What to wear?

Often I have clients who ask me for suggestions on what they should wear for their photo sessions. The possibilities are pretty endless. My suggestion for children is to make sure they are comfortable. If a child is uncomfortable in a certain article of clothing, chances are they will get antsy and are less likely to sit still and won't be too enthused about getting photographs taken. Now that I just wrote that, I believe that it can go for any one of any age! If you don't feel comfortable, you won't look comfortable. I want your session to be comfortable for everyone from the time we start until the very end. I do stress that character clothing and huge logos on clothing can be distracting. You don't want to take away from your smiling faces :)

The amazingly talented Corina Nielsen has compiled a few clothing suggestions for January sessions and has graciously allowed photographers to use these images she came up with. Thank you Corina! I think my favorite out of the three is the second one, but they are all pretty great! I love the reds in the first set and love the darker cooler hues in the second and third sets.

So if you are having difficulty deciding what to wear for your upcoming session, check out the following ideas and go from there. Hopefully these ideas will give you some inspiration :)

*Sneak Peak* Miss A { Clinton Township, MI Child Photographer }

It was a super chilly afternoon at George George Park in Clinton Township, but little Miss A was a trooper :)) Isn't she adorable?! 

Tuesday Session [Rochester Hills, MI]

Beach Fun Photo Challenge [iheartfaces]

This weeks challenge on iheartfaces is the beach fun theme! How can you not have fun at the beach?! I love it and wished I lived ON a beach. Well, maybe not year-round, but during the summer would be nice! My entry into the contest features my daughter jumping into the lake. My aunt and uncle have a beautiful place up-north right on the beach. The kids love to be able to walk out the door and they're at the beach where they can swim, fish, and just hang out. It's a hike to get there (an over four hour long car drive) so we don't get up there as often as we'd like. When we are there, we enjoy it immensely and most of the time is spent, you guess it, on the beach!

Don't forget to check out the other entries at:

Fix-It-Friday #65

Another Fix-It-Friday from iheartfaces! I just love this lil guy's bright blue eyes! He is such a cutie!

The Original


Edit #1, ran through CS3 with a defog and color pop


Edit #2, ran through Lightroom and used a b&w converter preset


Edit #3, again in Lightroom, a tighter crop, used Creative Catalyst 19 preset


Edit #4, Lightroom, even tighter crop, used a preset called Metropolis


Check out more edits and gain some great tips and you can even submit your own edits!

Purple

This weeks IHeartFaces challenge is the color purple which is the color that many little girls call their favorite. No exception here as this little one wears a cute purple and pink tu-tu that I made :) To see more purple-y fun (and beautiful!) entries, check out the weekly challenge on iheartfaces

Family Photo Shoot

A friend couldn't make it to a family photo shoot this afternoon so I said I would take on the task of photographing a family of 16(!) people and seven of them were under the age of six! They were all so nice and the kids of course were adorable. The weather was really nice despite the wind. I still need to go through all of the photos I took but here is a quickly-edited family shot.

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter!

Session "V"

I've finally finished editing the photos from a session I did less than two weeks ago (yay!). I am bringing the family the photo disk today and I am sure they'll be happy with the results. They've seen sneak peaks of some of the photos and were very happy with them and are very excited to see the rest. I made a slideshow as well for them. The above photo is one (of many!) from that shoot. Six-year old triplet boys and an absolute joy to work with! I can't wait until I get to work with this family again, they are great!