Posts Tagged ‘Catchlight’

Soon Thanksgiving will be upon us, and then it’s time for that jolly fellow to come to town. So have you been naughty or nice this year?

We have the pleasure of being Santa’s photographers again this year at the Carnation City Mall. Santa wants to invite you and your family to come to his workshop and have your portrait taken with him. Mrs. Claus will try her very best to be with him most days so that children can have their picture taken with Mr & Mrs Santa Claus.

We print on site – so no need to come back to pick up your images. They print in a few minutes

Children – bring your parents along so that they can be with you as you get an image with Santa.

Ayrabella is on the go. Don’t believe me, take a look at the first image. She is starting to find her legs and mom will soon be chasing around the house to catch up to her. I feel that I will be chasing her in our studio when her and mom visit us the next time.

She is one of our easiest little models and she is a lot of fun to photograph. Mom comes prepared with hair bows, different outfits and plenty of energy to keep up with her high energy young daughter. There are so many images to choose from her sessions that it makes it difficult for mom to pick her favorite ones.

Thanks for coming to visit Ayrabella (& Mom too). We are looking forward to your next visit.

Today we had a quick model session with Lydia because her mom received an email from us. The message we sent to many local families asked for models between the ages of 2 and 12 for our new studio at Carnation City Mall. No cost, and we would actually give them a free 5×7 for coming in for us to see if we could use them on some new photo items. We know what items that we want to purchase – we just need some cute models for these items.

Here is a comment that Regena said about our services and her daughter’s time at our Mall Studio – Catchlight.

Hey Nicole!! I just wanted to say thank you for sharing some time with Lydia and I! Bruce did a fantastic job with her today and Lydia hasn’t stopped talking about him yet!!! This was a great experience for both her and I and I can’t wait to do some more soon!! – Family photos may have to happen in the spring
Have a great weekend
Regena and Lydia too!

Thank you Regena – we are looking forward to some more fun with Lydia at the studio. Let us know when you are ready for Family Portraits and we will make certain that everyone involved will have a great time, as Lydia did today.

Yesterday we met AyraBella and her mom (Stacie) at our Mall studio – Catchlight.

AyraBella had the biggest Blue Eyes and she was such a flirt. Stacie came into our studio and AyraBella was sound asleep in her car seat. Soon she woke up and she was ready for the camera, as she was all smiles.

We created several portraits of AyraBella. One of the first ones that we attempted was in a Tea Cup planter. It went well when we were “testing” the Tea Cup – but once AyraBella was changed into her first outfit – she did not want anything to do with the flower pot. Here is one of the portraits that we captured of AyraBella. I call it “A Strong Cup of AyraBella”. Which is completely the opposite of how she was – most of the time she was full smiles and I heard a few happy gurgles from her.

AyraBella is the newest member of our portrait club – and it will be great to watch her grow.

This is that comment that we hear over and over again from many of  Santa’s guests at the Carnation City Mall.

Why are they saying this? Not only do we have a new living room set, which looks like it was plucked from Santa’s house in the North Pole, but we often have Mrs. Claus helping ease the fears of the little ones. Sometimes Santa’s little guests (between 18 months and 3 years of age) are not too certain of the jolly fellow, and they would rather approach Mrs. Claus as she is like a grandmother – and who doesn’t like a grandmother?

Come by our Santa booth at the Carnation City Mall and check it out for yourself. You never know who may show up – maybe Rudolph.

We are very fortunate to have Santa and the Misses at Carnation City Mall for young children to enjoy.  Why are we fortunate? If your little ones are afraid of Santa, they can always join Mrs. Claus as she has the grandmother affect on most children and we can still capture a memorable and extremely unique portrait of your children. No other Mall in Ohio can claim that they have Mr. and Mrs. Claus for the community’s children to come and visit.

Stop by Carnation City Mall at 2500 W. State St. in Alliance, OH and we can capture some childhood memories for young and old to enjoy. Mrs. Claus is with us most weekends and should be around more often as we get closer to Christmas. Regular hours are Wed-Frid 4-8 PM. Saturday 10AM-7PM and Sunday noon-5PM. Check out the Carnation City Mall website for more detailed hours.

The image below is  a child that was afraid of Santa, but went running towards Mrs. Claus. Santa quietly went behind Mrs. Claus to be in the picture with everyone else.

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!

We are here at the Carnation City Mall with the Easter Bunny. Come on in to get your picture with the Easter Bunny. It only takes a few seconds, and we can have your portrait printed in about 30 seconds.

If you would like, we can even place it on our blog for your friends to see.

Bruce N.