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I have two beautiful young women who volunteered to be my senior reps this year (or, rather, next year). This woman is SO much fun. She hardly stopped laughing the entire session and has SUCH a gorgeous smile. And, really, how can you not love someone who brings a Buddha to her session? Thank you for being just such a delight to photograph; I should have your goodies out to you soon!
After a slew of babies I got to go out and shoot a teenager the other day. No NO. With a camera. Sheesh. And she was GORGEOUS. We’d had to reschedule once because she had a driver’s test that, in classic DMV style, had not happened on time. But, thanks to the reschedule, we got to go out during the gorgeous light of the end of the day.
Senior rep is a good gig. I get 1 or 2 high school seniors to model and they get brag books, 411 cards and discounts on prints as well as referral cash for every session they send me. I have one more rep to shoot this week and then it’s onto full on senior portrait season.
Oh, wait… you want to SEE this beautiful young woman. Oh. Well. I suppose I could manage that…
I got a private concert last night; it’s one of the hidden benefits of photographing musical seniors. This young woman is fantastic, and not just as a musician. She’s one of those super people. You know the sort – extraordinarily talented in diverse fields, gorgeous and nice to boot.
Thanks for letting me drag you around last night – you were a great sport, are truly lovely and have a stunning smile!
One of the great things about doing on-location portraits rather than studio shots is the opportunity to get dramatic lighting, courtesy of the sun. (Of course, there ARE the bugs, and the possibility of rain…)
You don’t usually get a concert when you take pictures. But when I shot this young man’s senior pictures last weekend I was treated to a private piano concert that ranged from Liszt to Journey as well as a walk to a lake where we spotted a crayfish type thing in the grass.
I’m sorry your gallery is so big but I just couldn’t settle on only 20. Good luck making your choices!
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Meredith is my senior rep, who agreed to let me harass her with the camera repeatedly. Last time she played with the tilt-shift lens. This day we just missed the rain. It was spitting before we started, held off for about 90 minutes, then started to actually come down. And the mosquitoes were awful. Snap the shutter. Slap the bug. Snap the shutter. Slap the bug. One of these days I’ll make her actually go in a dirty pond like my poor bridal model.
She is a pleasure to take pictures of, always game to try anything no matter how absurd. Meanwhile, she’s just lucky she isn’t taller or she’d get sucked into the modeling world with all the attendant insanity.
Next time – 1940’s period clothing and an urban setting!
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Have ten friends of family members comment on your photo and I’ll toss an 8X10 of your choice in your final order!
Back in another lifetime before I had twins I was a middle and high school teacher. I’m still certified, actually. I taught at a little Catholic school in Bristol, CT where I got moved from one grade and subject to another so fast I taught 6th grade English one year, 8th grade the next, and then 9th grade history the year after that. I always taught Latin and then wherever there was a hole I filled in. I always loved “my” 6th graders from that English class though. They were just an incredible group of kids.
They are about to be seniors in high school.
This makes me feel old.
Look out for pictures from one of them later on – she’s a budding photographer, applying to art school for next year, and though she is up in Maine surfing right now we have plans to get together and shoot later in the summer.
Here’s another one. Isn’t she amazing? I think in this first shot she looks like Nimue, about to entice Merlin into falling in mad love with her right before she locks him up in a tree.
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Have ten friends of family members comment on your photo and I’ll toss an 8X10 of your choice in your final order!
I have only three words for this beauty’s mother: All. Girls. School. I mean, can you IMAGINE looking like this as a teenager? And being so poised?
You know, I didn’t look like this in high school. I was going to go drag out some pictures of myself at 16 and scan them to illustrate the point but, after looking at them, I decided to spare myself that particular form of public humiliation and simply ask you to believe me when I tell you that I did not look like this is high school.
I rented a lens to try out this week; it’s called a “tilt-shift” lens and it does a number of things but what I was interested in was tilting the focal plane. Because tilt-shift lenses are all manual focus, and because getting toddlers to hold still long enough to manually focus a camera on them is problematic at best, I lined up a series of older model to test the lens out and see whether I want to buy one.
This young woman answered an ad placed online and skipped Chemistry – with her mother’s blessing as I insisted that a parent be there – to do a 40-minute photo shoot in Elizabeth Park in Hartford. We trekked through mud, overgrown patches and I made her lean up against walls of peeling paint and she was great. She was so great I hit her up to be my a Senior Ambassador and help market my senior portraits and she agreed so you’ll be seeing her again.
Oh, didn’t I mention I was going to add senior portraits to my offerings? Silly me. Teenagers are so much fun to shoot, and unlike babies they want to have their pictures taken. I’ll have more details up in a few days but feel free to contact me before that if you are interested.
Meanwhile, enjoy this gorgeous girl, who is blessed with beauty and poise and confidence, all while barely out of childhood.
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