Girl Friends mini session | PHX custom photography

Can you think of anything cooler as a "sweet sixteen gift" than a custom photography session with friends?

 Mom won the PTO gift certificate for a mini session and generously handed it over to her beautiful daughter and friends.

One look at these girls and I knew our session would be a piece of cake.

 These beauties are friends from preschool and now attend high school together.  I LoVe that!  

 And someday they'll look back on these portraits and realize how fleeting those fun high school years were

...and how fortunate they are to have captured these moments.

Best friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.  

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time to party!

My personal goal was to have every Mont. session edited/shipped by Sept 1st.

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I feel like I have done nothing more than eat, sleep, and breathe editing for the last 4 weeks.

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And (in usual kristin fashion) I barely, just under the wire, made tomorrow's deadline ...

And so if you haven't received your digital negatives yet, the final packages have now shipped F/C & will be to you within the week!  Woot Woot

Now excuse me... I have some celebrating  (and sleeping) to do :)

thanks again!

1. K./Senior Session
2. Kary Session
3. Kinsey Session
4. Mettler Session
5. C./Senior Session
6. Williams Session
7. Thompson Session
8. McCormick Session
9. Czehura Session
10. Moore Session
11. Murnion Session
12. Selle Session
13. Albertson Session
14. Griffith Session
15. Merwin Session
16. Varner Session
17. Rost Session
18. M./senior Session
19. WiseTies Clothing/Commercial Session
20. Ferguson Session(mini)
21. Klotzsky Session (mini)
22. Quenzer Session(mini)
23. Groshans Session (mini)

...and thank you to my friends Nicci and Lisa who gave up some of their mornings to help with my 'lil guys so I could get solid chunks of editing time in! I'm so thankful for your help :)

Montana Photo Session/UPDATE

Thank you so much for your patience as I go through/edit/ship each session.  I want you to know that I'm doing the best I can at the quickest rate that I'm able-while still giving you the quality and workmanship that each session deserves.  

I have been getting several emails/questions about my equipment, where I find my inspiration, props, locations...and more.  Once I finish these sessions, I will answer all your questions as well as map out future plans for my photography.  So if YoU have a question of your own, go ahead and do so in the comments or via email (the envelope button on top right of the blog)....

Without further ado, here's the MONTANA PHOTO SESSION information.  If the session has a line through it, IT HAS SHIPPED (VIA PRIORITY MAIL) FROM ARIZONA.  I'd love it if you would let me know that you received your digital negatives!

2011 MONTANA SESSIONS/UPDATE:  

1. K./Senior Session
2. Kary Session
3. Kinsey Session
4. Mettler Session
5. C./Senior Session
6. Williams Session
7. Thompson Session
8. McCormick Session
9. Czehura Session
10. Moore Session
11. Murnion Session
12. Selle Session
13. Albertson Session
14. Griffith Session
15. Merwin Session
16. Varner Session
17. Rost Session
18. M./senior Session
19. WiseTies Clothing/Commercial Session
20. Ferguson Session(mini)
21. Klotzsky Session (mini)
22. Quenzer Session(mini)
23. Groshans Session (mini)

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NOTE:  I will continue to update this post as I progress with each session, please check here for status updates.

"Enhanced Editing"

There's a reason that each of my sessions takes  2-3 hours+ to be professionally retouched and edited.  

Most photographers will charge for anything beyond a basic edit (sharpening & toning).  
However, my clients receive "enhanced editing" that is included in my photography package ($300.00).  Images are hand colored- I add warmth, dimension, texture, and the vintage feel that my images are known and loved for.  It turns a regular photograph  into "a work of art".  I won't give my clients any image that I wouldn't be proud to display in my own home.
period.

Enhanced editing

SOOC  (straight out of camera)

Each of the digital negatives CD also contain  more portraits than the guaranteed 20-25.  I don't know if it's the mother in me...but I cannot dispose of a photograph if it's a quality image, especially if it captures a relationship.  Therefore, my clients receive above and beyond what is promised in their package.  I believe that is what keeps them coming back to me and trusting me with their family's portraiture (which I do not take lightly).  

SOOC

Enhanced Editing

I apologize this post is long.

 I just want clients (and those who have inquiries about custom photography) to understand why it takes the time that it does to edit true portraiture/sessions.

Lastly,

I have those who ask why custom photography is so much more costly than chain store studios:

my answer?
(...besides all factors discussed above)

Because it's worth it!

4 Generation {AZ Portraiture}

"To move freely you must be deeply rooted."

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I have these sessions come along that touch my heart so deeply. 

Great grandma.  

Grandmas.  Daughters.  Great granddaughters.

Strong women of faith.

love.

integrity.

Separated geographically but not in heart.

 "We shape our lives not by what we carry with us, but what we leave behind"  

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It warms my heart to see people keep their family at such high priority.

This photo session has been on the books since 2010.

 It was an honor to capture their reunion.

The personalities, laughter.

 What fun.

Two sisters, each seeing their daughters raise a daughter.

"playing just like when our girls were babies" 
I heard one grandma sigh...

And great grandma 
is able to relish these moments
these giggles, tea parties, and delicate perfections

within three generations.

delights me to to capture it behind my lens.

Such fun personalities and relationships these women share.

Life truly is Art.

simple as that.

D. Baby Shower

I love parties, birthdays, showers...

if we're celebrating someone,

count me in!

we spend so much time/resources on the details of those parties-

special events