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Rent the Runway; tips on picking a portrait wardrobe

My goal has always been to not just photograph a family one time, but to build a lasting relationship and document your family each year.   This is the best way  I know to build a family history and to make sure your children can look back at the entire family over the years and see the close relationships and defining moments throughout their childhood.

One question that comes up repeatedly among my clients, especially when we do a family session each year, is “what should we wear”?  We love to work closely with you to put outfits together that not only compliment each person in the portrait, but also have the look and feel of the location of the session.  And, it is extremely important, to make sure the images compliment your home.

We are now in the process of building a more extensive shooting wardrobe.  Watch for future announcements on how you can get involved helping us complete our shooting wardrobe.  Since I love vintage dresses and accessories, we definitely have those in our studio and we are always on the lookout for more.  But for the gals in the family, I high recommend using services such as www.renttherunway.com to access one of a kind beautiful dresses and outfits at a fraction of the retail cost.  For the holidays this year, one of my favorite families, decided to go all out and rent formal red outfits and combine this look with an organic setting.  The results were stunning!   I also love that they rented a tux for their gorgeous son Daniel!  What a great sport.   Here are some of the
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To book your portrait session, you can email us at kristin@blueskysstudio.com or call at 949-510-3862.

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Your Blue Sky’s Studio portraits as art for your walls

Did you know that there are several studies showing that children’s self esteem is improved by seeing portraits on themselves and their families on the wall?  

A revealing study was conducted in 1975 with a group of fourth graders at a Tennessee school by Tulane University. During a five week period, the children took Polaroid instant photos of themselves with provided cameras in a variety of assigned poses, compositions and expressing various emotions. The children worked with the printed images of themselves and created scrapbooks once a week over those five weeks. Testing of the students and teachers at the conclusion of study revealed a significant increase of 37 percent in the students’ average self-esteem behaviors. This Murfreesboro Study shows some evidence personal photography of children seen and enjoyed in a specific way can help boost a child’s self-esteem.  This according to an article published on Design Aglows blog.

“It lets children learn who they are and where they fit,” says Judy Weiser. a psychologist, art therapist and author based in Vancouver. “They learn their genealogy and the the uniqueness of their own family and its story. When a child sees a family portrait with them included in the photograph they say to themselves: ‘These people have me as part of what they are, that’s why I belong here. This is where I come from.‘”

For some reason, this does not translate for digital images and seems to really be focused on tangible images on themselves and their families.

One of the reason I am so passionate about photography is that our time with our children is so fleeting and really it passes in a blink of an eye.  I really can’t believe my son is already out in the world on his own.  It seems like only yesterday he was crawling into my bed in the middle of the night pleading with Bob and me to let him stay with us.

That is why we want to show all of our clients what their portraits will look like as art on their walls.  Believe me, it is easier than you think to have an actual picture mocked up on your wall with our software

  1.  Take an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and take it to any wall you think will work for portrait art.  

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2. Take a picture of your wall with your iPhone and text it to us.  Just make sure you are standing straight in front of the wall and not at an angle (that makes it more difficult to line everything up).

 

 

blueskysstudio_13.  Select a picture, or two or three and we will mock up several examples on your wall with everything at the appropriate size to show off in your home!blueskysstudio_3blueskysstudio_4blueskysstudio_5blueskysstudio_6Order the product and we will have it shipped directly to your home.  We will even come and help you install your wall art.  So now there is no excuse not to have beautiful walls covered with your amazing family!  To book an appointment email us a kristin@blueskysstudio.com.  

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Mother Daughter Makeover Month

We have been busy putting together our brand new product line. Blue Sky’s Studio is going back to our roots (for all of those people who remember me dressed up as a Princess… not that far), to offer fully stylized photography sessions. That includes professional hair styling and makeup application, use of our photography wardrobe or our assistance putting together looks from your closet and a fully directed photography shoot. We will take the top 20 images from the session and fully edit those images, adding our artistic touch and have those images printed and matted using a fine art finish. We then, invite you back to our studio for a reveal of the top images as well as a slideshow and a review session on our large screen to help you select the best art products for you home. To get a little taste of what these sessions look like, here is a Mother Daughter makeover session with my good friend Denise and her beautiful daughter Lydia. We also invited her son to the very end of the session so the whole family got involved. The best part is that she has beautiful images of herself along with her kids. As a mom, we so often find ourselves behind the camera, it is nice to have a pamper day and have beautiful images not only of our kids, but also of us! Enjoy!

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Behind the scenes for a Blue Sky’s Family Photography Session!

Check out this amazing video, done by the very talented Connor Brashier! It is time to book your holiday shoot! Hurry, we were completely booked by the beginning of November last year!

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Boho Beach Family: Laguna Beach

I have been blessed in life to get to do what I love for a living.  In addition to loving what I do, capture portraits of people, I also love the people I get to work with.  Getting to be a small part of a family memory is absolutely priceless to me.   And when I get to call the family my friend, it warms my heart. 

Here is my absolutely stunning friend Rashae and her family.  The amazing thing is, she is even more beautiful on the inside and that warmth and love really shines through.  Thanks to your gorgeous daughters for making me laugh and reminding me why I love photographing kids so much!  Here is a sneak peak of just a few of my favorites.  Enjoy!