Posts Tagged: Outdoor family portraits in NC
Flashback blog: What to Wear to your portrait session
We’ve been promoting our Pixels portrait sessions for families, prom, day in the life and most recently our orchard sessions.
As you are thinking about planning your session, click this link for a little refresher about what to wear when having professional portraits taken. Spoiler: it’s a no stress thing!!
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
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Family Time – Portraits Together, Part 2
Hi Gang,
Just continuing to encourage you all not only to think about your families and planning a family portrait session this year, but to consider where and when and why.
Location
The Senter family wanted a specific woodland fairy feel for baby Ava’s 6 month portraits. After we chatted, I knew just the spot. If you have an idea in mind, tell me! I’m all ears and have been a scout long before I was a professional photographer.
The Overby’s love and have a generational connection to the orchards and we’ve photographed their lovely and growing family there more than once. If it ain’t broke……
The When
Summer and winter photo sessions outdoors are not off limits. The Blue Ridge, family property, local parks and greenways are all perfect places for casual family sessions. These only require a change of outfits.
The Why
The why is up to you. Why schedule a family portrait session? Because deep down you’ve been wanting to and this is the year.
And here are a few more reasons…
Figure out your place, time and reason – your where, when and why – or let us help and let’s schedule your family portrait session. In the meantime, contact me if you want to discuss your thoughts and hug those you care about.
Love,
Misty
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
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Family Time
As I continue to ponder the priorities that Ryan and I have for 2020 and beyond, family keeps coming up.
As a family, we are focusing more on time together and making memories, especially with our extended family who all want time with Finley.
Why a Family Documentary Session?
Because you won’t regret it.
When we have a milestone, we hire our peers to photograph us with Finley, family and friends and we are also encouraging our client families to do the same. Let us capture your casual down time together. These are not stressful photo shoots. NONE of our photo shoots with families are unless there are last minute changes and even then, we know how to laugh and hug and say, “you’ll be telling this story decades from now.”
Some families plan a day in a special place like an orchard, a greenway, a park, beach or mountain retreat. For these, we get posed images for the archives, frames and scrapbooks, of course, but we also get the more casual shots of them just hugging, chatting and being together.
I know I sound like I’m giving a sermon, but family is important and some of the best pictures we take, those that the family members love the most, are caught off guard or of people just relaxing.
Things to Consider When Planning a Day in the Life or Family Photo Shoot:
+ How often do you ALL get together? Identify the time and start contacting your relatives and friends;
+ Is there a special place that your tribe loves? Can you visit, book it or plan to meet up there?
+ Do you all like to do something together? Do you ride bicycles or hike or ski or go bowling? Do you have a workshop where 3 generations can build something together? Do you love to cook or paint? You do not have to have an activity, but if your family is drawn to the water or to the garden, to your alma mater or family business, let’s include that.
If your priority this year is a photo session that is easy and casual and personal, think about a Day in the Life session. We can help with the details and planning and we’re ready! Contact us to discuss further.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
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Anderson Outdoor Fall Family Portraits
When it was time to schedule their daughter Ashleigh’s senior portraits, father Scott said, “why not take pictures of the entire family?” I’ve learned that you never say no to an opportunity to get everyone together – especially when you have teenagers. AND ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S DAD’S IDEA. Show of hands: how many times has your husband or boyfriend said, let’s get our portraits taken?
We photographed the Anderson family in Stone Mountain just a few weeks ago and, as mentioned, ended up with two photo shoots instead of one. Jenny was my very best friend all through elementary and high school and since returning to Wilkesboro almost a decade ago, we’ve been photographing her family. I love her and, naturally we love this clan.
Not too long ago (a couple of years maybe), we had an outdoor family portraits session with the Andersons and Jenny’s sister’s family, the Scotts. Like this one, it was in the fall. I love seeing how the kids have grown even since then. Faces may change slightly, and size, but their personalities really begin to sparkle. There’s something about seeing a kid you knew as a child just along for the ride, suddenly as a young adult willing to take up some space. It’s pretty special.
Daughter Ashleigh is a senior in high school and was part of our recent blog about prom portraits. Son Owen has grown a foot since we last saw him; Ashleigh is headed off to college soon and we loved spending time with this family cracking up, swapping stories and silly verbal jabs and watching them show off their lively family dynamic.
Jenny and Scott’s personalities really shined through in these images. When Jenny came to view the proofs, she brought Ashleigh and they both agreed that the images captured who they are every day, not just in front of a camera. I remember Jenny and Scott when they fell in love in high school… nothing has changed and, I must say, that gives me hope! Love can last, ya’ll and gets better in time.
If you love outdoor family portraits, give us a call. It’s getting colder out, but it’s never too soon to plan for the spring. To the Andersons, we love you! Talk soon!
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
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All photos are ©2019 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.
Day in the Life Photography
The longer that I’m in this business of being a photographer, the more I’m interested in the non-posed sides of life. In fact, while I still love portraiture that is structured and more formal, documentary style photography that allows the mundane, the small moments and the realities of life to shine through has captured me.
If you follow Pixels on Instagram, you’ll know that I share our work and our lives in a kind of story mesh that feels authentic to me, and that is by choice. It’s silly, it’s real and it’s who we are as we do what we do as professionals. And, of course, it celebrates our clients and friends and our adventures too. Posting allows for more sharing of our lives and values.
A summer family picnic or images of Finley playing or asleep or dressing up are current faves. We’re just doing our thing and other families deserve this to, but with an eye to quality. So for today’s blog, I thought I’d share a few of the images I’ve taken that are favorites in this area of people just “doing life.”
Nothing would make me happier as a photographer and as a human than to be asked to do more day in the life images. I’m not talking about the stuff you get with a cell phone, or even the stuff you get with an expensive camera and an untrained eye. A professional photographer brings more to the table than her tools. I bring the experience of all my work, my trained eye and a quality that snapshot photographers cannot.
Day in life portraits have another equally important advantage: they let you be present. We’re busy and over-scheduled so being present for our kids and partners is a tall enough order. And people may sometimes resent being asked to be the designated photographer during a day out, a family reunion or holiday season. It falls to someone and that someone is missing from nearly EVERY photo. Having a photographer document the day allows you to focus on what’s happening instead of on composing images, trying to get people’s “good side” or chasing the day light.
I hope more families will consider day in the life photo shoots. You should enjoy the moment and let us capture the memories.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States LicenseAll photos are ©2019 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.