This is the season for senior portraits, and I get asked time and again during the consultation what should they wear for their shoot. I designed this brochure to help.
This year I am giving a gift card for a family session with every senior shoot. Take advantage of this great offer and call me @ 949-525-7968 to book your session!
It is Prom Season! What fun to do a photo shoot with beautiful Alecia @ Soka University in Aliso Viejo. I'm over-hauling my entire web & senior/grads will have their own web site. I can wait to unveil my new look.
I had the pleasure of photograhing Alecia last year, too for her senior portraits. See blog entry September 2010. We had two locations, urban & beach.
Last year, I had a promotional card on a couple and their two dogs. I was very flattered to discover a woman held on to that card for a whole year because she loved that image so much and wanted me to duplicate it with her daughters & their dogs. We got together one fine Sunday afternoon to do a photo shoot for her daughter's high school senior portraits & a family portrait for their holiday cards. Here are some of my favorites.
This is the image that was duplicated. Very cute dogs. The dogs were the stars of the show as many people stopped to pet them.
Awesome shot of the feet! Adorable shoes and cute paws.
I love photographing milestones and High School Senior Portraits are so much fun. It is so nice to see a young person excited about their future. They have so many possibilities. Alecia and her Mom met me for a consultation which really helps me in planning a photo session. She surfs so I wanted to incorporate her love of surfing in to some of the photos. We decided to do a combination of urban & beach. Alecia's Mother wrote to me after viewing the proofs, "There are so many beautiful shots".
I love using brick walls & colored walls for fab backdrops. Hand placement is so important in photographs. I really work on creating a different look. I encourage the seniors to bring favorite jewelry and clothes. Alecia had 3 wardrobe changes.
This past Sunday, I had such a fun shoot with this lovely young woman. I love her leather jacket. It really gave the photos a very hip look. The yellow mustard flowers season is almost over but I was able to get the fabulous image of Megan wearing a yellow scarf, making the image of her look like a painting. She picked that photo for her wallets photos, and the above image for her graduation party announcement cards. What I like about shooting at my favorite park are the great backdrops, bridge, stone walls, and wooden fence.
I spent Christmas with my brother and nieces in Bend, Oregon, and it was an incredible white Christmas.
My niece, Ashley, is 17 years old and asked me to take her Senior Portrait. As you can see she is very beautiful and photogenic.
I did not bring all my equipment so had to come up with some creative lighting and backdrops. I originally had envisioned doing this shoot in the downtown area of Bend because it has cool historical buildings but it was in the low 20’s way too cold for an outdoor shot. I had to do it at her home. They have a huge bay window in their living room that as the sun went down it made for some incredible lighting opportunity for me. The walls are painted a deep rich red and there is an armoire that has been in our family for generations that when the light hit them it made the background came alive. I sat Ashley in a chair in front of the wall and armoire. The sun was lighting her face but I still needed more light on her hair. I had brought my SB 800 Speed light without a light stand so I had my other niece hold the light pointing to the ceiling and not at Ashley. I wanted the light to bounce off the ceiling on to her hair to give more definition. I set my shutter speed at a 10th of a second and opened up the aperture. This gave me more light for the background and on Ashley.
I decided to do some of Ashley’s photographs outside, too because she has this jet black hair and I knew the contrast between the snow and her hair would really make some awesome photographs. I got high up above her so the background would all be snow, no trees or cars, etc. We did not last long outside because of the cold. I’m so happy with the end results. Time goes by so quickly, I have seen Ashley as a baby, through childhood years and now she is this lovely, smart and sensitive young lady. I’m very proud of my niece.
