Portrait Photography (Maternity) - Amanda

One of the things I love about establishing the kind of relationships that we do with our clients, is getting to experience their journey through life as their "family photographer." We've found, more often than not, that when a great consultation leads to an engagement session, and that engagement session leads to a wedding, and at that wedding things just click, then it's not too long until you're taking photos like this one...

We love building those lasting friendships with our clients, and it really does bring us a great deal of joy to share all of those happy moments together.

Rose and I had the privilege of photographing Pat and Amanda's wedding and when the time came, we were honored to become their official family photographers.

Here's a shot of Amanda done just before sunset using a single strobe about 8 feet in the air on a light stand, without any modifiers, off to camera left. I like the etheral mood with a little bit of edge effects added in post.

For The Photographers:

Setup: Nikon D3, Nikon 24-70mm (31mm), 1/1250s @ f/2.8, ISO 200

Post: Adobe Lightroom 3.6, Adobe Photoshop CS5, and onOne Perfect Photo Suite

 

Portrait Photography (Maternity) - Melanie

I started taking a look around the image library in order to see where I should pick back up with the blog. To be honest, it was a little depressing to see just how little we posted last year. I feel like I should apologize to those of you that kept stopping by, as I think we only post about a dozen times all of last year! In any event, we'll pick back up with a lovely shot from a maternity session I did last May. Melanie (you may remember her from the river shots) was a beautiful mom-to-be. Both her attitude and comfort in front of the camera came through in the shots. Throughout the entire session I was able to see the anticipation in her eyes with each 'Gentle Reminder' of what was ahead.

For The Photographers:

Setup: Nikon D3, Nikon 24-70mm (60mm), 1/80s @ f/9.0, ISO 100

Post: Adobe Lightroom 3.6

Maternity Photography - Melanie - Northern Virginia

To be honest, I've been really excited about showing these, but I wanted to get the complete set of shots from this session done and presented to the mom before showing them to the world. However, I sent my email to Melanie this morning, so I'm pleased to present a couple favorites from her maternity session.

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Nikon D3, Post: Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3

Melanie is an artist, and an absolute trooper, and stuck right with me - hiking through mud, plodding through ice-water, and swatting mosquitoes without a single complaint all in search of the vision I had in mind. For the photographers in the crowd, there are two SB-900s on a light stand in the middle of the creek, just to the left of the subject, and my D3 with 24-70mm on a tripod in the middle of the creek. The water was swift moving and cold and it was pretty intense leaving all that gear in the middle of the river while posing Mel... but I'm pleased with the result.

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Nikon D3, Post: Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3

 

Portrait Photography - School Pictures - Northern Virginia

With school picture season upon us, I wanted to take a minute to welcome any parents who might be visiting the blog and any school administrators who might be interested in our portrait photography services. Like all of our packages, our school sessions come with password protected galleries for each student - which you will receive from your child's teacher when the photos are ready for previewing. If you have any questions about your pictures, or are looking for a school photographer for next year, we'd love to hear from you. You can contact us at: information@townerjones.com

The following photo was shared with permission from the subject's parents. (they're good friends of ours!)

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Nikon D3, 70-200mm (at 70mm) f/11, 1/250s, ISO 100

Post: Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3

 

 

Portrait Photography - Little Ian - Northern Virginia

(Sorry for the short hiatus, gang. Rose, the kids and I went through another round of illness - it's been a rough winter... we're ready for Spring's fresh air! Thanks for the extra prayers. We're on the mend.)

We had the pleasure of photographing one of our regular clients on his first birthday. We've had such a blast seeing Ian grow up as we've been his official photographers since his mom's maternity shoot a little more than a year ago.

I wish I could take credit for the cute photo concept below - but credit goes to Ian's mom, Cody. They have purchased an adult size shirt (which fits Ian's dad) and the plan is to photograph him in it on each birthday so we can see him grow up. Too cool.

Here's the first shot of the little guy in his new threads.

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Nikon D3, 24-70mm (at 24mm) f/13, 1/250s, ISO 100

Post: Photoshop CS5, onOne Perfect Photo Suite, Lightroom 3