Verbose Photography

To commemorate what may be our last snow, I thought I'd post this one. I don't like adding stuff in editing (most of the time), so I was quite happy when this one had just enough snow in it to get that look without being distracting. Oh, and having the amazing this red coat was a requirement. This shoot happened on her birthday (happy birthday!) and I couldn't think of a better way to spend it, though I'm a little biased 😂

When you want your portrait to feel like something out of a magazine, I'll be waiting. By the way this was not a planned portrait either. These were guests at a wedding that I sat in front of a window. They put their trust in me, I hope you'll do the same.

And no this did not require a ton of editing, filters, or lighting masks. It just took knowing where to put them. And knowing how to work with that.

If I'm being honest, Bella's senior photos are the some of the photos I've been looking forward to reposting ever since I started to redo my portfolio. My work up to this point has always felt reactionary: how do I want to edit THIS photo, THIS session. I would try things, maybe color grading one time or a different look another.

But these portraits prove to me that you don't need crazy editing to make a gorgeous photo. Simplicity is often times more important. And I think that's what I've tried to focus on with my updated work. Letting a consistent, simple, clean look take point so that each portrait can shine in its own unique way, while still being part of a consistent body of work.

And let's be honest the lighting we got during this moment in the session was absolutely to die for 🫠🤩