Posts Tagged ‘alliance preschool photographer’

Santa Claus is going to be back at Carnation City Mall starting this coming Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 11am. We have the great honor of looking after Santa while he is here in Alliance and photographing him with the children.  Carnation City Mall really out did themselves on decorating center court and it looks and feels like Santa’s living room. Mrs. Claus will be joining us at center court when she can. She is busy keeping the elves on track getting ready for the big day.  We will be holding 2 days for Pet Portraits with Santa – Sunday, December 6th from 12pm – 5pm and Thursday December 17 from 4pm – 8pm.

We look forward to seeing everyone this year.

There is more then one way to capture the image of a shy child. Our way – make him work for us first. He sees that its SO easy to be in front of the camera that he jumps right in there after he takes the image of someone else.

Nicole and I will try almost anything to get a smile from children. Most of the time these children are in the front of a camera (and the stranger taking their picture) for the first time. Having a screaming child is something that we have to contend with every time we walk into a preschool. Does this stop us? Or get us upset? NO WAY. This is just a test of what we came up with to “trick” the little one into giving us a nice smile, that is sure to please his/her parents.

This video is just an example of what we do to capture a unique image of a child. As you can see the camera is triggered by a little boy that would not get his picture taken initially. After taking the picture of a fellow student, he could not wait to get his picture taken.

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Nicole and I just finished photographing a local preschool – Union Avenue United Methodist Preschool. We were there two days – yesterday and today.

The children ranged from 3-5 and boy did they keep us on our feet, well actually I was sitting down so that I could photograph them in the little chair that we used as a prop, and we did 2 great poses that parents will LOVE. Nicole loves trying to make the children smile, even at my expense. It doesn’t bother me at all, just as long as we can get some great expressions from the children that their parents will love.

We are photographing another preschool in town tomorrow and Friday. More fun with the little ones. It’s great to see familiar faces from last year, and getting recognized by the children that we photograph as we are shopping or just going around town is so great too.

Everybody smile!