Ellerd Family Studio Shoot - Rockport, ME

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!! I am so thankful for so many things in my life on both a personal level and also on a business level.  I feel I have been so incredibly blessed to have so many wonderful clients.  I know the economy is a tough one right now and I hope that I have kept my prices reasonable enough for everyone to still get their pictures done.  Good quality pictures are so important in my opinion.  Yes, it is so easy for us to take pretty good pictures of our favorite moments with our camera phones and point and shoot cameras...but are we spending the time to always print those pictures out?  Is the quality all that good?  Are we able to edit those small things that we are embarrassed about out of our pictures?  I can do that for you!  If you haven't had a good photo of you and your loved ones in a while...please consider me for the job.  If you have a concern and hate the way you look in pictures, please let me know, I can fix just about anything in photoshop.  It is my job to make you look good =)  I spend a lot of time on EACH photo making you look your very best. Yesterday I did an awesome shoot with a wonderful family in my studio!  I did their family pictures last year and the boys have changed a lot over the last year.  They still have the cutest smiles ever though!  Mom really liked a lot of the poses I did with them last year...so we did those again and some new ones.  She also mentioned how she really likes to put their photos in collages on her wall.  I have been working a lot more lately on doing custom collage creations for my clients that are affordable.  I decided to put a few of my favs together for this shoot as well.  I did this one in an 8x10...but I can create them in any size needed.  I don't charge any extra for this service, and if everyone really likes them, I am considering including them in my packages beginning with the new year.  I would love to get feedback from people on what they think of them.  Is it something you would order prints of if I do it?  I personally think it is a great way to showcase your favorite shots for family to have without having to order a lot of prints.  It also saves a lot of space on your walls for more pictures of all your favorite smiles and expressions ;)  I also got my new holiday background in and was able to try it out with this shoot.  I was very skeptical about it when I took it out of the box...but after shooting with it, I am SO pleased with the results!!  I am excited to use it with the many shoots with Santa I have coming up in the next few weeks =)  Don't forget that if you would like to book Santa and E Stanley Photography (at a very reasonable price) for your holiday event...checkout mainesanta.com!  Here is the collage and all my favs from yesterday's shoot!