When I am creating grad or family portraits in Vermilion, I am checking out my client to see what is the best way to present their body on camera. That may sound creepy but really, it’s a large part of my job to understand how different shapes are read by my camera. I do not...
Reimagined Portrait Art – As a trained professional photographer, I wanted to share today what that training allows me to do. Photography literally means “to write with light”. In order to write with light, I have to understand light. Without knowing how light works, I can’t balance exposures or use light to create dynamic range...
Reimagined Portrait Art – One of the reasons why I want to redefine grad portraits is for the comparison made in this post and the previous one. This is Alyx. She loves sports. She’d rather wear sneakers than high heels any day. She’s fun loving and couldn’t put on her game face for the life...
Reimagined Portrait Art – This is Alyx and sports is her life with soccer being her favorite. I wanted to create a portrait for her that showed this, the net she guarded on a regular basis, the gear that was an extension of her body and the position she loved to play. Class of 2021,...
Reimagined Portrait Art – A little Canada on the blog today! This athlete has competed for Canada at the international level so I thought it fitting to showcase her achievements in front of the land she calls home! Happy Canada Day friends! If you have an athlete that would like to create a unique portrait...
Reimagined Portrait Art – I was going through some archives today and found this image. I had forgotten about it but when I saw it, I remembered making it. I’d had this musical cowbow leaning on the wall with his guitar when I saw the reflection the guitar was casting on the floor from my...
Reimagined Portrait Art – It’s spring of 2020 and the combines are running over the hills. There’s something really wrong with that image for a farm girl like me. Now in the fall, I photograph a lot of grads with the machine they spend many hours in tracking back and forth across the land they...
Reimagined Portrait Art – While I can take a pretty portrait of your grad in a gown that will tell you what school they graduated from, in five years from now, that portrait will tell you nothing about who they are. What if they are daredevils? What if they feel most at home flying through...
Reimagined Portrait Art– This young lady, I’ve known for a few years now. I had the honor of photographing her older sister’s grad portraits. The cool part of what I do is that clients become more than clients to me, they become friends! Through the year, as we created her grad portraits in a few...
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Beautiful shot