johns journal

This is the number one question I get all day everyday from clients!! What to wear, more speficially how to dress your family for photo session day! Let me show you my easy 3 step formula that will remove all question, fear, and doubt!

LOCATION FIRST

This may not come to mind first but your locati…

Looking for something a little different for your family this year? For us, Fall is already looking pretty crazy so our last summer hurrah at the beach will capture our family picture for the Christmas card too! The idea of finding clothes during the clearance sales right now and not trying to squ…

It's finally here and virtually finished. The story of this little shed is a long and sordid one! We went through trial after trial including the guy we paid to build it running off with the money and knocking our whole street out of power when the electrician wired it for sound. When it was a…

Turns out running a small business isn't all fun and games! My eyes are starting to cross at the amount of time I spend staring at the computer while editing countless pictures! Its a total joy to snap the pictures and I do enjoy the artistic process of editing but the editing time is obscene!…

I love all things girly so when this little darling marked the first session in the studio with all her ruffles and girly things, I about died. 

Happy Thursday friends, hope its fluffy and pink!

One of the many settings on your camera is white balance. This will determine the tone and color casting in your image. It plays a huge factor if you are shooting inside particularly and without flash like I prefer! Take a look and note in the top image, see the yellow color casting to his face an…

The inevitable has happend, Boaz started walking actually around 9 1/2 months....seriously crazy baby. This one wastes no time. Here he is in all his superhero glory! This is that picture, you know the one you show to his future wife!

Walking video:

Isn't he a dreamboat? Editing away today, Happy Thursday!

Ok, this is the last inspiration board for the studio-shed, promise. It arrives next week so the plans are finalized, items have been ordered and sessions scheduled! To the person who invented vinyl wood flooring, thank you so much and to Spoonflower and CWD textiles, your fabric is stunning!
Now,…

So incredibly thankful to be returning to some normalcy today after a seemingly long spring break. Did anybody else run out of ways to keep their kiddos entertained like after the first day?!  Lately I've been a bit swamped with pictures, allergies, and trying to figure out ways to continually k…

I'm shooting to open my little dream studio/shed by the end of April! This my friends, will be one pimped out little shed, so exciting. The idea is to create a studio that offers so much more creativity, depth, and inspiration than the studio chains. Essentially my vision is use my love of inte…

I thought the japanese maple tree in our yard was particularly stunning one morning with all its drippy dew! So I snapped a few pictures with the 35mm prime (fixed lens) and played with the aperture setting (dial A on your DSLR camera). When you turn it to lower numbers, your letting more light in …