May's Image of the Month

I have a question for you.....

What is YOUR biggest photography challenge??

I absolutely love answering your photo questions and am creating a guide to consolidate all of my photo tips as a free giveaway for those who sign up for my newsletter from my website and I need your feedback.

Please just hit 'reply' to this email (and don't feel that you need to include niceties asking how I'm doing if we haven't spoken in a while, no worries there), and let me know questions that you have or problems that you have concerning photography in any capacity (shooting, lighting, storage, notecards & products, etc).

No matter how simple or silly you think the question is, please add it in your response! :o)

Thank you so much for helping me with this!!! Those who reply to help me out will also receive a copy of the guide when it's completed. Don't miss out, it's going to be jam packed with information!!

Check out my very first video!!

I'm so excited to share this with you!

Click HERE or on the logo to the right to view my very first professional video for my business!! Since hiring a photographer is such an intimate experience, I created this video of me doing a photo shoot with clients of mine (and they were amazingly nice enough to agree!!).

It's really important to not only love your photographer's images, but to have a connection and comfort level with them so that they're able to capture you and your family naturally. It will show on the faces of the subjects when that connection is missing for sure!

Since I'm lucky enough to have clients around the country and referrals from them are given to their friends, I wanted a way to virtually connect with those interested in getting to know me and what it's truly like to have a shoot with me before even hiring me. That is exactly what this new video is going to accomplish for me.

Let me know what you think of the video because I always love getting your feedback!!

The amazing people at Marathon Video shot most of this for me and pulled it all together in a beautiful edit and I wanted to share them with you as well. They're located in Long Island and Paul, the son of the owner Alex, shot the actual shoot at the beach with me. They were great to work with and I'm happy to pass on their information. Please click HERE to visit their website and definitely tell them I sent you.

Evan's first photo shoot as a gift!

This is little Evan's first shoot who was the star of our 'Image of the Month' for April and his family was gifted a photo session with me as a baby shower gift recently.  See how cute he is?? He was amazing during our shoot and we had a great afternoon!  See the great feedback at the end of this post from the giver and receiver of this photo session.  :o)

I just adore his little grumpy face in this one! So serious......    :o)

This is my good friend Nykki who purchased the gift of a photo session for her sister-in-law.

Thank you Bankey Family!!  :o)

Testimonial from the gift-giver:

"My sister-n-law, Nicole, had a baby shower.  She registered for necessary items & I was thinking gifts come & go, especially the ones he grows out of.  I thought a special gift for her would be a photo session with Nikki.  When she opened the package discovering that it was a photo session, she was very excited because she knew how talented Nikki is.  Everyone in the crowd thought that was the most unique gift ever.

Photos last forever!  The ones that I've gotten for Christmas are all too cute.  Everyone in the entire family opened our gifts at the same time & we all gasped at how cute the pictures turned out!   I had a hard time deciding which to frame."

And from the recipient:

"Eric and I are so grateful to our sister-in-law for giving us a session with Nikki Incandela! It was truly a special gift that we may not have thought to splurge on for ourselves.

The images from that fun afternoon are beautiful.  She captured  our baby's many expressions just perfectly.  Looking at the photos now, it's surprising how much our little guy has grown in just a few months.  Thankfully, that moment in time with him is preserved forever."

~Nicole & Eric Bankey

April's Photo Tip

Tired of the kids just being blurry objects in the images you capture?

Want to use images to document their growth?

Easy! Capture the kids while they're distracted doing something (even if it's from behind) so that they're more still for your photo. Also, use an object (like this car in the image to the left) so that you'll always remember their height in relation to that object and to each other. Then voila! You have them captured and a fine art looking image also.

Just watch - NOW they'll want to look at the camera! :o) That's ok; you can get some great face photos too!

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

(p.s. these cutie pies are part of the Kalimian family. Yes, there's one more, and they're all so incredibly adorable!!)

Leslie & Kailey's Home Photo Shoot in NYC

Here are images from a shoot I did in NYC last January where Leslie & her daughter Kailey got dressed up for our photo shoot. We had a blast!!  Kailey had so much fun dancing, twirling and jumping on her bed.  She's always fun to photograph!  Thanks so much Leslie & Kailey!!

This is one of my all time favorites! We had a blast and I was so psyched to have caught her so perfectly in the air as she jumped off her bed.