Smidge Marie Photography

Thursday, July 11, 2013

My Golden Hour Self Portraits

I have been dying to do a photo shoot like this for awhile now. I was going to create a flower band with Tiger lilies but they didn't look right with the ferns. So I'm going to have to figure some else out for the Tiger lilies. Anybody interested? :) Feel free to message me on my Facebook page!

Anywho, I did my makeup inspired by the Tiger lily in oranges, purple and black and I made a head band out of two ferns. I waited until golden hour to shoot. Golden hour is the first hour of sunlight in the morning and the last hour of the sunlight in the evening. It is a magically time, where the light is soft and gorgeous for a photo shoot.

I haven't done a lot of shoots at the golden hour, so I wanted to experiment, plus I had just gotten my wireless remote for my camera! So I wanted to test it out! Here are the results. Don't be shy, leave me a comment to tell me what you think.

Oh and I played with different styles of editing photographs in Photoshop.

This is my favorite one! I love the affect of the lens I used, as well. The background is all blurry and broken up into bokehs. Absolutely beautiful! I need to use the lens more often.

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Smidge Marie aka Sarah

Friday, July 5, 2013

Jack & Julianna

I had an amazing photo shoot at the end of June. The lighting was not during the golden hour, but it was still early enough to be pretty softer light! These two kids, Jack and Julianna, were FULL of energy. I could barely get them to stand still, especially to pose together. They were so freaking cute!

I must say, though I am very happy with the photographs I got from this shoot. I feel with every shoot I learn something new and keep improving!

Here is one of the first shots I got of the two together.

Jack was busy staring at the water.

Their dad had to kept reminding them not to go too far into the water. They kept testing their boundaries!

I wish the water was clearer for this photo. But who cares about the water, look at the cute pose Julianna did for me!

I love the look on both of their faces for this photo.

Julie: See what I put up with.

Jack: LOOK! LOOK!

Playground time!

After a couple of times of trying, I finally got Jack to listen and pose like this for me!

Spur of the moment idea from the dad!

Little Julie finding the light again.

Awww...

I am in LOVE with the photograph. How cute!

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Smidge Marie aka Sarah

Sunday, June 30, 2013

My Survey Contest!

Hello everybody! I hope you all are having a GREAT weekend!

So, I have a favor to ask. I created a survey to help me better understand my clients needs and wants. Please take the time to fill out the survey I linked below. It is 10 questions.

If I get at least 10 people to fill out this survey, I will randomly pick one person to receive a free portrait photo shoot, in which you will receive at least 15 edited images.

*Disclaimer* I will not be traveling out of the state. For this shoot I will expect you to come to Smidge Marie Photography or somewhere in the area of Smidge Marie Photography. Thank you for your understanding!

Thank you for your time, consideration and feedback!

Here is the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7NVG2G8

Thanks again!

~Smidge Marie

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Austin & Colin

Austin & Colin are two great kids from the Allentown area. I struggled to get pictures of Colin smiling during the photo shoot. I don't think you can really tell from the pictures though. Austin is the older boy so obviously Colin in the younger one. Austin was awesome to photograph, though I could tell by the end of our session, he was ready to play. Both are adorable kids!

This is Austin. This was when we were trying to convince Colin to join him...not very successful...yet...

Yay! We got Colin into the photograph....we certainly didn't bribe him with candy or anything, if that's what you are thinking....

Almost a smile!

There we go!

This is certainly not a picture showing everybody how we bribed Austin to get his picture taken... I think Amy went through two packs of candy and I don't even know how many popsicles!

I was just dying to try this perspective out, I think it turned out pretty cool!

Look at those two, they are just precious!

See the candy bribes worked really well.

I let the boys have some playtime so I could photograph them without them feeling like they are being photographed. They had fun and relaxed, if you can't tell from the picture below.

After, they had play time, Colin had a lot more smiles for the camera.

*HUGS*

I asked Austin to show me the tree he likes to play in.

At this point they were both ready to be done with me!

I fell in love with this picture of the boys eating their pops on the porch.

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Smidge Marie

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Bailey's 1st & Mark's 30th birthday party

On June 1st, I photographed Bailey's FIRST birthday party. She is a little cutie that I photographed back in December. I was excited to shoot the party because it was a Minne Mouse theme. And of course, because Bailey is so photogenic.