Father’s Day, Headshots, and Outtakes

This was the last picture from Father’s Day. Isn’t that a sweet picture of Gregory, Mike and Bradley? It was a very long time in the making! Took me ALL DAY to get this shot!

This was the first one of the day, in Mike’s favorite (salad and breadsticks) restaurant, Olive Garden. Gregory was an unwilling participant in the pictures, saying, “I don’t know how to smile.” Yeah right. I have no problem getting natural smiles out of YOUR child, but mine, well, that’s another story.

He doesn’t know how to smile at my camera, the true child of a mamarazzi.

We were working on new headshots for Mike. Isn’t he cute!?

Here’s an outtake. (I’m a dead person for posting this.)

I love this one!

Here’s another outtake. Love it!!! (Lips tend to get dry during an intensive photoshoot, so occasionally I might say something like, “wet your lips.” But to my own husband, it might come out more like, “your lips look flat.” Hence, a really cute pucker and a major tummy smile from behind the camera!

Bradley was my photo assistant. His job was to hold the reflector. He did not enjoy this job at all. I think he was jealous of the fact that somebody else was the center of my camera attention, so when I turned the camera on him (after an hour or so of shooting his dad), he actually gave me a half-smile! Yay!

By the end of the shoot, Bradley was beat.

But being the mamarazzi that I am, I couldn’t resist trying to get a nice shot of all three of my men. Unfortunately, Gregory was not cooperating, and Bradley was too tired. (Reflectors are so heavy, you know.)

Mike was trying to get Gregory to smile. Meanwhile, Bradley was getting more and more bored.

Come ON, Gregory! If we get this done we can all go home!

Nope. (Focus, Bradley, just a minute longer…)

Nope. I love Bradley’s sequence of expressions in these — SO typical of his personality. But, as I said under the first picture, I did finally get the shot of my dreams, soon to be displayed on a desk near me! Yay!

Here’s Mike’s headshot. Thanks for your help Bradley, and for your patience, Gregory!

Here’s the second headshot. Always a good idea to have a couple of options. Isn’t he so handsome?