Modern Family Photo Session in San Francisco

I have been photographing Kristina and Mike what seems like forever: the engagement, the wedding, first and second maternity, first and second newborn, etc. So I know what they like: they want to capture the love they have for each other and  they like their photos to be timeless without looking staged. Mission accomplished!  This is what Kristina wrote to me after seeing their family photos for the first time: "Thanks soooo soooo much Fimachka!!   Those are just remarkable!!! My jaw hurts from smiling non-stop when we were editing photos from our family photo session.Simply...... genius!"

San Francisco Family Photography

I love photographing several families at the same time. Just like the photos below, where I photographed 2 families with 2 kids each and their parents/grandparents. Within total chaos when you have 4 very young children, we created beautiful photos.

San Francisco Child and Family Photographer

I cannot thank enough Daphne and her daughter for being an amazing  models during their photo session in Golden Gate Park and then at the beach. The best compliment I could ever receive is when Daphne told me that her daughter said about photo session: "She loved it and you! She asked about you the other day. "I want to see Fima again". Everyone had fun during the photo session!

An outdoor Family Portrait Photography Session

What can I say: San Francisco provides one of the best backgrounds for an outdoor family portraits. I love it when my clients choose outdoor sessions. Judy's and David's portrait session in San Francisco outdoors was no exception. We got great family photos!

A Family portrait session

I love photography challenges.  In this photo session with Kelly, her family and her pets, we could not overcome cat's reluctance to go to the beach! :) So we had to photograph cat at home and then go to the beach with the dog. Who said that fog ruins photography! We had great time and photos to prove it!

Baby Step Club #4

This was the 4th newborn portrait photo session for my client Dessiree and Brandon with their daughter for our baby step club series.  Our baby step club series is 4 photo sessions within one year. You save a lot of money when you choose this program. Some clients choose their 4 sessions (maternity, newborn, 6 month and one year). Some choose (newborn, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month and one year).  Most of our clients make beautiful "A Year in the life" of their child afterwards. We chose to do this final family portrait session in the studio, concentrating on their daughter. As you can see, she already knows how to make "cheese" smile! :)

A family studio portrait session

What can I say. I love photographing kids. They always give you what's on their mind. If they do not like the way photo session is going, they WILL let you know. Twins will give you double of that. On top of this add a newborn addition to the family. But I love challenges. Sometimes we add a additional level of challenges by getting family pets in the photos. Lucky for me, there were only twins and newborn with their parents to work with. No problem! :)

Advertising photography

Lisa and Alex wanted me to take photographs for their website. But they did not want anything boring or traditional. More fun and creative.  They were very very happy with the results.

San Francisco Newborn Studio Portrait Photography

Katya and Dirk asked me to photograph their newborn child.  We all love the results of this photo session!

Family Portrait Photography

Instead of me writing about Jenny's photo session with her son, I am going to post what she wrote on my Yelp page:

I am thrilled with Fima's work. He really captured the connection between me and my son, and his photos will be treasures forever. I would recommend him to anyone looking for a professional photographer with a sense of humor, who thinks outside the box, and who prides himself on capturing whimsical moments.

Newborn and Infant Photography: Baby Step Club part 2

This is second photo session for Brandon and Dessiree for their Fima Photography baby step club with their daughter.  The first one was in Noe Valley studio. Second one in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

This is second photo session for Brandon and Dessiree for their Fima Photography baby step club with their daughter.  The first one was in Noe Valley studio. Second one in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Newborn Studio Portrait Photography

Dessiree and Brandon joined our Baby Step Club Photography. This is from our first studio portrait photo session.

Green screen fantasy portrait photography

Noe Valley Newborn Studio Photography

I had the privilege of photographing Dana and Jeff's newborn for their Baby Step Club with Fima Photography. Jeff has black belt in Karate. As you can see from those photos, their sun is not far behind! :)

Noe Valley Newborn Project for Bernie's coffee house

Newborn Family Portrait Photography

Angela and Lubin joined our Baby Step Club (4 photo sessions during child first year). This is their first session. They even brought their dog to the session.

Child and Pet Photography

My client Kay asked me to photograph her daughter and their dog.  She wanted to capture the relationship that her daughter had with their pet.  This was a very special outdoor photo session.  I love to show the relationship between people as well as people with their pets.

Newborns and pets

Recently Stacey Wiley of Woof Walks in the East Bay came to me with a challenge. She wanted portraits of her newborn as well as several of her dogs. What came from the photo shoot was a lot of wonderful shots with the dogs as well as the people. I have done a lot of pet photography in my career and these were some of the best behaved dogs I have worked with so far. Stacey really  is a dog whisperer.

Portraits with Personality

Recently, I was able to take a series of black and white portraits of my client Michelle’s youngest son. We wanted to show his silly and unique personality in the portraits, and I think we succeeded in capturing the charisma of this young boy- a new model superstar is born! Michelle brought in her two older sons as well, and I photographed all three of them together for a family portrait with lots of love between the siblings.

Family Photos in the Presidio

We ventured outside our San Francisco portrait studio for a photo session in the gorgeous Park Presidio of San Francisco. Amid the nature, we photographed client Gisele and her family. Gisele is the owner of newly opened Spark Creativity, on Church Street in Noe Valley. The family portraits included Gisele, her husband, and her kids, and feature whole family photos as well as sibling photos. This was one of my favorite family photo sessions in a while- the entire family looks so happy! The best compliment I can ever have from a child photo session is when children ask their parent if they can do it again next week! When Gisele ask her kids why, their reply was that they had too much fun at this photo session. Even father mentioned that it was very painless experience. He had a lot of reservations about it beforehand.