A Grand Opening

Alli here: I am so happy to announce the opening of my studio in Littleton, NH. It is in an old factory that has been refurbished to house artist studios, antique dealers, a massage therapist (conveniently right across the hall from me!) and other businesses. It is this wonderful creative space that offers endless possibilities for shooting a wide variety of studio and outdoor portraits.

The studio:


Me in the reception area..this was taken by a local photographer for a newspaper article written about the opening.








This was taken outside the studio on the grounds:





If anyone ever stops in to beautiful Littleton, NH- please pop in and see me! ~Alli

A wedding...

Denise here... our poor blog has been sorely neglected lately, so I thought I'd post some favorites from a wedding I shot this past weekend. I dont shoot many weddings, but this one was such a blast I am thinking I will probably start doing more of them!

This was immediately following their first kiss as they came back down the aisle... I just love the look of joy on the bride's face!

These are a little out of order, but this was during the ceremony... you can see how he adores her!

The bride and flower girl showing off their beautiful flowers...

Isnt she just beautiful?????

After the ceremony we strolled down to the beach... it was a beautiful blue sky day... not ideal lighting for photographs, but I think we did okay...

Ahhhhh.... romance!

Again, she looks soooooo happy!

And of course... a kiss! (I had some fun with the processing on this one)

We'll try to do a better job of keeping up this blog... come back and visit us soon!

POTD at Shutterbugs

Here's a fun one for me. It's not that usual that I get a POTD of my own kids! Part of it is that I don't do "real" sessions for my kids like I should. But, on Tuesday, I got a whim to buy some fish for them. It was spring break. It was yucky outside. And we needed something to do. So, here's the shot. And it's a Photo of the Day today at shutterbugs.biz.

Hayley Here...

Hello readers :) I am just finishing up editing this session and thought I'd share some. Actually I am known in the group for being really bad at picking a "couple" images...so you get image overload with me...LOL :)
This session was a lot of fun and what I loved the most was the mix of photos I was able to get. The baby was 6 months old and she sat very well on her own which made it easy to pose her in things like cute tutu's, hats, bowls, etc. But for me, what made this session extra special was this family allowed me to just sit back and quietly observe life for them. So I was able to capture wonderful interaction shots of mom and dad playing with the kids, or the baby just laying playing with her feet. Also the older sibling played at her craft table for awhile and I have some shots of her doing that too that I love (but like I said already had image overload...LOL). It is always such a huge honor for me to go into a session and be able to be apart of a families ever day life.

All photos were shot with my new 5dmkii and my trusty Tamron 28-75 2.8 lens. These were all shot natural light. In the more posed shots, the light source was behind me.

This first one is really one of my faves. If you aren't familiar with my style, I like to use dramatic light and b&w's to tell my stories. And this was has those key elements. And you match that up with her eye contact...and wow it really gets me. :)

Enjoy the pics :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Photo of the Day at Shutterbugs

This image of this tiny dancer was selected as the Photo of the Day today in the People category at Shutterbugs.biz. I just love this beauty's little fingers as she ties her shoes. And her pretty face and falling hair. So pretty!

It's Julie here

This is the first time that I've posted to our blog here... All my friends have done a fabulous job, and I guess it's my turn to contribute. :)

I'll share some from a recent session that was so much fun. It's for a secret project that I'm not going to talk about until it's all done. Okay, it's not really secret. But, I don't want to jinx anything by talking too much about it before it's done.

I had a chance to really do some slightly different kinds of photography, and it was fun.

A Peek Behind the Scenes

Hello Readers! I love it when photographers share pullback shots that show their setup. I am such a visual learner, so it helps me so much more to see a photographer in action, to see their equipment and setup, how they position themselves, how they hold their cameras, how they see the big picture that an image is created within. We hope it helps you to see us at work too. And bonus, it's just plain fun to put faces to those photogs you see and chat with online!

A few bits about our equipment: All of us on this trip shoot with either the Canon 5D or the 5D MK II. We used the Canon 85mm 1.2 L, the Canon 24-70 2.8L, the Canon 50mm 1.4, the Canon 15mm fisheye, and the Canon 70-200 2.8L. (Don't worry Nikonians, Denise and Sherry both shoot Nikon, so you are among friends!)

We used all natural light for the entire shoot at the Plantation. You will see in some of the pullback shots that we brought softboxes and lights, but we never used them. We used various reflectors and moved furniture to suit the light.

For the baby session, Megan used all natural light and no reflectors. Part of the session was done in studio but I didn't manage to get any shots of that.

For the warehouse/ night session we used one OCF, bare bulb, triggered either by the ST-E2 transmitter or an on camera flash. Using the infrared sensors allowed us to take turns at the flash without having to share pocket wizards. Have fun peeking! ~Alli

This is Megan at work, and the shots she got of this seriously handsome little guy:
This is a shot of Cindy and I shooting Cindy's daughter Melody, and the shots we got from this setup. Melody works for Elite Modeling Agency and is an experienced, very busy, super hard working model. We are incredibly lucky to have been able to get her for this shoot:
Below is a shot of Julie and I shooting Cindy, purty thing she is:

Cindy shooting the dancer. You can see more of those shots on Cindy's and Laura's blogs:
Candy took this shot of Julie, Cindy, Megan, and Laura shooting Melody on the plantation stairs:
ANd just a few more.....