Sarah Raanan Photography » Raanana Portrait Photographer http://sarahraanan.com/blog Sarah Raanan is a natural lifestyle photographer serving Teaneck, Bergenfield, New Milford, Englewood and all the surrounding cities. She specializes in newborns, babies, children and families. She creates black and white and color fine art images. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Dear Blog… http://sarahraanan.com/blog/2011/dear-blog/ http://sarahraanan.com/blog/2011/dear-blog/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:48:09 +0000 sarah http://sarahraanan.com/blog/?p=896 Dear Blog,

May I start by saying i’m sorry? I know it’s a while since i’ve been in touch. Sometimes I just need to take a break, dont take it personally. But I hope today’s post makes up for it. Pretty frames and everything :) )

This session was back in September in the park. Love this first one so much.They were all loving and cuddling up close together for a whole 10 seconds….

(Sometimes i try and explain to kids that its so important to me that they squash up close together so that none of their limbs get cut off at the edge of their image, but they just look at me funny. Cant imagine why..)

I think we were discussing which member of the family has the smelliest feet when I took this one of Zak…perhaps i’ll keep the answer to myself? :)

Etti thoroughly enjoyed posing and twirling for the camera; she could have had a whole session just to herself! I love her eyelashes in the second image

We had to be very cunning with Dan to get him to stay still when it was his turn but we pulled it off and totally captured his spicy spirit

Oh Hila. She is just so yummy-liscious but was feeling a little pensive that day, but still beautiful as always

These next images are some of my faves from the session; natural and funny, they just make you smile

Love these of the beautiful mama and baby….

The family portrait. Needs to be blown up to a large canvas over the fireplace IMHO :) And lastly, mum & dad. So nice when couples actually request to have their photo taken together, it’s so important to remember to have  photos with your spouse once in a while!

Thanks guys for a great session! Looking forward to seeing your house decorated by your beautiful images…

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I was so thrilled when my dear friend Sabrina contacted me about booking a ‘baby plan’ package of maternity, newborn and family portraits. People often ask me why they would bring their newborns for a photo session; why not wait until they are sitting up and are a bit more interesting? This is such a common  mistake! They will only be newborns for such a short amount of time and you want to capture that fleeting moment in their lives! Newborns must be photographed within with the first 2 weeks of life, and preferably within the first week. At this stage, they are usually still very small and sleepy and will usually still be curling up in that adorable fetal position. Of course you can always record these moments for yourself too, but you should also consider the difference in hiring a professional photographer who will produce professional artistic portraits that you can treasure.

Just look at these images of precious little Levi. It took a long time to get each shot, and everything had to be just right, including switching off the A/C so the room was nice and toasty! I will often take 20 minutes, maybe more, just to get one shot, especially if baby needs to feed in between or messes a blanket which then needs to be changed. Sessions can take anything up to 3 hours and during that time we will attempt about 5 different poses. But  look at the results that you get to treasure forever!

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We have been planning this session for quite a while, and what was originally a session for a family of 4, blossomed into a brand new family of 5! I love this family portrait, and the pink & grey together work really well….

I went a little storyboard crazy with this family when presenting them with their gallery.

Think I’m going to get these printed up for my studio walls..

Ok, as usual, extreme indecision over what to post, narrowed it down to 15, not really good enough huh? And I can see that all my choices are in B&W, no deep hidden meaning there…

So, first we have the little guy with his big sistas…..

Having a father-daughter moment…

They were so bouncy, we did this a LOT!



yeah, sure, my hair also looks that great when i’m jumping up and down…

And lastly, the little cub, enjoying lullabies from his sis {bless}


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This mini session  brought me 4 boys, ranging in ages from 16 to 3. I know you’ve been hit with a LOT of cuteness recently on the blog, but i’m sorry, i’m about to kick it up a notch. BIG TIME!!

Mini sessions are just 30 minutes long. What can you accomplish in 30 minutes with 6 people you may ask? Prepare to be just a little bit impressed….

The handsome crew all together:

We have some great action shots of the boys with their football, but I have to choose just a few, and i’ve got to include these 4!!!

Nadav

Tal

Sagi

Yair

The two little cubs together:

Oh gosh, I have to choose just one more. It’s a tough one. But i’m going for this one..

Boy Sandwiches:

They were all so fab and lovely, what a gorgeous family, such a pleasure! Thank you guys :)

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My sister in law bought a gift voucher from me last year for her very good friend in Tel Aviv who had just had a baby. Fast forward one year and finally we were meeting up for our portrait session.

I was really looking forward to meeting their new baby, and for the novelty of a session with just mummy, daddy & baby! I cant remember the last time that happened!

And here she is, baby E..

She had such a fetish for these red sunglasses!!

I SWEAR she knew how cool she looked!…


We didn’t have long before poor baby E was just so tired out and ready for her morning nap so we had to move fast. That’s the beauty of a one-child session though! We still managed to capture so many beautiful moments and expressions

“Where’s your nose?” This party trick never gets old…

Their first family portrait – hope to see them again for their next one! :)

Winding down. Poor E was done by this stage and all she wanted was her dummy & nu nu… This is definitely one of my favorite images from our session.

I loved our walk back to the car. Baby E held her hands out for me to carry her & I got my snuggles in <3

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So here you are Goffsteins, shining lights, fame, the lot…

This is one of my favourites – I think its such a great capture of Suzy and Joyce’s personalities..

Hard to believe that this girl thinks that I need to work on her images in Photoshop – Joy is incredibly photogenic and I haven’t TOUCHED this image!! and I will not be doing ANY Photoshop work on her. As Kellie Pickler sings “dont you know youre beautiful!?”

I love this one of Danny; the quiet, pensive one of the bunch (there had to be ONE!!) Love the freckles and that incredible auburn hair!

Eyal – he just couldnt wait to get into the water! he was so comfortable in front of the camera, quite a ham, but I really like this candid capture of him while he was in the middle of talking…BTW, seriously good hair genes going on here Suzy!!

Leo, the Cheeky Chipmunk as Suzy called him, caught him mid refill whilst blowing bubbles on the beach at sunset {sigh – can I just add that I love my job?}

This group photo went ridiculously well!! no-one killed each other or walked off in a strop. Love it in black & white!

Ok, lastly, I know my friends will make fun of me for saying this, but this has to be my new favorite sibling image! Do you know how hard it is to get everyone together, happy, smiling, looking at me and looking good!?! I’m so proud of this one…

Had a great time guys – when we doing it all again?! :)

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