A magic filled Halloween costume photo shoot

Here is my Halloween costume photo shoot with my son! Fall and Halloween are some of my favorite times of the year! They have been since I was a child…so passing on the traditions that go along with it was a no brainer for our family! This year we’ve watched a lot of magic shows and find them to be really fun, entertaining and well magical hahah. One of the restaurants by us even has a live magician on Sunday’s that we’ve gotten the chance to see! So it was a pleasant surprise when Jackson decided he wanted to be a magician this year for Halloween! He also had gotten invited to a little friend’s birthday party that was dress up earlier in October, so I didn’t have time to hand make a costume and opted for our dear old pal, Amazon. Lol! But this goes to show you that beautiful, styled sessions can be created even on a small budget or time crunch with the right creativity! Once I knew he was committed to being a magician, I had the idea to incorporate smoke bombs into the session! SO fun for everyone! Tom (aka daddy) was there to help light them off and stayed very close to Jackson just outside of the frame of my camera for safety. To be honest I knew I wanted to use smoke bombs and have him do “tricks” but beyond that, this past month has been so busy that I didn’t have time to plan it too much… so we threw together two cardboard boxes, black fleece draped over the table and used some star cut outs from a party store that I had from other sessions. The night before Halloween was really our only chance to get some photos, so we just took these just steps from our front door. Obviously location plays a BIG part of getting the final “wow” images so I was worried we wouldn’t be able to find a good enough spot, but then I found a patch of dark trees with just one speckle of leaves left and thought it would frame him perfectly… kind of dark and mysterious yet with a pop of sparkle. All in all I am so happy with how this turned out because it was so much fun for all of us!

Without further ado… Introducing JACKSON THE GREAT!! 🙂

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