Your Life. Your Story. Your Portrait.
Taking part in a magazine style fantasy fashion photoshoot is an incredibly fun and empowering experience. We’ve created a DIY checklist to prepare you if you’ve always wanted to do one, but cannot afford to hire a professional at the moment.
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Modern portrait photography is more than taking a pretty picture of a woman. It’s about capturing who she is. That may seem easy, but if you’ve even been in front of a camera you know how you immediately tense up and become acutely aware of every movement you make. It suddenly becomes hard to “just be yourself”. Take a behind-the-scenes look at being in front of the camera…
Women have become inspired through online content and confident-boosting groups and they’re ready to get their magazine quality portraits taken! With body-positive groups growing in popularity and the seemingly limitless photographic talent portrayed on our ever-growing screens, it’s only logical that there’s an appeal to be captured as our most amazing selves! No longer are we limited to thinking we have to take boring “graduation” looking photos. No! We can have photos that look like they belong in a magazine; something we can be proud to display and share!
The reason you don’t like photos taken of you may be because you don’t think you’re photogenic. I’m not about to tell you that it isn’t true, but I will tell you that you (and everyone else) can look great in photos too!
Some of the women I meet wonder just what it’s like to be in front of the camera. They ask how artistic we could possibly get and how many different looks might we be able to capture? Lauren (the beautiful lady in all the photos) showed me a exquisite gold and green dress that she owned. I thought it was breathtaking the moment I saw it and with that we spent an afternoon capturing her in as many ways possible. If you want to see all the looks you can pull off with just one dress then get ready to be inspired. I’ve named this series One Dress of Many Frames.
Portrait photography isn’t something women are typically looking for. On the other hand, there are always lots of occasions where women will search for great engagement, wedding, newborn, and family photographers (usually in that order). Some women know that they want to celebrate themselves and a special occasion for a session is never necessary. Want to know the benefits these women see in having their photo taken by a professional photographer? You’ll be able to decide whether artistic portrait photography is something you may have been missing out on! You may even surprise yourself!
It’s understandable that the average woman would think she was incapable of pulling off beautiful, sexy, sensual, elegant, or model-like looks (let alone in front of a camera). You see those beautiful models and celebrities on TV and in magazines and think you could never look good in front of a camera. You may not have been born with the same symmetry or physical features, but I would humbly have to disagree. I believe anyone can look gorgeous. Sometimes you just need someone else’s eyes (and camera) to help show you.
Can you guess which of these photos is of a new model, experienced model, or non-model (client)? I bet you won’t get it! [Read on to check if you were right.]
It may sound crazy, but I have the same insecurities as most of the women that get in front of my camera. I recently spoke to a client who asked, “Have you ever been in front of the camera.” I’ve always believed that empathy is the key to photographing people. So what are you afraid of when you’re in front of a camera?
