't want to get out of it. Just goes to show you, you never know what you'll like unless you try it first.

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