• studio3z photography {the blog}

    If you have landed here...bless your soul.  Welcome to our little tiny corner of the cyber world, based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Below you will see favorites from our sessions we do professionally, and also loads of personal nonsense that we hope at least will entertain you.  If nothing less, you can keep up on our adorable children.  Really, they are worth the trip back here time and time again in and of itself.

    My name is Jess.  My hubby is Brett.  We are crazy about each other, our 4 babies, and our art.  Welcome to our world.

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Category Archives: portraits

{maxwell}

This is a bit different from our regular type of shooting, but Maxwell (who is from Cincinnati, but now resides in Florida) decided to add some more head shots to his modeling portfolio- We jokingly called it, his “Midwest flair.”  Of course, we had to do some “just for fun” shots as well, so these...

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July 8, 2010 - 8:17 am

AmyPunky Photography - Mmmmh… love this session!!! ;)

July 8, 2010 - 8:48 am

betsy - Wow! He’s gorgeous and the creativity of this shoot blows my mind. FANTASTIC work!

July 8, 2010 - 9:21 am

amanda fales - SMOKIN’! :D he kind of looks like Ryan from the Office! :)

July 8, 2010 - 9:23 am

Vickey Weiss - he is dreamy!!! and the pics are fab! love your work soooo much!

July 8, 2010 - 9:25 am

Donna - He’s is definitely made for the camera! Beautiful shots!!!

July 8, 2010 - 9:28 am

Donna - oh, and I would love to know more about what camera, settings, lens you use…love what you are able to capture!!!

July 8, 2010 - 10:26 am

Jake Ford - Awesome shots. Gotta love getting great looking clients, right?!

Also, who is the random girl in some of the pictures?

July 8, 2010 - 11:36 am

Lana - Jess, Love this shoot. Maxwell rocked some grounds! Love your PP as well.

July 8, 2010 - 11:52 am

Briony - these are fab!

July 8, 2010 - 6:35 pm

Alice - Awesome!

July 8, 2010 - 10:11 pm

Nicole Fields - Absolutely love these.

July 9, 2010 - 8:31 am

Kim - LOVE these pictures. LOVE pretty much everything you do. Everytime I check your blog for something new I’m amazed at how gifted you really are. If you ever shoot someone who doesn’t want their picture taken, no one would ever know it. You make your clients look so comfortable and at ease. So jealous!!! Perfection!

July 9, 2010 - 11:23 pm

brian rickey - Well, another win! These really have personality to them and a solid feel. Great set. I am assuming you are shooting these either in the very early morning or very late afternoon?

July 11, 2010 - 10:48 am

Melissa Niu - Ooooo, I’m glad I ran into your blog. I like you guys. For sure. Your style is awesome.

July 13, 2010 - 12:20 pm

holly - these are cool. that girl looks familiar.

July 21, 2010 - 10:10 am

Gail - All I’m gonna say is HELLLLOOOOOOOOOOO Maxwell.

Oh, and that last shot? CANVAS.

July 29, 2010 - 8:34 am

bobbi - uhm. wow. hot. like. really hot. i’m staring. wow. hot.

August 1, 2010 - 2:07 pm

Maya Laurent - Wow…everyone already said it but hello hottness! :) Love all of these…you guys rocked this.

September 2, 2010 - 10:39 pm

Chelsea Weller - Thanks for letting me be apart of this shoot. Everyone was amazing :)

@Jake Ford its was me Chelsea, in the shot with Max

kishani + her boys.

We had the pleasure of meeting up with the beautiful Kishani and her two beloved pugs, Bodie and Bob.  Kishani is an amazing interior designer in the Beverley Hills, California area, and if you love interior design like I do you must go check out her site.  When we met up at her gorgeous studio...

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November 6, 2009 - 8:57 am

Gail - Love ALL of these!!! Her fierce headpiece, those boots, her eyes, THOSE PUGS!!!!! Wonderful guys!!!

PS – Did you shoot that extreme close-up with a macro? I LOVE IT! I’ve been wanting to do more up-close stuff lately and find it’s so hard to focus super close with a 50 so onto the wish list a macro goes!

November 6, 2009 - 9:24 am

Emilie - What a fabulous session! She is so stylish and the dogs are cute!! Love it all! :)

November 6, 2009 - 9:30 am

Nicole - These are so beautiful and sweet!!

November 6, 2009 - 10:40 am

Lauren - Awww…how cute!! I love the one of the pugs in the suitcase!

November 6, 2009 - 10:56 am

Briony - these are so sweet! i love them all.

November 6, 2009 - 12:18 pm

John - Pugs!!!

November 7, 2009 - 9:28 am

Chad - I love those pugs!

November 8, 2009 - 3:06 pm

your wonderful neice - i would like a koda session… thank you

November 9, 2009 - 4:50 pm

Kelly (Daphne Photo Studio) - Wow these look like they are straight out of a magazine!! And pugs are my favorite dogs of all time. Love it!!

November 10, 2009 - 3:46 pm

jess - wow, so cute!! You can really feel the love. So sweet!

November 14, 2009 - 1:13 pm

Stephanie - Wow! This shoot is fantastic. By far the pugs in the luggage wins show stopper! Beautiful work.

just dance!

When I received an email from one of my past Senior’s Mama about taking photos of the dance team she worked with, I have to say I was at first a bit reluctant.  Working with my Senior girls is one thing- we run around for 2 hrs. having a blast, and it is just so...

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October 16, 2009 - 9:13 am

lucy - how adorable was that shoot? too cute and lots of fun! lovin’ it!

October 16, 2009 - 9:36 am

Nichole - wow, these girls are blessed to have had the opportunity to have these to look back on. how fun! LOVE your style….i hope all of these girls NEVER go on to traditional photographs!!! you guys rock! love to see you in action too!

October 16, 2009 - 10:07 am

April Cochran-Smith - How cool! I love the one that’s shot “studio3z style” – awesome.

October 16, 2009 - 10:08 am

April Cochran-Smith - ps-you SHOULD always wear that sweater because it’s AMAZING!

October 16, 2009 - 10:12 am

Liz - Okay wow! They are so original and GORGEOUS! What an awesome team photo shoot!! I love all the shots, honestly. I also LOVE that they wore their own clothes rather than the uniforms!

October 16, 2009 - 10:56 am

holly - these are so fabulous! and meagan is very lucky…

October 16, 2009 - 11:01 am

jaz - so, i’ve been replaced by Meagan. it could be worse.

October 16, 2009 - 11:15 am

rebecca-linh rodgers “r-lr” - these are awesome! more than awesome– fabulous!

October 16, 2009 - 11:30 am

Coach Kathy - EEEEEE!!! They are everything I had hoped and so much more!!! The shots of the classes melt my heart!! I even like the shot of me… I never like my photos! You are magic!! How about next year we take the team to Cali, you wear that sweater and let’s see what happens! (if only!) You and Brett were AMAZING to work with! Can’t wait to see the whole batch! Love you!!

October 16, 2009 - 11:39 am

betsy - This is AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!!!! LOVE everything about this!!!

PS Where did you get that sweater? Love it!

October 16, 2009 - 2:06 pm

Candice {The Beautiful Mess} - i am lovin’ those wide shots on the bleachers! so fun!

October 16, 2009 - 5:46 pm

Maya Laurent - Okay what a brilliant idea to get some more seniors too! You now have customers for life! This post is soooo much fun!

October 17, 2009 - 8:29 am

Kathy D. - Awesome shots and so unique. Can’t wait to get the CD!

October 18, 2009 - 9:06 am

Kelly Lawhorn - Love,Love, love them!!!!!!!!!!! Sign us up for Ashley’s senior pictures this summer and all future pictures we have taken! Kelly

October 18, 2009 - 4:54 pm

Lauren - You never cease to impress me. One of my favorite things to do in the morning is get a cup of coffee and surf your blog. Thanks for posting!

October 18, 2009 - 4:56 pm

Lauren - oops, I realized I posted the wrong blog link, let’s try this again. lol.

October 19, 2009 - 3:57 pm

Susan Solo - Can I just tell you that I WISH I had photos like these from when I was in school? They are just so fabulous. (And as a side note: no “gulp” necessary – I’m pretty sure you two could photograph AN.Y.THING. and have that fabulousness come across.)

October 29, 2009 - 12:09 pm

Nicole Frees - i just wanted to say thanks SSSSOOO much for taking our photos for Mason High School. We ALL are in love with them. But we all wanted to put them on our own facebook’s and things like that but you cant copy them ?! We can’t figure out how to copy them to our computer and put them on our websites. Just curious on how you do that. If you could email me back that’d be great(: THANKS !!! You and brett are adorable and AMAZINGG !