How to Prepare for a Large Family Photo Shoot
Many families use reunions to update their family photos, but preparing for a large, extended family photography session requires some planning to ensure everything goes smoothly, especially when kids are involved.
Don't Print Your Photos at the Big Box Stores
While consumer print labs may offer convenience and lower prices, professional print labs provide superior quality, customization options, and expertise that can elevate the outcome of your prints.
Use Props and Add a Personal Touch to Your Senior Photos
Senior picture props can easily add personality to your photos, diversify your gallery, and document parts of your senior year. Ultimately, incorporating props into senior photo sessions results in a visually dynamic and personalized senior portrait and provides a tangible connection to the memories, achievements, and dreams that define your high school experience. These photos become cherished mementos that celebrate your unique viewpoint, making them more than just pictures but a reflection of a transformative and significant chapter in your life.
How to Download Photos in Pic-Time
While the photo gallery is laid out in a very user-friendly way, inevitably, each year, I have a few clients who need clarification about how to download their images.
Why You Need Personal Branding Photos Instead of Headshots
The impact of hiring a professional photographer to create visual storytelling and personal brand photography is profound and worth the investment. It connects your brand to your audience, makes it stand apart in a crowded market, educates potential clients, builds trust in your brand, and communicates emotionally.
Styling Neutral Clothes for Stunning Family Photos in Every Season
Wearing neutral-toned clothing for a photoshoot can be a timeless, elegant, and simple option, and they provide a versatile canvas that complements various skin tones, settings, and seasons.
Four Mistakes to Avoid While Preparing for Your High School Senior Photography Session
Remember that early planning, thoughtful outfit choices, professional hair and makeup, and personalized elements are the key ingredients to an excellent senior photography session.
The Most Popular Locations for a Photoshoot in Kansas City
Whether you're a professional photographer looking for stunning backdrops downtown or want to capture a special family photo in one of our parks, Kansas City has many options.
7 Summer Photography Ideas to Capture the Magic of the Warm Months
Few seasons capture the spirit of childhood, like summer. It's boundless joy and vibrant colors, mixed with dogged days and sunburns — the perfect reflection of life in a three-month morsel. My camera is always at the ready when the summer months roll around. I can't wait to capture my kids looking at butterflies and creepy crawlies or licking on a push-up pop.
Nine Simple Ways to Feel Comfortable in Front of a Camera
It should go without saying that beauty anxiety, body dissatisfaction, and appearance-based discrimination are deep-seated social and psychological issues that can’t be solved overnight. In fact, according to Dove, they combine to create. multi-billion health crisis. However, I’ve compiled some tips to help ease camera shyness, at least for the short term.
Fall vs. Spring: Which is the Perfect Season for a Senior Photography Session
The beauty of the Midwest doesn't come from exalted, snow-capped mountains or the ocean's blue vastness and sandy beaches. Instead, it's the ever-changing melody of our seasons: the cheerful flute notes of spring, summer's lazy folk twang, the deep-throaty blues of fall, and winter's slow, snow-falling sounds of jazz — each with their own color palette and extrinsic beauty
Five Tips for Photographing Your Kids with Flowers
Photographing your kid at their level gives you a glimpse into their surroundings in a way you can't do when shooting from above. Plus, it brings the flowers closer to the camera as well.
The Great Smoky Mountain Vacation
We drove to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park this month as part of the kids' Spring Break. Usually, I'd pack my digital camera and keep it close by to capture our shenanigans.
But, since re-learning film photography, I bought several rolls of color and black-and-white film and used them to document our journey.
Six Simple Ways to Add Flowers to Your Photography Portraits
Adding flowers to your photo shoot or self-portrait will increase their color, texture, and impact.
Graffiti Adds Colorful and Striking Design Elements to Senior Photo Sessions
Placed in the Crossroads District, Kansas City's Art Alley is a visual poem to its viewer, with surfaces that burst with magenta and turquoise tags, fanciful action figures and cartoons, and thought-provoking ideas painted in custom fonts.
Add Visual Interest to Your Photography by Creating Movement in Your Portraits
Capturing motion creates energy and intensity in our images. Even if it's just a little motion blur, we want our audience to feel in the moment with us, whether as an active participant or a voyeur.
Do You Want a Senior Photoshoot at the Nelson-Atkins Museum?
As a senior photographer, every season, high school seniors ask me to photograph their session at this jewel of the city, and it's always been a favorite of mine because the museum offers so much variety.
Inspiration for Your Bookstore or Library Photoshoot
Typically, a bookshelf in the back of the bookstore is illuminated by a lamp or a single bulb. The low light is a perfect setup for beautifully moody, cinematic portraiture.
A Client's Guide to Grain vs. Pixelization
To simplify: To print an image, you need to select high-resolution. If you're using photos for social media or on a website, choose low-resolution.
Should I Wear Jewelry to a Photoshoot
If we are shooting family photos, senior portraits, or engagement photos, if it's at all possible, I want you to wear jewelry that means something to you.