Use your fabulous photo and showcase it with some fun and whimsical shapes and words. These overlays can be used on both sides of a 5×7 panel card to express yourself! Card designs are for my clients only using images from your session.
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Excuse me while I get a bit technical, but it’s that busy time of year and I know lots of you are going to be ordering photo prints for cards, gifts and just to decorate the walls in your home, so I wanted to give this bit of info on Print Sizing.
When you order prints of various sizes, most often some minor cropping is necessary. That is because the standard sizes of prints vary. For instance, when I captured an image, the full frame of the image, straight out of my camera is a 2:3 ratio. If I want to print and display the full image, I have to maintain the sizing at a 2:3 ratio – so I would have to have a print that is 4×6, 6×9, 8×12, 16×24, 20×30, etc. If I want it in any other size, some cropping will be involved. The images and proofs I provide my clients are a 5:7 ratio – as I feel this crop gives you the most flexibility when having to adjust to other sizes. In other words, the 5×7 crop can usually have some minor cropping to 4×6 or 8×10, without effecting the image composition, in my experience. I also crop your images trying to allow you space to order in other sizes.
For this reason, I suggest you not buy frames for your images until after you see the proofs. This can help you decide what size works best for what image.
And because sometimes an image says it better than words, here is a chart to explain:
Two important considerations in any photo shoot – the location and the colors of your clothing.
For seniors,we try to pinpoint what kind of “look” is more your personality. But actually, the same would be true for any kind of sessions – senior or family.
What kind of “feel” do you want the images to have? Modern, vintage, urban, nature, edgy, formal, traditional, classic – I have certain locations that I have determined bring across those feelings to your images.
The colors in your clothing should play well against the location – for example, if we were shooting in an urban environment, wear bolder colors. To get ideas of locations for a session, check the Categories tab at the top of the blog.
Sam totally trusted me during her senior shoot to hit some of my favorite spots in the downtown area – so we had a good mixture of urban, nature and modern.
Love this shot in the Arts District. The red dress against this background was perfection.
Just two years ago this young lady tagged along as I did her sister’s senior photos in Deep Ellum. So when Annabelle contacted me to schedule her session, I knew we had to do something totally fun and different – Annabelle wanted her session to look like no one other.
No problem – I love to make each shoot your own. So we met up for some gorgeous, natural make up by Autumn (she is a genius with those brushes, I tell you) and then headed out to some new locations and found some open doors at a few businesses, that made it so fun. Annabelle and her mom did a great job of choosing stylish clothing that really complimented her beautiful coloring and personality!
Oh and if you run into Annabelle or her mom, ask to see her app that holds some of the fab images from her session!
Looove! You are too kind Connie but you have the best clients for me to work with.
As a family photographer, nothing requires more preparation on my part than a session photographing toddlers.
I try to cover all the bases: something to sit on, stand on, climb in (you have to get their feet off the ground), something to get their attention, snacks, music, bubbles, books, an assistant – you get the idea. I love the story a mom told me of taking her 2 year old to a well-known portrait photographer, and after a few minutes, the male photographer looked at mom and said “Can’t you get him to sit still?” Photograph many 2 yr.olds, mister?
So prepping for this session, I kind of approached it like Olympic training for toddler/family photography. Props, location, back-up cameras, lenses, caffeine and even an extra photog friend willing to assist – because this family includes an adorable 4 year old + 2 year old triplets!
So check out this post! Not only did we manage to get individual, trio, sibling and family images, we even handled a clothing change as well! – Looks like a gold medal to me.
So first, let’s take a look at the trio 2 years ago from their Newborn session:
And then the whole crew NOW!