Senior Photo Outfits 101: You VS Your Mom Pt 2

Senior Photo Outfits 101: You VS Your Mom Pt 2
Your Professor: Natasha Bouchette!


Today's Outfit Advice: You VS Your Mom Pt 2
Yesterday we discussed how you and your parents may have conflicting ideas about your Senior Session. We are going to dive into that a bit more, but this time we will focus more on the outfits and less on the process.

Parents will prefer you wear clothes that are a little more formal. They will likely want you to remove your piercings, cover your tattoos, and cover your flesh. Excellent ideas, especially for yearbook photos and family photos. However, you may disagree on the subject. You paid a lot of money for your tattoos and piercings, you spent over $100 on your torn jeans, and you just bought the coolest pair of high heel boots and you NEED to show them off in your photos... Our advice is to compromise!

Seniors: Put yourself in your parents' shoes. They want to show all of their friends and relatives what a beautiful/handsome daughter/son they have. They don't want people to be looking at all the extra stuff you wore, they want them to look at your face. They want everyone to see that you got your dad's eyes and your mom's smile. Their friends could care less about your outfit. So bring ONE traditional outfit so that your mom and dad will be happy with your photos - those portraits will be hanging in their house forever.

Parents: Try to remember what it was like to be your son/daughter's age. You didn't care about impressing family! You wanted to look just as stylish and "in" as everyone around you. You flat-ironed your hair, wore bell bottoms, or maybe brightly colored leggings and funky skirts that your parents thought were ugly but you and your friends thought were totally, like, stellar!

Please allow your teenager to wear clothes they love. Afterall, the pictures are pictures of THEM. If the pictures don't express them then they won't like the pictures. Period. And Senior Pics are supposed to be a REALLY fun milestone for them! Allow them to bring the "in" clothes or the wild makeup. They want to give these pics to all their friends, post them on facebook, and show them off like their prom dresses or first cars! Allow them to be themselves so that they can have as much fun as they are supposed to have!

One last note: For an additional cost, tattoos and piercings can be removed from portraits.

Looking forward to speaking with you about your session

Timber Creek Photography
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Senior Photo Outfits 101: You VS Your Mom

Senior Photo Outfits 101: You VS Your Mom
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: You VS Your Mom

Side Note: Today's Advice doesn't necessarily address outfits - but read on!

When it comes to the Senior Portrait Experience we receive feedback from two sources. One source would be you; you have your own ideas about your photo shoot. Those ideas usually involve serious poses featuring your most unique outfits; replicas of images you have seen in current movies and magazines. The other source of feedback would be your parents. Most of the parents prefer their son/daughter to be smiling in their pictures. They also choose poses featuring your simplest outfits and minimal makeup. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your desires, or your parents desires for your photo shoot. They are both valid. However, we really need to make sure that both parties are on the same page.

Seniors: Include your parents in the Senior Photo process. That means that when you are shopping around for a photographer, show your mom and dad the website images you like and tell them why you like them. This is not only important for you, but it is important for us! The current magazine trends feature purposely crooked images and multiple images with the model's head partially cropped out of the photo (Our own examples are above). When we follow this trend the Senior loves it, but the mom won't purchase the photo because their child's head is "cut off." Please make sure your parents know the Senior photo trends you like, and that your photographer might be trying them! There is nothing wrong with your mom and dad disliking the current trend, but we would really like to know about it in advance of your photo shoot so that we can please both you and your parents.

Parents: Please do your research! We consider ourselves to be a really fun, unique and current studio. We subscribe to Elle, ESPN, W Magazine, Seventeen, Vogue, Teen Vogue, and Professional Photographers Magazine. Every month we receive these seven magazines and page through to see how celebrities are having their photos taken and we do our research on the hottest photo trends!

Both of You: Our studio is no stranger to compromise. No matter what we will always include some "simple," "traditional" portraits in the Senior session. They are great for yearbook photos and usually get chosen for the home's wall portrait. But we want you to know that we will likely try some wild and wacky portraits to keep up with the photographers on the coasts. Current trends are so fantastic and we encourage you to keep up with them as well!!!

Looking forward to speaking with you about your session!

Timber Creek Photography

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!