PRINT GIVEAWAY WINNER! {UTAH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER}

I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE VERY FIRST WINNER OF MY MONTHLY GIVEAWAY!

LAUREN RICCI!!!

What did she just win?...

Prints for her next photo session:
(can be used within the next 6 months!)

1 8x10 (mounted and sprayed)
2 5x7's
25 4x6 proofs

AN $80 VALUE!!!

Wahoo Lauren!!!

And this is all just because you left a comment on this blog:) I love my commenters!

So for the rest of you who would like a little of this giveaway action...feel free to leave a comment to have a chance to win for January's drawing. I will choose, at random, one commenter each month. Please check back the first of each month because some of you I do not have emails for... so the only way I can notify you is through this blog.

Happy December everyone!

Jess

I LOVE MY RETURNING CLIENTS! {UTAH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER}

I have had the privilege of getting to photograph this little girl for the past 3 years or so. She was one of my first photo sessions here in Salt Lake back in 2007. It is so fun to watch my clients kids grow up every year. Little Miss "C" was such a great model for me this year. She took direction REALLY well. There is some kind of magic that happens right around 5 years old with most children and having their portrait taken. It seems like they suddenly understand what to do in front of a camera. I just LOVE this age!

More to come!

And oh, the rain boots!!! So cute... can you tell I like to photograph shoes? It makes my little clients just crack up that I want to take pictures of just their shoes. She thought it was sooo funny.

CREATIVELY OUT OF FOCUS. {UTAH FAMILY/PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER}

I love me some blur and haze!!!!

PRINT GIVEAWAY. {UTAH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER}

I have started something new... a monthly giveaway. Check out my tab that says "leave a comment, win prints" for more details. I will be announcing the winner for the month of November on December 1st.

There's still time to leave a comment and have a chance to win:

1 8x10 (mounted and sprayed)
2 5x7's
25 4x6 proofs

AN $80 VALUE!!! All for your next photo session with Jessica White Photography!

Thanks everyone! I'm excited to do this giveaway:)

MORE OF MISS "K"... {UTAH CHILD AND FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER}

Just wanted to share a few more from this session. Isn't she just a doll? Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

NATURAL EXPRESSIONS. {UTAH CHILD PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER}

Kids can have the BEST natural expressions. They are so honest and so candid. They can tell you so much in their sweet innocent eyes...or rather some may not be so innocent! Anyways, I admire how REAL children can be in front of the camera.

Sometimes these REAL expressions can be hard to find because most kids, when put in front of a camera, are trained to say "cheese". I say BLAHHH to "cheese"!!!! I would never tell a child to say cheese at one of my sessions!

My first born had the WORST "say cheese"-itis! And no, I did not cause it...the daycare that he attended caused it.... I'll shift the blame to someone else! It took him a few years to finally figure out that he didn't have to FORCE a smile. I guess it's just a phase... and honestly, sometimes it is pretty funny just how distorted kids can make their face look in a picture. But let's be honest, all of us moms and dads out there only need a few of the "cheesy" smiles in our memory books, not a thousand of them. We want to remember our kids the way they really look... natural.

So all you parents out there, do yourselves a favor and stop telling your child to say cheese, cause that's all you'll get is the cheesy smiles, stiff and unnatural looks... not real expressions.

The best thing you can do is INTERACT with your child. Talk to them about their favorite subject and watch their face light up. Click the camera in between their sentences... when they pause to think about what they said or you just said. That's when you get the natural expressions.

So now that I've gone on a tangent....I tend to do that when it's late!.... On to Little miss "K" who did such a great job of giving me natural expressions. Its amazing what you can see in a sweet child's face when they are completely natural.

SO SOFT AND SWEET. {UTAH NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER}