Summertime is a great opportunity to go out to a local beach and shoot some on location portraits. People enjoy getting outside and having fun on the beach, and why not take some photos at the same time. You can have a portrait taken posed, with or without props, or just have some lifestyle photo journalistic photos taken while spending your time at the beach. Above the photo was taken using a white semi-translucent umbrella as a prop creating a soft light on our model at the same time.
Even in harsh sunlight conditions, there are techniques to help make a great portrait. We also take our studio mono lights out on location to help with those difficult lighting conditions.
Our model wanted to have some fun just walking around in the water at the edge of the ocean. We chose a local beach that typically does not have many people to have an unobstructed view of the ocean and beach in the background. The harsh sunlight provided some nice hair light and we also used our studio mono light to provide fill light for her face and upper body to bring her out of shadow.
Doing an on location portrait shoot requires a bit of planning and a little help from mother nature for the weather to cooperate. We also suggest taking a few portraits in our studio before going out on location. Safety is the foremost consideration doing any outdoor photo shoot which we take very seriously.
A bit of post processing can also provide an unexpected result for the customer, by tying in a pose with a graphic and at the same time using a colour that matches their clothing to frame the image.
Summertime is a great time to consider having your portrait taken, it’s a time where family gets together while on vacation and a time to create those precious memories that will never be forgotten. As the years pass by we realize that family and our life memories are what is most important.
Contact us to book your next portrait session as the end of summer is drawing to a close. If the remaining part of your summer is too busy you can always always consider having your portrait taken with the beautiful fall colours.
In Nova Scotia near the end of June graduating Grade 12 students prepare for their Prom. In preparation the ladies have spent much time agonizing over which dress to rent or purchase in hopes it will be unique and also make arrangements for a hairdo and makeup for the day of the Prom. The gentlemen usually find themselves scrambling to pick up their rental suit and meet up with their beautiful date in time to join the photo session.
They did however have a car port and a brick wall which would be perfect for the images as the brick would represent the building blocks for their life journey ahead of them. With a brick background, although it is meaningful, it has a bit more of a masculine feel to the images. After the shoot looking at the images with the beautiful dress and suit we decided to do a bit of Photoshop work to change out the background to a few other colours using one of our textures and also enhance the in camera vignette.
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