Most of my maternity clients are newbies to maternity photography. You don’t really think about how maternity sessions work when you’re not pregnant. Just like most people aren’t looking for doulas or pediatricians before becoming pregnant, maternity photography is a …
Category: Behind the Scenes
Choosing Photos from Your Session: Advice
Now what? You’ve seen your online, password-protected gallery and you’ve been presented with the options: pre-made packages, albums, canvases, or prints. Where do you start? How do you start choosing photos and products that you love so you don’t simply …
Online Ordering: What to Expect
I like meeting clients after our photo session, going through the photos together and hearing the oohs and aahs as you sift through the images. Online ordering has always been an option, but I like sifting together and seeing if …
I Want You to Kick It Old School
I shoot digital photography. Like 99% of my colleagues, I use current technologies, not old school methods, to run my business. I use a digital camera to create photos of you and your family. Then, I use software to edit …
Rundown of a Family Session
I don’t know about you, but whenever I have to do anything for the very first time, I get super nervous. If I don’t know what to expect, I imagine the worst. What if all my worst fears (or even …
Behind the Scenes: Shoot Around
I’ve mentioned before that I’m working on a “shoot around the house” project this spring. I actually started this 100 day project on Valentine’s Day, a whole month before we went into isolation procedures, and I had no idea when …
Change is Afoot
Nothing is really constant in this life. Change is always happening, has just happened, or is about to happen. “If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward,” Mikhail Gorbachev said. Well, change is afoot here at Allison Patel …
An Important Announcement
I don’t like to be in the center of attention. In case you didn’t know, I much prefer to be behind the camera than in front of it. I was able to hide the fact that I was pregnant with …
Contracts Are Your Friends
We took our toddler in to have tubes installed in his ears on Friday. We met with two nurses and an Anesthesiologist prior to the procedure, and with the Doctor post procedure. All four of them gave us the same …
I like you, but…
I love feedback. I love giving it, I love receiving it. I like to know what people are thinking, so I can keep doing the right things and change the things that aren’t going as well. I try not to …