Why Senior Portraits

Reasons why YOU should consider professional Senior Portraits

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WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE PROFESSIONAL SENIOR PORTRAITS??

Senior portraits are a HIGH SCHOOL TRADITION! You are about to graduate and write a new chapter in the story of your life…whether off to college or starting a career. High school graduation is all about leaving your childhood behind and moving into adulthood.

Professional senior portraits are the perfect way to mark this milestone in your life. These images give both you and your parents something to look back on in the years to come, as well to share your excitement with friends and family about your accomplishments and the big changes to come in your life.

CELEBRATE YOU

You always deserve to be celebrated and see that you are a beautiful, strong, unique human; but, this milestone deserves its own form of celebration. You’ve worked hard to get to graduation: Exams, Sports, Extra-Curricular. You deserve to celebrate everything you’ve accomplished over the last four years. A senior portrait session is a great way to celebrate all that you’ve done while looking forward to the future. Every experience you had through these years has led you to this moment and senior pictures are an opportunity to celebrate how far you have come. After all, your high school experience is uniquely yours and your hard work to graduate is a big deal and needs to be celebrated! 

 REMEMBER THIS MOMENT

Graduation is a huge occasion, and while you may feel like you will remember it forever, you may be surprised how quickly you might forget the feeling. Photos are a wonderful way to capture not only how you looked, but your personality and interests. Looking back on your senior photos in the future will allow you to remember that special time in your life years later.

you probably remember your preschool or kindergarten portrait. You can so clearly see your personality through the single image. Then as you progressed through school, the school portraits became more and more of the same. The images had the standard pose, the same strange colored backgrounds and the uniqueness of your daughter got lost. It became harder to see that amazing, vibrant personality of yourself.

A senior portrait session is meant to capture your personality in this milestone year. There is so much you want to remember, and one picture often doesn’t do the trick. You will want multiple pictures that capture all your dimensions. Those dimensions are showcased through wardrobe, expressions, movement, or location in her senior photos. By doing a senior portrait session, you are able to capture you as a whole person.

As a senior, you might feel intimidated by being in front of the camera. You likely want your photos to be “perfect”. The good news is, your photos will always be perfect if they capture you, the authentic YOU!!

PRACTICAL REASONS

Now, once you have all of those stunning pictures, what should you do with them? Not only is the experience of having senior pictures taken important, but creating mementos is just as important. Creating wall art, custom photo books, and receiving prints to remember this time is equally as important. Senior pictures can provide unique gifts for family members. Likely, your extended family is as impressed by this accomplishment and would love to remember you in this moment as well. Small albums, prints, and announcements can be a fun way to share this experience with your family. 

By doing senior pictures you will have a large selection of beautiful photos to choose from and you will be able to pick one that captures who you are and how you want to be remembered for your yearbook. A professional senior portrait session will ensure that you have a high quality picture to submit that will be showcased in the yearbook for all to see and admire.

The idea of professional senior portraits may seem unnecessary, frivolous and maybe even overwhelming. Senior year is a transition year catching you somewhere between adulthood and childhood. It is important to celebrate this time and tell the story of this moment in your life.

MAKE YOUR PARENTS HAPPY

While your senior photos are about you and your accomplishments, they also mark a huge moment in your parents’ lives. Thank your parents for their support and give them a memento celebrating how far you all have come.