Winter Portraits

When it comes to portraits, whether family, kids, or even high school seniors, many don’t consider the winter outdoors for their photos. This is a beautiful season to get beautiful photos for your walls.

Contrasting colors and earth tones work great against the snow and can add that color pop that can be more difficult to achieve in other seasons. As well, the reflected light off of the snow can bring a much needed fill light to remove the often unpleasant shadows on the face that occur without additional lighting.

Then of course, there is the “fun” aspect that snow can bring out of you… from all of the fun accessories like hats, scarves, hoods, sleds… and yes, even snow. All of this contributes to an infusion of joy in winter photography - something that l love to have my photos communicate.

Here is a short montage of some recent family photos in the wonderful winter outdoors.

3 Things to Spice Up a Photoshoot

Without a doubt, there are a few things that can really spark creativity in a photoshoot - Location, Clothing, and Lighting. For Grace’s Class of 2020 senior photo session, we had all three going and it was a blast. Although it’s often doable taking photos with only natural light, that light needs to be pretty darn perfect to get good results. I love incorporating my lights into almost every photo session because it allows for so much more diversity and creativity, not to mention just getting the right amount of light in the right places.

With Grace, we shot both indoors and outdoors with a different outfit for each. She was awesome and wasn’t afraid to ham it up when necessary. It was a wonderful afternoon playing with poses and light. Here are a few highlights.