Had a lot of fun with two very sweet pups on Saturday; here’s a little sneak peak of Dakota. I just love those amazing eyes. More to come…
- Emily
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Sneak Peak: Tinkerbell & Dakota – Southern Maine Family and Pet Photographer {Emily Michelle Photography}
Monday, November 1st, 2010Oliver – Southern Maine Family and Pet Photographer {Emily Michelle Photography}
Monday, October 18th, 2010While staying with a friend in Austin last week, I spent a lot of time hanging out with her six-month old kitten, Oliver. It’s been over six years since we brought home a stray pregnant kitty and raised her kittens in our house and underfoot. Mama cat and her kittens are grown now (though still underfoot), so I had started to forget what it’s like to live with kittens. Now that I’m back home, it seems as though my own cats are a) very large, and b) very mellow. Photographing a kitten like Oliver is like trying to catch lightening in a bottle.
.02 seconds before he came racing toward the camera…
- Emily
First things first – Southern Maine Family and Pet Photographer {Emily Michelle Photography}
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010Little Colin is the first child for his parents, Doug and Meghan. Meghan is the first in our little circle of girlfriends to have a baby – the first wedding I photographed earlier this year was also one of “the girls” – and now this session with Colin is the very first newborn session I’ve done.
Firsts can be many things: exciting, overwhelming, captivating, nerve-wracking. For better or worse, firsts are memorable.
And of course, Colin did all of the things that babies will do during a photo session – peed (on dad), pooped, squirmed, fought sleep, squirmed some more. He was fairly alert for being just 8 days earthside.
It took some quiet coaxing, a white noise machine, and a space heater cranked up to maximum before Colin finally drifted off into deep baby sleep.
Once Colin was asleep, my assistant/sister helped put a new blanket into place while I held a soft and completely relaxed baby. Honestly, the whole day was worth just those few moments of holding in my hands one perfectly formed little person.
Toward the end of the session, Colin was definitely ready to be done, but he let us capture one more first – their first family photo.
- Emily
hello, baby – Southern Maine Family and Pet Photographer {Emily Michelle Photography}
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010Weddings are awesome. Babies at weddings = awesome2.
- Emily
why wedding photography is such a great workout – Southern Maine Family and Pet Photographer {Emily Michelle Photography}
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The lenses on the right are my regular lenses, my go-to glass. They’re great for portraits taken outdoors or with additional lighting, which is primarily how I shoot. They’ve also spoiled me. The lenses on the left (rented from the fabulous folks at borrowlenses.com) are the ones I like to use for indoor weddings – they’re great in low light and their wide aperture gives a really nice softness to the background. They are also HUGE.
The bride-to-be asked me how I was going to shoot the ceremony. Being familiar with the church and its layout, I just told her, “I will be moving around a lot. Like, a lot.” And carrying these babies around for seven hours will be like having a job and a gym plan all-in-one.
- Emily
