Archive for June, 2009

Hey ya’ll, this family is cute: Louisville Family Photographer

June 26, 2009

They are cute, it is the best word to describe them. I feel like have I have met the nicest people while I have been here in Kentucky. Like so nice that I would be tempted to stay here for a few more weeks but I think all my people at home would have something to say about that.

And how can you not just instantly fall in love with Miss M.? I mean look at those eyelashes. I mean, are you serious? How is it that God blesses babies with the most gorgeous eyelashes. Women pay hundreds if not thousands to have a small piece of what this doll has naturally!

And those rolls! I am a little jealous. I have always had the stocky all muscle boy who had maybe one roll indentation on his left thigh, but nothing like this. I think if I do have to go home I might just have to take her with me. HAHA! I am kidding. (no seriously your kids are safe!)

Thanks to the M. family, you guys are gems, and awesome, and fun, and awesome! Enjoy your sneak peek (oh and Happy Anniversary!)

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While I am away: Louisville Family Photographer

June 23, 2009

I had the awesome privileged to hang out with the N. family and their beautiful little girl Miss S. What a fun time we had! And it was a first for me too. I have never taken a family picture that included a cat. I will spare you the hilarity but just know that we got the shot, pure chaos and all.

I am in Kentucky on an adventure with a friend of mine and while I am here I thought it would be fun to meet some new families and spend some time capturing some of thier memories.I have two sessions while I am here and this is the first of them.

This family is adorable . You can tell that this mommy and daddy are totally enamored with the lovely little Miss S. and in the short time that I had to get to know them I was enamored with them too. Thanks for letting me hang out with you guys for a little while and without further ado here is your sneak peek!

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He is here! San Francisco Newborn Photographer

June 19, 2009

My husband’s sister has been blessed with a 7lb bundle of joy. And he is perfect. I love him!

We got the privileged of going to hang out with them for a few hours at the hospital today and I was thrilled to do two new things.

1. He was the youngest baby who has been in front of my lens and it was super special to get to capture him when he was a little more than 24 hours old. I tear up thinking about it.

2. This is the first session I had the awesome opportunity to use my new macro lens. With little babies like this it lets you get way up and close with thier little parts. So freaking cool!!

So here he is, we couldn’t be prouder!

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Just unbelievably gorgeous! San Francisco Senior Photographer

June 17, 2009

Not only unbelievably gorgeous but also the sweetest girl ever. April just graduated from high school what probably feels to be minutes ago and asked me to document this milestone in her life. I jumped on the opportunity as I don’t get very many requests for this type of session (although I would LOVE to have more!!!).

So as I was saying, just graduated, and she is already taking college classes. Her mom said, “She signed up for her required Statistics course and had her first class yesterday.  LOVES her professor.  I think she is more motivated than I was at her age – at least, I remember sleeping in every day the summer after I graduated! I think she’ll be a great teacher!”

I couldn’t agree more. If I could pass out awards to my clients I think April would get two. 1. Most gorgeous senior of the class of 2009 and 2. Most likely to achieve amazing feats!

Congrats to you Miss April. I can’t wait to hear the awesome stories of your college years and the journey ahead. You’re future is bright.

And enough of the mushy lovey stuff, on to the pretty pictures…

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I forgot to mention that she is a little bit hippie chick too, and that makes her way cooler!
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My guy: San Francisco Photographer

June 17, 2009

So I got a new prop, well, a new floor, ok to best describe it, it is a prop floor. Wood prop floor to be exact. And I love it. We have tile in the downstairs of our house and it is awesome for many reasons but hardwood floors are glorious in photographs. So I have to fake it. And just in case your home doesn’t have the perfect floors, I will be bringing my new fake floor to your house for our session as well, just in case. And at the very least we can mix it up too, use your floor sometimes, use my fake floor sometimes. Keep ‘em guessing.

So this thing had been on back order for 2.5 months. Talk about patience, I kept checking the site ever week and a half or so to see if it had shipped and finally when I had almost given up the UPS man dropped of a long skinny box, inside was my rolled up fake floor. I was ecstatic! I changed my little guy’s clothes and moved some furniture and rolled the glorious fake floor out and snapped a few shots of him and then I realized that he had turned 19 months the day before. YAY for 19 month pictures. lol!

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Interesting, different, awesome shot! San Francisco Photographer

June 12, 2009

I was going through this session to finalize the editing process. I edit in bunches. The day of our session I come home and can hardly stand it until the images are on my computer and safe and sound off of my memory card. Then I take my first glance at the images on my screen. There is always one or two or seven image that just strike me as golden. I yell to my family, “oh my gosh, honey you have to come over here, you have to see this one!!!” Yes it happens every time. lol. Then I edit the sneak peek. I can edit anywhere between 3 and 7 image for that but I usually choose the best 2-5 for the blog.

Since I promise more than 25 images (and I like to give more!) that means at some point I have to sit back down and decide which ones are keepers and which ones are not so much. I will not keep an image for any number of reasons. Maybe I caught the wrong moment, you blinked, the light was just not perfect, or perhaps there is just one that looks better. Whatever the reason I truly whittle it down the the very best images. I don’t hold anything back, except on the very extremely rare occasion where an image just gets passed over for some reason when I am loading it into the gallery.

The utmost care goes into editing your images. I am not kidding when I say that I could spend up to 1/2 of an hour on just one image. I am not going to lie, they do not all take that long, the average is between 5 and 10 minutes depending on the desired outcome and how distracted I let myself be, lol! But there are those special images that require extra care and I really want to make sure that ever image you see is perfect!

So back to the image below. I was on the last legs of my editing for this session and I knew that I wanted to edit one from this part of our session together but I just hadn’t decided how to edit them yet. What was the best crop? How was I going to process the color? Were there elements of the image that needed to be emphasized and others that needed to be de-emphasized? Which one from the set was the BEST one?

This is the straight out of the camera version of the one I chose to edit

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Looking at this image, I knew that it had potential to be awesome! Truly awesome! So I played. This is one of those ones that take like a half an hour because I have to try so many things before I know it is just right. I tried black and white, I tried to up the contrast, and take it down, tried to desaturated, over saturate, and finally I ended up with a funky process that is a little vintagey. And I love it. I then cropped and and did some cloning to take out some unnecessary elements (can you figure those out?!?) and ended up this this image…

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And I love it. And I think that it would be an amazing canvas print on a wall above a couch. Thanks for reading the journey from tiny file on my cameras memory card to final image in a gallery. I hope that it gave you some insight as to how I capture your memories into images for you!

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more cuteness! Alamo Family Photographer

June 7, 2009

Remember, about a week and a half ago, I introduced you to Mr. W,  and he was a bundle of cuteness? Well I couldn’t get enough of him so I went back to hang out with him today and get just a few more images for his gallery.

I liked the first ones, I love the new ones. He is such a cutie!!

Thanks for letting me get these extra shots of Mr. W! I will be in touch soon!!

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Sum, Sum, Summertime! San Francisco Photographer

June 2, 2009

As the weather gets warmer and the days get longer doesn’t it seem like we get busier? I know it feels like that at the Franks’ household.

I wanted to give all my wonderful blog readers a quick update as far as availability goes for the summer. I currently have 2 sessions available in June and 4 in July. Between the end of July and the beginning of September I am crazy wedding girl with one about every other week, so that means that I have 3 sessions available in August as well. So, those dates will fill fast.

If you have a baby coming in the next few months and have been waiting to contact me about newborn photography drop me an email and we can start setting up the preliminary part of your session. And if you were hoping to schedule a family, kids, boudoir, engagement, or any other kind of session with me in the up coming months, lets get that on the schedule sooner rather than later.

And finally, its June, it is time to start thinking about Christmas Cards. Haha, you think I am kidding! I am not! I will begin designing my set of available cards later this month but you will want to start thinking about your Christmas card session sooner rather than later. I will be making more announcements about this in the coming weeks as well.

And since no blog post is complete without a pretty picture here is one from one of my recent baby session.

Yaaaaaawwwwynnnn!
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Love -n- The Giants: San Francisco Engagement Photographer

June 1, 2009

How much fun is love? It is immeasurable. How much fun is a Giants game? It is pretty immeasurable too! So can you imagine how much fun I had this weekend as I hung out with two of the most in love people I have seen in a while. I think that we laughed during the “session” part of this day more than I have laughed in a long time. Then to top off a very cool photography session we got to stil back and enjoy the game from 18 rows above the Giants dugout. Um, that is how I say, “AWESOME.”

And just to make you a little but more jealous (sorry), here was our view of the game:

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Back to our story… Amy and Marv are, like I said, incredibly happy in love. They are getting married this August and I have the incredible privileged to be their wedding photographer. I just can’t believe I am so lucky. Back when they were first starting their journey together Amy kind of turned Marv onto the love of The Giants. It almost seems like their love for baseball and for each other compliments each other well. And it is for sure that Amy and Marv compliment each other very well.

So thanks to you Amy and Marv for the awesome day at the ballpark. Thanks for the laughs. And most of all thanks for sharing your love with me and my camera. Here is your sneak peek! Can’t wait for August!!!

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And I particularly think this is funny because the game hadn’t even started yet, haha!

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