Ashleigh Thornock Photography

Fall Family Photo Shoot

2010-10-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

Fall family photo shoot, fall family photo shoot, fall family photo shoot. Try saying that 10 times fast!

A little over a week ago I did a quick photo shoot for my friends, the Naylors. We had scheduled to do it a week before since I'm pregnant and could pop anytime, but it didn't work out, so it was moved to a later date. They were sweet enough to have me take pictures at their place since running around the city trying to get good shots isn't as fun when you're my size. The leaves looked beautiful and we were hoping to get a bunch of great family shots. Unfortunately their sweet, little girl was very distracted by some other kids playing on a play structure a few feet away. What kid wouldn't be??? She decided she was done after a couple of shots, so we did the best we could. I think we got some good ones. We even got some of her giving me some silly faces. So cute!

M. Kids

2010-10-06T13:20:00.000-07:00

I just finished with a kids shoot for my friend, Alisha. She's got 4 of the most adorable little cutie pies I think I've ever seen. She's also expecting #5 in November, so maybe if she'll let me and I have enough energy after having our baby, I'll take some of him as well. Stay tuned...

Sisters, Sisters, There Were Never Such Devoted Sisters.....

2010-07-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

I got to do a sister shoot just over a week ago. The older sister gave this as a birthday gift to her younger sister. We had fun even though we were sweatin' it up from it being so HOT outside! Thanks for toughing it out with me ladies.

Their mom came along for the shoot, so we had to get some with her, too! All 3 girls together, how cute.

Sisters Photo Shoot Coming Soon...

2010-07-14T13:58:00.000-07:00

Aren't they cute?

Baby Boy C.

2010-06-11T20:27:00.000-07:00

This 2 week old baby boy was so cute and chubby, I just wanted to take him home with me...until I have my own of course. I'm sure raising 2 infants isn't as much fun as it sounds ;-) I also think those 4 sisters of his would probably start to miss him.

Newborn Sneak Peak

2010-06-10T14:56:00.000-07:00

I just did a newborn shoot today for my friend, Corinne. Her beautiful baby boy is only 2 weeks old and he was SO good for us. He pretty much slept throughout the entire shoot! I'll post the rest later, but I thought I'd share this one for now.

Oh baby!

2010-05-27T22:34:00.000-07:00

My beautiful niece Bethany was born about 4 weeks ago. Luckily, my brother and sister in-law were kind enough to let me play.

Missies!

2010-05-22T14:05:00.000-07:00

I love my little missies and I'm so glad they let me take pictures of them.

On another note, I've got a few shoots scheduled in the next couple of weeks, so watch out for them.

Family pictures continued

2010-01-06T18:27:00.000-08:00

Here are a few more from the photo shoot with my best friend. Her family is adorable, don't ya think?

Family Sneak Peak...

2010-01-03T17:38:00.000-08:00

I shot some family pictures for one of my best friends over the break. I'm still going through them, but here's one of the first ones I took. Stay tuned, there's more to come...

P.S. Hai and Drew, can you spot a little something extra that I wrote on the train for you?

A Few More Senior Shots

2009-11-24T09:16:00.000-08:00

I love this girl. She is so gorgeous and so much fun to shoot. Here are just a handful more from the bunch.

Rachel's sister wanted to have some fun, too.

Senior Headshots

2009-10-30T17:12:00.001-07:00

These are a few from an awesome photo shoot that I did just a little bit ago. This senior needed a picture for the yearbook, so we went out and played. Here are the "headshot" type of pictures that I've edited. I will post some other pics from the the shoot later.

Senior Photo Shoot

2009-10-06T09:10:00.000-07:00

Wow, I have been busy lately! When this very handsome young man asked me to shoot his senior pictures, I was so excited to do it, but a bit nervous because I'm so swamped. He needed them in record time for the yearbook, but I was able to pull it off. He was so natural in front of the camera that it made editing them a cinch. Thanks Randell, you were so much fun to shoot!

PRACTICE!

2009-09-22T22:19:00.001-07:00

I've decided that I don't practice enough. When I first got my camera, I took pictures of every move my children made. I would ask people if I could take pictures of their kids. Now, I'm just too busy to practice. I'm too busy editing the photos I take instead of going out there, shooting a bunch of pictures and then saying, They're good enough! I need to get out more. That's the fun part about photography anyway, right? Well, tomorrow I've got a fun photo shoot with some young women in my church and then after that I've got a senior shoot I'm looking forward to. I am going to practice more, because this stuff is fun!

Kayleen and Bobby #2

2009-08-28T12:40:00.000-07:00

I promised I would post some more from this past wedding and I am finally fullfilling that promise. I've been a very busy girl trying to get these all done and I'm just about there. Here are just a few more from Kayleen and Bobby's Wedding.

Kayleen and Bobby

2009-07-24T22:48:00.000-07:00

I had a blast shooting this couple's wedding a week ago. I'm working hard on getting as many edited as I can before my next one, but here is a small mix of some that are completed (more to come later). Kayleen, you're such a beautiful bride. Congrats and I hope you're enjoying married life.

ONE more (don't be a hater)

2009-06-11T23:52:00.000-07:00

Okay, just ONE more. I'm sorry, I'll stop after this, but I had to share this last one from my maternity shoot with Courtney because I LOVE it. Hope you do, too!

More baby bump

2009-06-05T09:29:00.000-07:00

Here are a few more from my maternity shoot with Dan and Courtney. Doesn't Courtney make you sick? She's just too pretty. I told her I want her to take pictures of me when I'm preggo, but I promise you I won't be as cute! She'll have to edit out my swollen cankles and double chins ;-)

The last few are some silly ones I made Dan do. He humored me. Thank you, Dan!

Dan says he feels "weird"...I can't understand why ;-)

Baby on the way!

2009-05-27T13:40:00.001-07:00

These are my very good friends who are expecting this July. Courtney (who is a photographer herself) asked if I would take some shots of them, and I absolutely said yes. Since this was my first maternity shoot and Courtney is a photographer as well, I will admit I was a bit nervous. It was A LOT of fun, though! They entertained my ideas and random bursts of hysterical laughter while they sat in silence not knowing what the heck was wrong with me. Let's just say that Dan (her husband) is very entertaining, even when he's not trying to be. I will hopefully post more later!

Fun Collage

2009-05-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

I'm finishing up the edits for these second set of photos and I decided to share a few. What a cutie, huh?

Color Casts

2009-05-20T14:10:00.000-07:00

I have started editing the second set of my friend's pictures. This time it's her son, and he is so cheesy and fun, I just loved it. I have been having a problem, though. Because my computer screen has some coloring issues, it's made my color correction process a bit stressful, especially in times like the photo below. My friend suggested a picture of her son climbing through the big red tube at the park. Such a cute idea...but I quickly realized that I would have to spend a bit more time editing the color. The red from the tube was reflecting on his face and making it look like he had been out in the sun too long, and his hair resembles a bad dye job. In this picture he is a bit farther out of the tube, so it isn't as bad, but I still had to edit out some of the red. Now, skin tone is SO hard to get right, and with my computer issues, I'm not sure how it really looks. Does the second picture look weird to you, or am I on the right track? I'm buying a way too expensive monitor calibrator which should correct the problem, but until then, please let me know if anything looks...weird.

Before edit

After the edit

First Set

2009-05-18T18:05:00.000-07:00

Here are the first set of pictures from the photo shoot with my friend. These are of her very photogenic daughter, and I will be posting the second set of her son in a few days. I'm trying some black and white ones as well as sepia, but for now I'll just post the colored ones. Hope you like them, Carina!

Colorful, Urban Photo Shoots

2009-02-27T15:19:00.000-08:00

I have been wanting to do some fun, funky, urban photo shoots for quite a while. I want to go out into a big grassy field with my retro couch and do a family portrait or go to an alley with some beautiful, old, red brick and place my ugly orange chair right in the middle and snap away. I want to go to a street downtown and just play. It's not for everyone, but it's definitely for me! Today I took some pics in my garage of my little girl, just for practice. It's not the setting that I wanted, it's not necessarily urban and you can't see the furniture vey well, but I love the colors and it's heading in the right direction. I love it.

Davenport Sneak Peaks

2009-02-20T12:08:00.001-08:00

I went to Davenport, Iowa forever ago (the end of January) and have been trying to get these pictures done for my friends. We've been having some big computer issues and so it's been very frustrating and taking a lot longer than it should. Sorry gals, but I promise I'm workin' on it. Here are just a few to wet your appetite (aren't these 2 babes the cutest??).

November Wedding Pics

2009-01-07T21:20:00.000-08:00

A friend that I grew up with in my parent's ward got married in November and was sweet enough to ask me to shoot her wedding. We were scared that it might rain that day since that is what the forecast said, but we were lucky and just had to deal with the cold and fog. It was wet from the previous rain that week, but not too bad. They are so cute and quirky, I loved it! These are just a few of the many photos that I'm still in the process of editing. There's SO many, it's crazy, but it hopefully won't be too much longer until I'm completely done. Hope you guys like them, they were a lot of fun to do!

Another Beautiful Baby

2008-11-08T14:12:00.000-08:00

I had another friend who just had a little baby boy a couple weeks ago and was sweet enough to let me photograph him. He was a very good baby and was pretty easy to shoot. I think I like photographing babies the best, because they are cute no matter what they're doing and they just lay there for ya. Anyway, I know there are lots of pictures, but I loved them all. I do have them in color too (I've only shown the one), but there is something about B&W pics that I can't resist. Enjoy!

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Baby Photo Shoot

2008-10-08T22:17:00.000-07:00

Here are a few more from the photo shoot with my friend's baby. He's so adorable, and it was so much fun to do. It's too bad we didn't do the shoot when he was just a week or 2 old, because then we could have done a few more poses and he would have more than likely been asleep for it (which would have been nice). BUT, he's so adorable that none of that matters. His mom is caucasian and his dad is hispanic, so he has the darker hispanic skin with beautiful blue eyes. Don't you just love it? Anyway, I didn't get to take a ton because he needed to feed and I had to get back home, but here are some of the ones I did get.

Aren't Babies the Cutest?

2008-10-06T15:04:00.001-07:00

My friend had a little baby boy about a month ago and I got to do a fun shoot with him today. Here's a sneak peek at a couple of the photos.

Family Pictures

2008-09-27T22:39:00.000-07:00

While I was in Utah I got to take a couple of pictures for my family. We all decided to wear white shirts and blue jeans, which at the time sounded good, but it's hard to keep white shirts from blowing out. On some of the pictures it made kind of a glow effect. That's okay, it makes us all look more angelic ;-) Here's one of my cute parents.

Wedding Sneak Peak

2008-09-22T22:16:00.000-07:00

So here is a little sneak peak at some of the wedding photos I did for Brittany and Hector. I still have so many to go through and edit, but I thought I would share a few of them now. This was so much fun to do, but it was SO much work. Hopefully the hard work paid off! Congrats Brittany and Hector!!!

the ring

2008-08-15T10:57:00.001-07:00

I've been practicing some of the shots that I want to do for this upcoming wedding. Here is an option for one of the ring shots. What do you think? Should I crop it or do something differently? I liked how the ring made the heart shadow, so that's why I did it this way. Pay no attention to the actual scripture that is in focus, or that fact hat I used a CTR ring. I randomly opened it up to this scripture, and did not purposely want it do be about murder and punishment. Probably not the best scripture for a ring shoot, eh? ;-)

My Sister

2008-08-14T15:08:00.000-07:00

I've had these pictures on my camera for a little while and kind of forgot about them. They are of a fun, random shoot I did with my sister, Whitney. She had her hair all pinned up because she had just taken a shower and was getting washed up for the night. I grabbed her and said, "Let's go take some pictures!" I had a lot of fun!

Another picture to add to the bunch

2008-08-11T21:25:00.000-07:00

I've just been asked to do a wedding in a couple of weeks and I'm really excited but nervous, since it's my first one. I'm needing to get in all the practice I can! So a few minutes before Jayden's bedtime I went outside with her and took maybe 2 or 3 pictures of a pose that I want to do with the bride. I want to shoot down on her while she holds her bouquet in her lap. I think it will turn out alright. Now I just need to practice the million other poses I have in mind!

Girls Only Photo Shoot!

2008-07-17T12:59:00.000-07:00

Okay, so my friend out here asked me if I could take some pictures of her girls for a project she was doing. Of course I accepted, I was ecstatic that she would ask me. These girls are 2 of the cutest, most beautiful kids ever. They made it easy and fun to shoot! These are just a few that she picked out from the bunch. Oh, and yes, that is the blonde girl's natural eye color. Amazing, huh?

I'VE GOT AN IDEA....

2008-06-29T21:16:00.000-07:00

I was playing around with my black backdrop today and trying to use the natural light from outside. I set it up in my garage with the garage door open. I didn't get many pictures, and this is the only one I've edited at all. I thought it looked funny like she's trying to say, "I''ve got an idea!"

The only models that I have to work with!

2008-06-23T14:05:00.000-07:00

So, I am wish I had some more people who were willing to let me take pictures of them, but alas, I only have my two models here to play with. Here are 2 from today.

Random Picture

2008-06-20T21:00:00.000-07:00

So I haven't been taking many pictures lately. I've been reading a lot about photography, and thinking about it, but haven't had a ton of opportunity. The girls will only let me take so many pictures of them before they scream and cry and tell me no! So today I've been thinking about what to do in our bathroom that we're remodeling. I've always loved those B&W photos of the really crisp looking flowers and I thought one of those might look nice on the wall. Here is my try at it. The flower is not the prettiest, and it's not as clear as I want it to be. In fact, it's quite grainy and fuzzy, but it's my first try at it! Hopefully I can try again and get something better.

Senior Pictures

2008-05-31T08:19:00.000-07:00

On Monday I went out and took a bunch of pictures for some sisters. One was for her senior pictures and the other was for her mission pictures. The senior is the blonde haired girl, and the one going on the mission is the girl in the black top. The lighting was not that great, and it was my first time shooting in manual mode and not automatic, so I struggled a bit, but the girls are so gorgeous that they made it easy for me! These are just a few from the bunch.

Tried something new

2008-05-07T15:24:00.000-07:00

So I'm going to be buying some fleece fabric for backdrops in a couple of weeks. I decided to try a white sheet today and see what it looked like. It was all wrinkly, and so I had to blow out the exposure on it. The coloring is a bit off, but it turned out alright. Jayden had fun!

Ryleigh Pics

2008-04-28T15:49:00.000-07:00

Well, since I posted some of Jayden I figured I had better post some of Ryleigh as well. Some of these aren't that great because I took them of Ryleigh looking into the sun and so she's all squinty. I also tried combing her hair straight after her bath today and it ended up looking a bit flat. I love the curls, so I won't be trying to straighten it out again. The pics are fun anyway, just not exactly what I wanted. I added my copyright logo on some of them just to see what it looks like. What do you think? Also, I put up some previous ones of Ryleigh from my family blog, just like with Jayden's. I think my favotire picture of Ryleigh is the black and white one on the bottom.

Jayden Pictures

2008-04-28T15:37:00.000-07:00

I've been taking random pictures of Jayden while she is outside playing. These are just for fun and they capture some good moments (like this first one where she is completely fascinated with the bugs) . I also added some that I took a while ago and posted on my family blog. I figured they were appropriate here as well!

My First Family Shoot

2008-04-18T22:58:00.001-07:00

So here is a shoot that I did yesterday with some family friends. It was a pretty windy day, and so I had to edit out a lot of hair in people's faces, but the results seem to be alright. I hope they look good once they are printed up. I'm going to be taking some more photos for one of their daughter's senior pictures, one daughter's mission pictures, another daughter's...I'm not sure why but for something that she needs pictures for, and then my in-laws would like some done of them before they leave on their mission. I'm excited!