Hey everyone! For those who don't know me I am Melanie McCarty and I am a professional portrait photographer based out of Fort Worth, TX. Frequently my clients either send me pics of what they have chosen for family photos or they don't know where to even start and ask me what they should wear. I decided that I should write a blog with a few tips and tricks on what to wear to your session to make your family photos that much more of a success. If you follow these guidelines y

This is the Hughes family. Kristi took advantage of the Fall mini photo sessions I have yearly and booked a family photoshoot at Northwest Community Park. When they first showed up I was in awe with not only how good looking the entire family is, but with how well their outfits were coordinated. Kristi did an amazing job putting everything together. Not going to lie, sometimes family photoshoots can be a little hectic with multiple children. Especially younger children. This

Baby girl Lliana came to my studio when she was 10 days old for her newborn photoshoot. Due to her mama having another appointment I knew I wouldn't have as much time to work with and pose her so I was praying she was going to be very sleepy so that I could pose her easily and in a timely manner. With such relief Lliana was an angel! She was so sleepy her entire session and let me mold an pose her any which way I wanted. Her mama really wanted to make sure that we got family

When baby Dax came to visit me in my home studio for his newborn photo session he was 8 days new and oh so tiny at 5 lbs 12oz. It was a huge difference from the 10 lb newborn I had in my studio the week prior. Thats what I love about newborns and babies in general, they're all different and no two are the same (even twins). Dax was an AMAZING newborn to work with! He barely fussed one tiny bit, only ate once, and had the baby fingers that newborn photographers dream of. Belie

Whitney is a long time client of mine. I first met her when she chose me to be the photographer for her family photography session. I instantly adored her and her family. Shortly after Whitney booked another session with me, this time it was a gender reveal for her new pregnancy with her 4th baby. It was a boy! Fast forward a few months and since we're military we moved back to our home state of TX from CO before her baby boy Liam was born :( . Needless to say I wasn't able t

After doing Crystal's maternity photo session a few months ago (which she ROCKED), she took advantage of an in studio special I was offering to promote my new photography studio, and I had the pleasure to photograph all three of her boys. Her boys are ages 5, 2, and 2 months so being a boy mom myself I know the session was going to be anything but boring. Well as the title stats, goofy is the best way to describe it. There were smiles, some tears, but mostly a ton of sillines

Another great maternity photo session in the books with the beautiful Belen. She is already a mama to two children, a boy and a girl. Soon another baby boy will be arriving for the tie breaker. We had to re schedule her session not only once, but twice, thanks to someone driving a jeep into a water line causing it to break and for her to loose all her water pressure, and because of good ol' mother nature. I loved her enthusiasm for wanting to do her maternity session in the p

Everyone meet the Berry twins Nolan and London. Yup, I went there with the title of this blog. I can't help it, I just love silly jokes like that, lol. I don't know about all photographers, but when I hear twins I get excited. Jennifer (their mama), wanted a vintage cake smash session. She had me already hooked at twins then when she said vintage I became even more in love! We held the session at my studio here in Fort Worth TX and this is how it went. Mama and daddy said tha

After Chrissy found out she was pregnant with her second child she started googling fun ways to tell her husband. She saw a photo idea and loved it immediately. Thats when she messaged me. I've been wanting to do this style session for a while so I jumped on board right away. We had scheduled the session at Eagle Mountain Park only 2 days away and she could hardly contain her excitement and almost told her hubby on accident a couple times. But can you blame her? I began their

Previously I blogged about Alyssa's Maternity session when she was looking for a local maternity and newborn photographer. Now I would like to introduce baby Clark. Little Clark was given his name because his daddy loves superman that much! Isn't that cute?! I think if Alyssa allowed him to he would have made Clarks middle name Kent haha. Now, more about this little mans session. I get all kinds of babies in my studio from quiet or loud, to passed out or wide awake. It may no