Planning your Portrait

We need to take time and work with you to ensure your portrait photography session will deliver the results you are looking for. It starts with knowing who will be in the photos, one person or more for instance, or is it pets we are planning to photograph.

The next step is location location, will it be indoors or outdoors, your place or mine? Is there a place around town you have been considering if it will be outdoors or do you want me to provide some ideas?

Now that we know who and where we are taking portrait photos we can concentrate on the specifics. Do you want a backdrop or a natural background? Do we want to use colored lighting or just accent the light of the sun or the room if indoors?

There is no wrong answer as it is all about what you want and how you want to see it unfold. We can plan this out and change things around when we see the result. We want you to love the work we do so don’t be shy about expressing what you would like to see. Once we have the plan we can set a date and time and prepare to meet. I will want to be on location, if not in our studio, an hour in advance to setup and get everything ready. If this is outdoors we need to consider the time of day and the lighting. We can use natural light or I can bring the sun with me.

We hope this helps get the conversation going. In a future blog post I will focus on some ideas we might try to focus on during your photo shoot.