Erin Bell Photography Blog

Since I have many spring sessions coming up, I wanted to go ahead and share my wall print tips with my blog as I haven’t before. When ordering prints for your wall, truly consider what size is the right size for your room for the right impact.

I was terrible about blogging during my time off this winter and yes… despite taking off, I couldn’t resist some shoots and was shooting anyway. I figured I would make the time today to get in a blog post of one of my absolute favorite clients. Lollia turned one in January and we celebrated with a mini-session.

I loved this session for it’s clean, simple tones and little girl colors. Clean- I use the word all the time when talking about my work but it’s something I very much strive for. Work that is processed clean, has an airy feel, and focuses on the simplicity of the moment will always be timeless and always be in style. Clean images are the images I always love, no matter the time of year, no matter what mood I’m in, no matter how many years ago I took the photograph. Of course, a clean image starts with a great quality image right out of the camera- proper exposure and white balance. Then comes the editing portion. It is easy for starting out photographers to throw contrast and tones at an image and completely destroy the quality of the image. I know this because I was there once as well- it’s hard to learn clean processing. It takes a lot of skilled editing to make an image have perfect skintones and soft-handed contrast, and we spend a lot of time really treating each image as unique and being careful with our editing. In the end, we know it pays off.

I did a shoot today for a wonderful client of mine, Laurie Rosenbaugh, to take photos for her handmade boutique. You can check out her website at LITTLE RED WAGON. She’s fabulously talented and makes gorgeous items for girls- bows, clips, and hats!

An overload from todays shoot….

I am completely behind on blogging so committed to getting a blog post up before the end of the day. I am just returning back to CT after 9 days on the road, driving back from Texas, and am happy to finally be back home. Hotels get old after many days on the road!

These are two cuties I always love to photograph. We had a cold day at Miss Porters, but the girls were delightful and we were all great sports about the weather- especially the girls. Hope you love these Kim! More than I usually like to show, but I couldn’t resist the Mom and daughter shots.

I have a new found love for simplicity, grays, and black & whites this year. Hello to a simplistic 2010! Here is a winter shoot I’ve slacked on posting until now.

We hope everyone is doing well! Our month off flew by and now we are back to shooting, and most importantly, still finishing up planning for 2010. You may have noticed a new look… that is just one of the things we are changing up for this year. We think everyone will be very excited about the new changes this year.

Here is just one more exciting element… We look forward to showing you how we will work video into our shooting style this year. This is the talented Jen Cota’s beautiful son, for all the photogs reading this. Jen has been such a good friend to me and I can’t wait to start using the new calligraphy piece she did for me. She is multi-talented!

Since it is ‘newborn season’ in the photography world (at least that’s what most of us photographers see it as) I figured I would post some of my favorite 2009 newborns to start the season off right. Our studio photographed more than 50 newborn sessions this year and while I would love to post them all, I think I’m going to go through and post just a few to look back at.

There are many photographers in Connecticut now offering newborn sessions, but we like to think we stand out for our work. We walk away from every session making sure we’ve gotten a wide assortment of the images we need. We aim to capture many different kinds of art at each session including the fine art black & white images, the more lifestyle, fun images that we prefer in color, parent and baby images, and finally, the sibling image- the absolute most difficult and yet most rewarding. We want the parents of newborns to have many different views of their new little one. We want these parents to look back on their newborn image and see beauty, and then realness, and then the very first bonds. A session is not complete for us without a mix.

In the spirit of newborns, here is a collection of our favorite newborn images from our blog in 2009.

Fine art…

Fun & color…

And of course… we work very hard for the classic new baby and older siblings shots. These are the toughest, and yet always the most special.

Please view our website for the complete newborn gallery. It was just updated last month and if you haven’t viewed it in awhile, you’re in for a treat. We look forward to posting the 2010 newborns in the months to come.

Finally, fall. Another great season bringing us to the point we are now. Hope you enjoyed these!

Connecticut Children’s Photography & Portraits

Choosing favorite images from spring was extremely tough… so many sessions, amazing light, first months with the new 85 1.2. It was bliss this past Spring.

I know… I’m supposed to be closed down and taking a break after a crazy busy season… but taking a break for a small business owner is is rarely much of a break- there is always something to do and to be honest- it can be addicting! I have been working on planning my marketing campaigns for the new year to be ahead of the game this year and less stressed during the spring.

Had to do some shooting for a few 2010 marketing campaigns and got some of the cutest images ever- thought I’d share 2!