The Family Album

The Trenfield Family

2010-01-29T18:31:00.000-08:00

Yvonne and Mal with their little son Bailey came into The Photo Studio to get some fun and funky family shots done. They had never had any kind of family portraits done before, and were eager to get some pictures taken with Bailey at a young age.

Yvonne tells us that she was really surprised at "how much fun" the whole experience was, with she and her husband, as well as Bailey all having a blast. A lot of this might be due to Rosie, our brilliant family photographer, who seems to have a knack in getting the best pictures from young children while simultaneously keeping them having a good time. According to Yvonne, Rosie was "really wonderful with Bailey, she kept him interested the whole time", and you can really see the fun that he's having in these beautiful images.

It looks like Rosie even got Bailey to do some reading while they were there! Bailey's cheeky grin and bright eyes light up this series of family portraits, and we love the joy and energy that Rosie has captured with the camera. Mum and Dad aren't left out either, as Rosie snapped images of each of them with Bailey, and together.

So congratulations to the Trenfield family for their beautiful series of family portraits, and for being selected as our family shoot of the week! Make sure you keep checking back to see more fun family shoots in the coming weeks.

The White Family

2010-01-19T17:19:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to the White Family, our newest family photo shoot of the week! Kimberley and Richard came into the studio with their adorable daughter Keira. Kimberley is also due in April and lit up the studio with all the glow of an expectant mother.

Rosie, our family photographer, enjoyed photographing the mischievous energy of two year old Keira. Her joyous smile and tangle of bright curls brought a lot of fun and laughter to the studio, playing around with a basketball and even pouring a watering can all over her daddy's head!

Keira took center stage, the little model in the making taking over The Photo Studio to strut her stuff in front of our trademark pure white background. With this collection to start off her portfolio, we have no doubt we'll see Keira on the catwalks of Paris and Milan before too long!

So congratulations to the White family, our family photoshoot of the week. We hope you enjoy the fun, energy and love apparent in their session as much as we did here at The Photo Studio.

Dr Katrina Warren and the 'Space Buddies' Puppies

2010-01-11T21:24:00.000-08:00

Everyone's favourite family vet, Dr. Katrina Warren, dropped by our studio to have some pictures taken with the Space Buddies pups. Dr Katrina has been a favourite in Australia since Totally Wild and Harry's Practice graced our screens, and it was a lot of fun to get her and five rambunctious golden retriever pups in the studio for some fun and frivolity.

Space Buddies is the third movie in the popular Air Buddies series by Disney, in which, as the title suggests, the group of pups smuggle themselves onto a spaceship and blast off into space. The movie proved so popular, that a fourth movie Santa Buddies, was just made for Christmas 2009.

As well as Space Buddies, The Photo Studio is currently shooting some promotional pictures for another Disney feature, G-Force, a live action 3-D 'spy-fi' comedy about a group of FBI trained secret agent animals. The film features Sam Rockwell, Penélope Cruz, Jon Favreau, Steve Buscemi, Nicolas Cage and Bill Nighy. Stay tuned to this blog for more info and pictures as they become available!

The Nguyen Family

2010-01-07T19:56:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, happy new year and welcome to our first entry of 2010! We'd like to kick off the new year with our favourite new family, the Nguyens from Westmead.
Sara and Quan came along to our studio with their two adorable children, Toby, 3, and little Lilliana, who is just a few months old, but already knows how to work the camera.

Rosie loves working with families and little ones, and coaxing photo friendly faces from little (and big!) kids is her specialty. She says she loved photographing the Nguyen family, it was a very calm, relaxed shoot, and a lot of fun too!

Sara really enjoyed the experience as well, and she asked us here at the Family Album to stress that Rosie was AMAZING! But as Rosie says, it's easy to capture what's in front of the camera, and the love of the Nguyen family and the fun they were having on the day is plain to see.
So congratulations to the Nguyen Family, our first family shoot of the week for 2010. Make sure you check back with us here to see more of our favourite family photo shoots throughout the year!

The Ellis-Spiker family are our first 'family shoot of the week'!

2009-12-18T20:05:00.000-08:00

We recently had the pleasure of welcoming the Ellis-Spiker family into our studio for a full family photoshoot. Duncan, Toka and little Samber all got into and mucked around in our trademark white studio for a series of great pictures.

Rosie, our family photo shoot expert and studio manager, was on hand, getting right down on the floor with the family and into the spirit of the fun, spontaneous shoot. Toka and Samber's bright reds and greens, and Duncan's black t-shirt, came out looking fantastic against the studio's trademark white background. We like to remind our clients to come in with a range of bright fun clothes, it really makes the photos stand out!

As can be seen above, The Photo Studio offers mock up room sets to show what your photos could look like on display.

We also offer great combinations, like the five block above, that look absolutely gorgeous on display in a living room or office.
So congratulations to the Ellis-Spiker family for being our first 'family shoot of the week'! We're going to keep this up in the new year, so make sure that you stay tuned to this blog for updates and to see who is the next Photo Studio 'family shoot of the week'.

The Perfect Christmas Gift

2009-12-07T20:19:00.000-08:00

If you are looking for the perfect gift for Christmas, why not come down to the Photo Studio for a family portrait?
As well as being award winning fashion and commercial photographers, the Photo Studio specialises in getting great pictures of families and kids. North loves working with kids and babies to get those special shots that you will treasure forever.

The Photo Studio offers a range of great packages, and don't forget that beautiful family portraits can make great gifts for grandparents and family members that live overseas. You can come into the studio to get fantastic pictures that will be with your family for years, and at the same time pick up a range of smaller pictures that are just perfect as gifts and mementos.

If you have young children, make sure that you book in for gorgeous family portraits so that you can have amazing pictures of your children at that age that you can look back on for years to come. Kids grow up so fast, and with a family portrait session at the Photo Studio, you will have a lasting image to treasure.

Not only will a family portrait session give you beautiful images of your family, but they are also great fun! North and the Photo Studio crew truly believe in capturing the moment, and they like to make family photo shoots fun and lively affairs. Everyone, from the youngest tyke to the grandparents invariably end up getting involved, not only in the family photo shoot itself, but also looking through the pictures from the day, picking their favourites and deciding what kind of look they would like applied by our Photoshop experts. So don't delay, book yourself a fun family portrait session at the Photo Studio today!

Glebe's 150th birthday celebrations are finishing up in just a couple of days, so if you haven't yet, make sure you check out the outdoor photography exhibits. The large outdoor portraits, taken by Tom Psomotragos and our own North Sullivan, have been printed out on 1600mm x 1000mm canvas sheets and displayed throughout Glebe for the month. Hurry though, you only have a couple more days to tour the 'Glebe outdoor gallery' before the pictures come down on the 28th of November.

The Photo Studio's weekend of baby and family photography

2009-12-07T20:18:00.002-08:00

The Photo Studio spent the weekend at the Baby Show, which ran from the 18th to the 20th of September at the Royal Hall of Industry, Moore Park. North and the crew were there to set up their famous white mobile studio to capture all the fun and excitement of the weekend. Families were lining up around the block for a chance to get a high quality print of themselves with their baby, and the Photo Studio didn't disappoint, delivering classic pictures for the families to treasure.

The Baby Show was also a 'baptism of fire' for one of the Photo Studio's newest photographers, Rosie Joyce. Rosie jumped right into it, delivering more than 170 stunning images over the course of the weekend, and had a lot of practice at making her subjects smile. She puts her success down to "tickles and squeaky toys". Rosie is joining the team to specialise in family and kids photo sessions, although she'll keep her hand in with everything that the Photo Studio can throw at her.

Every picture that we took entered the family into the draw to be declared 'the Face of the Baby Show'. The winner will receive an hour long fun-filled magazine style photo shoot for the whole family, plus four fine art prints of their choice from the session, valued at over $1,200. Stay tuned, the winner will be announced soon!
Keep checking our website as well, as the photos from the weekend will soon be up. Vote for your favourite shot, and the winner of the 'People's Choice Award' will win one of the additional free family photo-shoot prize packages. Make sure you register and vote, as that puts you in the draw to win your choice of a family photo shoot or a fashion portrait session!

Check the Photo Studio website soon to check out the images from the weekend and vote for your chance to win your own family photo shoot here at our studios.
As well as giving you beautiful pictures to remember forever, the photo shoots themselves are great experiences as our photographers and staff make everybody look and feel fantastic.
"We all loved the photo shoot, the girls had so much fun. We are really enjoying our family portrait, my husband said it was the best ever gift." - Sharmini Poynder
"Our family had a fantastic morning - I didn't expect it to be so much fun. The photos are really great and have captured the family beautifully." - Lorna Clark
"Thank you for a great shoot with the girls. They loved it." - Louise Kalmus

But it's not all babies and family portraits here at the Photo Studio. Later this week, North and the crew are heading up to photograph the promotional pictures for Emirates' new luxury resort in the Blue Mountains. Located in Wolgan Valley, adjacent to the greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, the resort is opening in October of 2009. Check back in the coming weeks to see some of the stunning images that we are sure to capture!

Fun Christmas family portraits here at the Photo Studio!

2009-12-07T20:18:00.001-08:00

Once again, Christmas is creeping up on us! As well as being an acclaimed fashion and beauty photography studio, the Photo Studio is also renowned for its family portaits and kids and baby photography. If you're after the perfect Christmas gift this year, book yourself in for a family portrait shoot at our photo studios here in Glebe.

For a fun christmas gift that will be treasured for generations, book your family photo session now! Our range of photo print offers ensure that you can get the ideal gift, no matter who it's for. You can look at getting a large print of the whole family to hang up in your own family or dining room, a durable and stylish perspex print for the grandparents, or a selection of smaller prints that make great gifts to send around with Christmas cards or letters.

On top of that, a family portrait shoot here at the Photo Studio can be a fun experience with the whole family! Our photographers are skilled at getting the best pictures out of even the youngest kids, and the result of the day is a series of great pictures that you can look back on and cherish forever. Stay tuned to this blog for details of the upcoming Christmas specials that the Photo Studio is doing just for families!

Family Portraits in Balmain, back with a vengeance.

2009-12-07T20:06:00.000-08:00

It’s a new year all of a sudden and time to take this blog to new heights. I’ve been so busy over the past year that I failed miserably in my attempts to keep it a happening thing. But that’s all about to change, or so he says.

The Photo Studio was frantic in the weeks before Christmas photographing children and families. Rule #1 is “You gotta have fun”. Everyone certainly did that. We even managed to photograph the family pet with a few photos of dogs doing their utmost to confuse the photographer.

In November we took our portable studio along to the Balmain Art and Craft Show at Father John Therry Primary School in Balmain for the second year. We had a lot of fun photographing the kids in the outdoor studio set up on the front lawn. And as usual we had a couple of our best retouchers on hand to help with the selection and then add a bit of magic before printing the chosen image then and there. It proved very popular over the two day event and helped raise some much appreciated money for the event’s charities.