Corner Cafe Photography Blog

What a little cutie! He is such a sweet baby with a special name. We loved photographing Mackinley and his family a week after he arrived. There is something so special about new love… baby love! I can’t even completely put my finger on it, but I see it at every newborn session- it’s a beautiful thing! Brent and Miranda are great parents. I love these photos! I just LOVE black and white photos of babies. There is something so special about keeping a photo black and white so all the love and emotion pours out of it. It isn’t clouded with colors, but just is- a beautiful family, and love beyond measure. Enjoy these!

Isn’t he precious?!

Miranda, You are such a beautiful mom!

They had this on their wall… I think Mackinley is the perfect addition to the words!

Baby toes… they don’t stay small for long

so cute

Brent is a great daddy already

Isn’t it amazing how a baby always knows it mommy’s voice?!

He was wide awake at the beginning of the session and so alert! I cannot believe how perfect his eye contact is for being so new!

This photo makes me smile!

We so look forward to watching him grow over the next year!

Let’s talk a bit about crops. I think sometimes they are often not thought of until you get your pictures back, so let’s think about them before you say, oh crop! When I shoot images the size that comes from my camera is in the ratio of a 4×6. When I put images up in my home I love them much larger than a 4×6 so I usually make then 8×12 or even more often a 16×24. But usually when you put images up in your home I am sure you put them up in either a 4×6, 5 x7, 8×10, or even an 11×14 frame. Unfortunately all of these crops are different than a 4×6, which means some of the image will be cut off. 4×6 crops are 4×6, 8×12, 16×24, and so on. Honestly many places do not make frames for a 8×12 so I usually buy an 11×14 floating fram- one that is glass around the edges and put my 8×12 in there or I use an 11×14 frame and have a mat cut to fit at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby. So here are some images that are cropped. Just a little something to think about when ordering your pictures. I will crop all this image from the top- of course when you crop an image you can center it or move it wherever you want.

The original 4×6 image

cropped 5×7 image

cropped 8×10 (the 8×10 really doesn’e become wider- it just appears that way because of the upload)

cropped 11×14 image

I am sure you have noticed the cute little movie at the top of our blog (if you can’t see it or if our pictures are really small it is just because the browser you are using isn’t up to date), well that and many other things are thanks to our graphic designer, Ryan, who has helped us create our brand. We are really quite proud of it! He created our logo and many other things that go with our motto, “life captured.” Here is an image of just a couple things he has created for us…

If you need a graphic designer for anything, he is the guy to call! I have e-mailed him a few times since finishing up with “everything” because I just needed one more thing. He is really great!

One of our 2010 goals is to really make a point of capturing real life. Yes, yes, yes it has been our motto for over a year, but the truth is we weren’t doing a great job of doing it. The truth is that when I would get to a shoot my insecurities would often settle in and I started posing people instead of really capturing their family. I have thought a lot about the images I love the most from my childhood, the ones I clung to when my brother’s accident first happened. Those images were not posed pictures, they were pictures of the love happening between my family, they were pictures of my brother and I laughing as we hit a million balloons around in a photography studio, they were ones of us sledding down the hill, and ones where I was snuggled up against my grandpa- those are the images that I really loved. Those are images of a “life captured.” So 2010 will be the year we will try our best to truly capture your life, we will capture images that your children will look back at when they are my age and be reminded of a fabulous childhood and remember being loved deeply. As I was updating our website I realized we took a lot of those kind of photos in 2009 we just didn’t blog them. Why, you ask?? I really don’t know! I wish we did… so here is what we want our 2010 to look a bit more like