About The Photographer
Hi! My name is Erika Blackwell and I am the photographer of Center of Attention Photography. My business is located in Northern Michigan. My blog is a way for everyone to view some of my favorite images from recent sessions and get to know me! I am the VERY proud mommy to Braylan. I LOVE what I do and I hope you can tell! These are not JUST pictures I take. I create memories... My heart and soul go into my work. I care about my clients and get to know them and learn what they like and dislike. I am an artist. A business woman. I love to have fun. I love to sing. Dance. Make crazy sounds to get those smiles. I am very open! I LOVE oreos and soymilk. I dream big. I have tons of ideas. I cry during touching ceremonies and awesome reception speeches. I try not to be messy but it happens. I have so many new faces to meet this year and just thinking about it makes me excited! coaphoto.com 231.549.2038
This is one of my beautiful senior spokesmodels Kendra! We had so much fun out in the snow yesterday…
I can’t wait for her full session in the summer. She is graduating in 2014 and will be helping me to book her friends!
I wanted to show some different edits here. I like to play a little with color and lighting. 
Want to get the chance at free prints, photo albums, and other fun products?
Want to have some great images for Facebook?
Then our Senior Rep Program may be for you!
Don’t forget the Deadline Schedule!
Application Due: July 2nd
Session completed by: July 9th-13th
If accepted, you will be representing Center of Attention Photography and telling your friends about our Senior Sessions throughout your senior year. Be sure to let your Junior friends know also, so they will have a chance to apply for the 2013 program! For every friend you refer us to, you will receive special discounts on your print orders.
To be a COA PHOTO senior rep, you must:
• Have great style, lots of personality and enjoy being in front of the camera
• Be graduating in 2013
• Attend a Charlevoix county school
• Be available to have one session completed before July 13th
• Agree to tell your friends and classmates about Center of Attention Photography and share your senior portraits with them
• Agree to represent ONLY Center of Attention Photography and use these images as your senior pictures
•Before you can become an official Senior Rep, you must have permission from your parent or legal guardian and they must sign a model release form. Once you’ve filled out the application and if you are selected as a representative, a phone or in person consultation with at least one of your parents or guardians is a must!
As part of our senior rep program you will receive the following:
• One free photo session up to an hour
• The opportunity to earn print credit for every person they refer to COA PHOTO for senior portraits. (And their friends get perks, too!)
• 50 personalized referral cards to give to friends and classmates with your name, your portraits, and our Business information to hand out to friends
• Accordion Brag Album for showing photos to friends in person
• Several of our favorite photos as low-resolution files to share on social networking sites like Facebook
• Discounts on your print orders (discounts apply to orders purchased before expiration of gallery).
• A $50 gift card will be awarded to the representative with the highest number of photo business cards turned in by September 24th, 2012.
Referral Discounts
1-3 Referrals – 10% off print order and $20.00 print credit per referral
4-8 Referrals –10% off print order and $25.00 print credit per referral
9-12 Referrals – 25% off print order and $30.00 print credit per referral
13+ Referrals – 35% off print order and $40.00 print credit per referral
When your referrals book a paid session and bring in your Rep Card you will receive the above mentioned discounts according to the amount of referrals you bring to us. These referrals can include anyone who books the following sessions: Senior, Newborn, Family Portraits, Portraits, Weddings, etc.
Please contact me for an application at: centerofattentionphotography@hotmail.com
This girl is soooo photogenic. It was so easy to do her shoot. I had the different places in mind that I wanted to go. Her cousin and aunt came along for her session too. Along the way we saw some other family/friends around town that also joined us. Honestly that is the exact reason I love living in a small town. Some people probably say the opposite… but I love catching up with people and we are such a little close knit community.
I’m trying to look through all my sessions from the past year I haven’t posted. I have a lot to go.
I love fall sessions… but this year I was so busy running around because I got slammed at the last minute with a ton of sessions at once. I had a hard time saying no. This year I highly advise clients to plan ahead. I have a couple family sessions booked already for fall.
This is Abbie! She’s a Boyne Falls senior… we went to one of my favorite places to shoot outdoors. Her mom was so funny giving her poses to do beside me. I love that I can see parents with one eye and they don’t know I’m watching them. The leaves were bright and full of color… and the weather was beautiful.
This girl really knows her angles. She was so good with her own poses and has the most beautiful hair… AND clothes! Her and her mom came to her shoot and they were down with any places or ideas I had. I’ve been experimenting more and more with lighting and editing for seniors. I also spend a lot more time with their pictures and in their sessions. I have new packages and options for 2012 with my pricing that I think with help a lot.
This is Peter… I don’t get a ton of senior guys so when I do get them I always try to make them feel as comfortable as possible. Funny thing is Peter came with his sisters and mom. I probably smiled the entire session straight at them trying to get him to smile! They have a farm and live right next to the railroad tracks so we did his outside pics right at his house. My I can’t pick a fave here because I have a few I REALLY love. This kid should be a model… I told him so too!
I went to Boyne Falls School and can remember since I started my business every year when the first senior from Boyne Falls books a session. Danielle was the first this year and she was down for ALL my ideas. It was a super nice warm fall day and I had her climbing up trees, up a hill to get to the railroad tracks, climb up rocks for a waterfall AND jump in freezing cold water. Sorry Danielle… but again I love my job when I’m shooting because it is so fun most of the time!
Meet Kyrsha! I have to say I get to photograph some pretty stylish people but this girl totally has the same taste as me. I got so excited when she would appear from her outfit changes. She also has one fun mom! The session felt like it flew right by. I have a few new outside places I love… you will probably start to notice as I catch up on posts. I have had one busy year and the inquiries keep rolling in. I am also not posting in order. I guess I’m a random blogger. You never know what season I will choose to post next.
Better color or black and white? I couldn’t decide!
