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Category Archives: Families

Ella, Julian, Miles & Adrian

Great to see this family again. Each child is more photogenic than the next! We held this session downtown, partially in Millennium Park and partially off Michigan Avenue. I think every photographer in the tri-state area was in the park that day so I was so happy when everyone agreed to head over to the…

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Rainbow filter

You know the “rainbow” filter that you can add to an iPhone picture that makes the whole image look like it was taken through a piece of rainbow glass? While working on these images I feel like my eyes turned into rainbow filters. Every vibrant color came through at this shoot in my secret little…

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Don’t look at the camera

How does a photographer make an image that is truly candid? That is, an image where the subject does not know they are being photographed? So many of the images that portrait photographers take are set up. Even those photographers who labels themselves as “lifestyle” or “candid” photographers go to great lengths to get things…

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Extended family sessions. Yes.

Another sunny, late summer session with an extended family… Extended family portraits are the hardest to orchestrate for both the client and the photographer. There are the extra logistics of coordinating many family schedules, a suitable location, and usually a wildcard toddler. Let’s not also forget that most extended sessions happen on weekend afternoons, when…

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