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March. 3. 2010

ten eyck tuesday back to basics

 

Tomorrow I will make the trek out to WPPI in Vegas for a week, and I have to say I am BEYOND pumped! Sooooo many people that I love and respect as not only photographers but people are going to be there from our good old Nutmegger state representing our little slice of the photography community! My girls Nikki Nicole, Amanda Herzberger of Orchard Cove, Jane Shauck from Iris Photography; Paul & Krystal from Studio Foto; Jen and Jerome Braga of Studio 1923; Rob and Kathleen Trenskee of Rob & Kathleen Photographers; Justin and Mary Marantz (who are speaking!!!!); Danielle Fuller of Beyond the Lens; Val McCormick; Anna Sawin; Matthew J. Wagner and his lively spitfire of a wife Teresa; Jackie Greenberg of Jag Studios; Richard Esposito and his lovely Missus Kelley; Brian Ambrose and his killer associate Kate and I am sure many many more people that I am totally blanking on, my apologies! (I am fighting off a terrible cold )
I expect to come back fully energized with a to-do list to beat the band! Sorry everyone at the studio, in advance!
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Yesterday we brought it back to the way it was in the beginning: The Basics. How to make a killer image. Forget all of the other hoo ha- no crazy stuff. Just the Basics, Baby!
Back in December our model Max was the subject for an editorial shoot I did and he was amazing! Mostly because he listened to me and all of my crazy directions, and mostly because the camera just loves him.
Come on, try and disagree with me!
So part of the Basics with me is trying to find a good picture anywhere. Typically we shoot in my back yard, which can be nice but in March it’s kind of blah, I’m not gonna lie!
But Max lit it up with his charm, take a look and tell me what you think!


I got a little up close and personal here

A MAJOR benchmark for me is seeing how excited everyone in the class gets and the images they pull up for our critique! Here Miss Hildi grabs one of my favorite shots of Max with the mushy 70-200 lens!!

More mushy, right Sidney? I think she scored a major goal with her shot!! Come ON!!!

Miss Kathryn worked her Nikon (did I tell you this was the first ALL Nikon class?) and snagged this amazing profile of our guy

Our new buddy BOB!! Works the woods!

The very energetic Dawn got this one special for me! What an amazing shot!

 

BIG thanks to our awesome class and our even more awesome model Max!!

XO

If you want to sign up for our next Back to Basics there are a few spots in the May class, go to the Workshop page to check availability and pay on the spot! Gotta love Google Checkout!


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tony palmieri — so pretty. the pictures, too.   ( March 3, 2010 @ 5:42 pm )

Steve DePino — really nice work by all on this shoot!   ( March 3, 2010 @ 6:07 pm )

Anna Sawin — Ummmm...I'm lingering on these photos a little longer than I should....just checking out the awesome skills of your students. Glad my husband isn't home! :)   ( March 3, 2010 @ 8:24 pm )

Hildi — Thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with you, the group and Mr. Max! Thanks for pushing us outside our comfort zones. Mushy lens rules! Thanks for letting me try it out, not sure my husband feels the same way. Have an awesome time in Vegas!   ( March 3, 2010 @ 10:39 pm )

December. 8. 2009

c 10 ike studio family portrait day part 2

So here they are. The amazing, fun and awesome and did I say AMAZING?? Family pictures from the  super talented photographers that work for the studio. How lucky am I first of all to have such talent here. I mean honestly. But then to have them all photograph my family the way that they did? COME ON!!!!

Now just to clarify- we only do weddings through the studio with our associate photographers- you can contact them through the studio but they all do their own thing as far as portraits go- so get on it and book your family sessions with these ridiculously talented photographers!!

Now- if you can guess which image is going to be our holiday card I am going to enter you into a drawing for a $25 itunes gift card!! All of the potential images will have a number above them so you know they are in the running- GOOD LUCK!!!!

Here is my main man. Dave.

#1 – we love music in our family! And dressing up. And hanging out on couches in the freezing weather in our backyard.

#2 – The Jonas Brothers ain’t got nothing on us!

#3- My homage to Def Leppard- for real!

Love this of my guys- are they stunt doubles or WHAT!?

THIS is the shot that made me cry. what a gift!

again. are you kidding? This is such a pure Georgie moment, when she is rubbing and folding her blankie. And a pure Carla moment, when I am pimping in the background.

LMAO X one MILLION!!

I got air!

Look at me and my girl!!!!!

#4- Dave looks awesome here, love love love!!

#5- COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!

#6- Look at Jack.

Tell me the Ten Eyck’s don’t need an anniversary shoot!

My little guy is so cute!!

#7- Kids in action

#8- Snuggle Fest 2009

#9- Back to the couch, this time with some PDA

Who doesn’t love snuggling in the tub?

love love love!!

Another tear jerker. Come on, look at my little miss

Seriously, thank you Katie for this image!!

#10- Ahoy there matey! When life gives you a 72″ tub? You all get in!!!

#11-  Yes we are kinda going against each other here

#12-  Love Jack’s expression here!

#13- another fave!!!

#14- Almost there!!

#15- Another fave, snuggle time in the tub!!!!

 

Leave your guess in the comments- I will have the drawing this Friday at noon!!!

 

XO

 


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Laurie Crutchfield — OMG I LOVE THEM ALL!!!!!!! the whole session was PERFECT for you guys but I choose #15 :)   ( December 8, 2009 @ 10:09 am )

Amanda Herzberger (Orchard Cove) — BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - these are so amazing. The tub ones made me laugh out loud - I see a Christmas card series in these...wonderful wonderful!!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 10:19 am )

Candice Coppola — WOW!!! I love this! I have so many favorites... my money is on # 15 though... and #10!!!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 10:37 am )

Valeen — My fav is #15 too! But #6 and #8 might be it as well... so many great shots!! :)   ( December 8, 2009 @ 10:46 am )

Ashley Scobey — I'll go with 15. There are too many amazing ones to choose from!!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 11:06 am )

Sarah McCoy — What a gift these are! I'm going to go with #10 for your Christmas card. I think it captures your individual personalities to a tee :)   ( December 8, 2009 @ 11:12 am )

Mary Marantz — omg!! I love them all!! I don't know HOW you're going to pick! but #8 is a fave for me!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 11:17 am )

kelsey smith — these are beyond!!!! my guess is #8- the look on the kids faces are priceless:)so much emotion in this picture!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 11:22 am )

Curtis Moore — Wicked fun session, great work! Love the textures and colors!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 11:25 am )

Beyond The Lens — I can't decide between #10 and #15....lol..they are both hilarious, and so rediculously you guys...I'm soing with #15...Merry Christmas Ten Eycks!!!!!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 11:36 am )

Robin Dini — adorrrrrable!!! 14 is my guess :)   ( December 8, 2009 @ 12:24 pm )

Shannon — #10... but they all ROCK!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE them all!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 12:38 pm )

Laura Stone — I'm voting for #2...   ( December 8, 2009 @ 1:16 pm )

Sara Code-Kroll (Growing Tree Photography) — These are great! Love so many of them. I can't decide between #2 or #10 for the card. I'm going to guess #10 because that pirate's hat rocks!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 2:12 pm )

Graham Scobey — uh, #10 of course! :-P   ( December 8, 2009 @ 2:36 pm )

SdC — These are great! My vote is for #8!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 3:35 pm )

Jean Chisser — Carla - these rock!! I'm voting for #2 - love the whole family rocking it with a 'grungy' backdrop which is so in!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 3:58 pm )

lynne reznick — I love all of them! My vote is for #10 - I think its the history teacher in me loving the throw back to Washington crossing the Delaware!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 5:54 pm )

Kiira — They're all so good! I think you need to send out a photo collage for your Christmas card, or maybe even a "collect them all" series... I'm going with #15 though..   ( December 8, 2009 @ 7:23 pm )

Jessica Higgins — OH MY GOODNESS!!! These are SO GREAT! I LOVE #5!!! I see that as a great Christmas card. There are so many great ones though!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 8:15 pm )

Val McCormick — OMG, LOVE THEM ALL! I Love the pure, fresh, emotion with Dave and Jack, and You with Geogie! Oh the one Mike got of Georgie with her blankie, PERFECTO! Katie and Erik tore it up! My fave hands down is #10. So full of personality. I also LOVE #8. I'm voting that your card will totally flaunt #10!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 8:33 pm )

Susannah McGlamery — these are hysterical. come on!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 10:46 pm )

dorelies — All sooooo lovely - and a lovey family too! Maby you take #15.   ( December 9, 2009 @ 8:28 am )

Eric Foley — Beautiful guys! Simply beautiful!   ( December 9, 2009 @ 1:13 pm )

Ryelj — This shoot it so much fun! Great images I just love the I got air shot and those bath shots! Great work!   ( December 9, 2009 @ 2:13 pm )

Kathy Bercowetz — Love them all. but my favorite is #5. Can't wait to see what you come up with for Dana's new cd cover! We will schedule soon!   ( December 9, 2009 @ 3:22 pm )

debbie mcgeorge — even with the Def Leppard homage, I am loving #10   ( December 9, 2009 @ 5:41 pm )

eric langlois — numba 10   ( December 9, 2009 @ 7:49 pm )

melissa — So many awesome pictures! My guess is number #8.   ( December 10, 2009 @ 1:10 am )

Mr. Lewis — You guys can't go wrong with any of your pics (beautiful family). That looked like an awesome backyard JamFest. Keep rocking out for the holidays.   ( December 10, 2009 @ 3:10 am )

Mr. Lewis — Oh yeah... I vote #2   ( December 10, 2009 @ 3:13 am )

Eileen Broderick — Please say it's #2. I love them all. And #15 is my next favorite. But that #2 is just the BOMB! Can't wait to find out. These are amazing and I am so glad I saw these just now. Totally cheered me up before going to bed. =-)   ( December 11, 2009 @ 1:02 am )

Gayle King — #5!   ( December 11, 2009 @ 9:26 am )

Shawna McDonald — My guess is #9, but they are all fantastic. What a beautiful family!   ( December 11, 2009 @ 11:12 am )

JOE — Wow! These are all amazing. My vote would be to pull out the bank roll and make a Holiday book! This way everyone gets their image. You guys are awesome!!!   ( December 12, 2009 @ 12:32 pm )

Tania — Holy cow Carla!! What an amazing photo shoot-- you have such a talented crew (both your photographers and your fam ;-)   ( December 13, 2009 @ 12:14 am )

Meg — I was having a bad day until I saw these! I LOVE them! So you!   ( December 13, 2009 @ 10:59 am )

Anthony — really nice stuff   ( December 13, 2009 @ 9:42 pm )

Alicia Candelora — LOVE these!!!! My vote goes to numero cinco (#5!), simply because I like and few people have voted for it!!   ( December 14, 2009 @ 12:50 pm )

nicole — omg, you guys are the cutest family ever! i like them all, but i'll choose 10 as well... happy holidays!   ( December 22, 2009 @ 3:29 pm )

Joy Moody — Seriously?!! So freaking awesome. I can't say anything more.   ( December 30, 2009 @ 1:08 pm )

Krystal + Paul from StudioFoto — LOVE LOVE LOVE times one billion!! Love you all, Krystal + Paul   ( January 4, 2010 @ 5:03 pm )

Kathleen Rozanski-Saunders — OMG!! that s so CARLA! I LOVE ALL OF THEM!!! LOL come over here and take picture of my family!!!!   ( January 27, 2010 @ 8:13 am )

December. 7. 2009

studio family portrait day part 1

 

Not only do I love my job, but I love the people that I work with. How many people do you know that love both? I consider myself lucky, blessed, honored and just plain old PSYCHED to be able to say this!

Many of you know Katie Slater, an incredibly talented associate photographer with the studio. Well Miss Katie is quite the family portrait photographer and she had the brilliant idea of having a Studio Family Portrait day. Meaning that we would all converge on the studio, smartly dressed families in tow and have a day of shooting each other’s families! Now for me, I was excited to be able to really promote the photographer’s that shoot for the studio- because really, what better way to see how they are with clients than by being the client yourself! But the other bonus / bad thing about being a photographer- you take great photos of other people’s families but more often than not, have none of your own family to show!

Another added bonus: all of us being able to spend time with our families and our work families- a combination that is so rare I can’t say that it has ever happened before!

And was still incomplete- (Mike’s family was sick so they couldn’t make it, but we all missed you guys!)

The cherry on top? The amazing Catie Bane from Dana Bartone & Co. came to do the ladies makeup! Talk about feeling like a superstar….. BIG huge thanks to Miss Catie and her amazing talent!!

So I started with our studio manager and BFF from 30 years back, Dominique and her family

Dominique and her little girl Seyenah are tight like tigers

 

The Slater Family! They rocked my picnic table something fierce

Then a  mini breakdown: Katie and Charlie

and Chris and Jack! These guys have blue eyes to spare in this family!!

Rocking my old brown couch in my old brown back yard

Then a little time for some one on one. Oh and me. I was there too.

Enter the Scobey Family! Check out Little Evie’s smile!!! Graham is our associate photographer and Ashley is in training as well! They are the Scobey Dynamic Duo!

Then came the Maziarz Family! Ta-DA!

Miss Caroline is just the sweetest little lady, I couldn’t get enough

More Maziarz love

Smirk-a-licious! Hi Erik! Look at the camera!! He loves that

Look at me trying to take credit for this shot!! My bad, it is Erik’s shot, of my little Miss Georgie and Dominique’s Little Miss Seyenah, they are so like us, BFF’s!!

I couldn’t help but snag a shot of my girl running with the balloons that Mike brought!!

 

Stay tuned for the mega blog post of how all of these amazing photographers saw my crazy family!!! I am SO excited about them all, I can’t wait to share them with everyone!!

 

XOXOXOXOX


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Candice Coppola — LOVE that photograph of Katie and her husband.... WOW!!   ( December 7, 2009 @ 6:41 pm )

Katie Slater — o. m. geeeeeehhhhh!!!!!!!! i loved this day... :) i love our photos! thank you!   ( December 7, 2009 @ 7:06 pm )

Jessica Higgins — Such great photos of your team and their families! What a great gift to give to each other! Love the one of Erik, Jen and Caroline on your porch! Can't wait to see the ones of you and your family!   ( December 7, 2009 @ 7:56 pm )

JOE — How about C 10 ike client portrait day!? Carla, what a great idea. These came out beautiful! What great looking families! Looking forward to the mega blog post!   ( December 7, 2009 @ 8:42 pm )

Jeannine — dude - your blogs always make me smile/laugh/tear up...love them! i love the picture with miss caroline "ta da!", and all of them, really. they are fabulous...y'all look GREAT!   ( December 7, 2009 @ 10:42 pm )

Eileen Broderick — What an awesome idea and gift to each other. Everyone looks great! Just perfect.   ( December 7, 2009 @ 11:12 pm )

Ashley Scobey — Oh. Em. Gee. Caroline's "TA-DA!" is cracking me up. What a beautiful bunch of chillins'. Gorgeous pictures of a wonderful day!   ( December 7, 2009 @ 11:44 pm )

Rick O — Really diggin the light you rocked on the second image :) SaWEET   ( December 8, 2009 @ 9:07 am )

Amanda Herzberger (Orchard Cove) — These are WONDERFUL. I want to see more - and your family too!!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 9:23 am )

Renee Descoutures — Looks like you all had so much fun and the images are amazing. Can't wait to see more!   ( December 8, 2009 @ 9:45 am )

Tina — I'm going to guess #2...and I would like your skirt, please! :]   ( December 8, 2009 @ 1:00 pm )

steph — it was a hard choice... 10 is second place but i vote for 8... classy/ic christmas! see u all sooooon xxo   ( December 10, 2009 @ 1:01 am )

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