Oh how I love this cute Mama. I met and served with Mikki's sweet mom and dad, Kathy and John, during the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Youth Temple Celebration almost 3 years ago and served on their committee for Festival of Trees the past 3 years. This year, I am on the Executive Board for Festival of Trees with Kathy. They have become literally like parents to me....I love them so much. What a blessing to have them in my life...and also have all of their amazing kids in my life as well. Cute Mikki is one of them....LOVE HER! What a great opportunity to meet Mikki's husband and their beautiful family for the first time to take their family portraits last week. And OH....MY......GOODNESS....did we end up with a BAZILLION awesome shots! I am SO EXCITED to post the proofs from this shoot!!!
Time to squish our cheeks to refresh our smiles! LOL!
I like to call this next one "Family: Isn't it about...time? From The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." LOL! I love these "Mama and Daddy looking at all of their babies" shots....but they seriously remind me of those LDS Church commercials. So funny. LOVE this shot though!
This next shot had a little bit of a lens flare on it. Instead of getting rid of the flare, I decided to make the lens flare even BIGGER....and really kinda love how it turned out!!! SO FUN!!
This next shot is likely one of my VERY FAVORITES from this shoot! Oh my heart.....LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT...from the Mama and Daddy smooching, to little bud focusing right on me, to brother and sister interacting with each other...to the awesome contrasts, lines and patterns on this AMAZING backdrop. LOVE IT!!!!
In addition to family group shots, I also shot a bunch of individual portraits of these beautiful kids. I could not get enough. They are all SO ridiculously cute....especially this little dude. Are you for real???? Have you ever seen a more handsome little guy? And WHAT a sweet little poser. His smile was PERFECT for every single shot....goodNIGHT....a photographer's DREAM!!!! As you can see....I kinda took a FEW of him..LOL! Couldn't seem to get enough!!
For those of you who are unfamiliar with how my shoots generally work, I thought I would give a brief explanation. After your shoot, within a week or so, I will post a "sneak peek" of your shoot here on my photo blog. These are not the only images you have to choose from. The reason for these sneak peek proofs, is to give you a sampling of HOW your pictures can be edited. I generally post a VARIETY of edits (vintage, black & white, sepia, urban, bright color, etc.) to give you ideas. Then, you will receive a Proofing CD with SMALL COPYRIGHTED images of EVERY SHOT from your shoot. You will choose your OWN 10 images from those and then specify HOW you want each one edited, using my SAMPLE EDITS as a guide. You will then receive a CD of your 10 EDITED IMAGES in HIGH RESOLUTION FORMAT (for printing) and also each of your images in LOW RESOLUTION FORMAT (copyrighted images....for all online use). And then, you may print as many of your pictures as you'd like - they are ALL YOURS!!!! Easy, easy! And so...until the Smith family has a chance to review all of the shots from their shoot, I thought I would go ahead and choose a few of MY faves to edit and post as a little sneak peek. I use the term "a few" very loosely, since I obviously couldn't keep it to just a few. I think you will find that that is generally the case. I have never had anyone complain that they don't have enough pictures to choose from. In fact, a few times, I have heard comments in the opposite direction...that there are simply "far too many awesome ones to choose from." That's the way I like it. ;-) HAPPY DAY!
And of course, what would a photo shoot with White House Photography BE without a few fabulous KISSING shots?! LOVE THESE!!!!
We like to call this next one...."HIGH SCHOOL DANCE POSE!" LOL! Please Note: This pose was NOT "for real." LOL! Don't want to ruin my reputation. Ha ha! This couple is SO much fun! Love this fun (and cheesy) shot!
What a CRAZY AWESOME day we had shooting pictures at this GREAT location...on a PERFECT picture day! So fun to meet Mikki's beautiful family and spend the afternoon with them. I am SO RIDICULOUSLY PLEASED with how this shoot turned out. I couldn't get ENOUGH of the pics. I will usually try to just edit 10-15 shots for my SAMPLE EDITS. However, there are some shoots where I just can't STOP! This was one of them!!!! GORGEOUS family...GORGEOUS location...FUN, FUN, FUN!!!
Many thanks to the Smith family for giving me the opportunity to take their family portraits this year. I hope that you are as pleased with these proofs as I am. I will have a proofing CD ready for you within the week and can't wait to see what YOUR faves are. Sure love you!!!!!
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