Jaqueline - Senior Session

We met Jaqueline trough her sister who contacted us to do her senior pictures. Jaqueline lives in California and she was visiting her sister for the summer so this was a once in time thing. One of the things Jaqueline asked us to do during her session is to have a sign she made and also her favorite kind of flower which is sunflowers. 

We went out and look for places to shoot her outdoor session but the weather wasn't collaborating that day which has to make her feel a little down because the sun and sky were not looking as she wanted. As photographers, we need to use what mother nature gives us so we had to take the images under a very cloudy and wet day. At first, she was shy, but we were able to get her to relax to a point where she was actually asking if she could do this or that. She told us about her passion for photography so we used her polaroid camera. At one point rain came so we had to find a plan B location. Good thing I spotted a laundry mat place so it was there were we finished her session.

Our goal as photographers is not only to capture great images that would look timeless, but it is also to make our models to feel like a million dollar!

Best of luck in your future Jaqueline!   

Senior - Megan Qualley

When I was approached by Megan to talk about her photos I knew it was going to be an interesting one for sure. She's a young and talented artist who also works the camera as well so she knew what she was looking for. She wanted her senior pictures to look like fine art photography, she also wanted to have her pictures taken in her hometown. She is a shy young lady so it was a little hard for her to believe in my vision, she was used to the idea of not looking good in pictures but like I told her, it was my job to make her look good! 

We started in an area where plenty of people have been photographed before, and her wish was to make it look like we were not there at all! We played with the foliage and some angles. Then we head around town looking for some interesting (sometimes ugly) spot where it was filled with different textures and nice contrast! Remember, we are taking portraits of her so I really needed something that would contrast her bright her and light skin. It was great to see her reaction looking at the raw files on camera while moving from locations mentioning how she would never expect the image to look the way it does on the place we took it. We went all over the place, from a calm green area to a more urbanistic, to finish on a field like a good Iowan :)

It was definitely a great learning experience for both! For her because her artistic box got open to new ideas and for me because it made me look for new ways to portrait old and repetitive areas into a new and interesting backgraounds. 

Best of luck in your bright future Megan! Thank you for trusting our vision and work.