THE PORTRAIT GUIDE

To help plan an experience that allows for natural and honest documentation of your story.

The mission is simple; I want to help create a purposeful experience from your shoot that emulates and exemplifies your relationship.
By balancing the line of creative direction and subject freedom of spontaneity, I’m able to document you beautifully AND naturally.
Because your photos will reflect authenticity and evoke real feelings, you will have an emotional connection to your photos, making them a cherished and priceless possession.

THE PROCESS

Fill Out a Questionnaire: Before anything, I send you a questionnaire to get a good idea for who you are as people, your lifestyle and wardrobe preferences.
Initial Pitches: I take the info from the questionnaire and come up with a few different ideas for your engagement shoot including locations, timing, mood, aesthetic and goals. At this time I will send you a mood board to convey my vision for the session.
Collaboration: You may love my ideas, or may have ideas of your own. Either way, it’s a process to get the creative juices flowing so we can come up with a game plan we all feel really excited about!
Final Draft: Once we land on an idea, I will work with a professional wardrobe stylist and put together a thorough plan including wardrobe vision board, detailed itinerary, location pins/addresses and an overall summation of our session goals.
Shoot: Time to make the magic! We put a lot of intentional thought into this, so now we go out and have some fun with it!

MOOD BOARD EXAMPLE

WARDROBE GUIDE EXAMPLE

GALLERY EXAMPLE

I want you to have photos that represent you; photos that you will feel and relate to; photos you can laugh and cry over.

In an effort to document as organically as possible, I encourage spontaneity, movement and uninhibited tendencies. I try to create a trusting atmosphere so you can be vulnerable and fully embrace the experience.

My direction is intentional, yet loose and flexible and relies on fun as the engine to documenting you authentically. I lean heavily into spontaneity and am constantly curating the approach based on how I read your energy.