Shooting high school grad pictures never gets boring! And we absolutely love what we do. Some of the best times are spent out in the sun on a location where we get to create beautiful memories caught on camera for your family and friends to see. It’s so inspiring and freeing to be in the natural light, everyones inner shine comes out to play. Click to view more Senior Pictures!
We know how hard it is to put together your wardrobe for your senior pictures – what to wear?! A great way to figure it out is to choose 3 categories: 1) Timeless, classic, no print, simple cut…this is for your portrait. 2) Something fresh & fun – flirty, colorful, vivacious – like what you’d see on the cover of Seventeen Magazine. 3) Something with an edge, whether that be vintage, bohemian, or whatever you feel like has that “indie” feel. Something on TREND will be a fun reminder of what the kids were wearing when you were a teen.
It’s that time of year again: senior pictures are in full effect! One of the coolest things is to get your images in both COLOR AND BLACKnWHITE. Some pictures look best in color, but some really come alive in B&W. Our model above has gorgeous eyes and hair, so that is really punctuated by taking away the color and letting her features tell the story of the image. We’d love to hear from you and shoot you this summer!
Getting your senior pictures done is a right of passage for most high school kids. It can either be an amazing experience with images that you’ll treasure for a lifetime – or it can be an awkward ordeal with photos you swear you’ll one day burn 🙂 We promise your experience will absolutely be the former!
For questions on wardrobe, dates to shoot, lighting, & styles of photography, feel free to TEXT Brandin & she’ll call you back 🙂 310.622.5819
Only a couple dates left in May…and June beginning to fill fast…this means Senior Portrait season is HERE. Our Thousand Oaks location (pictured above) features walkways, fields & roads leading up to and around Boney Mountain. The lighting is always beautiful and the possibilities are endless 🙂
Our Los Angeles location includes the zillion locations in and around Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, Downtown Culver Arts District, & Venice Beach.
Book your senior pictures asap to make sure you’re not racing at the very end to get them done by your school’s deadline!
Hayley is one of our 2013 MxB High School Senior Reps & shot her senior pictures with us a few weeks ago at our Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks location. When Hayley arrived we quickly realized her eyes were going to be a main focal point for these senior pictures ….since they’re a vivid crystal blue. In order to get the most out of crystal clear eyes is to use natural light. Shooting indoors in a studio can produce beautiful shots, but very often there isn’t enough “constant” light to open up the iris of the eye & brighten it. When your subject is outside during the day, there is usually enough light to cause the pupil to get a little smaller, opening up more of the eye color for your camera to see. That’s definitely part of the trick to getting vivid eyes in a portrait. Another big part is making sure your shutter speed is at the right setting to allow that sunlight to brighten the eyes. Of course, if you’re using a simple “point & shoot” type camera, there may not be a way to control shutter speed….but that’s ok. Point & shoots usually have very good automatic settings & will naturally set a good shutter speed for your picture. Just take a moment to look at the eyes & make sure they’re getting enough light to brighten & open up without blinding them LOL. One more consideration to mention when shooting in natural light is to be careful of “blowing out” your subject’s skin. Even olive & darker skin tones can be lit too brightly causing them to photograph too pale or (as is in the case of very dark skin) to have blown out harsh shine on the skin. If your camera has a histogram, learn how to use it (it’s pretty easy 🙂 & if you don’t have histogram, just take a test shot & see if your subject’s skin is looking more like white paper than actual skin. Balance that with the amount of light needed to get vibrant glowing irises & you’ll end up with some gorgeous natural light pictures!
For more examples of SENIOR PICTURES visit our portfolio and our FACEBOOK page 🙂 And if you have any QUESTIONS please feel free to contact us through our contact form & we’ll be happy to help. ….and remember, yearbook deadline comes before you know it…book your Senior Pictures with us today!
