You kid is finally a senior and you want to make sure this milestone is captured. After all, the next milestone that may be captured professionally is your child’s wedding day. Lucky for you, your friend just bought a new camera and offered to do those senior pictures for free! Yay, for you.
Or your kid knows a “guy” that has been taking pictures at the school’s sporting events and wants to practice taking some senior pictures. He is only charging $50. What a deal! Someone else recommended this new startup photographer trying to build her portfolio and is charging $100 with all the digitals. That sounds like a no brainer.
Let’s face it. I love a great deal almost as much as you. I have two college age kids now and I know money can be tight.
I also know there are places where you should find the best deal, and there are places where the investment is worth it. Senior pictures fall into that later category for sure. At the end of senior year after the cap has been tossed, the only thing that remains are the pictures. You child only graduates from high school once. High school graduation is momentous. Shouldn’t you have the best portraits to document this amazing milestone?
Are senior pictures from a professional worth the investment?
Senior pictures should be more than just a social media post. They should be more than meeting up with someone in a field or a park. Your child’s senior pictures should be an experience! This should be an opportunity to tell your child’s story through imagery. It should be a time to help your child see himself as the world sees him. These portraits will become their legacy. The album or portrait box will be looked at for generations. Just think about your child’s future children making fun of clothing choices and hairstyles. I know my kids did the same for my senior portrait!
Why invest in a good photographer?
Beautiful portraits should not be about the quantity, but the quality. Who needs hundreds of images sitting on a USB or your hard drive that you will never look at again? Professional senior pictures should be about telling a story and preserving that story for future generations. It should be about feeling comfortable and not awkward in front of the camera. It should be about allowing your senior to have a voice and opinion about her portraits so the locations and outfits chosen bring out her very best self. It should be about including things she loves like her favorite books, her sport, her hobbies, or her pet. It should be about proper lighting and posing and direction, making her feel like a rockstar and having FUN! And in the end, it should be about beautifully polished portraits that she and you both love.
Here’s what you can expect from Kelli Gowdy Photography when it comes to Senior pictures
- A complimentary consult allowing me to get to know your senior and craft an epic senior session with her input
- Session guide and styling help
- Posing assistance and direction during your session
- Natural smiles to bring out your senior’s personality
- A variety of location possibilities so that your images don’t look like everyone else’s and time spent scouting new locations just for you
- Attention to detail
- A personal ordering appointment to help you pick out the very best images of your senior
- Quality heirloom albums and wall art created for you so you don’t have to decide what to do with your digitals
- A photographer that will care about your senior as much as I care about my own kiddos
- Fun! Did I mention fun?!
How much can I expect to invest on senior pictures?
Every photographer is different when it comes to their pricing, just like every car company, restaurant, or real estate offers a variety of price options. You can spend a little, or you can spend a lot. At the end of the day, you need to decide what you want to get from your senior portrait experience. Do you want a photographer with more or less experience? Do you want a personalized session or more generic experience? Do you want a photographer that will suggest the same locations as everyone else, or do you want someone who will scout new locations to bring out your vision? Do you want to be able to figure out what to do with your images on your own, or do you want all the guesswork taken out of the process with beautiful artwork and albums created for you? Those are answers only you have, but your answers will ultimately lead you to the photographer best fit for you.
At Kelli Gowdy Photography, you can expect a personalized experience from start to finish. Multiple senior session options are offered to fit many budgets, however most clients ultimately spend $2000 or more on their senior portraits.
Your senior is only this age once. I believe the senior portrait experience is a once in a lifetime investment. We as parents can spend the same amount on a living room couch that will ultimately end up at good will several years down the road. While that couch will never be more valuable than the day you purchase it, your child’s portraits only become more valuable if not priceless as the years go by!
If you are looking for quality, timeless portraits with the BEST personalized experience for your senior, look no further than Kelli Gowdy Photography. I work with seniors all over the triad area of North Carolina including High Point, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Burlington.
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