Jami Ainsworth Portraits: feet

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

SNEAK PEAK OF A TINY MIRACLE

Here she is Tiny Miracle Avery Grace. She arrived over 2 months early tipping the scales at 2 lbs and 2 oz. She was only 14.5 inches long. She even weighted less than 2lbs at one point. Our God has heard many prayers on her behalf. As you can see her here now, she looks like a typical newborn infant at 12 weeks and one day later. Her mommy and her family have become special to me since I photographed her wedding almost 3 years ago. At Christmas I gave them a newborn portrait session gift certificate preferably to be used when she was less than 3 wks. old. At that point, poor little Avery was still being poked and probed by the doctors and nurses and her Nonna was sending emails to everyone on list giving updates and continual reguests for prayers.

HER TINY MIRACLE BRACELET

(Still too big)

Premie babies are always a challenge to photograph. Though they look like newborns in size they have been here much longer and have become aware of their surroundings. Often they have had so many different tests for medical purposes for so long, that they really don't like being moved, changed, or anything. Knowing this in advance, I didn't try to do all the same little curled up newborn images with Baby Avery. I worked with what worked with her. And I must admit, we ended up with beautiful images for Avery's First Portrait Session.

Avery and Her Proud Parents

I love the way babies lay their hands on their chest.

I love little feet, but I really like this one. I've never done one like this with the little bow in it which is probably one reason I like it so much...something a little different.

Okay, Avery's Mommy and Nonna, this is your little sneak peak. I have picked out many great images to post. I am trying to get in the habit of picking out blog images immediately and then I will use it as a starting point for the rest of the editing when I get to that session. So I have all of Avery's ready to post, but I am only squeazing these few in for now since I have a few other sessions that I need to edit for blog images that were done before Avery's. I do try so hard to stay in event order as much as possible.

I hope everyone enjoy's Avery's Sneak Peak.

~~jami~~

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

A LITTLE PART OF ME, A LITTLE PART OF HIM AND OH SO MUCH OF HEAVEN

A LITTLE PART OF ME,

A LITTLE PART OF HIM AND

OH SO MUCH OF HEAVEN...

That's how this storyboard read.

This was a Storyboard was designed with the Alyssa's mommy. She wanted something a little different than my usual square collages and 10 x 20 storyboards and this is what we came up with. The side images are 8x10 and the middle one is 10x10. I received an interesting call today from one the customer reps from my professional photography lab in Dallas. She asked my permission to display this collage in their lobby. I have never been to their lobby, but they have a walk-up counter for professional photographers in the area who prefer to pick up rather than have their packages mailed to them...which is what I would do if I lived their too, uh? Of course, I was flattered and said yes. I get permission from my clients when I photograph them to use their images for advertising and promotion of my business and it extends to something like this as well. I asked if she could take a snapshot of it when she displays it. I wished I had kept a scrapbook of these like this over the years. I think it is neat and I think Alyssa's mommy will too.

If you are having a difficult time seeing the actual images used in the storyboard, the next three images are the same. This is actually the image on the right.

This is the middle image used, the 10x 10 image.

This is the left image. This was one of the sessions that I did late last fall. I recently got the order which is why the lab is just now asking about using the this storyboard. I am looking forward to seeing it. It is 30x20 storyboard larger than I normally do for things like this. Bigger is not always better, but I think in this case it will and often it really does the images justice.

This was actually one of my favorite sessions at the time. The poses and relationships captured in these images are just what I want to capture from a newborn portrait session. I loved so many of them as you can see from these images that I narrowed it down to post.

SMALL ENOUGH FOR A HAT BOX... EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT
CHERUB OR ANGEL WHICHEVER YOU WANT HER TO BE...
TINY BALLERINA
ANOTHER STORYBOARD THAT I OFFERED TO THE CLIENT...

The quote used on this one is the definition of love. [LOVE] deep affection, to adore completely, state of pure bliss. (Great description of Love, uh? And the way we feel about our newborn baby.)

The next three images are those that I love to capture in a newborn portrait. This is why I want to photograph them as young as possible before they become aware of their surroundings and before they desire to stretch out and lose that fetal position.

The above image: a sweet family pose

The below image: IN THE HANDS OF LOVE

I love the expression on these parents' faces. You don't even really have to ask for this expression...it is just natural...it's just the look they have when they look at their brand new baby.

TINY FEET

When I designed this with Baby Alyssa's mommy, I had forgot which quote we had discussesd to use...I was thinking she asked me to pick one. So I picked this one and then before I finished the order, I remembered us discussing it in more detail, but I wasn't sure which one it was. So I emailed it to her with this one and I asked her if she liked it like this or did we discuss another quote. I wanted her approval on the quote as well as the font, her name and age as I listed etc. She emailed me reminding me that we had discussed the one I had used in one of her other custom collages that I designed within her preview slideshow. Other than that she loved it. This was the first quote I did: "No one understands how someone so little can change their world, until they hold their baby in their arms." I like both of them and I think both were very appropriate for the images used.
~~jami~~

Friday, March 28, 2008

FUNNY FACE, FUNNY FACE, FUNNY FACE...ADORABLE FACE

FUNNY FACE...

ADORABLE FACE

SEE WHAT I MEAN? ISN'T HE ADORABLE!

This is Baby Clayton. He is 7 months old.

I love the way he grabs his foot. He was doing this in almost every image.

Maybe this is a suprize expression or maybe he is just wondering what we were all doing over there while trying to make him smile. Isn't it funny what adults will do to get a smile out of a baby. I LOVE IT!

His tinted image. I love little boys in caps. I used to keep one on my little baby boy when he was a baby. I was often teased that he wasn't going to grow any hair because of that. Maybe it did delay his initial hair grow, but rest assured...when he got it, he got it!