Big fan of hats too!

Thank you Kara for all your help, you are an excellent big sis!

~  Judie

I had a fun session with my young friend Abbie last weekend, she brought a cute mermaid tail with her.  I really like this one of her looking bored.

While I take photographs, we always end up chatting.  This time the conversation turned to Toddler’s and Tiara’s, you know the show with really young kids all dressed up and wearing lots of makeup, doing pageants.  Abbie told me about this new photography technique I had never heard of, it’s called Glitz.  I did a search and have to say those girls end up looking like avatars from a video game to me.  Anyways, I went back to the session I did for Abbie for her dance costumes to find one of her with some makeup on and gave it a try.

Here’s my first attempt – it was a miss.

The before picture.

After:

Now my second attempt came out a little better.

Before:

After: 

She kind of looks plastic-y and fake, right?

Success!!

Of course it’s a total fail in terms of her mascara – they must draw on those perfect long black lines around the eyes.

So here’s what I learned – the photograph that worked best was lit with studio lights instead of natural lights.  Both eyes are evenly lit and so is her body and face.  The first photograph she was being lit from above with window light and her arms and shoulders are darker than her face.

Thanks for the idea to try Abbie!!

~  Judie

They convert to some really beautiful black and whites too.

Great seeing you all again – have a great holiday season.

~  Judie
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I had a hard time picking just a few to share – I love all the action shots!

I had to include this movie star sunglasses shot….

…and this is the one I redid because I thought Hannah was too far in front of the lights, but in black and white I just love it!  I think she looks a lot like her mom in this one too.

This one is my absolute favorite – Hannah is on the swim team and just rocks these swim goggles!

I still need to practice more so let me know if you have a ten-year old with PERSONALITY who would like to be my model.

~  Judie
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Nice location with some great backgrounds – love the warm wood colors and yellow and red leaves -  here’s a peek!

Great family, they made my job easy!

~  Judie
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I’ve redone my pricing to give clients a bigger selection of choices, including digital options I’ve been trying out and found to be very popular.

I am pulling out my studio lighting and brushing up on those skills to offer some exciting new sessions to choose from – look for the samples soon.

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I had such a good session with Samantha and Cole.

Cole is such a little man – just loved his hat!  He was kind of shy at first but really warmed up when we got to this playground equipment.

Samantha was outgoing and vibrant right from the beginning!  We had fun capturing some shots with her curls bouncing up.

Nice Day + Beautiful Children = Success!

~  Judie
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This just meant we had to walk a little further into the woods than originally planned, to have a natural background without tents and scouts.  Good thing Kaden and Vicki are nature people!

Our hike was rewarding we found some great spots and I captured some fun shots of Kaden.

Cowabunga Dude – I think you got the Boy Scouts attention!

~  Judie
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She is in that cruising stage and kept moving closer and closer to me, so I got some great close up shots!

Don’t you just love the personality in this one?  You can tell Aila has a great sense of humor.

And those first little teeth!

One of my favorite shots because her knit dress was challenging us – love her little hands on her lap and her sweet smile.

Beautiful fall morning, perfect for photography at the beach!  So good to see you both again.

~  Judie

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Don’t you just love those curls peeking out from behind her ears?

~  Judie
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