Last week I got the chance to photograph royalty! Danielle just recently took the title of Miss Woodbury Princess at the 2009 Woodbury Days. Luckily we were able to get her senior portraits taken before her schedule gets super busy with school and all her royalty duties. We started the session indoors while we let the sun get a little lower in the sky for better lighting. The first outfit was this amazing print dress that was so fun and colorful. The print was pretty bold so we did it on the gray paper background to really make the colors pop and gave it a nice clean feel overall. Then I had JUST gotten this new amazing background that we HAD to play with so luckily the second outfit was a solid colored neutral shirt and jeans. It worked out great! Since Danielle wanted mostly outdoor urban-esque images we didn’t waste any more time in the studio and headed out to downtown Stillwater. We wandered all over from down to the river to the alley ways around the studio, finding new fun places to shoot. I think one of my favorite spots was the red wall that had just enough ivy on it to give it a nice pop of contrasting color. LOVE IT! Thanks Danielle for coming in for your senior session! Can’t wait to show you the rest of them!

About a week and a half ago (my, how time is flying!), Saba came into the studio for her senior session. She knew she wanted more of the natural outdoor photos with flowers, trees and such. Luckily, just that morning I had driven past the Historic Courthouse in Stillwater and saw two lovely ladies weeding some beautiful yellow flowers. The spot turned out to be perfect…the sun was still low enough to be sort of hiding behind the courthouse providing some shade on the flowers and really made the yellow colors pop. And it also helped that Saba brought the perfect white shirt and jeans as one of her outfits. Very rarely can you go wrong with a white shirt! As I was editing her session, I found I was having a hard time narrowing down the images. Pretty sure we didn’t take one bad photo of her – so photogenic! Which also makes picking out images for the blog, Facebook and website a challenge as well – so many images…so little space! So here are just a FEW of my favorites from the session. And a HUGE thank you to Saba for being a great model and having great patience in waiting for her sneak peek…hope the images were worth the wait!

One of the things I love about senior photography is getting to know the senior and customizing the session to what they are looking for. Not everyone fits into the “urban grunge” scheme that is very popular right now. Take Tina for instance…instead of doing the downtown alley ways of Stillwater, she opted to do more nature-esque images instead. So before her session, I went out in search of somewhere fun for us to shoot. I knew of this bridge, not far outside Stillwater’s city limits, that would work great! There were wooden fences with some flowers, tall grasses, and the bridge itself provided some nice lines for a background. And the outfits that Tina brought were just the right colors! These are just a few of the favorite images from the session….