Often it doesn’t take a breath-taking location for beautiful senior portraits to be made. I want to share a “behind the scene” sort of speak from a recent session of a very lovely senior girl. She had requested some casual images at a particular location and also some images that would include more of a green/field backdrop. It would have been easy to drive to a nearby park that offers that natural setting she wanted…actually, it had been a part of the plan but it started drizzling halfway through our session. I knew I had more than enough images for her gallery, but I still wanted her to have the images with the feel she requested.  We made that happen without having to drive to the local park. You can see more from her session in this previous blog post.

It’s so awesome to have clients trust me with a less than stellar location without questioning the photo worthiness of the spot. Below is a pullback and a couple of images that we were able to create in the midst of drizzling rain. The lighting of the pullback image is different because I went back a couple days later to take it (so I could share with all of you). The session images were made on an overcast day with an 85mm lens. I knew the type of compression/bokeh I would get with this lens and the space within I was working.

When I start working in a new spot during a photo session, I like to explore shooting from different angles. I started working right in front of her after directing her to walk into the “field”.I moved to my left (her right) and had her turn in an almost 90 degree angle to capture the two images below.  You would never know we were in the overgrown wild bushes off the side of a parking lot if I hadn’t told you 

It’s not always about the location, but certainly always about the person in front of the camera.