DGN Photography in Columbus, Ohio

Pottery Barn Kids is having a promotion where if you spend $200 in the store, you get a free photography session in the store with a free 8×10 print (this is a nationwide promotion).  I am contracted with Precious Time Photography (out of Idaho), who is subcontracting local photography studios to run the sessions locally.  Even though these images are owned by Precious Time, I’m authorized to show some sneak peeks on my blog for clients.

So watch for blog updates from these sessions at Pottery Barn Kids at Polaris Fashion Place mall in Columbus, Ohio and the Pottery Barn Kids at Easton Town Center in Columbus, all this week.  Janie & Jack stores are running a similar promotion end of Sept/beginning of October, and you’ll see me there too (at Polaris).

Monday, I got my feet wet with just one session.  As you can see from the rest of my blog, the majority of my portrait sessions are family sessions outdoors at the park.  So it’s a bit of a change of pace for me to use the studio lights and backdrop!  Anyway, here’s the super cute 4 year old boy from Monday’s session (with a couple extra sneak peek images thrown in for good measure!)

Recognize the dog? Yeah, that’s Greg’s dog. I snuck him out of the house because he makes a really cute prop.

Right now I’m working on catching up on a few sneak peeks from the past several days.  It is always so hard for me to choose which ones to put up!  This family was a pleasure to work with, and I think their son is aiming to be a pro photographer when he grows up.  He had all kinds of ideas for good spots for pictures!

I love the fall, and how it brings out new colors.  The trees are just now starting to change color, it’s really the perfect time for pictures… before they drop off and the trees become bare and brown.

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Last Thursday, I met up with Lee and his mother over at Inniswoods (in Westerville), to shoot his senior pictures.  I have to say, he does the best Colbert face I’ve ever seen!  Here are a few favs:

(The future lawyer shot)

I’ve known this family for about a year now… we did the baby’s newborn session just about a year ago!  (boy, time sure flies!) These pictures were (somewhat) for her first birthday!  We went down to Franklin Park, which was a new place for me.  I think I want to go down there again! Their red hair is so gorgeous. I especially love how it looks with the little pink/lavender dress.

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I had a photography session yesterday with the cutest little boy.  He just turned 1, and he was my little buddy!  He’d see me with the camera, and then come crawling with a big grin on his face.  I have so many super cute pictures of him, but here are just a few for the sneak peek!

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This little guy is a big fan of Bob the Tomato (from Veggie tales), and one of my tricks for getting little kids to look at the camera, is to tell them that their favorite character is inside the lens.  He was more amazed at the idea, than thinking it was funny though, and throughout the whole rest of the session, he’d call my camera “Bob da mato?”  Little kids are so cute.

Anyway, we had an enjoyable photography session over at Inniswoods.  The weather and the light was great! I couldn’t have asked for a better day, or a cuter little subject.  Here is the sneak peek! (hopefully his mom hasn’t worn out her refresh button yet

And this last one is his trademark face that he makes.  I think it’s adorable!

If you look just a couple weeks ago, you’ll see his mom’s maternity pictures… well here’s the big guy himself! (all 8 pounds of him)  He’s such a sweet baby, and likes to sleep.  And he likes to poo in his sleep (daddy got his share of it during the photo session!)  Their window light at their house is really nice, I loved using it for the first half of their newborn photography session, before breaking out my studio lights for the second half.

Yesterday, I did a quick headshot for a really amazing woman.  5 kids (6 and under), works from home, AND has  a blog with a huge following.  I was looking at her blog, and there’s some really neat stuff on it.  So if you have an interest in hearing about deals and saving money, check out http://www.dealseekingmom.com (you can see her headshot on there too.

I had a busy weekend with a mass cleaning spree to get my house presentable for company, meanwhile they’re hitting ‘refresh’ and hoping for their sneak peek… well, I’ll make it worth your wait, guys… here’s 6 for your sneak peek.

Friday, I met up with this cute young family over at Inniswoods for their family photoshoot.  At first when I heard the ages of the kids (9 months and almost 2), I thought “oh, this is going to be a challenging shoot!” but the kids turned out to be very laid back and happy.  And we had a lot of fun doing some creative shots (which are my favorite, one of the reasons I like photographing on-location so much)

Ok now if you go back in my blog, you’ll find quite a few ’sun flare’ shots… I love sun flares, and try to grab one whenever I can.  This one is a play on the ‘couple kissing with the sun flare’ idea, with the kids on their shoulders.

I love his eyes, they’re such a pretty color blue.

This next one was actually not my idea, but theirs!  Baby in a tree… (she is actually being held from behind, so no worries of falling out of the tree!)

The light in this next picture, I thought was very captivating.  Such a warm glow.

And then we have the back/rim lighting from the sun and the interaction between dad and baby.  I thought this photo was very sweet.

If you look in the blog back a few days, you’ll see some silhouettes from a maternity session.  I am still in a silhouette mood, so I worked on another one this time.  I really like how you can see his long eyelashes (he was ‘done’, and we were headed back to the parking lot

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This past weekend, I had the pleasure of heading over to Dayton to shoot two families at once.  I set up my new high-key backdrop and lights set up indoors, and we did some in front of the backdrop, and some outside.  We got some great shots and it was loads of fun.

These guys hail from Ireland, and I thought the Irish-themed dresses were too cute!

Their little girl was just too precious for words.  So… how old are you?  Is that 3 on the head?

Or… 3!!!!

This one makes me laugh every time I see it, so I had to include it.

And then here’s a sneak peek for the other family.  These are a few of the studio lighting ones.  I’ll just start out with a funny one because I love the funny ones.

And awwww so cute.  I suggested that they hold hands to relieve his stranglehold over her head.

They are so sweet to each other!

And then a really sweet one with mom…

I had a real hard time just picking a few for the sneak peek, there are so many good ones!