Photos by Robin » boys http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog Blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:20:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Slaves to Righteousness Part 2 | Minneapolis Talent Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/slaves-to-righteousness-minneapolis-talent-photographer-2/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/slaves-to-righteousness-minneapolis-talent-photographer-2/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:35:15 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2764 OK so remember the band “Slaves to Righteousness” from a few months back?  My original intent was to do an outdoor session, but they wanted some photos right away for some website stuff so we were forced to do them indoors due to the weather. 

Well we got our chance for the outdoor session last night  and it was super super fun!!  My friend Jennie joined us and she was a huge help!  Thanks Jennie!  :-)

Shane (far right)  is our pastor’s son and this is his band.  They won “battle of the bands” to win a spot on stage at the MN State Fair, so congratulations guys!!  They are playing TONIGHT at 7pm so check them out if you get a chance!!  It’s a great opportunity for them!  they were totally willing to do anything we asked!   They look like they are running from crazed teenage girls or something!  ;-)   Sam the drummer Zach – lead vocals Shane – guitar & vocals  A shot of Jennie in action.  She was using a fisheye so can’t wait to see this image!  fun stuff! Here’s my shot!  (btw….used my 24-70 for the whole shoot)  I told them to pretend like they were fighting here…hehe! Once we started losing light a little bit (around 8pm) we worked w/ the strobes more.  I was using a vagabond II, alien bee 800 (set to 1/2 power), a 60″ shoot-through umbrella and pocket wizards to fire the light.  I like how it turned out!  yeah, this was before we lost the light obviously….but actually was only like 15 min before the shot above.  Just depends on how you do your camera settings.  :-) used a strobe on this shot too. Love these two!  Oh, and jumping was their idea!  They got some major air!  (and landed pretty hard so we only did it twice!)Thanks guys for having Jennie & I be your official band photographers!  haha!  It was a fun change of pace for both of us!  :-)  

btw…………..I posted a lot more photos on my Facebook “Photos By Robin” page.  Click “like” and become one of my FANS!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/slaves-to-righteousness-minneapolis-talent-photographer-2/feed/ 5 Ethan & Ella – Lake Harriet Beach minis! | Minneapolis Family Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/ethan-ella-lake-harriet-beach-minis-minneapolis-family-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/ethan-ella-lake-harriet-beach-minis-minneapolis-family-photographer/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:46:11 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2726 Last but not least, here’s family #3!  Bryan, Kim, Ethan & Ella!  I last saw them for Ella’s newborn photos!  Of course I’ve seen Ella & Ethan a lot since them though on Kim’s blog!  Kim’s a photographer too so she posts lots of cute photos of them! 

Aren’t they cute together?  LOVE the outfits here too!  Such fun color combos! Ethan’s so stinkin’ cute! and his sis is no slouch in the cuteness department either!  When we were taking these, some ladies walked by and were “oohing” and “aaahing” over her!  :-) {btw….her adorable outfit is from Matilda Jane – the headband is from etsy} I know this one is a little blurry, but I love it!  :-) awwww! Thanks for coming guys!  Your family is way cute!

And thanks again to the other families that came out too!  I really enjoyed these beach sessions!  It’s probably because of the “kick of your shoes and have FUN” sort of feel to them!  I’ll definitely be doing beach minis next summer again!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/ethan-ella-lake-harriet-beach-minis-minneapolis-family-photographer/feed/ 3 Connor & Kendall – Lake Harriet beach minis! | Minneapolis Family Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/connor-kendall-lake-harriet-beach-minis-minneapolis-family-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/connor-kendall-lake-harriet-beach-minis-minneapolis-family-photographer/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:29:34 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2713 Here’s my friend and former co-worker Tricia & her cute family!  You may remember them from our very CHILLY session a while back!  This was MUCH better!  I HATE cold!  haha! Tricia came in the pharmacy today and said she had a bad dream that her photos didn’t turn out – lol!  Yes, I’d say that was just a bad dream!  ;-)   Jacob was assisting me like I said in a previous post.  Here’s his view…..and mine… a shot by Jacob that I really liked for some reason.  :-) Kendall is gorgeous!  Love the cute missing front teeth too! and Connor is so handsome!  And I must say for a boy, he’s super super sweet and affectionate to his sister & family – and such a good listener for me!  Perfect! {I thought this series was cute!} awww, such a daddy’s girl! some mom & dad snuggle time! thanks so much for coming guys!  Always great to see you!

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/connor-kendall-lake-harriet-beach-minis-minneapolis-family-photographer/feed/ 3 Aidan & Anders – Beach Minis at Lake Harriet | Minneapolis Child & Family Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/aiden-anders-beach-minis-at-lake-harriet-minneapolis-child-family-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/aiden-anders-beach-minis-at-lake-harriet-minneapolis-child-family-photographer/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:20:20 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2688 First up is family #1 – Aaron, Kim, Aidan & Anders!  I’ve seen Anders twice now – for his 7 month and 1yr photos – but this is the first time I got to meet big brother Aidan!  What a sweetheart!  Such a great big brother to Anders!

(btw….art here is a canvas painting by my daughter Claire!  I thought it would be fun to bring along and incorporate into some of the sessions!  I told her I’d pay her $5 for borrowing it….haha!) The only real guidance I gave my mini session attendees was NO WHITE SHIRTS WITH KHAKI’S/JEANS!  I really didn’t want that “uniform” look.  OK, could they BE any cuter?  Kudos for the outfit choices Kim – they were perfect! Aidan has always been in school for our other sessions so Kim wanted to make sure we got plenty of photos of just him!  No problem – he was a breeze!  And does he look like mom or what?  So cute! A brotherly moment…!  :-) At the end of the session Kim & Aaron let Anders go for it!  He’d been eyeing that water the whole session – haha!  These just make me laugh!  Plus he threw a little fit when they took him out, which made me laugh too!!  ;-) Thanks for coming guys!  You are all so cute together!

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/aiden-anders-beach-minis-at-lake-harriet-minneapolis-child-family-photographer/feed/ 2 Liv, Greyson & Quinn | Minneapolis Child and Family Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/liv-greyson-quinn-minneapolis-child-and-family-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/liv-greyson-quinn-minneapolis-child-and-family-photographer/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:07:36 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2582 You’ll probably recognize this family since I’ve been taking photos of them for about 4 years now!  It’s Mike, Alicia, Liv, Greyson & Quinn!  This time I thought we’d try something totally different and shoot in a field!  We met at my house at 7:30am – it was a gorgeous morning! I love how mom dressed everyone!  Don’t they look great together!?  And she made her own necklace!  Alicia – I still think you should open up an etsy shop! Mom brought along these great pinwheels – the kids loved them!   (and me too!) Used Pioneer Woman “seventies” here. Then we drove down the road a little to a corn field. Dad was a professional photog in another life so he had some great suggestions for shots!  The one on the left was his idea.  I love the sun flare thru the tree!  :-) btw….ever since like 3 or 4 sessions ago, if you want to make Greyson laugh (and therefore the whole rest of the family since it’s contaigious!) just call him a “Ding-dong”!  It works like a charm!  haha!  Don’t they look like a bunch of ding-dongs?  They sure do!  ;-) OK I have a story about miss Liv.  If you look at the link I posted above from our last session, you’ll see a little squishy yellow guy.  She loved that thing so much so I bought her one of her own.  I of course gave it to her after our session (when she proved how GOOD she could be!)  She named it “Lily flower bumblebee cheese-foot” – haha!  What an original name huh?  :-) I gave Quinn a pink one that she named “Bubblegum” And Greyson hadn’t named his at the time mom sent the e-mail….haha!  :-) (notice here how Quinn took her headband and used it as a belt?  Clever girl!) Then we walked across the road for another fun location. Some mom & dad snuggle time – awww! Thanks for coming again guys!  It’s always great to see you all!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/liv-greyson-quinn-minneapolis-child-and-family-photographer/feed/ 4 Leo | Minneapolis Lifestyle Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/leo-minneapolis-lifestyle-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/leo-minneapolis-lifestyle-photographer/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:00:54 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2539 Meet sweet little Leo!  He was born on July 11th – weighing in at just 6 pounds 2 ounces!   You can tell they are totally smitten with him!  :-) Dad Jason wasn’t feeling well at ALL at our session….so we did the ones with him in the photos first so he could go back to bed after that.  Here’s the whole family on the bed!  Beau & Frasier were so cute!     We managed to get Leo to sleep here & there….  :-) It was a beautiful summer day, so we had to get some outdoor ones!  We were hoping to get some of the family walking Leo in his stroller w/ the dogs, but neither one of us wanted to wake up Jason…and Leo was getting super hungry!  :-) Leo is so adorable!  Congratulations again Jason & Babs! 

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]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/leo-minneapolis-newborn-photographer/feed/ 5 Nick | Minneapolis Senior Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/nick-minneapolis-senior-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/nick-minneapolis-senior-photographer/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:30:31 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2484 Meet Nick!  He’s a senior at Wayzata High School – class of 2011!  We met for our session at the beautiful waterfront in Wayzata.  Mom really wanted photos in the area so I was up for it!  I’d never shot over there before so it was fun exploring new places!  Nick was a great sport and I must say it was so nice having a subject do whatever I told them to!  haha!  :-) {yeah, I’d love one of those boats!}{I was all over the sun flare this day!  It was a PERFECT day for photos!  85 degrees, sunny, low humidity.  Loved it!} {handsome dude, huh?} {more sun flare!}  {the one on the right is my personal fav…!}  All about Nick:

  • Fav color = BLUE
  • Fav food = chicken quesidillas
  • Fav movie = Dumb & Dumber
  • Fav book = Harry Potter
  • Fav song = any hip pop or r&b
  • What do you want to be when you grow up?  = athlete
  • What is your passion? = sports
  • What sports? = hockey, soccer, football, golf and extreme tubing at the cabin
  • other hobbies? = hanging out with friends
  • Fav subject in school = history
  • Fav jeans? = boot cut
  • Fav place to shop? = Best Buy
  • What would your luxury item be if you were on Survivor? = cell phone
  • Fav hot celeb? = Jennifer Anniston
  • “Most Likely to….” = coach a sports team

 Best of luck with your senior year Nick!  It was great meeting you & your mom!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/nick-minneapolis-senior-photographer/feed/ 6 Hank (part 2) | Minneapolis Newborn Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/hank-part-2-minneapolis-newborn-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/hank-part-2-minneapolis-newborn-photographer/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:57:04 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2463 Here’s Hank part 2!   We really wanted to get some photos of big sis Morgan with her new little brother Hank!  I can’t believe how much he’s changed in just a week or so!  aww, they grow up so FAST!  Sweet Morgan!  She’s really a VERY well-behaved 2 year old and she’s a great big sister!  But it was still kinda hard to get  good brother/sister shot!   ;-)  We got lots of cute smiles! and this was my fav of them together… So precious!  Congratulations again Aaron & Kori!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/hank-part-2-minneapolis-newborn-photographer/feed/ 1 Urban Minis – Karge & Family | Minneapolis Child and Family Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/urban-minis-karge-family-minneapolis-child-and-family-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/urban-minis-karge-family-minneapolis-child-and-family-photographer/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:10:01 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2435 You might remember my little neighbor Karge from this post….and now he brought along his awesome parents for our urban mini session! They were so much fun and I love how they styled themselves!  Well, OK, I love how Nichole dressed everyone!  I really like big Karge’s jeans and he made some comment about Nichole dressing him – haha!  Sounds very familiar!  ;-) Karge is quite the little funny man!  Love his little belly laugh and all his expressions! I tried to get him to act “serious” here – haha!  He did a great job! Some of those great expressions I was talking about….!  :-) OK, seriously, how CUTE are they?  I told them to “get their sexy on” and here’s the result!  hot hot!  :-) For being a photographer herself (and a dang kickbutt one at that!  If you have not checked out her work, you need to!), Nichole is very comfortable in front of the camera!   She should be – she’s gorgeous!  OK, and doing my celebrity-client match, does she not look quite a bit like a brunette Cameron Diaz?  Thanks for coming to my urban minis guys!  You’re the best!  :-)  (btw…a big thanks to Dave for letting me shoot in this cool location!  :-) )

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