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This is one of my favorite portrait sessions of all-time. I've gotten into doing more commercial/editorial-style portrait photography (like these shoots with Jeffrey and Becca, and this bridal shoot), so I was excited for the opportunity to do a similarly-styled maternity shoot with Nicole. Fortunately for me, Nicole was just as excited. She absolutely owned this shoot. I asked for attitude, I got attitude. I asked for sexy, I got sexy.

Many thanks to Kirsten, our on-site hair and make-up artist, and to my beautiful wife Renee for schlepping around my camera bag all day.

Without further ado... here are a few of my favorites:

For photographers:

This shoot was done with my D3s and 105mm f/2.8 and 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses.

The daylight shots were done exclusively with natural light; the remaining photos were lit by my Einstein 640 v2 @ ~1/32 power with a white beauty dish and 30-degree grid, triggered by Pocketwizard FlexTT5/AC3 on-camera and PowerMC2 on-flash. This allows me to quickly and easily fine-tune the flash power right from my camera.

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If you visit my site, you know that I don't put many pictures of my kids up. I do, however, want to share some photographs from a recent session I did with my oldest child, Jeffrey. I wanted to try something new, so I conceptualized a shoot that would be presented entirely in black-and-white and would harness the attitude of my five-year-old into an awesome-looking editorial-style shoot.

I'm so proud of him, for his patience and cooperative spirit, and I'm excited to share these portraits with you all!