Model Shoot

This weekend I got together with my very talented friends Amy (Makeup Artist) and Melody (Hair by Melody) and three models for this fun shoot. And I have to say, we all ROCKED the heck out of it! Here's another LONG post!


Ally. This style fit her personality perfectly!




Yummy!






Shannon. The camera loves her!




I adore this hairstyle!


One of my faves from the shoot.






Heavenly and Shannon.


Heavenly was perfect as our rocker chick.














Getting the girls ready.




This is SO them! Amy Marie Clarke, Makeup Artist and Melody,Hair by Melody.


We have a lot to blog this week so come back soon!

Labels: Art Projects, Models, Portraits

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Destinie's Princess Party!

Do YOU know any 20 year olds that celebrate their birthday Princess style?? I do!

One of our family friends, Destinie turned 20 last month. So of course she had a Belle-themed party! Haha! Only Destinie. So here's some pictures she INSISTED on seeing on the blog!

Belle Cake:


The always camera shy girl!


Destinie's new little sister, Emma.








Destinie and Cory.






This one cracks me up!


Sorry it took so long to blog Dest!

Labels: Personal, Portraits

Monday, September 15, 2008

Amy + John, Fun with Guns!

We did Amy and John's wedding four years ago (next month!) and we wanted to do something fun with them. So we decided to incorporate their guns, since they are quite found of them. Kinda like our version of American Gothic.

Interpretation number One:


Interpretation number Two:


















Happy Anniversary Next Month! We love you!

Labels: Committed 2008, Day After, Passion Shoot, Portraits

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Portrait Shoot with Kristin....

Our photo-friend Kristin Rogers needed some new photos for her new website. It made me feel really good to be able help another photographer out! I know we, as photogs can feel quite uncomfortable in front of the lens so let's just hope she likes them and can use them for her new site!

Here's a few of my faves:

She brought her vintage camera.


Super cute!


What could be better than a vintage camera AND a faith tattoo?!








This one might be my fave!

Labels: Portraits

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Rachunok Family Portrait

Here's just one from our shoot.

Just for fun we took a more serious old style portrait and we love how it turned out. It was Jeremy's idea and with my processing touch.



We'll have another blog with the rest of their session soon!

Labels: Fams and Kids being Kids, Portraits

Friday, August 22, 2008

My Mom's head shot

My mom, (also known as Diana) needed a head shot for her work. She's the Senior Director of Orange County ROP. She tells me what exactly she does but somehow I always manage to tune out...oops!

Isn't she sooo cute?!

Btw, my mom is the most difficult person I've ever shot! I don't know what it is; she's just really hard to get making a good face. As she said, "The true essence of Diana can not be captured!" hahaha!

Finally, we got a great one:



Thanks Brandie Bedell for giving us pointers on the make-up!

Labels: Personal, Portraits

Monday, June 09, 2008

Kacee Geoffroy, Make-up Shoot...

After the wedding on Saturday, Sunday I did a shoot for my client-friend, Kacee Geoffroy to show off her make-up artistry. I had so much fun shooting these girls! I was told that I had a knack for making them feel comfortable and relaxed, which made me feel really good! So if you need a portrait or B-Session, I'm your girl!

Here's my favorite of each girl:

Meet Kacee! She's the make-up artist. She's just as cute and nice as she looks!




A collage of some of my faves.






I really love this one.










Just cause I really like the feeling of this!

Labels: Portraits

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Van Zoest Family Couples....

For just a few minutes of this fam shoot, we stole each couple away from their kiddys for some fun portraits. We always enjoy seeing the reaction (when it comes time for pictures) of a couple who has been married a few years. When you're married a long time, you're not used to this!


Jade and Sander:









Gerdina and Jan:








Rik and Jhentry

Labels: Fams and Kids being Kids, Portraits

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Other 2007.....

Just for a Fun Friday post, here's the last collage with the misc photo shoots. They consist of: Ringed-that-didn't-get-married-this-year, Portraits and Passion shoots.

Labels: Passion Shoot, Portraits, Ringed Sessions

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Our Peeps.....

Thinking about all the stuff we want to do this year, we thought we'd start with a list of our faves. We hope to work with these people more this year. Not only are they awesome people, but extremely good at what they do! Please consider our friends when making a decision about what services you might need. This isn't a paid ad, we recommend them because they're awesome!

Make-up:
Amy Clarke: amymarieclarke@yahoo.com
Amy Marie Clarke

Hair:
Melody Rachunok: hairbymelody@yahoo.com
Hair by Melody

Cinematographer:
Claressa Jaen at Driftwood Films

Event Planning:
Gianna with Giana and Company
Gianna and Company

Events and Flowers:
Lauren Reeves with Prince Events
Events and Flowers

Catering for events:
Moondance Catering

DJ:
DJ Martin
DJ Martin

Handmade Invitations and Cards:
Anita Zomkowski with Perfect Paperworks
Perfect Paperworks

Labels: Committed 2008, News, Portraits, Ringed Sessions

Friday, January 04, 2008

Amy's Headshots....

Our friend/make-up artist needed some head shots for an upcoming album that she's singing on (she's multi talented!) So of course we shot them for her.

A few faves:






Her blue eyes are amazing!





She won't like this but it was too funny not to post!

Labels: Models, Portraits

Sunday, December 16, 2007

A special shoot....

I know this is long but I really do hope you read it all!

After we shot The Heimstra's Fam Session, Jeremy had an idea to take just the two of them for a shoot by themselves. They've been married for 22 years and have never really had a good shoot done. We didn't know this going into it but we wanted to do something fun and different. They were up for it. Jeremy drove around all day looking for the perfect burned up place and he found it.

It was really touching to see a couple that has so much love and passion for each other after all these years. We can only hope for half of what they have! We realized after doing this that we want to do more! So we decided to call these types of shoots our "passion shoots." And we can do it for new couples or couples that have been married for years. The concept is kinda like a Trash the Dress but one doesn't necessarily have to wear the wedding dress. The point is to have fun, get dirty (hopefully!) and get some really great photos where the experience will be remembered forever.

The images came out great. More importantly I feel like we were changed just by doing this. It was definitely an experience!

So here is Jeremy's vision. There's a lot more that we can't post because it's too personal. But here's what we can:

Labels: Passion Shoot, Personal, Portraits

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Shoot on the Tracks.....

Last week we went to the train tracks to shoot our sister-cousin-niece-friend (that's what we call her) Cassie. She always does something unusual for her Christmas Shoot. We had so much fun!






A train came.








So Chrismas-y!








Jeremy got this amazing shot.


LOVE this.


Burr! It's chilly!

Labels: Models, Portraits

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Doggy shoot.....

Monday we shot a fun session with Rachael and her adorable Chug and Long haired Chiwawa.(I have to say, we DO like the long haired ones!) They were such fun to shoot and so amazingly good too. It was our third session with dogs. We're loving it!!

Having fun walking.


Too much kisses!




Jeremy got this great shots of Rachael.


This is Muffin. And I heart her!


This is Bruiser. Love her too!




Happy Family.




Bruiser really didn't like wearing her outfit!

Labels: Animals, Portraits

Monday, November 26, 2007

Christmas Cards!

Now is the time to start thinking about those Christmas Cards! We still have some openings left in October and November if you want to schedule a shoot with us. Or if we have already done a previous shoot with you, we'd love to design some cards with your favorite pictures. All of our shoots for the months of October and November include some type of Christmas Card so send us an email or give us a ring and we'll set something up!

Here's some examples of some of our customized designs. This is the 4x5.5 folded horizontal card.

Front:


Inside:



Front:


Inside


And here's our fun ones from last year! This is a vertical 4.5x5 card.

Front:


Inside:


Back:

Labels: Fams and Kids being Kids, Portraits

Friday, October 12, 2007

Our Material Girl......

It's slideshow Friday! I just made that up cause it sounded good. But maybe I'll start doing some shows on Fridays. Why not?

From the fun shoot we did with Amber. I forgot how much I love Madonna! I had to buy all her songs after this.

Labels: Portraits, Slideshows

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Bryon & Darci part One ....

We shot the first ringed/fam session with Bryon and Darci. They have such a cool vision for their shoot and we even made a story board. And without knowing it, we had three themes going on: Flare, shadows and frame within a frame. Weird how both of us did it.

Jeremy and Darci found this abandoned house. Home Sweet Home:


I even heart Jeremy's flare:


Flare and frame within a frame.





Frame within a frame.





The Beautiful Bos girls:




Different kinds of fam portraits:















To Be Continued.........

Labels: Fams and Kids being Kids, Portraits, Ringed Sessions

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

More shoots in Yosemite......

The film is developed. And I finally am able to do Yosemite part two. This is a long post since I am cramming eveything in here! We have three more shoots, cross processed and holga film and scenic pictures to show you. Take a looksy:

Some cool Cross Processed Film:






From Steve and Chrissy's Shoot.


Cool Holga image of the cute little church.


Scenic bikeride:


Across the view from the pic above are these cute little houses.


My amazing adorable comfortable bike.





Half Dome at sunset.


A deer in the meadow:





Shoot with Destine. We always tease her that she looks like a manaquin so I call this "dead manaquin girl".








Early morning fam/maternity shoot:


Another cross processed film image.


Owen couldn't be any cuter if he tried!


I love this Holga image of Owen.


Yosemite Flowers.


This cross processed one came out so cool!



And Lastely, after we did everyone else's shoots, we tried to do one for ourselves. We attempted a Trash the Dress Session with me and Jeremy that we'd be planning for months, but due to unforeseen circumstances it didn't work out. Jeremy did manage to get these two really great shots of me in my wedding dress for all of 10 minutes of our shoot:

Labels: Fams and Kids being Kids, Portraits, Wanderlust

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

An Experiment in Painting with Light...

In order to get ready for a shoot we have for Friday, we decided to do some testing with ourselves. Painting with light is a really fun photo technique that I first learned in High School. And we've been wanting to try it for awhile.

We really like how these turned out so we wanted to share!

I LOVE this one Jeremy shot of me outside our place.


He always has his eyes closed.


Jeremy and his buddies came over to get something and they asked why we had the camera all set up. He showed them and they both wanted to try it. So here they are:

Jony Bos.


Steve Bos.


Stay tuned for more adventures in painting with light!

Labels: Personal, Portraits

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Senior fun with Amber...

We did a shoot for our familia (I can use that because they're Mexicans!) with Jeremy's cousin Amber for her senior pictures. She, like me isn't happy with boring, posed pictures from the studio that provides them for the school. So we wanted to do something more fun. We decided to go to the The Mission Inn to find cool places. Amber was so much fun to shoot and we got some really great stuff!

Here's some of our favorites:

Our girl is growing up!


Jeremy shot these and I thought they make an awesome collage.


Jeremy got this. So Amber!


Fun with brick:




More from Jeremy:








I heart swirly things!


And how cute are we??


Thanks for being so fun on your shoot Amber!!

Labels: Portraits

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Marla Mae

Jeremy and I did a shoot with Amanda, aka Marla Mae. I was sooo excited because I love pin-ups and pretty much anything Vintage. It was really fun shooting her! Thanks to Melody, hairbymelody@yahoo.com who does hair and Amy, amymarieclarke@yahoo.com who does make-up. You gals did a fantastic job, as usual!

It was REALLY hard to choose so I'm just posting a few of the modeling ones now. I'll post the ones of her and her boyfriend David when I get more time!!

I love this red and her red lips.


The hair stylist, Melody also my best friend took these of us!


Me getting my cute shirt dirty for cool photos.


Jeremy shot this and I just LOVE it.


Planes are really fun to photograph, along with our beautiful model!




I really like her fishnets and heals.


Some Vintage inspired ones:


This is one of my faves! And as much as want to claim this, Jeremy took it.


This was our favorite plane.


I love the primary colors in this.


Amanda calls this one, "Aww Shucks".


Attack of the woman wearing leopard.


Stayed tuned for a few more!

Labels: Models, Portraits

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Senior Pictures at a Dairy

We did a very fun senior shoot with Derek. I actually went to school with his sister so her mom, Sherri hired us for the senior pics. We had such a great time walking around their dairy, Alger Farms. We get excited about things like dairies so it was very cool for us.


Their dog sitting on his throne. He's so sweet.



I don't care what anyone says, hay is rad....






.....and so is tin.....



......and brick.



Cool boots! She bid on them at a wedding in Montana as they were the centerpieces.

Labels: Portraits

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Jony Bos

Friday evening we did some photos for our friend Jony Bos. Not only is he a cutie but he's talented as well. He plays the guitar, writes and sings. He can also play the bass really well too. And ladies, he IS single.





I would like to point out to the 3 people that read my blog: this shot was Jeremy's creative vision. Very cool.

Labels: Portraits

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Sean Oliver

I did a shoot with Sean for his new website that will be coming out soon. He is a motivational speaker and life coach. It's very evident that he really cares about people and is a geniune person.

Sean Oliver

Labels: Portraits

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Make-up Shoot

Since I'm such a HUGE football fan, I did a make-up shoot on Superbowl Sunday. I think that's the most fun I've ever had on a Superbowl Sunday! My friend, Brandie did an awesome job with the make-up and Libby was our gorgeous model. Brandie's email is brandiebedell@hotmail.com.

Labels: Portraits

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Hair & Make-up Photo Shoot

Today I got together with my beautiful & talented friends to finish our project. Amy did the make-up and Melody did hair. (Brides please email me for their numbers.) Along with all of our models, we decided to get ourselves all dolled up for a change and take some photos too. Thank you to Steve and Destinie who took our photos and to all of the lovely girls.

Mel & Amy





Melody (hair) Dana (photo) Amy (make-up)




Destinie's Senior Pics





Shellie & Destinie (hard to believe but Shellie is the mom!)






Juanita






Our beautiful bride, Maria








The Twins: Michelle & Nicole




Julie






Our other pretty bride, Christina








Dana with the sisters previously known as the "The Schroffs" (Sorry guys, these hotties are married!)




Dana with the sisters again (sometimes I like to pretend I'm a Schroff).

Labels: Portraits

Saturday, October 29, 2005