The Senior Experience
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Cansler Photography.
Last summer my nephew was here visiting my parents. He recently graduated from film school so naturally I thought why not put him to work while he was here. He came over and shot some video for me while I was photographing a couple of high school senior girls. Well it wasn’t a top priority to edit it down but we finally got it done and here it is. It shows a little about what we do when we photograph seniors. One of the things we take pride in is the attention to detail when creating photographs. But our main claim to fame is the variety that we do. When clients come to us they expect (as they should) their photographs to be different than from all their friends photographs.
Senior Experience from Brad Cansler on Vimeo.
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Letting Go
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Cansler Photography.
One of my favorite (I have a lot of favorites) little boys came in recently to do a new portrait for mom and to use for Christmas cards. We talked about what mom wanted and we decided to do some very natural B&W’s. Ryan came in and we had a blast he got to jump around and be silly. We did some scooting along the floor making faces then we layed down on his tummy and did some more cute images.
Then the last thing I asked him to do was to look out the window while I told him to look at the squirrel, the dog, the cat, the horse etc. All those things were imaginary except we do have a few squirrels around. He did great at pretending and looking out the window. Mom may have a major thespian on her hands some day! As so often happens these images were mom and my favorite images even though these weren’t planned in advance. Life is so full of unexpected turns and learning to relax and just flow with it is usually best. Sometimes I have a hard time with that, being somewhat of a control freak. One of my new years resolutions is to learn to let go more. 
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The Power of the Web
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Cansler Photography.
The phone rang and when I answered the man on the other end of the line said he wanted to talk about photographing his brand new baby boy. These are the kind of calls I love to get because there is nothing as sweet as a brand new baby. I asked him, just like I do everyone that calls, “how did you happen to call us?” David told me he had found us through the internet. He and his wife Melissa had just moved to Chattanooga from Las Vegas, NV and didn’t know many people yet, so he did his research online. He had seen our website and blog and liked the images. It seems we are getting more and more calls from people who don’t know us but have seen our web presence. I invited him and his wife in to talk about what they wanted. Obviously we can do almost anything but if we don’t know what someone wants it is impossible to deliver the image that they desire.
They were looking for a photograph of their baby with a body cast they had made while mom was pregnant. During the discussion they said they were planning on hanging the cast in the baby’s room. I suggested that we hang the body mold on the wall and have the baby sleeping underneath the cast. Well, wouldn’t you know it, the day we were to do the photographs the baby didn’t want to sleep! This is typical for babies, whatever we want them to do they are going to do the opposite. If we want them sleep they are awake; if we want them alert and happy, they want to sleep or are grumpy. Part of the fun of photographing babies because they are so unpredictable. With patience you can get amazing images of them.
The last image we did was of the baby holding mom and dad’s wedding rings. Thanks David and Melissa for letting us share in your new baby experience. 
