My family Session/Creation fees are $100, Seniors $100, also.
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Truth be told, I am older than your average wedding or portrait photographer, but not yet over-the-hill. Dut don't let that put you off. Check my pictures here on the blog or on my website and see that I SHOOT YOUNG.
I appreciate all the stages of life and have experienced most of them, at my age, ya know. I love all the areas of photography that I create. Click on the darkened sentence at the end of each paragraph for samplings.
Children I love because their expressions are new, inventive and almost always surprising. Having 8 grandchildren, 9th on the way, ought to help, don't you think? Check it out!
Seniors are also inventive. The girls want to look beautiful and the guys, cool. I want that, too. Having fun, helping them relax and then just sitting back and clicking away. I always like to choose the location that suits their persona and the locations are varied. Check out this Senior.
Families have a tough time because there is usually a male in the mix. Men hate to have their picture taken and it is like pulling teeth to get them to the location. I get that. But let me tell you, it's all about relaxing and having fun with the whole experience. And that is my job. If your family is having fun, it's painless and the images will turn out great. I'm all about capturing the memories of the day. Make it memorable.
Now Weddings...I love the weddings. A bride all lit up and a groom that can't keep his off of his bride. It's magic! A couple in love always makes me and my photography look good. See!
I hope you can see that I love what I do and I would love for you to ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE with me. Call 480-510-9780 or email me today. janet@justmejanet.com
The day was cloudy and that afternoon we were to take Engagement pictures. I was praying the clouds would stay. Colors are so much more vivid when the stark, bright sun is muted a bit. Well, I got my way, which doesn’t happen often, (I wasn’t the spoiled daughter.)
That evening we waited at Agritopia, here in Gilbert for Cody & Kelsi. They are beautifully in love, which usually makes my job 10 times easier. After all, my job is to get a hard copy of these moments of love, get it down for the future, for the future family of Cody and Kelsi. I really wanted these images to turn out but I wasn’t feeling well. Who was it that said, “The show must go on?” Well it must. and so I did.
When I got to the computer to edit the images, I got the pay off for working-sick. Cody is adorable but Kelsi has this skin. Her skin is bronze and opaque and it reflects, not only Cody, but any light it nears. Beautiful!
Thank you, Cody & Kelsi for allowing me the privilege of photographing you for your future memories.
June 4, 2010 - 3:49 pmSusan Munk - (ha ha funny Janet.) She is adorable. What beautiful eyes. It reminds of what Dave said about Loni on their wedding day. "If I can just keep looking in her eyes I know everything will be ok" I think he still believes that 8 years later. I'll bet Cody feels that same way about Kelsi. Best Wishes you two.
My work is my play. Or maybe I should say, I play at work. Don’t we all. so, I really got to play for a little bit yesterday when I got my Photoshop Upgrade. Yes, Photoshop CS5 has arrived and what fun it is. I played around with a few images I took at a wedding last summer and the results are…interesting.
I like to keep my equipment and my software current so I can be in the competitive market. As a fellow photographer once told me when I asked her if she was upgrading to CS2, ‘I hate to spend the money, but you just gotta do it.’ If I have to spend the mula then I am going to spend some time enjoying it. So I sat down today and I played with it. The Photoshop people are a ‘different’ group usually linked in there with Trekies and Tolkienites. I am no geek but I can get into the techno stuff when I know how fun it can be. I don’t like to do a lot of Photoshop actions that interfere with the beauty of one of my subjects. But I do a little enhancing and bold strikes in order to make them look their best. The work you’ll see here is a bit over the top, I know. Just remember, I’ll pull the line back when I work with you.
What you’re seeing here is HDR. If you like these, let me know.
As a child my favorite day at school was ‘Field Trip Day.’ Leaving the campus, traveling on a bus. Wow, a bus! Learning something new and different and seeing the world. On Field Trip Eve I felt like George Bailey, and would say to myself, ‘Tomorrow, “I’m going to shake the dust off o’ this crummy little town and I’m gonna SEE THE WORLD!”‘
I felt like that same old school girl, driving away from my house with Alissa and Harmony last week. As we headed to Queen Creek I could imagine the adventure ahead. Little did I know what we were about to experience. I spend a lot of time looking for locations to shoot. I hate being stuck in a rut and taking all of my clients to the same locations. Especially Seniors, they need their own place, their own space. I want to help them carve out a little bit of the world for THEM, make it theirs. Besides, the light changes around here dramatically and the heat calls for locations that scream, NOT ANOTHER CACTUS!!! If I am going to get the best light on you, I need to know where to find it, so I SCOUT IT OUT.
ALissa was a good sport. She was game for whatever. Of course I was driving so she had little choice. But this girl is a really great sport! She was willing to go into, on, through or under anything we asked her. For instance she got in the dirt, walked on the railroad tracks, sat in a field of weeds, walked into a spider and creature infested silo, into a thicket of dried branches, walked through a field of weeds where we got to after traversing through a patch of trees and in and over a a ditch. She even sat in an old ugly chair that just happened to be there. Besides the fact that we expected lions and elephants to approach at any moment, the locations were perfect. The ultimate find was this GNARLY DUDE TREE that she climbed aboard for some amazing shots. And to top it all off the lighting was perfect and the day was clear.
Alissa graduates from Basha High later this month and I am glad we finally got her SENIORS completed. She’ll be headed to BYU Idaho for her studies. She’s brilliant and beautiful and such fun. I wish her all the happiness and success that she deserves, which is everything. Now, Alissa, go out and SEE THE WORLD!
Check out Alissa in her Senior Pics! There is also a slide-show at the end of all of the images we have of her.
Field Trip to the Serengeti. Can you see the giraffe behind that tree?
May 20, 2010 - 11:01 pmKaren - Her beauty was captured, awesome, detailed locations=amazing shots!
May 20, 2010 - 11:10 amMiriam - I have been waiting to see these! You did such an amazing job capturing Alissa's beauty!
May 20, 2010 - 7:53 amSusan Munk - I'm thinking right about now, Look out Rexburg here comes Alissa.
What a doll. (I can hear dad saying that) Love the pictures, Love them. You do wonderful work and I don't think you always need mother nature on YOUR side.
I had the precious opportunity to chase around a two-year-old the other day. She was fast, she was determined and she was about as cute as a child can get. My knee had been bothering me, until that amazing shot in the knee that got me down and running. Down because I shoot on my knees a lot, a whole lot. And on this day, I found myself on my knees to Little Queen Victoria. And I had a blast!
The light that evening was beautiful just before sunset. Victoria’s green/hazel eyes and her Mother’s green ones really absorbed the light to an amazing degree. We shot around my grape vines and oak trees, which have proved their worth.
I love what I do. I love that I can capture a moment in time for this two-year-old and her darling, loving parents. Freezing this time for them and keeping this little girl at this age for now is something I can do. And I appreciate the opportunity I have to be able to do it.
When two people are in love, it shows! It shows from the grins on their radiant faces through their twinkling eyes down to their intertwined finger tips. They carry it around with them like it is a part of them- because it is. Others feel it. It’s real and these two have it. Love!
They are good sports, too. I suggested a ‘field trip’ and they said, ‘We’re in.’ Off we went down the road where Mother Nature had prepared the perfect landscaped field for a couple of good-sported lovers. They climbed rocky hills after that, at my request. Then off to more road side treasures. Before we were finished, Lexi, had a request of her own. As they walked off into the sunset, upside down, I said to myself, “There’s nothing more fun than watching love show!”
Congratulations, Brock & Lexi! They will take there vows this August in Utah.
May 17, 2010 - 2:27 pmMelissa - Like I didn't love Brock and Lexi enough already....these pictures make me love them even more. I love how you captured them. GORGEOUS!
May 12, 2010 - 9:19 amWhitny - OH they are so adorable. Love the photos. Really pretty
May 10, 2010 - 8:27 amMarilyn - Wow, Janet! I continue to be amazed at your talent.
May 10, 2010 - 6:22 amSandra - Once again, Janet...these are beautiful! You find the most amazing places to photograph in! Love it!
If I made the excuse that I’ve been busy, I’d just be playing into your hands. The hands that would tell be to stop boo-hooing. That we are ALL busy and don’t have time to do the things we want to do. So I’ll leave it at that.
But it IS Mother’s Day this weekend and for that I am grateful. On Mother’s day when I am greeted with a Happy Mother’s Day! Even if I am sad I really do turn HAPPY. So Mother’s, happy mothers, sad mothers, funny mothers, silly mothers, sweet mothers and grouchy mothers…Happy Mother’s Day. Now, MOTHERS, it’s your turn to turn HAPPY!!
I am grateful for a Mother.
Grateful for My Mother.
My mother taught me to always be kind to others.
She taught me so many things good things that I cannot even begin to write down because then I REALLY wouldn’t have time to live. But I know that those things are a part of me know. She is a part of me now.
Thank you Heavenly Father for the mother you gave me!!
by Janet Andersen
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