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  • We are Miller Ellis

    We are Wedding Photographers, Newborn Photographers, we are everything Photographers.

    We love babies! We love couples too. Come to think of it, we love just about anyone who wants to come get silly, gorgeous, serious or playful for our cameras.

    Most of all, we like to bring out the best in our clients. Whether that means dancing the macarena with car keys in hand to make your baby laugh at us or going on a field trip to get the best lighting and scenery for your engagement shot, romantic and dreamy or funky, edgy and hip, we’ll do it.

    What’s more, we’ll have a great time doing it too.

    Here’s our secret: We’ve been friends for more than 15 years – so long that we finish each other’s sentences. As it is in most great partnerships too, our skill sets are different but we are of the same mind.

    Our number one goal is to make your photo shoot experience relaxed, fun and enjoyable.

Mommy & Me {Barrie portrait Photographer}

Forgive the tardiness. These were taking in April, during our Mommy & Me promotion. But we’ve hit our busy season full on, so we’re late in blogging (again – surprise surprise!)

This is our first year doing Mommy & Me sessions, and it was a suggestion by one the moms who attended our workshop. Great idea! This will be an annual event for sure. We loved it.

We’d also like to mention here that we are fully booked for weekends until October, and then our Family Mini-Sessions start up for fall/Christmas. We have very very limited week-day availability left.

 

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Janice & Jason {Meaford WEdding}

After being engaged for 2 years (he proposed on Valentines too – what a sweet heart!!) , Janice and Jason were soo excited their wedding day had finally come.  They were married at her fathers church in Meaford. He performed the ceremony. They were surrounded by their closest friends and family.  As a side note, this was our first time shooting at the Meaford United Church – and wow, what a pretty church. Such lovely light.

The Bride and her Bridesmaids got ready at the Lotus Salon and Body Studio  in Owen Sound. We loved it. So if you’re from the area check it out.

We loved that J&J saved time for their portraits. We had almost 3 hours for photo time! Which meant several location changes.

Hope you guys enjoy your peek!

 

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Char & Dan {Wedding, Mexico}

Disclaimer: this is a long post – sorry!!

Where do I begin? I’ve been sitting here for the last 10 minutes staring at my screen wondering what to say about this wedding, my first of 18 of the year.

I wouldn’t be here, writing this blog or shooting weddings at all, if it weren’t for the bride in these photos. That statement may sound a little bit overly dramatic but it’s true.

In 2008, a friend of mine, Becca, got married. I was always one to take photos whenever I could, and so I did her engagement session. I was by no means profesh at that time, and I did get a few great shots. She asked (Or I begged – I can’t remember which) to shoot the guys on her wedding day. She let me. And it was fun. I was 8 months preggers with Nevaeh and I shot the guys getting ready and did some ceremony shots. Becca warned her hired photographer Charlotte that I would be tagging along that day. Chars was gracious and so cute. She took a photo of me, taking a photo of her, and asked if I wanted to come along for the formal photos. Which I didn’t because I was hot and tired and pregnant and as big as a house, but the fact that she offered for me to tag along stuck with me. To this day I’m not even sure I would be so giving to another ‘newbie’ photographer if a bride asked me the same thing. It’s so easy to be stuck up about it, I try and remember how I started.

Fast forward 3 months or so, I get a facebook message from Chars asking if I’d be interested in assisting her in a wedding in March 09. This was my first official wedding. Charlotte taught me about external flash and where to bounce light, how to shoot in low light conditions (as it was march – we lost light quickly) She taught me the flow of a wedding day, what information she gathered from her brides, I honestly learned so much from her that day. Tanya and I started Miller Ellis Photography that same month.

I shot 4 weddings with Charlotte that year, and 3 I think the following. Each wedding I grew a little more confident, and learned so much more from her. And I gained a friend. She’s an amazingly giving person, funny as all hell, and turns out she’s a beautiful bride.

I cried when she walked down the aisle, as I’m crying now as I write this (see Tanya I do have a heart).

It’s an odd thing taking a wedding photographers wedding photos. Let me tell you it was great having a bride who understood light, and having everything at my finger tips for detail shots! The Bridesmaids welcomed me into their club while getting ready and I love them for that. Kerri – If I see you at Costco, I’ll scream Ola!

I’d also like to thank Nick for shooting with me. I’m so proud of his shots from this wedding. He worked all week with me testing light and did such a great job.

Thank you Charlotte for asking Nick and I to shoot your wedding. I can’t believe I hadn’t even met Dan before last week! After spending time with him, feels like I’ve known him so much longer. He’s a great catch (but remind me to tell you all the dirty things he’d say when you were out of ear shot! LOL)

I’d also like to mention they had one of the coolest first dances in the history of first dances. They were on a bridge, over a pond, while the live band played, in front of the ENTIRE resort – so cool!!

I’ve never been more nervous in my life to post a blog! I hope you love your photos.

N.

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Dress: Venus – Helens Bridal in Barrie

Shoes – Paris Hilton

Hair –Kate Bowhey

Make-up – Olivia Clements

Bridesmaids dresses – Venus

Feet Jewellery – Fancy Feet (on Etsy)

Venue – Grand Sunset Princess

Wordless Wednesday Belly Edition

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Blog Fail & easter sessions

It’s official. We totally suck at blogging. We were doing so well there, for like a week. Then we would get busy, and not blog for a while, then we would start ignoring all of our ‘blog appointment’s’ we physically scheduled in our calendar. Then we stopped talking about blogging all together, for fear of the sinking feeling in our stomach we get when we bring it up. That feeling of failure.

We so totally want to be good bloggers. But we’re not. So I’m not going to make promises anymore of how often and what we’ll blog. I know we need to blog a couple times a week. The more often we’re out there, the more business we generate. When I was on a roll with our blogging, our inbox was literally full daily – to the point we couldn’t keep up – I’m thinking subconsciously I was getting overwhelmed by that, so I backed off the blog.  We’re booked almost solid until October now, but do have some weekday availability left. 

So, we’ve been busy. January was so busy it was insane. Our boudoir sessions turned out amazing. We were so happy with the way things turned out. February was also a blur. I think between January and Feb we had 13 newborns to shoot. Crazyness. Then came the wedding boom. We’re starting to fill up for 2013 (we still have some spots left) and booked the remaining weddings for 2012. We’re at 17 weddings, and would consider taking maybe one more, but we want to cap it at 18 this year. Same with 2013 – we’ll be taking 18.

Over the last couple weeks, we’ve had a run of bad luck. It happens, we’re human. My entire house hold was hit with the Flu, and I mean bad flu. If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know my littlest one was in the hospital she was so sick (only a photographer photographs their sick one in a hosptial lol) – and this has made things difficult keeping up with editing and getting CDs out. But we managed to catch up – So big thank you to our wonderful clients who had to wait a couple extra days for their photos! Also, Tanya’s car blew up in the driveway last week while she was trying to get her kids to school, and instead of being concerned about  her car or her kids, she was more worried about how she was going to make her 11:30 photo shoot.  But thank goodness our luck is turning around – My kids are healthy (knock on wood) and Tanya’s car is all fixed up.

At the beginning of March we hosted our first workshop , which went extremely well! The following weekend we did our Easter mini sessions. We didn’t go with the bunny has we had the last 3 years, because I’m so allergic to them. And, because everyone and their brother is doing the bunny so we figured we’d try something different. So we searched Pinterest for some ideas, found some great ones, then sat down with Vicki from Posh Beyond and we brain stormed on what we could do. We came up with the cutest Easter tea party set ever. We had delish cupcakes from CupCAKE and adorable cake pops from the girl with the most cake. And, because we can’t resist a cute frame, we got a couple yellow Sweet Soda Frames.

Here’s a pull back of our Easter set:

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And the detail shots

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So thank you so much to all of our lovely vendors! Pleasure working with you.