Cute Kids Contest - Our 25th Year!

Ahrend Studios is going into their 25th year of Fallbrook's Cute Kids Contest.  We hope you will celebrate this milestone with us.

Along with our great special price of $34.95 for entry/setting fee; all kids will receive a free 5x7, free Yogurt Palace Jr cone coupon, and 20% off additional prints.  Some of our favorite sponsors are coming back this year: Sweet 'n Sassy, One Shop Beauty Supplies, Ahrend Studios (us) and Yogurt Palace.  We are looking for new sponsors to help make this year even bigger and better.

Plus there will be 2 People's Choice winners - TWO!!!!!!!!
There will be the Facebook Favorite winner - chosen from the Cute Kid who receives the most votes on Facebook (you can only vote once on Facebook)
AND our Fallbrook Favorite winner - chosen from the votes cast in our ballot boxes at our sponsors.

What a great year - we hope you will be a part of it - because we all know your "kid" is the cutest.

Call Ahrend Studios at 760-728-7613 to not miss out. Appointments are now through May.

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After Thanksgiving Sale

Holiday Specialty Sessions

Photo Arrangements (part 2 of a series of 3)

Photo Arrangement – Filling up the Space

Are you one of those people who are fortunate enough to have a large wall in your living room or family room?  

The kind that is just right for presenting family pictures?

When you are ready to display your individual and family portraits, you will want to consider the size of the area where they will be located.  Whether the location is a tabletop, a small wall, or a large wall, your goal should be to fill up the space, but not to crowd the space.  Do not leave lots of extra room around your arrangement. 

 

 Perhaps you want to fill the space with one large portrait. 

 

 Or you could fill the space with an arrangement of a variety of smaller portraits.   

For more ideas for arranging portraits on a wall visit our Pinterest Display and Design Page.

Color, Color, Color - Portrait Ideas (First in the Series)

Color, Color, Color

So you want to take some individual or family portraits to display in your home.  The very first thing you want to consider is where you will be displaying the images.  The color scheme you select for clothing and background should compliment the colors in the home, specifically the room.

Are the colors in the home warm colors – tans, golds, reds?  If you have warm colors, consider a brown studio background, or outdoor settings in front of a brick wall, a wood fence, a wood or red barn, or with fall leaves, or the wheat color or dried summer grasses.

Or are they cool colors – blues, greens, grays? If cool colors are your focus, how about a portrait in front of green grass, shrubs, and trees, or a gray or blue studio background, or with blue sky on a sunny day?

The next element of color to plan is the colors people will be wearing in the picture.  Again think warm, cool, or even neutral.  Sometimes families choose to wear all the same color, such as tans and browns, navy blue, or simply all white.

Others opt for a couple colors for people to wear, such as denim and khaki, or black and red.  

 

 Color is an important part of portrait photography; have fun with it.

For more ideas about selecting colors and clothing for portraits, see our Pinterestpage. 

2014 Senior Portraits

Class of 2014

Call Ahrend Studios to schedule your yearbook portraits.  760-728-7613.  

Ahrend Studios is your official senior yearbook photographer.  

Early bird specials run through June 2013.

Yearbook portraits need to be taken this summer, appointments are scheduled through Sept. 14, 2013.  Don't miss your opportunity to be in the 2014 yearbook.

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Fall Harvest Mini Sessions

You spent hours either making or shopping for that awesome Halloween costume to only be worn one night and discarded; never to be seen again. 

Your child has been wanting to be .... for Halloween all year long, you found the perfect costume, trick or treating happen and now she is talking about what she wants to wear next year.  

Ahrend Studios Fall Harvest Mini Session is the perfect way to remember the moment or in this case how absolutely adorable/scary/funny your child is for Halloween.

Come in for this quick 15 minute session with no sitting fees and portrait units are discounted to 50% off.

One day only  760.728.7613