My Pride and Joy

Posted on October 1, 2010 | by Shanti

The hardest thing in my job…. IS PHOTOGRAPHING MY OWN KIDS! But I have to admit, my angels pulled it off! I may be a bit biased, but I love these images. I think part of what worked this time around is they are older, but also, they wanted to be captured with my camera… its kind of like going to work with mom day 🙂

Now, the one image I didn't show you here is the best smile I captured ever for them… the reason, as I was walking backwards, I tripped over a log, and landed on my butt… but as a true photographer, I had my finger on the trigger the whole time, unfortunately the low light, and the movement gave a little bit of blur effect, go figure they would think this is funny… but the moment just got recorded into our memories, and gave us something to laugh at:)

Julia 7 Jenna 4

Portraits by Shanti / Shanti Duprez / Siblings / Sisters / Beach / Half Moon Bay / Fall / Low Tide

I just wanted to thank you and Shannon so very much for making us feel like we had our friends their taking the pictures! You were very patient, especially when you first got there and none of us were ready and I was still sort of stressed from trying to finish the set up across the street! But after getting ready and starting to take pictures everything just fell into place. We had a number of people comment on Wow the photographer was everywhere. And you were.

We, Marty and I had almost as much fun as the kids did! The party/dancing didn’t end till I started blowing candles out at 1:30am!

Thank you very much for being professional and low key at the same time that worked for us perfectly!!

Cindy and Marty

I was referred to Shanti by a friend, so my fiancé and I decided to use her for our engagement pictures. Shanti had fast responses to both my emails and phone calls and did a great job of answering all of my questions. She was very flexible as we had to reschedule several times due to being rained out. In the end, we were lucky enough to be able to take our photos on the Half Moon Bay bluffs on a 75 degree day in February! Shanti was able to make us both feel very comfortable in front of the camera (even my fiancé who doesn’t like having his picture taken) and gave us great direction for poses to ensure our photos turned out well. The finished photos are AMAZING and we were impressed with how well they turned out! We received the photos back very quickly and had full access to the digital versions so we could print and share them as we chose to. Needless to say, we’ve already booked Shanti for our upcoming wedding (August 2016) and can’t wait to work with her again!

Chrissy