In Studio Family Portraits

Lowell, MA – At 2 years old, Alaina was wonderful to photograph. Most sessions with children this age are super high paced. This was no different, but with those blue eyes and dimples, she made it incredibly easy to make these images. Here are some of our favorites from the session and I believe it’s also the introduction of the blue suitcase… kids love the blue suitcase!

6 Month Old Portraits

Lowell, MA – Who doesn’t love punk rock babies and sock monkey hats? OMG, Rosslyn is 6 months old!

“You won’t really know if you got it, so keep shooting”

Lowell, MA - This was one of the most high energy family sessions of last year. But what do you do when these sweet and adorable kids are so full of energy and can hardly stay still? In this case we got a lot of support from Mom and Dad (crucial to any family session), and we also took a ton of pictures. It was like shooting sports, where you follow the action and trust your auto focus. And of course we photographed the whole family together at the beginning of the session, when the kids were still warming up to the studio environment. After that we kind of just let them be themselves (which is our natural style anyway), as opposed to trying to pose them. The best part about a high energy session is that when you are looking back at your images your realize that you’ve captured their personalities perfectly.

Letting them be themselves…

Lowell, MA – While working with young children it’s always our goal to create images that show off their personality. The best way to do this is to plan some time during the session that is devoted to just having fun and playing. This session with Lilee (around 18 mo. in these images) shows a child just having fun which allows for the wonderfully expressive moments. At 18 months there is very little posing going on anyway, as you can imagine, so it’s natural to  allow the child’s mood and energy level to dictate the pace of the session.

Our Family is Growing

Lowell, MA - We had the pleasure of photographing the Andrea and Keith’s wedding back in 2007.  As with a lot of our wedding clients, we usually seem to cross paths again once a new addition enters their family. In this case, one month old Madelynn was was star of this session.

We’d like to congratulate Andrea and Keith on bringing a beautiful baby girl into the world!

Kids Being Kids

As families grow so do its individual members.  It’s important to us to capture each child at their particular stage in their life, so we would never photograph a 2 year old the same way we would a 6 year old. Having them bring in objects (toys, books, games and dress-ups) that they love sometimes helps bring out their individuality. It’s also important that the kids have fun during the session because that’s when we can capture their true personalities.

Sessions with siblings are usually very high energy and it can be challenging to keep their interest for the entire session. However, when we love photographing brothers and sisters together because when they interact with each other it is completely genuine. Even if the photography experience is new to them, they have their support network right there and that adds to the atmosphere both in the studio and on location.

Our job is pretty fun, don’t you think?

Mark Higgins and Family!

Lowell, MA – We had the pleasure of meeting Mark Higgins at ‘critique night’ over at MKD’s house about a year ago. This past year we’ve met some great photographers at ‘critique night’ and in process we’ve made some new friends. So as similar minds like to share ideas and talent we proposed a swap with Mark. We would photograph his family and in return he would evaluate our color correction on our monitors (he’s a whiz). It worked out perfectly, we got some great tips and reassurance that our workflow was on the right path, and Mark received our studio portrait experience. It was a fun session; the kids were energetic and expressive and Mark is such a great dad. We will definitely be doing another session in the future, maybe a location session next time.

We owe a big “THANKS” to Mark and the kids, you guys are the best!

Lowell, MA – The studio was merry and bright this year for holiday portraits. Check out some of our favorite sessions of the season.

Happy New Year!

Lowell, MA - I’m pretty sure this happens to everyone, or I should say I hope this happens to everyone. You know how there are those special people in your lives that you cannot  live without? Well these four ladies certainly fit that category and we miss them terribly. It’s been a busy year so we haven’t seen them as much as we’d like.

This was Rosslyn’s 3 month session from August (we’re so behind in blogging). The end of the Summer and Fall kind of flew by and with the Christmas and Holiday rush we really haven’t had time to hang out much. So we are very much looking forward to having a bit more time to spend with our friends and family. However, we are so excited for this weekend because we get to hang out with these wonderful ladies, take some pictures and make holiday cookies! Fun!

Andover, MA - Here’s one of our children’s portrait sessions from this past summer. We had photographed Jackson about a year before this particular session so it was great to see how much he had grown. This was definitely a high energy day as any child between 1 and 3 turns a portrait session into a track meet, but we wouldn’t have it any other way because it really fits our style of photography. For example, in order to get things going we had him just play with his favorite truck and the big red wagon. After all we have to make the session enjoyable for younger kids, so this usually means toys and lots of snack breaks.

The day was a bit cloudy and we did get some rain at the end of the shoot, but we pushed through it. Our sessions usually last between one and half to two hours, so by the time the rain really started to come down we had already got a ton of great stuff. With children’s portraits on location, we will encounter rain and uncooperative weather, but you just have to work with it when you live in New England.