Every Little Thing You Do, I Do Adore ~ Teen Behind the Scenes

Today's my one-year anniversary of Suzi Worley Photography!  As luck would have it, we just wrapped up my Behind the Scenes video this morning!  I thought I would share it with you all here as well, as it includes quite a few of my images from the session.
I created this as a tool for my teens and graduates sessions, but since it shows the make-up and hair portion it also applies to the make-over sessions I do as well.  Plus most of my sessions end up being like this... we walk around a lot, change locations and outfits, have unexpected surprises (in this case a horse volunteered for a few shots),  and we have tons of fun in the process.

Behind the Scenes with Suzi Worley from Susan Worley on Vimeo.

I am so happy that I made it through my first year!  It has been great fun and such a learning experience on so many levels.  I have enjoyed making new friends, and can't wait to see what year two has in store.  Thanks to all of you who have helped make my dream become a reality!

XO XO

~ Suzi

California Country ~ Behind the Scenes Session

On Wednesday we videotaped a "behind the scenes" session in the Santa Cruz Mountains. You may remember the call for models I placed on Facebook awhile back... It was fun seeing the different applicants, and it was hard to select just one! I ended up selecting this sweet gal, who is a self described "tomgirlygirl", a tom-boy with a little girliness thrown in. I felt for the locations we chose she'd be a perfect fit!

She was so wonderful, and we had such fun!

This horse (named Tapatime) volunteered for the session as well, and he even got his own model release!

(The halter is my mare's show halter and we just happened to have it with us.)

There's something about girls and horses that just calls to me.

Although she hasn't spent much time around horses, this tomgirlygirl was a natural!

This is a little sneak peak of my "minions".  For this session I ended up having two assistants for reflectors.

They did such a great job, I had to take at least one picture to show the set-up.

(The video should show more, and I can't wait to see it and share it with you all!)

But until then I'll share a couple more images.

I so LOVED these cute shoes, I really like the image in color,

but the location and cute boots kept pulling me towards something more vintage. 

And so I just had to comply! The images we captured will look amazing in one of my folio boxes, and I can't wait to see them in print! Wouldn't this make a cute card too?

Trying Something New

I've been taking a class online and the instructor mentioned using V-flats as backgrounds and she said you could always make your own out of insulation boards.

I decided this sounded like it would be a fun project to try for my Mother/Daughter session that weekend, so I did a bit of shopping.

I purchased some pretty paints including some pretty faux finish ones.

And then I choose some polystyrene boards.

I liked the concept of the 3/4" board, but found that with any bit of breeze it wanted to get away from us, and the 1" ones ended up being my favorites.

I had to remove the foil on one side, and will have to do another coat of paint on it, as some of the metal flecks were still visible after my first coat.

(Even with the all-in-one paint/primer combo.)

I painted right over the plastic and blue wording on the other side without any problem.

The black paint was some milk paint I found in our shed. I loved the deep coal black color it produced.

Here are the colors before I put the green faux finish on the tan board and used a stipple brush and metallic finish on the rose one. The other sides are now a lovely winter's day blue, tadpole green, and popcorn white. They even managed to dry before my session! ~ Stay tuned to see them in action. ~

Self Rescuing Princesses... Please Apply!

I just received this crown for some 2013 photo sessions and LOVE it!   It's actually a pretty cream, and is so gorgeous in person, I can't wait to try it out on a little (or big) princess. I envision this gorgeous crown on so many princesses... ones who dream of their prince charming, and ones named Buttercup... and even the self rescuing kind.  (Such as Elizabeth in "The Paper Bag Princess".) What's your favorite Princess story? ~ ~ ~ And boys, don't worry...  this crown is actually white, and when reversed it would rival Max's crown from Where the Wild Things Are! ~ ~ ~