Senior Style Portrait Photography Tips, Location and Sessions
Fashion tips to ensure your senior pictures and portraits are excellent:
- Simple garments always photograph best
- Long sleeves cover bare arms that can be distracting or overpower the face
- Women getting their hair styled should schedule their photo session whenever they believe it looks best from the time it is styled
- Men should generally get their hair cut one week prior to the photo session
- Loud patterns, bold stripes, prints or checks can be distracting, solids work well
- Solid colors (not too bright) tend to photograph the best, choose colors that will go well with where we are shooting
- Avoid logos, unless you are wanting some shots with school themes and colors
- Jewelry & glasses; simple is best, big and shiny is distracting. Most glasses glare, decide ahead of time if you want to wear contacts or glasses
- Avoid Sunburns! Burnt peeling skin does not photograph well, be aware that extensive touchups can be costly
- Props; Bring them! Anything you can bring that helps bring out your personality is great, popular choices are; sports equipment, uniforms, music instruments, activities (dance leotard & shoes, swimming, hobbies), vehicles . . . be creative.
The Photo Session is your chance to have a great time, so we can capture your own style. Start thinking about what kinds of fun things we can do to reflect your energy and personality.
Location, Location, Location!
The beautiful parks and rivers and unique urban areas surrounding Fort Collins, Loveland, Boulder and Denver provide awesome backdrops for us to capture your style for your senior pictures. Our location provides us with an indoor studio and 3 acre outdoor portrait park. Of course we love to meet up with seniors for their pictures anywhere from Red Rocks Amphitheater, Rocky Mountain National Park or Old Town Fort Collins.
Sessions
The possibilities are endless! We’ll even meet with you before the photo session for a free design consultation to plan ahead and make sure your shoot goes perfect. We want you to get and have that once in a life time image.
Wanting to go that extra mile?
Part of your senior picture portrait photography experience might be to go on location! Do you ski, snowboard, kayak, wakeboard, or are you into horses? You won’t find a photography studio willing to farther to get that awesome once in a lifetime shot you desire.
Senior Style by Kimball Nelson Photography will travel anywhere, anytime to get the perfect background or activity for YOUR high school senior pictures! Travel time may add to sitting fee costs outside of northern Colorado, so be sure to call the studio and ask. Anything too outrageous will need to be signed off on by parent or legal guardian.
Our Studio
Our indoor/outdoor Fort Collins based photography studio is a convenient one stop location for multiple backgrounds for your senior pictures. We are located just minutes from Old Town Fort Collins and easily accessible from I-25.
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Session Details
Your high school senior pictures and photographs are a celebration of your senior year and this once in a lifetime event as you soar into adulthood!
- We encourage all high school seniors to showcase who they are and allow us to help them tell their story in a photographic collection of images. Bring anything that will help tell that story!
- Find a balance of clothes and styles that are well suited for your families purpose of sending to relatives and friends of the family and your purpose of giving photographs to friends and posting online.
- Session Fees are due at the time of the booking to reserve your appointment.
- We will schedule a viewing & ordering session 7-10 days after the photo session. At that session we begin to distribute your complimentary web images and online ordering will be enabled.
- We normally take 7 to 10 business days to complete your finished photographs. If you need them sooner, please ask us and we will try our best to speed up the process for you!
