I can count on one hand how many times I’ve been back to the place I grew up since I went away to college.
I was lucky to have a wedding back down in San Diego so I stayed a couple extra days and went to church on sunday, back in the same building I spent countless hours while in jr. high and High School.
While roaming the halls I saw two old friends and of course they had large families by now.
So I told them lets go outside and take some pictures.
We went in the back so we wouldn’t interupt as many people and the kids could run around at ease a bit more.
We just kind of hung out for a while and watched the kids play like kids are known to do.
Why not right? It was more fun for me to chat while a camera was in my hand and while the kids ran around doing fun things.
Plus it’s nice to do nice things for old friends.
Specially the ones that keep in contact the most on facebook.
Even organized a couple of group things.
You might think I made the poor kid cry… but I stand innocent.
I suppose sometimes kids just cry. I know that never happens to any of your kids.
Parents aren’t supposed to have favorites… but photographers can.
This red-head is a model in the making.
This is the year I start making time for my next push. Family Lifestyle Photography
Last year while shooting a wedding in Southern California I stayed with the Vance family.
In addition to doing a comercial shoot for the mother’s Jewelry Business
I had a couple of short opportunities to take pictures of the family.
These pictures will serve to better help families see the vision of a Family Lifestyle Session by JarvieDigital
This being of course on a much smaller scale than a full day – many activity shoot.
So first off the dad is very much into gardening, it’s his passion I’m told.
So of course we went out into the garden and took a bunch.
Being someone that is a bit “Shy” around the camera I think he opened up a lot when it was him in the garden.
Even still it was very quick, but as long as he was getting something done it made a lot more sense.
Of course random portraits of everyone in the family, typical and not.
No set up or posing usually required. This is their actual dinner, in fact a tradition around the house to make home made pizzas.
Oh the memories. “Remember when we would make Home Made Pizzas every sunday”
“Not only do I remember it, but here are the pictures of us” and the emotions of the event are included no extra charge. haha
Detail shots gallore
The mom owns a Jewelry company… thus her with the jewelry she’s made.
And of course lots of portrait shots and headshots.
Love the camera or not, candid or posed… no one every has a boring time being Shot (in the face) by yours truly.
I believe in stretching yourself to such a limit that all the rest of the time everything’s a cake walk.
See how far you can go. I found out I can do 48 shoots in one week.
All fine until I’ve almost went crazy sorting them all then editing 3000 pictures in the last 3-4 days.
This is a long and yet very fun post… like 48 mini-posts all wrapped up into one.
The last day of the charity shoot went very well.
I was pushing myself to take new and unique pictures in a location I had done 10 shoots in 2 days previous.
I did a few more family shoots which isn’t something I specialize in… but I’m learning to like it, and at the same time conform them to what I do like, which is the Family Lifestyle Photography format.
And of course I totally enjoyed getting the aspiring models to come take pictures. (As seen above)
Thanks to dad for coming up with this laugh! As the photographer you don’t know what will get the kids to errupt in laughter… or tears for that matter.
The whole family was crazy photogenic and that helped. Look at these two models!
No need to put a lot of effort into posing these kids up… they’ll do their thing and I hope to get them as they Are, and make them good pictures while i’m at it.
Nice big landscapes don’t mean the group has to be tiny, but sometimes a bit smaller in the frame can help show off why we drove all that way and make it not only a portrait, but a work of art.
This is a quick recap of the pictures taken yesterday afternoon in Little Cottonwood Canyon
While the rest of the days of the Charity Shoot plan to be very sunny it was cloudy and had just finished snowing up at little cottonwood
All the colors were covered in white… but I was surprised that everyone seemed ok with it and many were very pleased… I guess it worked because they were going to be used for Christmas cards anyway.
There were several families and several groups of roommates and even a group of 3 sisters.
I had a lot of fun and was actually able to stay pretty warm considering.
This little guy got scared for some reason (maybe it was my face) and had a hard time, but I was still able to catch a couple happy faces.
Today’s shoot will be up in American Fork Canyon … it’ll be a sunny day but I expect there might still be some white on the ground. (I hope)
Jody was right at home in the snow being from Alaska
Amalia was a beautiful model… easy to get good pictures.
And she brought her roommate too
This girl came for some glamour shots
And she was even nice enough to bring her Mom and Dad
I shot these in the studio on some seamless paper… haha … ok Snow
Sisters
People bring their friends and family for moral support, we all know jessica just wanted pictures of herself. haha
Nicole brought her roomates and hit the last bits of light in the canyon
we are taking pre-bookings for those that participated in my survey last week.
And my interns have a days head-start to invite their friends to the shoots for the days they’re in charge of.
There should be plenty of spots available up to 60 canyon spots and more than enough Studio time.
I will help with scheduling but I am not in charge of scheduling.
If you send the email it will get to the right place… maybe even doing a comment on the post will work… but no guarantee.
To double check you are official make sure your name is on the online calender.
The schedule is now set
Every day mon-friday 10am-1:30pm = Studio shoots in North Lehi
CANYONS = Fall Colors
Monday 3-7pm = Little Cottonwood canyon
White pine trailhead parking lot – it’s 5.5 miles into the canyon -.5 miles before snowbird
I mean well I suppose you can pose it.
But sometimes life is just even more exciting.
Sometimes your Dad’s Sister’s Daughter’s Husband just happens to be at another cousin’s daughter’s birthday party on a sunday afternoon and driving back home on a Harley and deciding it’s a little cold so he’ll put on his mask.
Seriously not one bit my idea… all his!
One small problem to overcome
And my memory cards are ALL full!!
So I quickly delete one and have exactly ONE shot to get it down.
And that folks is the story!!
Life happens and it pays to be there and be ready!!
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