So I am really having to hold myself back right now. I try to just put a sneak peak of the session on this blog but this little one was just a model baby! This is Crews. What a cool name, huh?! And this baby goes with his name...he totally took the session by the horns and worked the camera. He was such a total cutie, and when he smiled, his face lit up! Now, I went into this session doing what I advise all parents NOT to do...try to create a portrait during the session. Hmmm, so that needs some explanation .... what I mean is that the best portraits are usually those that just happen. Anyone with children know that they are totally unpredictable. Sometimes in the bad way (i.e. you go on vacation and your usually super sleeper wakes up four times in the middle of the night) and sometimes in a great way (when your four year old sees you kneeling to pray and he instinctively joins you without you even knowing it...yes, Graham did that this morning...almost made me forget his totally horrible trantrums that enveloped his entire four year old year!) Either way, children are just that- children! They don't come to a session with an agenda and neither should we. So, before this session I saw a composite of a baby about this age with three totally different expressions...a happy one, a solemn one and a crying one. It was too cute. I thought, I am going to try to get this with Crews. So usually a session is lengthened in an attempt to get one more great smile out of a baby, or a captured giggle, but no, this session was different- I worked to get him to CRY! Yes, this baby was the happiest little fellow...he was so tired and yet whenever we set him down to take the picture, he'd see the camera and SMILE! So instead of recreating the portrait I had in my head an even better one evolved- one that showed the REAL Crews! When will I learn- children always have something better in store than I could ever create on my own! Thank you Crews for a totally fun session! You are one cool kid!
So I am really having to hold myself back right now. I try to just put a sneak peak of the session on this blog but this little one was just a model baby! This is Crews. What a cool name, huh?! And this baby goes with his name...he totally took the session by the horns and worked the camera. He was such a total cutie, and when he smiled, his face lit up! Now, I went into this session doing what I advise all parents NOT to do...try to create a portrait during the session. Hmmm, so that needs some explanation .... what I mean is that the best portraits are usually those that just happen. Anyone with children know that they are totally unpredictable. Sometimes in the bad way (i.e. you go on vacation and your usually super sleeper wakes up four times in the middle of the night) and sometimes in a great way (when your four year old sees you kneeling to pray and he instinctively joins you without you even knowing it...yes, Graham did that this morning...almost made me forget his totally horrible trantrums that enveloped his entire four year old year!) Either way, children are just that- children! They don't come to a session with an agenda and neither should we. So, before this session I saw a composite of a baby about this age with three totally different expressions...a happy one, a solemn one and a crying one. It was too cute. I thought, I am going to try to get this with Crews. So usually a session is lengthened in an attempt to get one more great smile out of a baby, or a captured giggle, but no, this session was different- I worked to get him to CRY! Yes, this baby was the happiest little fellow...he was so tired and yet whenever we set him down to take the picture, he'd see the camera and SMILE! So instead of recreating the portrait I had in my head an even better one evolved- one that showed the REAL Crews! When will I learn- children always have something better in store than I could ever create on my own! Thank you Crews for a totally fun session! You are one cool kid!
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