bridgettemarie.com » Seniors

Justine Class of 2012

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:07:42 +0000

If you know my work at all you have seen this pretty girl in some of my published pieces, at her sweet sixteen photo booth, every year for family pictures and now her senior shoot. Justine is a professional model and for good reason, she’s P-U-R-T-Y. However I told her going into today that I did not want modeling, I wanted real and I wanted “her.” Well that of course made her laugh and we spent the entire shoot making fun of modeling and trying not to “pose” but at the end of the day I was really happy with her session. It’s easy to take a great picture of a pretty girl. I hope that I went one step beyond and captured the Justine that is funny, sarcastic, complicated and well…beautiful. Justine I hope this makes up for that stupid math test.

Sometimes it’s just finding common ground

Sat, 21 May 2011 02:52:50 +0000

Recently I had a senior session, well two at once. Twin boys and as I pulled out of the house it was raining. Awesome. Neither of these boys really allow themselves to be caught in front of the camera. In fact their Mom uses baby pictures on Facebook. I always joke that they need better pictures, you know as in taken in the last 18 years…better pictures. Two years I have been trying to get my camera on these boys.

I faced what a lot of photographers face, photographing someone that does not want to be photographed. They may on some level want to but once you actually point that big lense at them they can’t even keep their eyes facing forward.

I joke, I play, I give them a hard time…I try to break the pressure. I feel them out and see where that line is of comfort. I couldn’t crack this one. His brother was pretty normal 18 year old “if I have to” kind of smile and session but the other was tougher. Mom suggested we do a shoot in front of McDonalds., apparently the happiest place on Earth for him. After we wrapped up all the “formal” photos we headed to a nearby McD’s. Mom rolled out with a Happy Meal and suddenly he lit up. 18 and excited about a Happy Meal. Pretty endearing. He had not requested a single shot all day, except for the one below. Something he feels represents him. I could have taken the most amazing pictures in the world, but if my clients don’t walk away feeling like that had a good time and it went well, they will never find any they like. So this one shot may have saved the entire day. “Bah-da-bah-bah-baaah. I’m Lovin’ it.”

Senior season in full swing

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:10:12 +0000

I have been shooting all the lovely seniors in town. Last week I traveled to Florence, Arizona to shoot Kelci. Such a doll and you have to love the small town beauties. She loves horses and making her own jewlery. We had a really fun time and I was excited to get the images up. If you have not visited my photography Facebook page with my seniors and other goodies, you can find that here. BRIDGETTE MARIE FACEBOOK

Now for the lovely Kelci….

Another adorable senior- Florence Senior Photographer

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:06:59 +0000

Well I did say that I had a lot of seniors this year. Here is another awesome senior session. This is Cameron. I had to travel an hour to get to her but totally worth it. The location was amazing and she was super fun. I loved working with her. Sh is a country girl at heart and so this was such a perfect spot for her. (She picked it, I was just thrilled to get to shoot there!) She brought her prom dress, so I did the logical thing, I stuck her in the field of weeds. Awesome right? Here are some of my faves from that day…

It’s Senior Season! – Phoenix Senior Photographer

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:59:40 +0000

I am very blessed with some awesome seniors this year so far! Soooo many great kids, so many fun ideas. Nothing like when I was a senior. This is Kylie and she is a beautiful red head. She’s the kind of girl that “works” her freckles. She brought the B-E-S-T wardrobe and we drove around (her Mom drove us all over town) to full fill all of my crazy location ideas. She wanted urban and country all while wearing as much “bling” (as her Mom called it) as possible. What a great and fun session.

We shot this one downtown. It was blazing bright outside but she was a trooper. I kept paying “try not to squint!”

I said “Kylie…lay in the weeds for me” She said “okay!” I tried some shots from straight above but the ones from the side here were my favorite.

Pretty, pretty, pretty girl.

She brought the sunflowers, I brought the fence.

People always comment my work is “fresh” I guess this is well…that.

This has to be one of my favorite shots of the day. Just Kylie being beautiful Kylie.

I took a ton of detail shots of her. She had the best shoes! Like these royal blue beauties.

Another detail shot that worked out better than I hoped. I was focusing on the freckles in this one.