Hello new decade! We will be publishing fall 2009 sessions & are excited to be blogging TWENTY-TEN!
Here you will find lots of eye candy, fun facts, information, contests, tips, and all sorts of shenanigans!
Mostly we let our images speak for us, after all aren’t pictures worth a thousand words? I mean if we were really good at this writing thing...wouldn’t we be a writers, not photographers? Anyway, sneak peeks from our sessions are a big part of what our blog is all about. So you can check those out, leave comments, get ideas for your session and so on.
If you have questions about anything please be sure to let us know! You can contact us here, on the website on facebook via message or chat. Hey, we even speak text! So break out your Iphone and text it up!
We recently held a just for fun contest on our Facebook fan page where people could vote for their favorite senior picture. Prizes included a group photo shoots, prints, and a $100 gift card to the winner from a favorite store! We had 39 seniors enter and the voting was fierce!
There were more than 5,000 votes cast during the week long contest. The girls and guys campaigned for their friends and family to come vote for them and we have tallied up the votes. The big winners are….
Plainfield High School Senior~ Nicole Holmqvist with 1162 votes!!!!
2nd Place with more than 870 votes…
Plainfield High School Senior~ Sarah Clark
3rd place Mooresville High School Senior~ Taylor Collins
4th place-Shelbyville High School Senior- Amye Mitchell
The 2011 Model castings for Marci Ralph / Victor Maiquez Photography have begun! We are currently seeking students from central Indiana high schools to act as representatives of our studio. Throughout 2010, your images will be used on marketing materials, website, blog, signs, facebook and displays and anywhere else we thing you will look great!
Who Can Apply?
If you are currently a junior graduating in the class of 2011, we want you! All you have to do as a model is to tell your friends about us and recommend that they come to our studio for their senior session. You don’t have to be a super model… just be fun, outgoing and excited about our studio, your senior pictures and your friends senior pictures!
We will only be hiring 1-2 Senior Models from each school so get your application in now! If you are reading this and you know someone who would make a great representative, make sure you send them here to fill out the application.
Sweet, I am IN! Now, How Do I Apply?
It’s simple, just CLICK HERE TO READ MORE INFO AND FILL OUT THE APPLICATION. We will evaluate all applications to see if you are a good fit. Selected Models will be notified by phone or email to schedule your mini session.
Another fun video from one of my favorite sessions from this past summer.. I guess I am getting ready for spring and longing for it’s warm days to wrap it’s arms around me. Columbus North Senior, Rebecca, was one of those girls that steps in front of the camera and it is just so at ease it makes my job so easy. She brought a great variety of clothes from casual to prom. We realy had a great time!
This is a great example of our Super Model Sessions. We shot the first half at the Studio Backlot and then moved over to do her last two clothing changes at the Studio Loft in town. This way you get a little of both the indoor and outdoor.
Turn up the volume and check out this awesome SENIOR video starring the beautiful Taylor Pruitt from Whiteland High School- class of 2010!
and one from her studio portion of the session on our fashion magazine set… Isn’t she gorgeous!?!!!
I’ve been going through old files and came across tons of old sessions that I did back before I had a blog. So I thought I would just do flash backs from time to time just to reminisce and share some of those sessions. Meet Nicole…
Hey Seniors! By now I am sure many of you know about Polyvore.com. Polyvore is a free, easy-to-use web-based application for mixing and matching fashion items- shoes, shirts, coats, jeans, dresses, skirts, purses, lipstick, polish, etc. – from anywhere on the web. It is also a community of creative and fashionable people! W
I was just thinking that with Polyvore, our seniors can put together coordinated outfits for your senior session, it’s like playing paper dolls! You find things you already have and mix them with a few wish list items for your senior session. it’s allot of fun to play with layouts and find just the right things. Kind of a dream board of what you might want to wear for your senior session. One of my favorite things I have seen done there is to put together – Splurge or Steal- sets. Click here to see a page of different styles of layouts. Go play and have fun creating some look ideas for your session. If you create something you really love and think would be great for a session look, be sure to email us a link. We wanna see!
Today, I am in LOVE with this plaid jacket! It would be a great look with the truck at the Studio Backlot or in the Industrial set at the Studio Loft, or just on the gray studio drop for some punch!
And how about this great little outfit with the TWILIGHT inspiration?
L O V E the top! and the shorts. and the shoes. yup.
That’s all for now. Happy Polyvore-ing!
Who else has been waiting for this show to appear on their living room screens again? I just love it! Now, I am intrigued by this show for several reasons. #1. I can’t sew, even though my mom and at least one of my sisters are quite accomplished seamstresses. My mom was a home economics and sewing teacher, with a daughter that can’t sew a stitch. hehe What these people can do with this fabric just amazes me! #2. I’ like to do fashion shoots with these clothes! oh yes! New show idea to come on after Models of the Runway would be Photographers of the Runway Fashions. Photographers could compete to be the photographer who gets to shoot the Marie Claire spread. Someone pas that along to the network mkay? #3 I was an art teacher, as many of you know.. and one of my favorite parts of the show is just seeing little glimpses of their sketches. Those new little techo sketch pads that they have them using this season, those are pretty sweet. I have notebooks full of sketches of faces and clothes and doodles from way back in the day.
I was kinda sad to see Christiane King was the first to go, After viewing her portfolio of past work I was really looking forward to seeing what she was going to come up with. I too was disappointed in her first design but I think there were at least two others who were probably more deserving of going home, in my humble opinion. But what do I know?
I was however in total agreement with the win of Emilio Sosa. That hot little dress was a masterpiece of his needle and thread skills. I’d shoot it! 
Still trying to find
Any of you junior and senior girls out there sketch fashions? I’d love to see and maybe even showcase some here on the blog.
Speaking of Project Runway….. Holy Smokes!!! Irina Shabayeva, Project Runways latest winner, her studio is just as fierce as her designs. How cool would it be to do a photo shoot there?! Marie Claire took us on a tour of her place in their February issue, I just got mine in the mailbox this morning and I am inspired!!! From amazing flea market finds, to a jaw-dropping showcase of her first catwalk collection… her place has got to be an A M A Z I N G place to work and design. I want my office to feel like that! I am a fan and I can’t wait to see what she does next…
Images courtesy of Marie Claire
Congrats to the winners! All the models were fabulous!