Our event printer has been getting a workout lately.

We volunteer at our kid’s middle school for their canteens (get-together, social gathering, dance) with a photo booth. The kids get together with a group of friends (or just a couple) have their photo taken. There are hats, glasses, scarves, and other crazy things they can wear if they want to.

The last one we did was really crazy. We ended up printing 278 prints in just under 2 hours! That includes arranging the people, taking the photos, picking the best one, and then sending them to the printer. That’s definitely the most we’ve ever done in that amount of time.

Then, a week later, we photographed a Father/Daughter dance for the Creature Canyon Council (formerly knows as Indian Princesses). That time we had all the photos printed and put into frames by the time the girls and dads were leaving. We didn’t print as many, but we also spent a little more time on each one. We had two stations going to get everyone’s photo taken within a half-hour of the dance starting.

Sorry, no pictures this time — we don’t have releases for them.

Earlier this month we had the opportunity to photograph all the students at Northwest Presbyterian Christian Academy here in Dublin. These “picture days” are always a lot of fun — and a lot of work. It was a crazy week and I had a blast!For Preschools portraits, we usually get their whole body in the picture as it gives you a better sense of their size than a “normal” head-and-shoulders school portrait.

Last month we asked for a model to use for some preschool portraits. We used our Facebook status to see if anyone would respond. There were a few responses and it worked out best for Christopher to come in.

We started out with what we needed for the preschool sample image:We then quickly went on to some more fun with the little Stratocaster.
And the little Fender amp.
He had so much fun — especially since the amp was plugged in and he was making some awesome sounds.
He stopped after his fingers started hurting but not before we got some fantastic action shots. Be sure to see the slideshow for more.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been photographing pre-schoolers at Northwest Presbyterian Christian Academy (a ministry of Northwest Pres.). This was our first pre-school we’ve done and I had a blast. It was probably one of the most tiring things we’ve done, but so much fun. They were anywhere from six months old (for teachers’ kids) through 5 years old.

I was even able to get good expressions from almost all of the kids! Did I mention it was tiring? You only get to see one of the pictures because he’s the only kid I have a release for.