November 3, 2010
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Brooke’s 2nd Birthday Party.
Sorry I haven’t been updating in forever- been pretty busy with life and trying to take a brief breather to clean out old photos and do a few updates. My photographer extraordinaire Annie (now with twin babies!) recommended me to her equally talented photographer friend Samantha to shoot her sister’s friend-of-a-friend’s kid’s birthday party (6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, I know). I’m used to doing event photography, but going to people’s houses to shoot events still makes me a little nervous. This is, after all, their territory.
But Sarah made me feel totally welcome and the party turned out pretty wonderful, despite it being a ridiculously hot fall day. Kids were running around everywhere, they had rented a petting zoo and even a clown and snow cone machine. It was a pretty elaborate 2 year old’s birthday party.
Brithday girl Brooke getting up in cowboy attire and ready for action.
The birthday cake.
I was able to take some decent shots outdoors despite it being extremely sunny and the middle of the afternoon.
The birthday girl’s boots.
Getting her face painted.
And getting a lollipop from her grandpa afterwards.
This one got Spiderman painted on.
Close enough.
These two little girls ran around like best friends. Pretty cute.
Cake time!
And then afterwards, pool party!
All in all, everything went better than expected. The ceilings in the house let me bounce flash off and the indoor photos came out pretty well in terms of lighting. The kids were all pretty cute and the adults were pretty nice too. One of my better photoshoots, I think.
Of course, when you’re shooting kids, it’s pretty hard to screw that up too.
Comments (2)
wow, some seriously cute kids. i love the face painting! i never let anyone paint my face as a kid.
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Haha it’s ok, I don’t recall anyone ever painting my face either. Yeah, photographing cute kids makes my pictures automatically better.