New Year - New Goals

K so I am trying to practice a little to start doing some newborn sessions. This year is going to be a big one for me and my little business and I am slowly but surely building up my studio and props. Here is a little bit of practice that I worked on with my own daughter. She is 4 months old but she still is easy to use as a model. 

This face! I know she is my daughter and all but I can't stop staring at her!

Valentines Day Mini Session Fun

I'm so excited for my Valentines Day Mini Shoot that will be on January 30th and 31st. I wanted to have a little trial run with Berkley and  Baby Nash. They were so much fun to hang out with and take pictures of! Berkley is such a doll! She has the cutest little personality! How cute is Nash?! He was so much fun to take pictures of. And of course there is my Miss Blakely modeling as well :) Let me know what you think of the backdrop choices?

Could Berkley be any cuter?!

How sweet is Baby Nash? He was such a good sport!

He's too cute not to kiss!

Miss Blakely

O Berk. You have stolen my heart!

Love this little munchkin!

My little Cupid!

If interested in a mini session please contact me!

Learning New Things

It's been a bit slow lately which I have quite enjoyed. I was able to learn a few new things recently that I am so excited to incorporate into my post editing! I've always loved the Matte look when it comes to final images and I am slowly but surely learning. Here is what I have been playing with with images from a previous Bridal session.

On the left is my new Matte Finish and on the right is how I edited the image the first time.  

Matte Finish vs. Original below

 Matte vs. Original Edit

I am continuing to learn and grow and I couldn't be more excited to learn new post processing techniques. Please please please let me know what you think!!!

Our New Family Christmas Tradition

I know this has nothing to do with photography but here is a little Christmas fun from today. As Christmas is coming near I wanted to do something that would commemorate my sweet baby Blakely's first Christmas as well as I wanted to create a tradition with her that we can do each and every year. I chose to do salt dough ornaments with Blakely's sweet little handprints and foot prints.

This was honestly the easiest recipe I could find... For the salt dough I used a 1+1+2=dough approach. Here are my step by step instructions.

1 part water. 1 part salt. 2 parts flour

For my self I used 1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup water, 1 cup flour

I used my Kitchenaide mixer to mix up the ingredients. I Mixed the flour and salt first and then added in the water. 

The dough will be a little sticky

I kneaded the dough for a minute

Be sure to use flour to control the stickiness

My lovely daughter thankfully was very cooperative. I put a small hole in the dough so that I will be able to thread a ribbon through so that I will be able to hang it on our tree for many many Christmas's to come. 

How sweet are her little foot prints?

After I was finished getting the hand and foot prints I needed. I placed the ornaments on to a pan and placed it into the oven to dry. I'm a little late in doing this so I need them to be dry faster than just air drying them. 200 degrees for about 4 or 5 hours should do the trick! 

I'm so excited to see how these turned out and to have a new tradition in my new little family!

Mike & Heather Lee

I was so excited to finally work with Heather. We had to reschedule a few different times but finally we were able to get together! Heather and her husband Mike were great to work with! It had been some time since they had had their pictures taken. Here are the images from her shoot! Enjoy <3

 I'm so excited to finish up this session! Please let me know how you all like them. <3

xo
Callie