This time I'm going to share a couple of portrait photos that I took in my studio for a girl who was about to turn 13 years old. Her mother wanted to do a photo session to leave a memory of this stage in her daughter's life.

The girl and her mother brought various accessories to the set to make the photo session themed for the birthday. I started by taking a couple of photos with the balloons:

The girl wasn't a model and had no previous experience in photo sessions, so I was guiding her with the poses to make her feel more comfortable.

For all these photos, I used my CANON R8 camera with a 50mm lens and a single light source, my speed lite flash with a 50cm octabox at 45 degrees from the model.

For the following photos, we used the cake. I had to take these photos super fast because the cake was heavy and we were afraid it might fall.

Then we took the next photo, without balloons and without cake, it turned out very nice:

Then the girl went to change outfits for the second part of the photo session. We also did different poses so that the photos weren't the same as the first part...

Then the girl wanted some photos crouching down:

I thought it would look very good if we repeated the same photo but this time with the cake on the set:

And to finish the photo session, we took a couple more casual photos without birthday accessories. These two were our two favorites:

In the end, both the girl and the mother were very happy with the results of this photo session. I hope you like them as much as we do!