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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