Senior Photo Outfits 101: Personality!

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Personality! Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!

All this month we will be discussing various important outfit advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!

Today's Outfit Advice: Personality!

What do we love most about the Senior Photography Experience? Duh, you! Your personality makes the portrait! We have had such an awesome year of wild and wacky personalities! We'll never forget the hilarious faces of the talented Mr. Hibbard, or Ryan Frye's pimp suit; you make the job we do just that much more fun.

Granted, your personality isn't necessarily an outfit option, but to us it is just as tangible. It doesn't matter if you are wearing Victoria Beckham jeans if you stand as still as a deer in headlights! We watch our friends on facebook and they are hilarious, but the moment their feet hit our studio they become the perfect, silent, immobile children . . . yawn.

Our plea is that you bring your personality along to your photo shoot. When you come to choose your portraits, We want you and your friends and family to say, "That looks just like you!" We hear that a lot and it is the greatest complement because we didn't have to make you into someone else, or force you to change to create a better picture! We are able to capture you, but we need you to bring it! So be you, because we are looking for wilder and wackier Seniors this Summer.

Can't wait to meet you and your personalities!

Timber Creek Photography

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Today's Trends!

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Today's Trends!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!

All this month we will be discussing various important outfit advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!

Today's Outfit Advice: Today's Trends!

One particular student from the 2010 school year said something really obvious in her session but it struck me as profound, "I chose my outfits based on what is most popular in fashion. When I look back on my Senior portraits I want to see what 2010 was all about." (approximate quote... I didn't write it down right away!)

This student had really awesome outfits! She brought skinny jeans, Converse shoes, jade jewelry, and large sunglasses. When she looks at her Senior pics ten years from now she will easily be able to see that she was a 2010 grad.

Our clothes are a part of history... you can see it in your books at school, and on the covers of all your CDs. How celebrities and public figures dressed helped define the period of time in which they were significant. One "decade of dress" that is returning to fashion would be the eighties (check out the seriously bright colors in style right now). Another would be the fifties (see singer Katy Perry, and check out the hair on Tyler Connolly, lead singer of Theory of a Deadman).

If your style isn't necessarily "in" style right now, don't worry about it! Be yourself!!! But one idea you now have for your Senior pics is to define 2011 with your clothes.

Looking forward to speaking with you about your session!

Timber Creek Photography

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Variety!

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Variety!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!

All this month we will be discussing various important outfit advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!

Today's Outfit Advice: Variety!

Okay, okay, we all know that your favorite color is blue. How do we know? Because you show up to your Senior Photo Session with four blue shirts, blue jeans, a blue belt, and blue sneakers. Do people still say "sneakers?" Anyway, everything is blue!

We love that you want to express yourself, and our studio sincerely asks you to do that, but you also need to consider variety in your Senior Photo Session. Here are some things to do/avoid when picking out your photo session outfits:

Don't bring everything in one color, or one pattern. Three zebra-striped shirts is just strange.
Consider variety in the cut of your clothes. Instead of bringing three t-shirts, maybe you could bring a tanktop, t-shirt, and an off-the shoulder half-sleeve.
Wear what you would wear to school! How come we don't see jean skirts and shorts in the photo sessions? Jeans aren't all there is . . .
Shoes are part of the outfit! One pair of shoes to a photo session? Come on! You can change your shoes with your outfits! Heels, then sneakers, then furry boots.

In future articles we will talk more about variety in hairstyles!

Looking forward to speaking with you about your session!
Timber Creek Photography

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Clean & Pressed!

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Clean & Pressed!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!

All this month we will be discussing various important outfit advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!

Today's Outfit Advice: Clean & Pressed!
You only get your Senior Picture taken once. It should be a special time because, unlike all the other years of school where an amateur photographer shot one quick picture of you on your way back from gym class, these will be pics you will actually want! These pictures aren't going to be stuffed in the drawer along with your freshman yearbook photo! These pictures are going to be sent to everyone in your family, given out at Christmas, posted on Facebook, hang in your home, and be presented at your graduation! Please consider how many people are going to see these portraits before you show up for your appointment with a wrinkled shirt and dirt on your knees.

That's right, I am asking you to wash and iron your clothes. I can't force you to come to your Senior appointment looking GQ but I can at least ask you to consider the appearance of the outfit(s) you plan on wearing in one of your most famous pictures!

Hope this was helpful!
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Senior Photo Outfits 101: Accessorize!

Senior Photo Outfits 101: Accessorize!
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!

All this month we will be discussing various important outfit advice for your Senior Portraits! Check back often to gain ideas for your big day!

Today's Outfit Advice: Accessorize!
We have all been there; bored out of our minds in a wait room. Suddenly, a wrinkled, outdated magazine calls to you from the coffee table. A beautiful celebrity on the cover holds your gaze as you reach for the mag. You flip through the pages and study the kings and queens of Hollywood; getting ideas for your next trip to the mall and the salon. Something you didn't notice: the accessories!

This is probably where most of our customers are lacking. They take the time to match the perfect outfit with the perfect hair but are neglecting an opportunity to show off their personal style and add some spark to their portraits! If you study the pages of magazines you will see celebrities with rings, dangly earrings, cuffs, headbands, watches and more! Yet, after studying our Senior Portraits most of our Seniors show up with barely a class ring.

Maybe they were concerned that their accessories would overpower the portrait? Or get in the way? Or maybe they thought that their accessories would have to be in EVERY portrait. Not true! When we get sick of the headband we will ask you to take it off. If the earrings are tangled in your hair then they are history! All we are asking is that you take the time to bring the items you love to wear! They don't cost extra, and they can become a really beautiful part of your Senior portraits. If you want to make your Senior Session truly unique, you will accessorize!

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Facebook!

Why would you want to add someone on facebook when you follow their blog? Or their website http://www.timbercreekphoto.com/, or are a FAN of them on facebook? I will tell you why...

You NEED to be our friend.

See, we are pretty picky about who gets to see our images. We don't like other photographers ripping off our creativity (one photographer in particular actually posed their clients identically to ours in similar locations and then used the same art to adorn the pics...). A photographer should be leading the way in creativity and we pride ourselves in that. What am I trying to say?

What you see on our blog is very limited because it is open to the public. Our website is wonderful, but it is updated so often that you rarely see the same picture twice; any amazing past pictures are not viewable! Our fanpage is, like our blog, also very limited. It too is open to the public. However, if you ADD us as a FRIEND on facebook (and pass the rigorous screening) then you can see multiple pics of every person/family/wedding/child/etc we have ever photographed from the past two years. Being a friend gives you access to an archive of photos so you know who are coming to.

A Busy Summer Ahead

Today we would like to thank our customers for the awesome amount of appointments you have made at Timber Creek Photography for the Summer! We are getting lots of phone calls, email inquiries and appointments and we truly feel blessed! We love staying busy and I don't think we will have any problem with that this year!

If you are interested in booking a session then please call us ASAP! We have spaces available still!

Looking forward to an awesome Summer!!

Pam & Natasha