Catching up on the Blog | Showcasing a Beautiful Senior | Maple Valley Senior Photographer

This natural beauty was awesome!  She was great and very willing to try some of my harebrained ideas.  We had a great time together.  We shot these before the school year even began and now, going into the third week, it seems like it is in full swing. 

School has only been part of the reason that it has been busy here in my little chaotic world.  My five kids might be the other part.  I have had some fun doing some sessions with some great seniors.  I have been wanting to work on a better way of showcasing the images in my blog and share these guys with the internet.  It has taken my a while to get around to actually doing it.  This very well might just be a first draft.  I always reserve the right to revise!  Let me know what you think!

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Weather-smeather... Who Trust Forecasts These Days | Maple Valley Senior Photographer

For the last week they have been saying 60% chance of rain today.  The forecast for today has looked so bad!  Then there was some talk that it might dry up this afternoon, but my first shoot as at 9am.  At 8:30 I made the call to go ahead with the shoot.  As we arrived it was ever so slightly drizzling on us, but we pressed on.  By the end of the shoot we were urging the sun to go behind the clouds and trying to find shade.  Never trust the Seattle weather forecasts. 

 

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Something a little different for me | Tahoma Senior Photographer | GBlair Photography

When photographing seniors, my goal is always to incorporate something that has been a big part of their high school experience into their portraits.  When you are photographing a high school athlete, that is pretty easy.  You have sports equipment, uniforms and sometimes letterman's jackets.  What about a theater kid?  We decided to experiment with some off-camera flash in the auditorium a completely different arena than outdoor, natural lighting shots.  I am sure that I could have dinked around refining this shot for hours.  When I realized that I didn't have the brackets to hold the flashes, I had to improvise and use my helpful daughter.  I couldn't ask for a more awesome subject though.  He was great and I think that the shot worked.  What do you think?

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Something a little different for me | Tahoma Senior Photographer | GBlair Photography

When photographing seniors, my goal is always to incorporate something that has been a big part of their high school experience into their portraits.  When you are photographing a high school athlete, that is pretty easy.  You have sports equipment, uniforms and sometimes letterman's jackets.  What about a theater kid?  We decided to experiment with some off-camera flash in the auditorium a completely different arena than outdoor, natural lighting shots.  I am sure that I could have dinked around refining this shot for hours.  When I realized that I didn't have the brackets to hold the flashes, I had to improvise and use my helpful daughter.  I couldn't ask for a more awesome subject though.  He was great and I think that the shot worked.  What do you think?

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Sneak Peek from Saturday's Family Session | Maple Valley Family Photographer

Great family, good friends.  I got the pleasure of shooting some good friends this weekend.  We didn't let the dark gloomy clouds scare us off- and it was worth it.  I had to share this one.  If I posted it on a forum for critique, it would get picked apart.  Horizon through the head is a big no no.  But I don't care...  I LOVE it. 

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Tahoma Senior-

I had a fun evening running around with this beautiful girl and her mom.  Well, mom didn't really run, she more hobbled with her broken foot, good sport that she is.  I am glad we decided to make the trek down to the river area and get some shots in front of the grafitti wall.  We got a couple of great ones shot in between the distraction of the jumping salmon. 

Gretchen Blair

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August 22-28: Faces

Things are getting pretty busy with school about to start back up.  I only got 3 shots that week.  This week the theme is "My Favorite Things."  I have realized that most of my favorite things are intangible and the things that are tangible aren't things that I have readily available at my house.  I am thinking that I should surround myself with more of my favorite things.  Of course the shots I got for the faces week could easily pass for both weeks as they are some of my most favorite things.

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Wall Layout | Gretchen Blair | Maple Valley Family Photographer

Look at what I am working on.  I went over to a client's house to help her figure out how to use her existing frames for an amazing wall gallery of her images from her family shoot.   This whole display is going to take up about a 4' x 3' square on her wall.  The combination of color pictures and black and white pictures, big pictures and small pictures are going to make for a fabulous display.  I can't wait to see it hanging up.  I do have it kinda backwards though, because her wall has color, the mats are all white and the frames are out of a nice warm wood.  I will try and post pictures of the finished project.

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