Category Archives: Children

What is Retouching and Editing?

PROFESSIONAL RETOUCHING: Every *purchased* image undergoes  retouching to remove blemishes, mistakes and other unsightly things.  Many people refer to this as Photoshopping an image, or a decade ago I heard the term “airbrushing” a lot.  Some budding photographers say “editing”.  The point is, the images are cleaned up… Much like how you run the vacuum…

What to bring to your session

This is a starting point checklist for various kinds of sessions.  But when life happens, if you have forgotten anything on the list, don’t panic.  We will still have a GREAT session. It’s a good idea to…. Bring to your newborn session: Dress for the tropics. When we’re not photographing a family shot, and we’re…

Cake Smash!

  CAKE SMASH! Just in case you are not familiar with the cake smash tradition, here’s the scoop… Your sweet baby is turning ONE.  Where did the year go!?  (If this is your first baby, then you now truly understand the term ‘WARP SPEED.’) You have had a year of lonngg days but every day…