KG Russell Photography: Swartz Maternity Shoot

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Swartz Maternity Shoot

Since the New year I have been trying to get this shoot posted for you, but blogger has been giving me a hard time uploading my images. With a little time this morning I have been playing around with blogger and have finally gotten these images posted.

I met up with the Swartz family at Cutler Gardens in August, it actually was the weekend of the Spiedie Fest and we weren't sure if we were going to be able to get into the gardens. We met early and were able to get in with no problem and when we were leaving they were just starting to block of the entrance to the parking lot. I was glad that we got lucky and were able to shoot here because I am in LOVE with these great shots that we captured.

The flowers were in full bloom and created a great backdrop for this shoot. Hailey was in a good mood and cooperated to get the images that I was hoping for!

Now that baby Brooklyn is here and is 6 months now I bring you Swartz Maternity Shoot!

I love these two images! When I saw this large area of purple flowers in the middle of the path I knew this is what I wanted. So down Stacey sat and out came the bare baby belly, I couldn't wait to get home to edit this image so that all you seen in color was the purple flowers.

Just past the purple flowers we found this little "wooded" path I sent Rick and Hailey off so that I just had Stacey on the path and just as I got her posed and put the camera up to shoot the scene Hailey appeared in the background and I thought that it was perfect. So of course I made sure I snapped a few that you could see her back there and a few after she moved. But, I liked the ones where you could see Hailey behind Stacey!

I think that this spot with the large rock in front of the ferns was great too. It was almost like the people who created the garden placed this rock here for the purpose of it being used for photos. I love the backdrop it created, almost like you are in a whole another place.

LOVE the photo of Stacey and Hailey! We tried to get the same thing with her and Rick but we just could not recreate something that she did naturally!