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Award Winning Family Photographer | From Maternity & Babies to Seniors & Underwater Space Coast - Brevard County FL Underwater Maternity Photographer | Space Coast FLBeing pregnant in the hot Florida summer can become a bit uncomfortable. And let's be honest, the third trimester can get uncomfortable anyway. But your maternity session doesn't need to be hot and miserable! Underwater maternity sessions can not only help you beat the heat, but floating in the water is a nice relief for your body too. You should be comfortable in the water but you don't need to be an expert swimmer to do a session in the pool. You don't even need to have your own pool! The pool I use is only 5 feet at it's deepest so you don't have to worry about super deep water. If you have your own pool, and it's big enough, we can use your pool if you'd like. Safety is my top priority so there will also be a lifeguard at the session. I have a client wardrobe full of a variety of maternity gowns for you to choose from, all you need to do is have neutral undergarments (skin tones typically work best). Not only will you have beautiful photographs to document this time in your life, you'll have something unique and artistic to showcase the beauty of your pregnancy. This session showcases the beautiful bold colors and light we get when the sun is on the pool. I love adding bubble for an extra fun effect!
<3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Are you ready to try something fun and creative? Do you want to capture this time in your life with a beautiful work of art to display? Contact me for information on scheduling an underwater session!
Space Coast Senior Photographer | Historic Cocoa Village Senior PortraitsI met Miss J when I photographed the Titusville High School Cheerleading team in the fall. Then her mom contacted me for senior portraits. We scheduled them for spring and we ended up having gorgeous flowers to work with for her Downtown Historic Cocoa Village senior session. One of the things I love about this location is the variety we can get as we walk to different spots, especially the wall of jasmine flowers blooming in spring! We had a breeze coming off the river which was too much to get photos with the water but was perfect further away from the water where we took the photos. And although fall is often the time to schedule senior photo sessions, it's never too late! Fall can be so busy so if spring works better for you, let's do them when it works for you! Plus the weather isn't as hot, so another bonus!
Thank you Miss J for allowing me to capture your senior photos! Good luck at Alabama! You're going to make a great veterinarian! <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Are you ready to try something fun and creative? Do you want to capture this time in your life with a beautiful work of art to display? Contact me for information on scheduling a senior photo session!
Cocoa Beach Family Photographer | Sunrise Beach Baby Milestone SessionIf you know me personally, you know that I am not an early morning person if I can help it (the joys of being a homeschool parent and running my own business). So I don't do many sunrise sessions, in fact, this may have been my third sunrise session in nine years of being a professional photographer. But when you have a baby and want a beach session, sunrise just works better than sunset most of the time. And it always ends up being worth it! I may not love getting up early, but I do love the gorgeous Atlantic sunrises! Having just a little bit of clouds in the east will give us some gorgeous sunrise colors. Even their outfits went so well with the colors of the morning! And what made this session even more special... this is the couple I previously photographed for their adoption portfolio, and while they were waiting for a match, they ended up pregnant with this little miracle baby! It was such an honor to photograph them again with their sweet little girl.
Thank you Y Family for trusting me to document this milestone in this chapter of your life! <3 Kim Owner/Artist-Photographer Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Do you want to capture your baby's milestones? I only take on a limited number of Baby Plan Memberships for each calendar year to ensure the highest quality of service to all of my clients and priority booking for plan members. If you're interested in becoming a plan member, I'd love to chat with you! Contact me here.
Outdoor Newborn Photography - Twins! | Space Coast FL Lifestyle Newborn PhotographerOne of the best things for my business that came from this pandemic was that I discovered how much I LOVE outdoor newborn sessions! There's no need for Mom and Dad to make sure the house (or a room in the house) is clean for photos, no need to make sure there's enough natural light to work with, and plenty of space for older siblings to run off some steam if they need to. And living on the Space Coast in Central Florida, the temperature outside is warm enough to do these most of the year. For yards/locations with big shade trees, we can even be a little more flexible with time and not need to do them first thing in the morning or in the last couple hours of the day like most outdoor sessions. We don't even have to do these in your yard if there's an outdoor location nearby you'd love to use. I don't do a lot of sunrise sessions, but a sunrise session at the beach would definitely be worth it! I loved so many other things about this session, like the fact that this was the first set of twins I've been honored to photograph AND these identical twin boys have identical twin big sisters! It was so much fun to capture the sweet and unique connection of both sets of twin as well as the love and connections in the whole family. I also loved that the family included a special family quilt in their session and were able to have fun during their session! We always get the BEST images when families relax and just have fun together, even at a newborn session! Here are some of my favorites that show you the beauty and fun we can capture in an outdoor newborn session.
Thank you O Family for trusting me to capture this special time in your lives. <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Looking to capture your family as they are right now? Do you want to capture the connections you have with your loved ones? Contact me today for more information on scheduling a family session!
Artistic High School Senior Portraits - Historic District - Cocoa Senior PhotographerAfter having such a blast doing this senior's underwater session, I was excited to create some fun and beautiful senior portraits in the beautiful historic downtown of Fernandina Beach. While I have since relocated to Rockledge, FL, I love that Historic Cocoa Village is just around the corner and would make a great location for a similar session feel! Sometimes it can feel awkward being in front of the camera for some, and I work to help my clients feel relaxed and themselves during our sessions. We might just chat a bit about something you're interested in or I might have to break out one of my terrible jokes and just get you laughing at me. I give plenty of guidance on posing, so there's no need to worry about "what to do" when in front of the camera. We'll try out a bunch of different things until we find what works for you! I also love to collaborate with clients, so if you have some of your own ideas, let me know! The hardest part is choosing which images you want when you receive your gallery. Unless you go with the easy option is and just get them all!
Thank you Miss L for allowing me to capture your senior photos! <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Are you ready to try something fun and creative? Do you want to capture this time in your life with a beautiful work of art to display? Contact me for information on scheduling a senior photo session!
Space Coast Underwater Photographer | Creative Underwater Senior SessionUnderwater sessions are like magic. It's such a different world under the water that brings challenges but also inspiration. Underwater sessions stretch my skills and creativity and I love them! I haven't done many senior sessions underwater so I was super excited for the opportunity to photograph this talented senior underwater this summer. She's a lifeguard and just swims so beautifully. And since I still want to capture my client's story, whether on land or under the water, we had a lot of fun with some of her interests too! She rocked the band t-shirt vibe, general swimmer vibe, and at the end we created a little extra magic, channeling our mutual love of the world of Harry Potter. She's super creative herself and it was so much fun collaborating with her for this session! Stay tuned for her on land senior session too!
First up, the band t-shirt vibe...
This next one feels symbolic of the high school senior... getting ready to cross over into the adult world. And then the magic... Miss L is a big fan of Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them so she included his friend Pickett in her wizarding world images at the end of our session and I couldn't help but add in a little extra magic for one of them too! Thank you Miss L for allowing me to capture some of your story underwater! <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Are you ready to try something fun and creative? Do you want to capture this time in your life with a beautiful work of art to display? No need to have your own pool! Contact me for information on scheduling an underwater session!
Behind the Magic - Creating an Award Winning Photograph | Cocoa Beach Photographer
In 2017, I received my first award in a NAPCP competition, the first NAPCP Inspired Gallery and Print Competition, and it was a first place. I was shocked and so happy to have met my goal! And to make it even better, I found out on my birthday that I had won. It was an amazing feeling. The print competition consists of three themed categories to encourage creativity. The top 100 images are displayed at NAPCP headquarters and judged for the final round that determines the winners, followed by a gallery event. I also had one image make the top 100 in 2018 and two images in the top 100 in 2019. But I still hadn't placed or merited in the digital competition, and I really wanted something in that one as well. Plus I hadn't placed again in the print competition so I couldn't help but wonder, did I just get lucky with that image or could I do it again? I was incredibly honored to find out earlier this year that I had received a Recognition of Merit in the child category for the 2019 NAPCP International Image Competition! This competition is designed to recognize the world's most successful child photographers in 9 categories; each image being judged by a panel of experts on impact, technical merit, composition, and creativity. And while I didn't place in the top 3, even a merit in this competition is amazing, especially in the child category which tends to be one of the toughest to place or merit. I know that all the years I've been submitting images and getting feedback to help push my skills to be better has helped so much. And I will still work towards a top placing image and continuing to elevate my art. When I push myself creatively and learn from the competitions I enter, I can see how it also makes my everyday work better for my clients. I thought it would be fun to show how I created this image from conception to reality as it is one of the times where I had an idea in my head and I wasn't there to just capture life as it is like I do much of the time. So if you're interested in hearing how this image came about and what went into creating the final image, keep reading!
Conception to Reality. In 2018, I started reading the Harry Potter series to my son. He fell in love with them, wanted to know what house he was in (he's a Ravenclaw) and then wanted to be a Hogwarts student for Halloween. I was also working on my 100 Day Project of photographing my son and his dog and wanted to do something fun for the final image. I photographed my son in his costume at a wooded park and used a photo of his dog running with some photoshop magic to create an image of my son creating a Patronus of his dog (you can see that image at the bottom of this post). Last year, he still wanted to be a Hogwarts student but to wear his quidditch robes. I had already thought about how fun it would be to create more Harry Potter inspired images, including one of him flying on his broom, so this was a great opportunity to create another magical image for him. For this, I knew I wanted somewhere with open sky to really create the feeling of flying. Other than the beach, I couldn't think of a great place to do this until I was introduced to an out-of-the-way park on Amelia Island on the river. It's basically a small open field with a small bench right in front of the water. It. Was. Perfect. I knew I could have him jump off the bench and shoot from down low to get him with just the sky behind him and give him the look of flying on his broom. He had a snitch with "invisible string" that I imagined my husband would just toss up from the side and I would be able to just capture my vision in one image, knowing I'd have to take a whole bunch of shots to get it all together. Well, that's not how it ended up happening. There was a tree on one side so we started with him jumping off the other side while my husband tossed the snitch. The light was to my son's back, though, so not the best. And the snitch was not ever in the right place. I did get a clear shot of the snitch that I knew I could easily cut out the snitch and apply to the final image.
I also noticed when reviewing the images on the back of the camera that I was really losing the beautiful clouds we had that afternoon since the sun was so bright and I really wanted to include the clouds and really help that feel of being high in the air. So I decided I would need to do the sky separately and do more in Photoshop than I had originally planned. I adjusted my settings and took a photo of the sky that captured the sky with the clouds.
I pulled the image into Photoshop and removed the tree branch and the bench and decided to crop off the bottom but leave the width to help portray the expansiveness of the sky. This was then the background for my final image.
Ok, so I talked about getting the sky set for the background above and mentioned the image I used for the snitch that I cut out and put in the sky. Since the sky in the image fo my son was mostly blown out, it wasn't too difficult to cut him out and put him on the sky image. Mostly. If you'll notice, the broom isn't solid like in the movies... it's actually made of sticks and being that I was taking it from a bright sky and putting it on a darker sky, this part was what took me the longest. I had to get out as much of the light sky around the broom sticks as possible without loosing the actual sticks. I also lightened that area of the sky a it on the background to help it blend in better. As a final touch, I added some wings to the snitch. I love how it turned out and am thrilled that it won an award. I also love that my son loves it too and asked for it to be printed huge for his room.
If you've made it all the way through, thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed reading how this photo came about and was put together. <3 Kim Owner/Photographer-Artist Kimberly Tank Art & Photography Want to preserve your child's or family's story with beautiful photographs? Contact me for information on scheduling a session!
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Kimberly Tank is an award-winning professional photographer in Rockledge, FL, servicing Brevard County on the Space Coast in Central Florida (including Melbourne, Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, Merritt Island, Viera and surrounding areas). Using natural light and custom on location sessions, Kimberly Tank specializes in photographing families from babies to seniors and commercial clients, both on land and underwater; providing an exceptional customer experience and helping save you time and preserve this chapter in your life's story. Kimberly Tank is a proud member and ambassador of National Association of Professional Child Photographers. Signup for my monthly newsletter and receive a FREE PDF on taking better photos of your kids! Click HERE Contact Me for more info and/or to book a session
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