Utah Children Photographer | Children Fashion Photography

Children Fashion Photography

A baby pianist, a polka dot romper and a big bow – what else could be cuter!?  My sister bought me this little piano for my kids for Christmas and I thought it was so cute I couldn’t wait to use it, anything “miniature” makes me smile.  I took these shots for Pixiedust Pretties for Zulily.

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Utah Children Photographer | Children Photography

children portrait photographer in Utah

These little sisters are so beautiful!  And they were all a dream to work with…  They needed some photos for their portfolio as they are modeling, and so we tried to give them a few different looks/feels.

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Children Photography | Utah Children Photographer

children photography, portrait photographer

This was such a fun idea for a first birthday – and this little girl was to die for.  This type of photography is more of a photojournalistic approach, more like a wedding reception.  It’s fun to hide behind the lens and capture moments when nobody knows you are clicking away.

It ended up raining, pouring rain the whole time – so was a let down as far as the weather goes because the whole party was supposed to be around the farm animals and riding the ponies, etc.  It also made the photography more difficult since we were inside a room the whole time which I wasn’t really planning on, good thing I have my sb900 flash in my bag for back up.

I love when Mom’s go all out on birthday parties for their kids, so much fun.  I took photos of family members, etc. but thought I would focus the post more on the birthday girl.

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children photography by Frosted Productions

Yes, yes, a year ago or more, yes, yes, I say that in every post, but slowly catching up…  How can I not love Birthday Cake Smash photo shoots?  Cutest. Thing. Ever.

I love to photograph one year olds, I was actually shooting 6-9 month olds tonight for Persnickety Layette Spring Collection – adorable little babes I love it.  I had 16 month old model there as well, and she did great, but I was telling her mother that it is actually harder to shoot 16 month olds versus 6-9 month olds.  I would say between the ages of 16 months and 3 years old is pretty difficult, many little girls get better around 2 1/2, but it is challenging, you have to find things to keep them interested and plan on getting candid photography.

So back to this shoot, whenever I do a birthday cake smash shoot, I like to get some photos before the messy fun begins, I love this name “Saylor” by the way, so cute.  We snuck her big sister in some of the shots as well.  I know I can get all “frilly” and decorate a big huge table with tons of cute little things, balloons, whatever… it’s not that I don’t like that kind of stuff, but I like really simple sometimes like this plain blue backdrop, I thought it looked beautiful, yet fun, clean and cute all at the same time.

Check out Children Photography Details and Pricing at our Children Photography Page.

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Fashion Photography

utah commercial photographer | test shoot for a commercial client

This was a test shoot/model casting thing I did before I did a shoot for a Luxury Blanket Company, careAboo.  It is so different when you get a child behind a camera, I think all children are so beautiful and special in their own way, but some kids tense up behind the camera and have a hard time getting candid.  I usually can get the candid feel out of most kids, but during commercial shoots, unfortunately there is not time for this, so I wanted to get them behind the camera first before I recommended which models would be best for careAboo to use.  They actually all ended up doing great, so it really came down to their heights, etc. and what three would work best together for this commercial client’s photography purposes.

It was a crazy day that day though, I had this amazing spot picked out to do the shoot and right before everybody was to meet up, there was a huge fire in Alpine, very near where we were going to shoot, it was on the mountain side but coming towards the houses, so of course we couldn’t be anywhere near the fire.

With models, parents and everybody in their cars we drove to this house I knew of that let’s me take photos there, the problem was it is a very “shaded” house and at the time we were shooting there was not a lot of light at all, one thing to know about “candid photography” and “group shots” is you need light, otherwise all of the movement will look blurry, etc. And you don’t want to go too low on your aperture if you are shooting multiple kids in a shot so all of the faces are in focus… so basically did my best to work with what I had.

I had Mia Belle Baby send some clothes for the shoot so they could get some cute photos from it since I was doing the shoot anyway.

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Before and After Photos Using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom

Every photographer has different processes, techniques and preferences.  Here are a few before and after photos I have saved along the way… I will do more of this kind of stuff and even explain processes, do videos, etc. if people are interested.  So if you are, please comment and let me know what you would be looking for!  A lot of the photos are very old and it strains me to post them because I like some of my newer stuff so much more and would do so many things different. ;)

My process and workflow as also evolved over the years and those are things that could possibly benefit other photographers as well.  I shoot in the Raw and use Lightroom and Photoshop.  Comment and let me know what interests you!

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I have been doing tons of commercial photography lately, shoot after shoot after shoot…. I’m exhausted.  I do love it, but it is very high stress…I shot Jumina’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection, not posting the photos now, but here is a video of some of the photos! Thanks to Koko Blush for helping make the shoot happen!

This shoot by far took the most time in prepping as far as set building, my hubby and I about lost it putting it all together….  thanks to him for always being so supportive and helping bring my photography dreams to life.

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children photography | spring mini sessions part 3

Last post from the Easter 2012 Mini-Sessions!  I did so many shoots and it was super fun, so spit it into 3 different blog posts so they would load faster…

Click below to see the photos from this shoot!

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