Jess LeClair Photography Blog

So here is another in the very long list of why I love what I do: Kids + Music + a chance to dance and be silly = So Much Fun. I got to photograph a Music Together class in Belfast taught by the lovely and talented Laura Donnelly. She is one of those people you just want to know and be around even when she is not singing and dancing. For once, I never had to even think about how to get these kids to smile - they were having so much fun, they couldn’t STOP smiling! Photographing events like this can barely be called work for me. It was hard not to join in and sing along!

A client came to me recently with this photo of herself as a baby. Isn’t she adorable?

She was so distraught because it was the not only the only copy she had of this image, it was the only one she had of herself as a baby AT ALL! And there was a huge scratch in it! She told me that years before (20 or so), she’d asked another photography studio if they could do anything to fix it. They told her no, it was impossible. Well, its not impossible any more! Now there is Photoshop!!

No more scratch! No more strange coloring and flaking off surface. With something like this where you can see the surface of the photo flaking away, it is especially important to have your image preserved as soon as possible. Now, instead of trying to see the baby through all the marks, all you see is the adorable baby!

The red couch, originally uploaded by jess_leclair.

This photo was taken of my brother Dan and me at our step-cousin Jackie’s wedding, September 9, 2006. Though I wasn’t the official photographer on this particular wedding, I did take a fair number of photos (you can head on over to my flickr site to see more). I have to give props to the women who were officially responsible for the photography that night for one very specific thing. This red couch. It was a small touch of brilliance. They set up this very inviting couch with a camera facing it. On the couch was the remote for the camera. Anyone could just come up, sit down and take their own photo! It was better than a photo booth! Though I must say, they should have made more people aware of it. We just sort of stumbled drunkenly over and started fiddling with things. At which point the photographer’s assistant came over and told us what it was. We got to see some of the images later and they were a total riot. By the end of the evening people were getting REALLY stupid.

Good times, good times.