Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Senior Photos 101: The Importance of Chapstick!
Senior Photos 101: The Importance of Chapstick!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Senior Photo Advice: The Importance of Chapstick!
Your Professor: Natasha, of Timber Creek Photography
Have any of you ever kissed a mustache-clad gentleman only to discover that you get way more than you bargained for? Not only do you get a kiss, but you get a mustache burn! Let's all just admit it, they hurt! That rough stubble coming into contact with your smooth face is uncomfortable and annoying and often ends the kissing early.
Ladies, what if there were something you were doing during a kiss that made the guy feel just as uncomfortable? Wouldn't you want to remedy the situation so that he would enjoy your kisses even more? Afterall, I know lots of ladies who demand that their man be babyfaced prior to a makeout session. Maybe your man is screaming for you to do something for him . . . but he is too shy to admit it.
We are talking about chapstick, people! What did you think we were talking about? And yes, this has to do with your Senior Photo Session so just chill out and keep reading. I am not starting a relationship advice blog so don't get any ideas Moms...
Chapstick is one of the most powerful weapons we women have in our beauty arsenal. This is my go-to beauty secret and I know that this cheap, smelly balm is one of the biggest sellers to celebrities as well. They don't care that it isn't pretty, they care that it works. I have even read articles dedicated to the stuff in Lucky magazine, Good Housekeeping, and Seventeen.
If your lips are chapped and your man is kissing them, then odds are he has noticed. Your lips are cracked and can hurt him as much as stubble hurts you! So invest in some $1.99 chapstick!
If I could force every Senior to come to their Photo Session wearing Chapstick I would but since I am not the leader of the world (yet) I can only encourage you to smear on some chapstick before coming to your session. Why? Your lips are cracked, dry and wrinkled and the camera can see that! For soft, model-like skin on those lips make sure you moisturize them! Although I am pretty handy with Photoshop I don't intend on digitally fixing your lips, so please put on some chapstick before your session (and before your dates!).
Here are some other uses for chapstick that I was able to dig up (some I have totally tried in the past and can tell you that they work):
- Use it on dry skin when you don't have your lotion (elbows, hands, etc). (I do this alllllll the time)
- Apply some around your nose when you have a cold . . . it can soothe the raw skin. (I tried it with mint chapstick...loved it)
- Keeping your unruly eyebrows in place! Apply chapstick to the brow to smoothe it down and hold it like a clear gel. (I thought I was the only one who did this)
- Apply to shaving cuts to prevent bleeding temporarily (hmm... that's new)
- Smear on a stuck zipper to get it moving again (what?)
- Can help remove a ring that is stuck on your finger (my husband could use this)
Hopefully I have convinced you to invest in your own little tube of chapstick!
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Session!
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
WANT MORE AWESOME SENIOR PHOTO ADVICE? CHECK OUT OUR SENIOR BLOG!
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Senior Photos 101: Mirror Practice: Serious VS Happy
Senior Photos 101: Mirror Practice: Serious VS Happy
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Senior Photo Advice: Mirror Practice: Serious VS Happy
Your Professor: Natasha, of Timber Creek Photography
If you have ever auditioned for a role in a school play, or been a part of an acting team then perhaps you have heard your coach/instructor tell you to "go home and practice in the mirror." This advice is wonderful; it gives you an opportunity to see what everyone else will be seeing when you perform.
If you can remember to do so, practicing your poses in front of a mirror prior to your senior session is a great idea. You will hopefully be able to notice that lifting your head up too high will give the camera a clear shot up your nose, or that whatever part of your body is closest to the mirror will look larger in the camera. Try to focus more on your facial expressions though. Do you need to relax your jaw when you smile? Or open your eyes a little wider? It is good to see what your body and face will look like in your shots!
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Session!
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
WANT MORE AWESOME SENIOR PHOTO ADVICE? CHECK OUT OUR SENIOR BLOG!
Timber Creek Blog
Become a Facebook Fan! (Links to the latest blogs and Senior Photo Info):
Timber Creek Fan Page
Become a Facebook Friend of the Photographer (lots of Senior Images on Display)
Pam Kastner
Visit our website!
Timber Creek Photography Website
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Senior Photo Advice: Mirror Practice: Serious VS Happy
Your Professor: Natasha, of Timber Creek Photography
If you have ever auditioned for a role in a school play, or been a part of an acting team then perhaps you have heard your coach/instructor tell you to "go home and practice in the mirror." This advice is wonderful; it gives you an opportunity to see what everyone else will be seeing when you perform.
If you can remember to do so, practicing your poses in front of a mirror prior to your senior session is a great idea. You will hopefully be able to notice that lifting your head up too high will give the camera a clear shot up your nose, or that whatever part of your body is closest to the mirror will look larger in the camera. Try to focus more on your facial expressions though. Do you need to relax your jaw when you smile? Or open your eyes a little wider? It is good to see what your body and face will look like in your shots!
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Session!
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
WANT MORE AWESOME SENIOR PHOTO ADVICE? CHECK OUT OUR SENIOR BLOG!
Timber Creek Blog
Become a Facebook Fan! (Links to the latest blogs and Senior Photo Info):
Timber Creek Fan Page
Become a Facebook Friend of the Photographer (lots of Senior Images on Display)
Pam Kastner
Visit our website!
Timber Creek Photography Website
Friday, July 16, 2010
Senior Photos 101: Fake Freckles!
Senior Photos 101: Fake Freckles!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Senior Photo Advice: Fake Freckles!
Your Professor: Natasha, of Timber Creek Photography
I have freckles. Lots of them. And, unlike most of the freckled population I actually like mine; I wouldn't even mind having some more of them! While in high school I subscribed to Seventeen Magazine and came across an article for girls who didn't have freckles but wanted them. I read with interest! I had never heard of someone wanting freckles but apparently there is a freckle market somewhere. The advice they gave was excellent, and so I will be sharing it with you - it is one of my beauty secrets that I especially use during the sunless Winter months!
If you don't have freckles, or your freckles are fading, but you would like to either have some or enhance the ones you have you will need:
1 skinny brown eyeliner pencil.
That's it. You just take the pencil and gently press it on your face in normal freckling spots (around lips, around the bridge of the nose, and sometimes on the cheeks). If you already have freckles (like me) then you find the ones you have and go over them with the pencil to darken them. In the Winter months I do this so that my freckles show up at parties and in flash photos.
If you have freckles, or want some, but you want them to be more noticeable in your Senior Session, dot your face with some eyeliner :) Especially consider this when your appointment is in Winter, or if your freckles are light enough that they could dissappear in the photo flash. One small tip I would like to share with you is to NOT overdo your freckling. A light dot of color is all you need, and you don't need too many.
And don't make fun of my beauty secret! It's not weird to have fake freckles if you already have fake hair, brows, lips, boobs, nails... etc.
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Session!
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
Become a Facebook Fan! (Links to the latest blogs and Senior Photo Info):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=125818769461#!/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461
Become a Facebook Friend of the Photographer (lots of Senior Images on Display)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461#!/timbercreekphoto
Visit our website!
http://www.timbercreekphoto.com/
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Senior Photo Advice: Fake Freckles!
Your Professor: Natasha, of Timber Creek Photography
I have freckles. Lots of them. And, unlike most of the freckled population I actually like mine; I wouldn't even mind having some more of them! While in high school I subscribed to Seventeen Magazine and came across an article for girls who didn't have freckles but wanted them. I read with interest! I had never heard of someone wanting freckles but apparently there is a freckle market somewhere. The advice they gave was excellent, and so I will be sharing it with you - it is one of my beauty secrets that I especially use during the sunless Winter months!
If you don't have freckles, or your freckles are fading, but you would like to either have some or enhance the ones you have you will need:
1 skinny brown eyeliner pencil.
That's it. You just take the pencil and gently press it on your face in normal freckling spots (around lips, around the bridge of the nose, and sometimes on the cheeks). If you already have freckles (like me) then you find the ones you have and go over them with the pencil to darken them. In the Winter months I do this so that my freckles show up at parties and in flash photos.
If you have freckles, or want some, but you want them to be more noticeable in your Senior Session, dot your face with some eyeliner :) Especially consider this when your appointment is in Winter, or if your freckles are light enough that they could dissappear in the photo flash. One small tip I would like to share with you is to NOT overdo your freckling. A light dot of color is all you need, and you don't need too many.
And don't make fun of my beauty secret! It's not weird to have fake freckles if you already have fake hair, brows, lips, boobs, nails... etc.
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Session!
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
Become a Facebook Fan! (Links to the latest blogs and Senior Photo Info):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=125818769461#!/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461
Become a Facebook Friend of the Photographer (lots of Senior Images on Display)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461#!/timbercreekphoto
Visit our website!
http://www.timbercreekphoto.com/
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Senior Photos 101: The Gum Monster!
Senior Photos 101: The Gum Monster!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Senior Photo Advice: The Gum Monster!
Your Professor: Natasha, of Timber Creek Photography
Once upon a time, in a photo studio very, very near, lived a Senior Photographer named Pam. Pam was a great photographer! She would joke with the kids, travel to fun photo locations, and often gave more than what was in the customer's contract. Pam's life was a happy one.
Then, one day a customer came into the studio that would haunt Pam forever. Although her name is too frightening to write, we will call her . . .
THE GUM MONSTER!
*insert high-pitched screams and organ music*
Pam was busily shooting amazing photos of a beautiful woman when she realized that this was no ordinary woman at all... she was chewing... GUM! She was the gum monster!!! Pam was able to shoo the monster out of the studio but the worst was yet to come! What would she see in all the photos? Would the gum be in EVERY photograph?! Oh, this was too much for Pam to bear!
She popped the Memory Card into the computer and hastily opened every photograph to view them up close. Sure enough, it was just as she feared! Bright green gum was covering the monster's teeth in EVERY photograph. And from that day forward, Pam hasn't been able to watch someone chew gum without smacking them upside the head.
The End
Ok. This story may have been exaggerated a tiny bit. But the point still remains: do not chew gum at your Senior Photo Shoot! The photos from this particular shoot were ruined. If you are smart you won't be chewing gum, or anything else when you come to your Senior Photo Session.
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Session!
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
PS. Pam does not abuse her customers, only her editor (that would be me :)
Become a Facebook Fan! (Links to the latest blogs and Senior Photo Info):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=125818769461#!/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461
Become a Facebook Friend of the Photographer (lots of Senior Images on Display)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461#!/timbercreekphoto
Visit our website!
http://www.timbercreekphoto.com/
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Senior Photo Advice: The Gum Monster!
Your Professor: Natasha, of Timber Creek Photography
Once upon a time, in a photo studio very, very near, lived a Senior Photographer named Pam. Pam was a great photographer! She would joke with the kids, travel to fun photo locations, and often gave more than what was in the customer's contract. Pam's life was a happy one.
Then, one day a customer came into the studio that would haunt Pam forever. Although her name is too frightening to write, we will call her . . .
THE GUM MONSTER!
*insert high-pitched screams and organ music*
Pam was busily shooting amazing photos of a beautiful woman when she realized that this was no ordinary woman at all... she was chewing... GUM! She was the gum monster!!! Pam was able to shoo the monster out of the studio but the worst was yet to come! What would she see in all the photos? Would the gum be in EVERY photograph?! Oh, this was too much for Pam to bear!
She popped the Memory Card into the computer and hastily opened every photograph to view them up close. Sure enough, it was just as she feared! Bright green gum was covering the monster's teeth in EVERY photograph. And from that day forward, Pam hasn't been able to watch someone chew gum without smacking them upside the head.
The End
Ok. This story may have been exaggerated a tiny bit. But the point still remains: do not chew gum at your Senior Photo Shoot! The photos from this particular shoot were ruined. If you are smart you won't be chewing gum, or anything else when you come to your Senior Photo Session.
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Session!
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
PS. Pam does not abuse her customers, only her editor (that would be me :)
Become a Facebook Fan! (Links to the latest blogs and Senior Photo Info):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=125818769461#!/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461
Become a Facebook Friend of the Photographer (lots of Senior Images on Display)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mauston-WI/Timber-Creek-Photography/125818769461#!/timbercreekphoto
Visit our website!
http://www.timbercreekphoto.com/
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Senior 2011: Danen
2011 Seniors - Danen, Sparta
Senior Portrait Session by Timber Creek Photography
Danen is proof that you do not need to have a beautiful day to have beautiful portraits. We offer indoor/outdoor photos with every session and we can usually always find a way to make that work, despite unruly weather. I don't know how photographers do it when they are sans-studio but we have both a studio AND 100+ acres of farm land so we don't usually have to worry.
Anyway, it was pouring rain and we managed to get outside long enough to take some pics with an old car, and to get her walking through a field in her summer dress (no examples above, sorry... she had nearly 200 images to choose from so I randomly picked 5). Then we got back inside for some AWESOME indoor photos.
Danen loves to smile, and we are glad she does! Most Seniors ask that their photos be serious, which is most certainly the trend, so it was nice to break stride and loosen up with some very happy pictures! Plus, we LOVE the braces!
Looking forward to speaking with you about your Senior Photo Session
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
Become a Facebook Fan! (Links to the latest blogs and Senior Photo Info):
Become a Facebook Friend of the Photographer (lots of Senior Images on Display)
Visit our website!
Senior Photos 101: False Nails - True Beauty!
Senior Photos 101: False Nails - True Beauty!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette
All this month Timber Creek Photography will be discussing various important advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!
Today's Advice: False Nails - True Beauty!
Your Professor: Natasha! Of Timber Creek Photography
If you notice the Senior Pictures on our website (http://www.timbercreekphoto.com/) you will see that current trends in photography show very close-up images of the subject (you). As a result, a lot of small details get noticed. One part of you that others will see are your fingernails. If you chew them, if the paint is chipped, or if they are dirty and yellow then people will see that in your photographs! Before coming to your Senior Photo Shoot you should spend some time with your nails.
Clean them up! There is an awesome new invention called "soap." You can find it at Wal-Mart.
File them down! Sand away those rough edges with a nail file!
Repair the nail! You can file down the cuticle, and fix the chipped paint on your nail.
Apply Press-On Nails! Get the fakes and save some time. (See the photograph of Danen above).
That's right, they have fake nails. If you don't want the whole world to see your nails then spring for some inexpensive press-ons and apply them the day before your senior photo shoot. They will make your senior photos a little more clean and you won't have to worry about your bad nails because they will be hidden by gorgeous fakes.
Looking forward to speaking with you about your senior session
Timber Creek Photography, Mauston
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
New Product: The Photo License Plate!
New Product: The Photo License Plate!
New Product: The Photo License Plate!
OK, technically this isn't a new product... at least not to Timber Creek Photography. But it might be a new product to you!
Now you can place your Timber Creek Senior Portrait on a colorful license plate for the front of your vehicle, or for your dorm room door, or for the wall in your bedroom, whatever!
I look forward to speaking with you about the unique products we can offer you!
Timber Creek Photography
New Product: The Photo License Plate!
OK, technically this isn't a new product... at least not to Timber Creek Photography. But it might be a new product to you!
Now you can place your Timber Creek Senior Portrait on a colorful license plate for the front of your vehicle, or for your dorm room door, or for the wall in your bedroom, whatever!
I look forward to speaking with you about the unique products we can offer you!
Timber Creek Photography
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