children photography

Alessia's Dance Photos

My last photo shoot of 2020 was dance. In contrast to the usual white background dance photos, I chose an more artistic look by using an artfully painted background. This amazing dancer is Alessia, 9 years old. She started dancing at age two, has trained in ballet, lyrical, jazz, hip hop, tap, ballroom, and contemporary. She dances at Studio L Bridgewater, NJ and attends dance conventions as well. She has won several scholarships, titles and awards both regionally and has also won on the national level. She believes in continually setting goals for herself and that practice makes progress. She enjoys doing what she loves, dancing!

Check out Alessia’s Instagram page here.

Ilan's First Birthday Snow Session

If we have no snow outside, we’ll bring it inside! Ilan’s first birthday was coming up and we created this winter set specifically for his birthday photos. He was so much fun to photograph. Ilan knows how to look at the camera; he is already a model! He modeled for kids clothes and acted in the TV show God Friended Me right after our session. Happy Birthday sweet boy! 

Source: https://www.instagram.com/ilanm221/

Workshop Day in NYC

In search of my style, I intend to try different things to which I’m drawn. I love classic portraits where the image appears almost like a painting. For that reason, I attended a workshop with the internationally acclaimed photographer Paulina Duczman in NYC to learn more about Fine Art Portraiture. Since I’m back in my studio I’m working on perfecting my style and applying everything I have learned.

Alyssa's First Communion Portraits

I’ve had the pleasure of photographing this beautiful girl with Santa Claus and I couldn’t be more excited to have her back in the studio for her first Communion portraits! We started the session with professional Hair and Makeup by Nicole from The Beauty Lounge who gave Alyssa a stunning look. During the session she was was just perfect and very patient during all my posing ideas. We did some thoughtful moments and also some fun stuff for her. As her mom told me, she had fun at the session and the family was blown away by her images. Here are some favorites of mine.

The Portrait Masters Competition 2017: Award and Accreditation

I'm very proud to announce that one of the most highly respected industry panels and international accreditation programs awarded five of my six images a Bronze medal, namely The Portrait Masters Competition 2017. 

I received these five awards in the Children's Portrait category. Relative to the Portrait Masters Competition's grading scale, the bronze award stands for "High Professional Standard". The professional judging was based on styling, composition, focus, lighting, connection (i.e. between photographer and model), posing, post production and overall technique and presentation.

The judges are an incredible panel of highly respected international professionals, who collectively hold over 100 years of experience in both winning similar contests and judging comparable competitions, as well as running successful photography businesses. 

The judges were:

Richard Wood (New Zealand)

Pippin Schembri (Sydney, Australia)

Kelly Brown (Brisbane, Australia)

Susan Stripling (New York, United States)

Ray Schembri (Sydney, Australia)

Alycia Savage Alvarez (Texas, United States)

Michele Celentano (Arizona, United States)

Sue Bryce (New Zealand & USA)

My original goal for 2017 was to become a professional portrait photographer and I’m more than proud that I accomplished that! My goal for 2018 is to get my new studio up and running and to become an accredited portrait master!

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/11/prwe...

Sarah's fun photo shoot

This little redhead rascal always reminds me of Pippi Longstocking! She totally owned her session and couldn’t sit still for a second. She had so much fun showing me all of her funny poses and silly faces, while her Mommy was getting a little upset. Nevertheless, at the end her Mommy had tears in her eyes when she saw the Photos of her daughter for the first time. Love her freckles and beautiful red hair!

Sarah, 6 years                                                                                                                         August 2017