Ivelisse McBride Photography

I absolutely love photographing big families!!  There is always one that has to be different than the rest and with so many different personalities there is no chance of having anything but a great session!

Today I photographed this awesome family!!  They were full of spunk and their dog was just adorable!

My son is turning 4!!  It is so hard to believe my little baby is getting so big so fast and a couple weeks after his birthday he will be officially a school aged kid! We took advantage that one of my sessions had to reschedule last minute to take his birthday photos since we were already on location.

Last night I had the honor of photographing this beautiful little princess, Phoenix Nicole. Her mommy put her is this beautiful tutu and headband that grandmom had made especially for her.  It gives all the photos a personal look!  I absolutely love the way these photos came out! I ended up staying way too long and their house because we ended up having a great conversation with both parents!  Yes, photography is a lot of work but we need to have good conversations every now and then.

It has been over a year since I last photographed a newborn in the hospital and I am above ecstatic that it was this little guy who broke the dry spell! Mr. Francisco Rivera Jr. made this an easy transition back into the hospital photography scene. Mom and Dad definitely gave me something good to work with because not only did they give me such a handsome little man to photograph but they also included a personalized background! I usually try and bring items with me to personalize a session and add the baby's name to the mix but this time I had all the work done for me!

I will never take a photograph without taking a second shot in black and white.  Yes, I can go back and copy the photograph later and change it to black and white but again that doesn't feel original to me! It amazes me when a photograph looks amazing in color and then you take it again in black and white and it still looks stunning.  Unfortunatly, this makes the decision making process a little bit harder if you have to choose only one of the two.   Below is the same photograph but one is in color and one is black and white.  I love them both!  If I had to choose between the two of them I truly don't know which one I would choose.   Which one do you like better?

 My favorite way of finding great photos is just to get lost!  Yup, you heard me right!  Thank goodness we live in farm central in NJ so sometimes getting lost is a good thing!   I am a big fan of unedited photographs.  I believe it makes the photograph more natural, unique, and beautifully original.  These photographs are completely unedited other than my copyright.  Just by switching settings on my camera I can get two completely photographs!   While getting lost in the back roads of South NJ I came across this beautiful structure.  The rusty warehouse had been transformed into a second had store but it still looked like the original outside.   Changing the setting on my camera gave me a beautiful antique feel that fit perfectly for this antique structure.  I also love the greenery around the building that just make the rust color pop! And of coarse I couldn't leave before taking a black...