Boudoir Parties! Join the fun!

Due to popular demand, Faeye Photography is instituting Boudoir Party packages! I know how nervous everyone can be about having their photo taken in...uh...less than modest circumstances, which is why I have and will always encourage clients to bring along a friend to their session for encourage them and make them more comfortable. But often the session ends with the guest wishing they could have a session of their own, which spawned this new venture.

Great for birthday and bachelorette parties, boudoir parties allow the host to invite between 4 and 10 women to the location of their choice. The women get to hang out and party, encourage one another, and boost their own body image! Each woman gets 30 minutes of shoot time, with unlimited outfits, poses, and shots as their time allows. The images are edited and color corrected within 4 weeks of the party and uploaded to private online galleries for viewing and ordering. Once clients have chosen their favourite images, they will receive a complimentary, custom designed mini album set (wallet sized albums, one for you, one for your significant other!). They will also be able to order any of our other albums, prints, or other photo products. If the party is in honor of a birthday girl or bride-to-be, that special guest can choose to upgrade her album package to a custom designed 5x5 soft cover album with 10 pages of her favourite photos!

Packages:

Level 1 Base Package($50 per person):

• 4-10 women
• hostess provided location
• 30 minutes per person
• mini album set for each participant
• unlimited images, outfits, and poses as time allows
• all images professionally edited and color corrected
• images viewable in private online galleries
• "guest of honor" album upgrade

Level 2 Signature Package ($75 per person):

• 4-10 women
• modern hotel suite location (photographer provided)
• provided "sexy snacks" and sensual cocktails
• 30 minutes per person
• mini album set for each participant
• unlimited images, outfits, and poses as time allows
• all images professionally edited and color corrected
• images viewable in private online galleries
• "guest of honor" album upgrade

Level 3 Penthouse Package ($100 per person):

• 4-10 women
• downtown hotel suite location with a river view (photographer provided)
• champagne and chocolate covered strawberries
• 30 minutes per person
• mini album set for each participant
• unlimited images, outfits, and poses as time allows
• all images professionally edited and color corrected
• images viewable in private online galleries
• "guest of honor" album upgrade

A La Carte Upgrades

• Make-up Consultation: $20 per person
• Hair Consultation: $50 per person
• Stripper Pole: $20 per person

Contact me today to schedule your party!

Digital Packages

If I've photographed you, then somewhere in your posession is a CD or DVD containing every high resolution digital image that I edited for you. Do you know where it is? Did you ever get around to having any of the images printed? I've found that in most cases, the answer to both questions is no. For me as a photographer, this is disappointing. I want to create beautiful images of people that they can display proudly in their home, not sit on a disc. There are other problems with this as well. We think of digital images as forever, but the truth is that the quality of a consumer written disc can deteriorate greatly in as little as a year if not stored correctly! The reality is that if you don't order archival prints of your images, they may not still be around in a decade.

As an extension of my fully cutomizable packages, I've decided not to automatically include these discs in my future contracts. All currently active contracts will be honored, but all future contracts will be for the shooting service only. This enables you, the customer, to make the choice of how you want your images preserved. I offer affordable archival quality prints in a multitude of sizes, custom designed albums, and many other photo products. You also have the option of purchasing my "digital package", which includes that same troublesome disc of all your high resolution digital images, as well as a custom designed DVD slideshow, both discs packaged in a custom designed and printed case. Our new digital package is available as an add-on to any photography package for $65.00 plus tax (6% for Michigan residents). I want to give you the power over your images that you deserve, without telling you which options are best for you.

I'm also happy to announce that my webmaster is putting together a print ordering system so that you can order your digital package, albums, prints, or other products directly from your digital proofing page on my website! I'm very excited!

You don't need Kiddie Kandids!

Kiddie Kandids, a photography studio chain with 184 locations nationwide specializing in infant and children photography announced this week that they are filing for bankruptcy and closing their studios. Most Kiddie Kandids locations were in Babies 'R' Us stores and local malls. Here in Michigan we had a few locations, all in the Detroit area.

Kiddie Kandids was what can only be called a "photo factory". You came in, posed in front of the same backgrounds as every other customer using the same poses as every canned photo in history, and a worker bee with only on the job photography training presses the shutter and then over charges you for a handful of prints with no print release or digital rights.

I'm sorry that thousands of employees have lost their jobs in this economy due to a hard 18 months for mall portrait photography, but this is an opportunity for all of us. Don't spend a fortune on a few over posed snapshots of your children and family that are just a cold representation of their faces before they grow up. Make the portraits of your children about them.

Capture the face you'll see in your mind every time you think of them at that particular age, in a setting that gives it the best possible background. An individual photographer with an artistic vision and understanding of your expectations can do that for you! Let it be me this Valentine's Day!

In honor of Kiddie Kandids, I'm offering a Valentine's Day Kid promotion! Send me a message telling me what kind of portrait you'd like of your child, and I'll give you a custom quote for the sitting, starting at just $50! You get an 8x10 print of your favorite photo, and a set of mini albums of the shoot. Digital packages are available for purchase separately.

Mr. & Mrs. Angel and Terry Jackson

I had the great privilege of spending my New Year's Eve 2009 photographing the wedding of Angel & Terry Jackson. The wedding was beautiful and unique, giving me the opportunity to shoot things I'd never seen before. Their kids are absolutely darling and kept many of us entertained all day. These two are surrounded by their loving friends and family (so many that this is the largest wedding party I have ever worked with!) and their unwavering faith in God. I had a great time ringing in the New Year with them, and wish all of them the very best.

Mr. & Mrs. Emily and Michael Warari

The day after Christmas I had the awesome privilege of photographing the wedding of Emily Hop and Michael Warari. They were married at Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Wyoming, and their reception was held at English Hills Terrace on West River Drive. It was a beautiful occasion, and they are one of the sweetest and most in love couples I have ever met. Emily was a beautiful bride, and everyone could tell that Michael thought so most of all!

The Palinsky Sisters

I had the great pleasure on Tuesday of capturing the beautiful Palinsky sisters! We braved the snow and ice to do a fun shoot at the Wharton Center in East Lansing. A more fun pair of siblings I have never met!

Boudoir: The Fun New Trend

As a photographer, I am seeing (and loving!) a great new trend in photography: boudoir. Whether you're a bride (or groom!) to be wanting to document yourself for your future husband or just a woman wanting to feel beautiful and sexy, this is a darn good way to do it! For some it is a beautiful, sexy gift to give their fiance for their wedding, their significant other for Christmas or a birthday, or even their husband on a significant anniversary to prove they've still "got it". For others it's an opportunity to see themselves through the eye of a professional photographer and their equipment. Either way, it's an amazing experience. I don't airbrush, I just bring a different set of eyes to the table. Every one of us has something beautiful, mysterious, or sexy about us, but our own hang-ups get in the way of other people (or even ourselves) seeing them. That's where photographs come in. Women and men alike are often surprised at how good they look in a relaxed boudoir photograph...what better gift to give yourself and/or your significant other than a confident, relaxed portrait of what makes you unique and beautiful?

Each shoot is completely customizable based on who you are and what you want out of it. What you wear (and how much you wear!) is up to you. So is the location, props you use, and almost anything else you can think of. Can't come up with all this on your own and need suggestions? I'm happy to help with any of those questions and also offer makeup consultations for those who need them.

Don't want to go it alone? No problem! Bring a friend and have some cocktails and much more fun during the shoot! Or take it a step farther and help us organize a boudoir party! You bring the friends that would like to participate, we get a snazzy hotel room and take turns shooting each of you with the rest of you their to cheer each other on and have some laughs.

What's the best part? I'm offering highly discounted rates on the first 4 scheduled female boudoir shoots and the first 5 scheduled male boudoir shoots. That's right, we shoot men too! No reason for the ladies to have all the fun! As a matter of fact, I'll even do a "couples" boudoir shoot, the more sensual portrait session option for those interested. Contact us today, and let your confidence soar!

Emily and Michael: Engaged!

Thanksgiving weekend I had the great pleasure of shooting Emily and Michael's engagement shoot at Palmer Park in Wyoming. They're a beautiful couple, and shooting them was a lot of fun. I think we made the best of the cold, and got some really cute shots out of them trying to keep each other warm! They're getting married in less than a month, and I just can't wait to be there!

Andrea and Forrest: Engaged!

I had the great pleasure recently of shooting engagement pictures for a great couple, Andrea and Forrest. They chose two awesome locations in Muskegon, and we had a blast, laughing through the whole shoot! They're getting married in July, and I can't wait to be there! Enjoy you guys!

The Shaft Family

This weekend I got to shoot one of the greatest families, the Shafts! I've known them for more than half of my life and I think their personalities really came through at this shoot. We were playing and having a good time, and we ended up with a few of my favorite photos. What a great surprise to have them all together since two of the sisters moved away! I'm so happy with this shoot and that all the circumstances came together.

Shannon and Brent: Engaged!

I had a beautiful engagement shoot this week with Shannon and Brent, a fantastic couple! While editing the photos, I couldn't help but get excited for their wedding in May! They're absolutely beautiful and their love for each other so evident it's contagious! I know I'm getting sappy, but I can't help it.

Bryna and Cedric's Engagement Shoot

At the beautiful Seminary Pond on the campus of Calvin College, I had the opportunity to shoot the engagement photos of one of the most adorable couples I've ever met, Bryna and her fiance Cedric. It was the perfect location for the two of them, and they were all smiles. Enjoy guys!