Cousins

Weeks ago, (on my birthday in fact) I took some photographs for the family of one of my favorite little guys and his entire extended family. Here's cousins Cooper and Joshua.

I think Cooper is so beautiful handsome!

I have a couple with Cooper smiling in this family grouping, but I like his serious expression here.


Mr. Joshua was such a pleasant little fellow and quite easy to photograph. (Love it when that happens!)

...together...

As much as I like photographing little people, sometimes it's nice to photograph people who know how to sit still! Here's an engagement I did the other day for Lindsay and her fiance Daniel.



Ah, compression kills this image. Click on it to see it larger, it looks much better!

Lindsay has the nicest skin (and eyelashes)!




This image is my favorite. I just love the brown and gold tones.

Brothers

Oh man, these two little guys were so cute!

This is the youngest, Gavin. He was teething and in the below picture was trying to sneak his little fist into his mouth. I think it's hilarious because it looks like he's posing ah la Napoleon Dynamite.

Deb Now, make a fist. Slowly ease it up underneath your chin.
[three of them slowly ease up fists under their chins]
Deb This is looking really good.
Kip You can say that again.
[Uncle Rico acknowledges]
Deb Kay, hold still right there. Now, just imagine you're weightless, in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by tiny little seahorses.

Maybe it's just me :P

This is the older brother, Grady, who is such a macho little guy! He was running around the Bush Library like a tiny action figure, with his elbows up and his hands in fists...it was really adorable.







I love this one so much.



Hum...I don't think I have the hang of resizing images for blogger yet. Some of these images look less sharp compressed like this. :( If you want a better view just click on an image and it should load larger.

Trio

Of all the age groups I photograph, I think 2 and 3 year-olds are the most unpredictable. Not that they aren't fun little people to be around (some of my favorite subjects are this age) but they are the approximate age that is quickly bored with sitting still and not quite old enough to bribe.

I have a few tricks up my sleeve for clients of this age that I will blog about later for all you parents at home taking notes on how to shoot your preschooler. ;)

However, with this session I discovered one more trick to use. You see, I started the shoot with individual shots of the kids and I started with the two eldest, by the time it was the three-year-old's turn he was raring to go and barreled over to me for his "turn" to start. He did NOT want to be left out of anything the "big" kids were doing!

This is the eldest; lovely Miss Addie.


The middle child is handsome Mr. Zane.

Last, but not least, is Mr. Noah, who was such a breeze to photograph!



I love this picture in black and white as well, but her eyes are such an electric blue that I just had to post the color version.

Ethan

Way back in June, I took some newborn pictures of a little man named Ethan. Here is one of the pictures so you can see how beautiful and small he was.

I got to see him again in October and he has grown so much! Look at his chubby little cheeks and puckered lips! Isn't he the cutest?

Sisters

The other day I photographed a gorgeous family of sisters. Aren't they lovely?


This is Anna Beth, the eldest.


This is Corinne, the middle sister.

Last is Lilah, the baby.

Lilah got an additional outfit change as we wanted to do some official two-year-old portraits of her.

Lilah was a trip! I got some of the sweetest smiles from her because she was so thrilled to play peek-a-boo with her dress. :)

Pray for Amy!

One of my sister's dearest friends, (and former roommate) came to visit the other week. Amy was an Art/Design major at Baylor and is now going to use her talents to influence people for Christ in Dresden, Germany. Amy is leaving in January, and will be in Germany for two years working with the International Mission Board. Pretty awesome, right? Anyway, Amy needed prayer cards made for people to hang on their refrigerators, and we thought we'd get that out of the way when she visited.

It's an interesting thing, photographing another photographer and it's an even weirder thing to edit images of another photographer while they watch! Everyone has their own way of editing, mine is soft, smooth colors and the liberal use of actions and curves. Amy has a different way of editing (which is probably technically better too, since she has had classes in editing) and she likes edgier, higher contrast images. It was fun, I'd edit an image one way and Amy would edit another in a totally different direction. I definitely learned some new techniques!

This is my play on this image...

..and this is Amy's play on it (and the finished card.) I edited her last name out of this for privacy on this blog, the card generally doesn't have the white edit bar in it.

It was interesting shooting for the express purpose of a card, because all the images needed to be asymmetrical to allow for writing on one half!

After the card was finished, we headed to Downtown Bryan to try for some more creative shots.

This is my play on this image...

..and this is my roommate Beth's play on it.