We recently had Megan from Ogden High in for her High School Senior Portraits. Megan selected our Organic session style and and was totally game for trying out a new location I had been eyeing for a while. This new location had some beautiful tall grasses, trees, a cute bridge and amazing roses. We then traveled to another location close to our studio that offers amazing backgrounds with plenty of flowers, grasses, rocks, sand, and water!

Many of our high school senior clients ask us how important is the portrait location? Well, it is both very important and not important at all. It is very important because a location should compliment the style of your portraits. That is the reason that we have each of our portrait clients select a session style when they call to book their appointment. Knowing what session style(s) they are wanting, helps us determine which locations would be most appropriate for them. We then offer advice on what type of clothing and props may be best suited for a particular location. It will also help us determine when we should schedule the session. Some locations photograph better in the morning, while others in the evening. Lighting at a particular location is extremely important to us creating the best possible portrait for you!

When is a location not important at all? We have been in situations when a client has requested a location that we have never been too. We aren’t worried in the least, as we always come prepared to make the best out of any situation/location. I absolutely love the challenge of arriving at a location that I’ve never been to and examining its potential. With our over 15 years of shooting experience, we can create amazing portraits for you nearly anywhere!

So when you call to schedule your senior portraits, just think about what session style {Organic, Urban, Couture, or Passion} you would like and we’ll take care of the rest, unless of course you have an idea for a location, in which case we’ll hop aboard! Please visit our Senior Portrait website to view samples of our session styles!

Last week we had the opportunity to do another ROCKSTAR Session for a truly awesome high school senior, Ambry! Ambry goes to Orem High School and is one of the best models I’ve ever worked with. What made Ambry such a great model? Well, she was totally fearless and just let loose and had fun! If you are preparing for your upcoming session, here are a few modeling tips that will make your senior portrait session fun and unique.

ROCK your Session! {Modeling Tips}
1. Think of us as Friends! We LOVE photographing High Schools Seniors. We love your energy and uniqueness! We think every person we photograph is beautiful and you don’t need to feel self conscious or awkward with us. We are young (well relatively), we are experienced (we know lighting, angles, and colors that will compliment your most beautiful features), and we are friendly!!!
2. Be You! Yup, it’s that simple. We want to capture you not that fake/stiff smile. Just be you! Let us see your personality, tell us about your interests and passions! It doesn’t matter if your goofy or grumpy, we’ll take you however you are and truly capture you!
3. Mix it UP! We are more than happy to help you into a cool pose, but feel free to mix it up a little after each shot. Move your hand, pull a different face, crouch down, heck…stick out your tongue at us for all I care! Feel free!
4. Interact! Wether studio or location we will put you in different environments that will compliment your clothes, personality, etc. Feel free to interact with that environment to make your portraits more dynamic.
5. Trust Us! We figure that since you chose us out of all the other photographers out there, that you like what we do. We promise that your session and portraits will not be ordinary or boring. We are hear to capture you uniquely!

Make sure you check out our website to learn more about our ROCKSTAR Session!

We started off our Class of 2011 senior portrait season this past week. Our first senior was Emily Millar. She is a super creative girl and she wanted some very different senior portraits. We photographed Emily’s Senior pictures in Salt Lake City and did some night shots. My favs were the ones we did in the campaign colored dress that she made herself.

Our next senior was Spencer Pond, he wanted to go with our urban style session so we also photographed him in Salt Lake City. Spencer is totally easy going and was really fun to work with. I like the ones we did by the pillars and the red door the best.

This April and so far this May we have photographed 19 seniors and have had a blast doing it! We love photographing high school seniors and keeping up on the challenge of keeping each session fresh, unique and fun! We have 4 session styles that our seniors can choose from {Organic, Urban, Passion, and Couture}. Our session lengths {1 Hr, 1.5 Hr, 2 Hr, or our RockStar 3 Hr} determines how many session styles they can choose from and how many locations and outfit changes we will have time for. Most of our high school seniors choose our Session THREE {2 Hrs, 2 Locations, 4-5 Outfits}.

Our Organic Session Style is our most popular with Urban following closely behind. Here are some recent sessions we’ve done using our Urban and Organic locations.

Visit our Senior Portrait Website

This year we ventured into the senior portrait market like never before. We have always done senior portraits, but this year we decided to create an entirely new website, session options, product line, and advertising campaign to specifically meet the needs of high school seniors in Utah. I must say that we have had a blast doing this and we are so excited at the tremendous response we have gotten. In our first month after launching the new campaign, we photographed 18 seniors and loved every minute of it. We plan to further market to class of 2010 and the upcoming class of 2011 seniors over the next few months and we hope to photograph at least 100 seniors next year. Help us spread the word to high schoolers you might know and check out some of our recent senior portrait sessions in this fun video and let us know what you think by leaving a comment below!