Katie is a senior at Southern Utah University. She’ll be graduating this May and moving on to graduate school. Katie wanted some senior portraits and custom graduation invitations. I’m really excited about these photos and the invitations. As soon as she decides on which design she likes, I’ll post the invitation.
I took these a couple of weeks ago. I am continuing to build my portfolio of senior portraits. This was a fun shoot. We had some fun with this harp.
This is a follow up to the senior portraits I posted yesterday. The senior, McKay, gave me an idea of what he wanted to do for his graduation card. He showed me a design he liked and I adapted it for him and threw in my own tweaks and style to it. This kid is graduating with his Associate’s degree from SUU at the same time he graduates from high school. I wish I could have done that.
Here is the front of his graduation card.
This is the inside of the card. They wanted it to be simple.
I had a chance recently to do a senior portrait session. I am hoping to do more in the future and eventually have a gallery on my main site of senior portraits. As always with my photography, on location lighting is very important to me. I look at a lot of outdoor portraits that only use available light, with perhaps some bounce reflectors, and while they look nice, evenly lit, have a nice soft lighting touch, my style as a photographer is to use the available light and enhance it with my own lights. It is amazing what a bit of extra light can add to a photograph. It is all about balance. Balance between the “available” light and the light added by the photographer.
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I wanted to go with a look that was a little different from a lot of senior portraits. The lighting is definitely more dramatic and interesting. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out and so what this young man. That is the important part.
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