One evening last November I was picking my kids up from school. They’re attend daycare/school at a fantastic facility called Primrose at Crossroads Park. Somehow the question was asked by one of the Directors about my photography, and if I would like the opportunity to photograph the kids with Santa. I said of course…. how hard could it be?
OMG. It was as if we launched a new company in a single month! Price lists had to be made. A background and materials had to be purchased. And of course, I couldn’t just use a camera mounted flash, I had to incorporate my knowledge of formal studio lighting into the portraits. And there was no way that I could just take one pose of each child, I had to make sure that each parent, if possible, was presented with three to five poses to chose from. And I wanted to make sure that I was able to photograph each child with and without Santa.
You can see from the images below that I actually took the time to add a rim light to the kids hair coming in from the right side of the image. It added a bit more separation from the background and made the kids a bit more three dimensional in the portraits. I tried to keep the posing very simple for this shoot so I could focus more on the expressions of the kids.
Needless to say, it was a huge undertaking. AND, I had to purchase a Santa suit. Austin, my Marketing Director, was immediately nominated to be Santa. 
And with my interns Ashley and Angelica at my side, everything went smoothly and professionally on the shoot. I think all in all, they came out rather nicely, and truthfully we had fun!
On top of all that, we answered each parent’s phone call in a very timely manner, and the portraits were all delivered on time for Christmas!
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The first kids below are the Dawson Divas! Mrs. Dawson is our school’s Director and an Area Director for Primrose. After the Dawsons’s I have of course posted images of my own children, Katie and Gavin! They of course had to tell all their friends that their Daddy brought Santa to school.
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