RE: Take Your Own Professional Portrait Photos!
I was quoted $180 for my son's one year photos. I came across this site and it inspired me to try and do them myself. Here's one of them. Later today I'm going to dress him up in a nice outfit for round two of the photoshoot!
Posted on 11/19/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse
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Love the pictures. I still say there is something to be said for just plain simple black and white photos.
Thanks to everyone so much for sharing.
Tonya
Posted on 01/14/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
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I love your portrait, and your wonderfull babyboy! He is so cute!!!
Posted on 01/10/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
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I love getting creative w/ props as well but for this first Christmas picture I wanted something simple and not to busy. This cute little outfit I got through Avon, of all places, was so adorable! I draped our bed in one of our dark solid colored blankets/comforter so the outfit would pop out in the picture. Even though I got her pic profesionally done that year this was the pic I decided to use for our x-mas cards.
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Another one using pillow filling.
Posted on 01/08/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
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Great photo! I have had fun taking shots of my grandson, also. Don't forget props. Something as simple as a bag of cotton filling for pillows can make interesting effects.
Posted on 01/08/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
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Wow what a cute baby....great job! try outdoors and as you said lots of pix......cropping on the computer makes even ordinary photos look so much more well done. I took my daughter to a rustic park on a fall day and did her "sweet 16" photos....cropped and enlarged and framed the best and no-one knew they were home done......just bask in the compliments!
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What a nice photo, you did a great job .
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Carrie you take great photos! What kind of camera do you use? I really like the b/w. I just started doing my own photos too.
Jennifer CA
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A professional portrait studio absolutely could not have done a better job!
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If you have a camera, you can save lots of money by taking your own portraits. Here's one of my son when he turned 6 months. We didn't have the money to get professional photos taken, so I did my own session! This particular photo looked better black and white (a quick fix with Photoshop).
