Actor Head Shots ~ Tampa Headshot photographer ~ fishy face photography

University of Tampa Head Shots

Look out for this actor, he's going places! 

He already has quite the resume and needed some updated head shots. He's actually excited to take more, it's addicting! 

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms 

who prepare us for this beautiful life; 

teaching us how to learn, how to be patient, 

how to love, how to nurture. 

P.S. Enter the caption contest on the Facebook page here.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! 

Now treat yourself to teeth whitening, here's an offer for you! 

I happen to help with my dentist/boss's blog, and I'm no good at using stock photos especially when I have such beautiful clients of my own! I figured I could share the post here and extend the offer to you!

You'll see the three pictures from last year including Dr. Brayer herself with her family, a registered dental hygienist, then a dental assistant. They each have perfect white smiles and are wonderful moms too. I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day!!

The following is a blog post taken from here. 

It's almost Mother's Day!

Dr. Brayer is a wonderful mother of her three beautiful kids.

 As most of you know, her own mother is our office manager. We appreciate them as good examples of mothers.We would like to honor more mothers and help them smile a little brighter by extending this teeth whitening offer.

Half off of Teeth Whitening for any Mom

Our professional take-home teeth whitening kit and custom trays are usually $200 but this week, for mothers, it is HALF OFF! 

Is she too busy to have the custom trays fabricated today? Just pay by the end of the day on Monday May 13th and you or your mom may come in later for the custom trays.

So if you are a mother or know one, spread the word. This is for new patients as well! *All patients must have a recent exam and dental cleaning and be cleared by the dentist to be fit for whitening, so this is fully refundable if you are purchasing this as a gift or if you have not been in for a recent exam.   

So be good to yourself also. Mothers honestly want nothing more than for their children to be happy and healthy. So take this as an opportunity to come in to take care of your own dental work too! It's a perfect time to let us help you with your treatment plan. Your mom will be so proud of you for taking care of yourself and for treating yourself to a happy healthy smile.

 

Did you know that besides the take home custom whitening system, Dr. Brayer offers two NOW options for whitening?! You may have heard of ZOOM! whitening. We have had that system for years. We now have LASER WHITENING instead! The benefits are even better. Visit our whitening information page of our website to see the benefits then call to schedule the whitening appointments for yourself and for your mom!

Family ROCKS their Indian Rocks Beach photo session ~ Indian Rocks Beach family photographer ~ fishy face photography

Family ROCKS their Indian Rocks Beach photo session

One of my favorite things in the world is meeting amazing new people. I do it all the time at the dental office, my other part-time job. And I got to meet this fun family who came to Florida to defrost on their Spring Break. The mom is who I aspire to be in a couple of years, we hit it off through our emails. She has three boys like I do, they're just each a little older then mine.

She got to be my first client to try out a new gallery I'm using, click here to see. It's smart phone and tablet ready and has a better visually stunning Pinterest-style feel.

 P.S. She said that her dress was from Old Navy! I love creativity and variation from the white and khakis look although white IS the Florida Beachy look. She's a mom who has it all together, she even booked for next year already even though they won't be staying here.

Newborn Smiles ~ Treasure Island baby photographer ~ fishy face photography

I just love newborn smiles! 

This hungry little one week old baby filled her tiny tummy then smiled at her sweet dreams. Isn't she so perfect in her blankie from her aunt and her new custom matching hat?! 

I love smushy babies too. Could this princess be any more perfect?! 

Please keep being as perfect for your mama as you were on your 1 week birthday, she's still recovering from her C-section and being sick too. You're such a blessing. Ni' night, sweet baby girl.

© 2013 Fishy Face Photography | 727-481-8301 | tiffanyfeger@yahoo.com | Treasure Island Newborn Photographer

bright sunshine baby ~ in home newborn photographer ~ fishy face photography

This sweet baby is only a week and a day old. 

She was wide awake for the whole session, I couldn't believe it!

 Her doggie is a protective big sister.

 Besides these pictures, we got some perfect lifestyle pictures of her in her nursery, with her grandma, wrapped around his daddy's finger, and of course some of the mom's eye view. I love how new mommies spend their days looking at and pruning their little perfect babies.

 She finally fell asleep so we could get some pictures of her in one of her many swim suits! She's going to be the perfect Florida beach baby.
Have a fun Spring Break this week!

Head Shot Portraits for all ages ~ downtown St. Pete, FL 33701 portrait photographer ~ fishy face photography

You're never too old for a professional portrait!

With LinkedIn, Facebook, and family living far away, everybody needs an up-to-date professional classic portrait. I often include professional portraits in full family sessions. I think it is a need, even if you are not on Facebook, my guess is that whether you are 3 months old, 13, 23, 53, 73, or 103, others want to see what you look like at THIS stage in life. 

This handsome gentleman contacted me because he needed a picture for a publication because he won an award! We decided on the location, and luckily it had a little dark nook, because his transitions glasses threw me a curve ball! He always wears them, so I told him that he should probably wear them for his portraits. 

 But just in case, I had him take them off also.

 With some creative lighting and my Photoshop skills, he and I are both happy with the results. I ended up giving him more than just three images so he could pick the perfect one for his publication.

Congratulations again!

Trash The Onesie ~ creative child photographer 33777 ~ fishy face photography

Have you heard of a "Trash The Dress" session? I did one here at the end of a bridal/groomal session since it was after their honeymoon. They contacted me after they got their wedding photos from a different photographer (I do not do weddings) and didn't get their dream shot. We decided to do the beautiful beach pictures then end with the dress all messy! It's like closure on spending that money and all of the wedding planning when really all that matters is that the two are finally "one" and will now start their "happily ever after."

 Well, I have never heard of a "Trash The Onesie" session, but it kind of just fell into place. I didn't mean to share this on my professional blog, but it's a fun random break to the regular planned sessions. I had been taking pictures of my baby each month with some stickers on onesies. I had photoshoped circles with monthly numbers for my other boys, but the stickers have more instant gratification for me.

I had planned on stopping at 1 year, but at 18 months, I dug out the onesie for the last time. It was so plain and white - like a tabula rasa. So I took Tyler out to the back yard for some finger painting fun. Some of these pictures may have even been with my cell phone. I had some random music on my computer and made a quick slide show. Enjoy, it's only 30 seconds:)

Sweetest little family of four ~ St. Pete baby portrait photographer, 33701 ~ fishy face photography

One of my most favorite perspectives of a little baby is the mom's-eye-view. Maybe it's because, as a mom, I just stare at my babies and want to bottle up all of that sweetness and always remember that my baby is mine all mine. The comfort the baby feels right in my arms, and the feeling of purpose I have holding that pure small soft fragile being hold time still. My camera is too heavy to hold up over my own head or shoulder. I think I'm not supposed to worry about a camera, I am supposed to imprint the baby's image, scent, feel, weight, and breath in the memory box in my heart. It's such a treat to actually capture the mother's hold from her view of a relaxed little baby boy. 

 The big brother loves to play and think INSIDE the box:) What a cutie!

I love that I get to be a part of things like timeless family pictures, real smiles, and milestones like the baby's 3 month stage.

Florida Vacation Family Pictures ~ Seminole and beaches photographer ~ fishy face photography

A Florida gulf coast vacation is the perfect time for family pictures

 This family has four cute kids. They, like most families, are busy busy busy! Each year they come to Florida for their Christmas break from school. It's the perfect time to have family portraits since they're all together in this beautiful green tropical paradise. They love the beach and are there every second they can be there, but wanted pictures in the beautiful Florida Botanical Gardens.

 The mom designed my logo, chose my colors, and helped me with the blog headder and favicon, don't you like the little bubbles? We attempted a professional head shot portrait of her, but her daughter was too cute, I couldn't bring myself to crop her out:)

 That's more like it, I did give her other options.

I'll miss you and your beautiful family and look forward to seeing you next Christmas time!!

~ Fishy Face Photography 727-481-8301 Seminole Photographer

Pictures that scream "Hire Me" ~ downtown St. Pete Professional Head Shot Photos ~ fishy face photography

A corporate head shot or 

professional profile portrait is essential in this job market. 

Chris told me that in a recent interview, he was told that he stood out because of his profile picture.

"I cannot speak enough praises about Tiffany and Fishy Face Photography. She was punctual, patient and came up with tons of ideas for my professional portfolio. I have received job offers from several companies since this shoot and many people said it was because I looked very professional and organized. Thank you, Tiffany!!!"

I know that pictures should not go on resumes, but once you get past the initial interviews, a potential employer will most likely do a background check which often includes finding your online presence, so it is a good idea to look professional for the interview, and online!

And a picture may be the thing that gets your foot in the door so that you can fax or email in your amazing resume  This picture, in black and white, is his LinkedIn picture. It's what got him discovered and preceded his resume.

In speaking to him before the session, we had a lot of fun ideas. So for some pictures, he decided that he should include his close friends. One of them chose to have a corporate head shot taken as well. She's stunning!

 What a great group of professionals. They work hard, they play hard, they are true to themselves, to one another, and to those they meet.

Chris had a great ROI from his downtown session. I loved it too, I love being creative and living outside of the studio box!

Tip for stress-free photo Valentine cards {Happy Valentine's Day!! }

How do I get stress-free

photo Valentine's Day cards you might ask?

 

Here's the secret: Use pictures from your fall holiday session!

 

As long as your kids are older than like two years old, they probably haven't changed that much in a couple of months. And if you had a full Christmas session, you might not have been able to cram all of your beautiful portraits onto your Christmas card. AND, your kids were possibly wearing red anyway! (If not, use a black and white version! I pretty much always give custom black and white versions of my images along with the color ones. I figure the black and white ones will be more timeless and will go with any room decore.)

 

Anyway, back to the Valentine Cards. Here's the formula:

Schedule your fall session now, choose fun outfits, take the pictures, take a break from the holiday rush, then decide what you want to do in January and plug in one or more of your left over holiday portraits! Then, in one year form today, you'll be the coolest mom at your child's school!! And your secret stress-free smile will be priceless.

Here's how I put them with a scratch off heart and some candy for my son's 1st grade class. He wrote the "to/from" on the backs of the wallet photo cards.

I hope this helped! Happy Valentine's Day!!!
(And thank you to Alicia of www.MickLuvin.com for the photo template!)

Why I watermark my images ~ St. Pete Valentine's photographer ~ fishy face photography

I have been asked if my proofs will have my watermark or logo on them. No, your prints will not have my watermark on them. They will say ©Fishy Face Photography imprinted on the back though. Your digital files will not have the logo on them either. 

So why do I put my logo on all of the images online?

There are a couple of reasons. 

1) All of my image are copyrighted. 

2) Credit is due. Sadly, not everybody links back to me. 

3) It prevents cropping and messing up my images. 

I frame the images how I like them, I often give more than one version of the same image to my clients, but I like them the way they are. I know people can edit out the logo, but I put it where it would be a huge pain to do so, even if that means that my logo isn't easily readable. 

4) The logo prevents clients and others from steeling their images before paying for them. 

I have some stories of past clients who called me, angry that they were having a hard time scanning in their proofs. I sold everything a la carte at that time and their gift certificate had not included any images or files. They did not want to spend a penny. I tried to work with them, but ultimately I gave them a second set of proofs, and I'm 99% sure those were scanned in b/c before that they told me their plans with the pictures and how much they loved them. But they 'un-friended' me, so I'll never know. 

Now, I only have packages that include the digital images, so that shouldn't matter, right? Wrong. 

5) The logo prevents your face or your children's faces to be used by another "faux-tographer." 

Some people use other images before their own portfolio is good enough. 

Last week I got a call from an observant photographer with Blair Photography. (I like his work, he does weddings in Arkansas FYI.)

He asked me to check my email to see if this image was mine. 

Yes! I couldn't believe my eyes! My Valentine from a couple of years ago had been pirated, defaced with graffiti, then claimed as another's and used to promote her photography! I consulted lawyers. My husband is a lawyer. We decided that I should ask/demand her to take down the images soon. But do you see the little girl in the tutu? Her daddy is also a lawyer. His wife, the baby girl's mommy, volunteered her husband's services to write a cease and desist letter which he did that night. It included the fines that she should pay by penalty of the federal copyright laws. By late morning, the images were removed. But the damage had already been done. As she asked, the image had been "shared" 5 times to other pages. I messaged each of them letting them know what had happened, knowing they had no clue, but asking them to please remove the picture. The little baby boy's parents were also upset. They could not believe the new emotion they were feeling. The mom did contact this photographer to let her know how upset this made her. Here's another screen shot of another time she posted it to her photography wall. Luckily she didn't have a working website at the time, so it was only on her Facebook page. 

The man who notified me told me that this was not her first time. She had done this to other photographers. He said that when he was first notified that his own image had been used as hers, more than half of her images on her site were not her own. She had since taken them down one by one as the true copyright holders contacted her. Most of those were online, but his image was had been used it in a print advertisement in a newspaper. It was one of his wedding images, not even one of his best. I knew what he was saying, this is my work from years ago too, so I have better more recent images. He said that this image did not look like her other pictures so he did a Google Images search and found the original source was from my blog, this picture. (I just now put the watermark on it. It's probably the only picture that didn't have a logo on it b/c that's exactly how I printed their 5x7 Valentines so that one mom could surprise the other mom.) 

It was from this post. 

So now you know, I need to protect both my work and your babies. That's why I watermark my images.

Beautiful and Romantic Maternity Pictures ~ Tarpon Springs Maternity Portraits ~ fishy face photography

Stunning Maternity Model, Fred Howard Park beach portraits
 This was my first time meeting this beautiful pregnant mommy. Her husband purchased gift certificates for her for Christmas for maternity and their newborn session. He told me that his wife was a model and was beautiful, but doesn't every husband think of their wife as being as hot as a supermodel? I didn't have much time to get to know her before their session since she didn't get the gift certificate until a couple of days before the session, but her husband was right, she IS stunning! She still has sculpted arms, legs, and even has abs still even though her baby is due in just one month!

 I was a little nervous about going to the beach in full sun in the morning since I usually go around Sunset. But everything was perfect, including the January weather. Gotta love Florida!

 This beach has everything I could ask for including some shade!

 She asked me for some ideas of what to wear. I mentioned some things and brought some things for her, but she didn't need my advice, look how perfectly her outfits were! Complete with matching toe nail polish. This is just a small sample, she had other outfits too.

 Even though it was a little windier than we would have liked, it was fun and I can't wait to meet their little baby girl in less than a month!!