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Baby Boy | Newborn Photographer Baltimore

05.16.12 Baltimore Baby Photographer, baltimore child photography 2 comments

This sweet little newborn baby boy slept quite a bit for us. He even brought his two puppy friends who were also extremely well behaved

animal hat on baby

baby in car

black and white newborn

newborn and dogs

Because I have gotten lots of questions since this image has been put up about the dogs being “cut out”. Yes, photoshop was used to create a composite and maintain safety for the baby. The dogs are not fake – they have very blunt fresh haircuts. Here’s the originals. The dogs were shot separately, and baby was shot separately. Sections of all three photos were merged together to create the final image. This is the same technique I use for other composites (like saddle shot, guitar shot, baby in log, baby on mushroom, etc.)

newborn and dogs

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Back in the Saddle!!!!

05.08.12 personal/family 1 comment

So where have I been? It’s horse show season! I always thought that toddlers and little ones take up your time so much, but I’ve learned with my almost 13 and 16 year olds that teens take up WAY more time than the little ones…… so in my free time, this is what is going on….

Well, you know Erynn sustained 8 breaks (yes, we originally said 2 but after she had an MRI, there were EIGHT breaks in her foot and two tendon/ligament injuries). Well, I’m happy to report, she is back in the saddle! She did her first show since her accident (read more about it here) this past Saturday. Because she still cannot put full weight in her stirrup, she only did Western gaming (poles, barrels, etc.) but, she had a blast and got all seconds and firsts You can just see how happy she is!!!

erynn with no stirrups

barrel racing

pole bending

barrel racing

And, in true cowgirl style, at the very end, she made her horse rear up….

horse rearing

Did you catch that? Smile on her face? She loves her horse….

trick horse

And yes, even though I am 36 years old, I try my best to keep up with my daughter. Here I am trying a new jumper prospect (I’m on the brown and white paint, my trainer is on Erynn’s horse – we did hunter pairs – and you don’t want to know – at one point, I had popped up out of my saddle and landed on the horse’s neck, hanging on for dear life – in my defense, this is only my 4th time riding him, but I am definitely not the most coordinated person in the world! haha!). He’s really great, and can jump three feet just fine, but my only complaint is he is shorter than I typically like, but I shouldn’t hold that against him, right?

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New baby, new family

05.07.12 Baltimore Baby Photographer 3 comments

Another gorgeous little newborn girl.

newborn and tattoo

yawning baby

baby and parents

profile of newborn

newborn tree stump

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Newborn Photography | Beautiful Baby Girl

04.26.12 baby photography 5 comments

Look at the beautiful face on this newborn – she was awake for so much of the session, but finally gave us a little sleep time and I always love the bonus smile!

open eyes newborn

wooden bucket and hat

newborn wrap

baby smile

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WORKSHOPS! Here we go…..

04.20.12 photography workshop, photography workshop/seminar 3 comments

Okay, everyone has been asking about the workshops for 2012. I have a few places I was going to travel this year, so we decided to go ahead and do a workshop at each of these places while I’m out that way….. Here’s what’s going down….

These workshops will be long days – 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

July 19th, 2012. Paris, Kentucky!!!

August 5th, 2012. Colorado Springs, CO!!!

August 25th, 2012. Baltimore, MD!!! (my studio)

September 30th, 2012. Seattle, WA!!!

There will be no more than 15 attendees at each of these workshops so that we do not have too big of a crowd.

For more information on the workshops or to go ahead and sign up – go to the link to the workshops on the left. We are updating information right now.

Here’s some more from the March workshop….

newborn workshop

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Easter Eggs

04.08.12 personal/family 6 comments

Hope everyone is having a nice day – just figured I would share our chicken eggs. I guess they can’t be any more organic and naturally dyed. I have 22 chickens, and they are producing about a dozen eggs a day (if you have booked a session with me and would like any, let me know ahead of time and I would be more than happy to give you a few dozen! haha! I’ve had a few clients taken me up on that one)

Anyway, I purchased chickens based on their egg colors – every one of these colors are natural – in other words, they come out of the chicken this way. We actually have eggs in the following colors: white, pink, beige, tan, dark brown, blue, olive, and gray (gray are actually very pale olive color that appears gray).

colored chicken eggs

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Photography Workshop – Part Four

04.08.12 Uncategorized 3 comments

This was a new prop that I purchased for Easter. Yes, I’m fascinated with eggs, if you haven’t followed this blog, I have chickens and have collected chickens based on the color eggs they lay – we even have green and blue egg layers haha!

Anyway, it was fun to finally be able to use this prop. If you look closely, you can see the hazards of being a baby photographer – yes, in his nice cute curled up state, he peed all over me

baby posing workshop

baby egg
And I want to wish everyone a Happy Easter, Happy Passover, or whatever you celebrate

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Photography Workshop – Part Three (newborn posing)

04.07.12 photography workshop No comments

Of the many things we went over during this workshop is images that sell vs. images that photographers love as well as naturally posed images. I’m not an advocate of forcing babies into unnatural positions. I like to work with each individual baby as he/she leads. Here we were working on just finding out what this baby’s natural or comfortable pose was and then…. he rewarded us with a smile…

This adorable little boy was our two-week old. The “typical” age I tend to work with newborns.

newborn posing workshop

baby smiling workshop

newborn in basket

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Photography Workshop – Part Two

04.06.12 baby photography, photography workshop 2 comments

The second day, the wonderful Heather Coburn documented some of the workshop (we have some video too, but I’ll get to that later). Here are some behind-the-scenes and finished images.

Emphasizing baby safety.

This was one of the composites I set up. Baby was quite fussy at this moment, but she soothed fairly easily. She was one month old (but less than 6 pounds, I know, WOW!) Our baby safety measures here were – the prop is quite heavy, but we placed sand bags at the base anyway. My assistant was right there and even touching the baby the entire time. Speaking of touching, baby did not like any of the bare wood touching her, so we had to modify this quite a bit.

Newborn Safety
Finally, after some PhotoShop work, the first composite of the day….

Composite

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The Photography Workshop

04.06.12 photography workshop, studio lighting naturally 3 comments

So yeah, it’s been a bit busy – but I wanted to share some of the images we did during the workshop that took place weeks ago. We are going to open another workshop date very soon, so watch the blog for that announcement

This two-day workshop took place early March. We had 12 attendees, and 2 assistants, plus me, in the studio located just outside of Baltimore, Maryland.
photography studio
Our first day consisted of introductions, and then we went into business, business, business. After lunch, we started into working with studio lighting naturally. We went over all kinds of equipment, reasons I personally like certain pieces of equipment, and that’s when our gorgeous pregnant model arrived. I demonstrated how to dramatically light the pregnant form…. here is a peek at a few shots from that day….

maternity pregnancy

workshop

photography workshop

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